There are few glitches or issues worse than something that disrupts your progress. What do you mean the last several hours of gameplay are just gone? Sadly, some players of Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness have encountered just that, but it's now been remedied, thankfully.
The change was noted by Serebii, as the venerable Pokemon fansite states that an update has rolled out on the Nintendo GameCube Nintendo Classics app on the Switch 2 for this. According to the outlet, the bug forcefully quit the game, thus resulting in players losing whatever amount of time they'd spent since the last time they saved.
Frustrating, to say the least. But now it's all sorted, and not a moment too soon going by some of the replies. "This happened to ME! 5 hours GONE," says one player, who says they don't want to play any more - a feeling I'm familiar with, and can attest to subsiding after a little bit of time.
"Thankfully I was quick saving through the GC menu and not just in game, I only lost about 30 minutes when it happened to me," says another fan. "Otherwise it would've been about 10 hours gone." Another person reported the same for their sibling, who was also double-figures into their playtime before being shut out.
Ooft, that would've been rough. Games like Gale of Darkness are really made for long sessions, and although I'd always recommend saving wherever possible, sometimes you just get into a groove and don't. Whatever the case, if you can save scum a little bit, you probably should, even when there's less of a threat.
