Now, as any of my friends will tell you, I’m not really a musical person. In fact, it’s been suggested more than once that I have somehow managed to completely miss what music actually is on some conceptual level. This being the case, you should probably take what I have to say about it with a grain of salt.
Having said that, I always felt that Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald had the best music. In my opinion, the music was one of the two greatest strengths of the third generation, along with the inexplicably superior creative thought that went into writing the Pokédex (it’s just about the only generation, as far as I can tell, where anyone put any significant effort into writing new things about old Pokémon). I mean, obviously the sound quality has continued to improve since then as the games’ technology has improved, but somehow the music of Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald is the only music that’s ever had me just sitting there listening to it. My favourite track is probably the one that plays on the long forest road between Lilycove City and Fortree City… let’s see if I can find it… yes, here it is; this one.
Pokémaniacal 