The final gen 3 Hoenn game I hadn't played and the first time getting to use many popular pokemon like Blaziken and Flygon. I love a lot about this game. As always the music is a huge part of the experience as a lot of what you do is going to be accompanied by some sort of brass assortment.

General gameplay I find to be addicting in these games too. I know what happens in these games anyway as the loop rarely changes from the classic sort of storyline from the original games but I don't necessarily find the gameplay itself bad, I suppose it's more that they've left it to go stale these days but that's not important right now.

The actual Pokemon you collect in these games massively influences your experience. I have always taken great pride in my team building and also name choices as I tend to spend a lot of time coming up with names. Hunter (Blaziken) turned out to be very fun to use and as far as I can tell, this generation is my favourite starter trio closely followed by Gen 1 and then Gen 4 as those are the only other games where I have used all 3 starters.

This was my team and their inspirations:

Hunter the Blaziken Lv. 52 (hunters chicken)
Tsunami the Tentacruel Lv. 52 (Mako Tsunami from Yu-Gi-Oh)
Blackbird the Skarmory Lv. 50 (the SR-71 from Black Ops)
Radar the Gardevoir Lv. 51 (Ralts Pokedex entry)
Boaby the Cacturne Lv. 51 (a Still Game Character)
Ackbar the Flygon Lv. 51 (Admiral Ackbar because "It's a TRAPinch)