General Pokémon

[Dudeman]

Exactly what I was about to ask.

[mastersuperfan]

The ORAS rival battle theme is one of my favorites and the RSE one is one of my least favorites

Fite me

[SlowPokemon]

I love the ORAS soundtrack actually (especially the rival theme like msf said), though the instrumentation choices are bland occasionally (I'm not going to rant about Shota Kageyama again but I am tempted). It's just that all of the soundtracks are so good that since RSE is shorter there's less material to love.

Also I find it tough to gauge how good gen III is in general, since it was my first Pokémon game and I'm a bit blinded by my nostalgia. Rest assured I love all of the soundtracks on the list, even XY.

XY is still by far the worst soundtrack though, can we all agree? It's so saccharine and bland besides the amazing team flare music and the occasional interesting route or town.

[Dudeman]

I'm actually really not a big fan of the Team Flare theme, it just comes off as a not-very-melodic mash of synths. I am a big fan of the Xerneas/Yveltal/Zygarde battle theme and the Elite 4 battle theme (and actually the Pokémon League theme as well). Oo, and the power plant/Pokéball plant music, that's really chill. But yeah other than that, X/Y's soundtrack is fairly meh.

Gen 3 is way better than the list suggests, though, and certainly better than Red/Blue on track complexity alone. Gen 1 may be iconic but Gen 3 is epicly iconic.

[Latios212]

I'm surprisingly pretty okay with this list except for Sun and Moon being at the top and RSE being near the bottom

And RSE's wasn't short though? At least not shorter than gens 1 and 2

Once I get on my computer later... Expect a lot of typing

[Nebbles]

To me, X/Y's ost isn't awful, it's just... there. It's boring. I can't really remember any of the tracks either. I'd have to force myself to play gen 6 again and lol @ that concept.

[AmpharosAndy]

I think my list would be the same except I haven't played Sun/Moon yet

maybe swap gen 1 with 3

[mastersuperfan]

Just in case you were wondering (which you weren't, but just in case), this is how I'd rank 'em:

1) Gen 5
2) Gen 3
3) Gen 7
4) Gen 2 (HGSS only, since I haven't yet played GSC)
5) Gen 4
6) Gen 1
7) Gen 6

[Olimar12345]

I think I'd arrange it like this, personally:

1) gen 2
2) gen 1
3) gen 4
4) gen 3
5) gen 7
6) gen 6
7) gen 5

[BlackDragonSlayer]

Any questions

why is sun/moon so high

[Olimar12345]

^really. There's so much Hawaiian influence that makes it unappealing.

[mikey]

hmmm
RSE
<worst Zelda song ever goes here>
RBY
DPPt
SM

I haven't played the others

[mastersuperfan]

RSE
Nocturne of Shadow
RBY
DPPt
SM

I gotchu fam

EDIT: Also

7) gen 5

u WOT M8

[Nebbles]

It's kinda hard for me to order them all, but I know my top three is at least GSC (and its remake), DPPt, and B/W (and counting its sequel)

[SlowPokemon]

^really. There's so much Hawaiian influence that makes it unappealing.

It's actually not the Hawaiian stuff I love, I really just like Minako Adachi's and Hitomi Sato's compositions and there are so many of them. The Team Skull and Aether Foundation tracks, especially Lusamine's battles, are probably my favorite. Read my soundtrack review if you want more reasons I love SM