Nobuo Uematsu and Tsutomu Narita built Granblue Fantasy's musical identity on sweeping orchestral arrangements that punch way above what anyone expects from a mobile gacha game. This story music collection captures the emotional arc of the main Phantagrande Skydom campaign, and it sounds like it belongs in a console JRPG three times the budget.
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"Phantagrande Skydom" opens with that signature sense of airborne wonder, brass and strings painting open skies. "Jewel Resort Casino Liner" is a total mood shift into jazzy glamour, while "Black Clouds" drops the hammer with ominous weight.
"We Drift through the Skies as One" is the kind of theme that makes you forget you're playing on a phone. The closing "Fateful Journey, Soaring Battle" ties the adventure and combat threads together in one piece. Thirteen tracks, and every one of them justifies why Granblue's music reputation grew so fast after its 2014 launch.
This is the emotional backbone of the early story chapters, and it holds up beautifully on its own.