Bold brass and strings declaring that something massive has started. Fate/Grand Order's trial soundtrack from 2016 on mobile is short but it set the entire musical identity for a game that would run for nearly a decade. "Grand Order" is the main theme and it still holds up, confident and forward-moving with a sense of scale.
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