Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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Fall into gacha hell as I present The Evolution of Gear Up For..., a menu theme from the game Fire Emblem Heroes, released in Android and iOS worldwide in early 2017. This track, despite its short lifespan compared to the previous soundtracks I featured in the series, has a rather interesting and historic track record in just two years of existing.

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Music:
0:00 Gear Up For.../My Castle Menu Theme - Fire Emblem Heroes (2017, Android, iOS)
1:48 Gear Up For... - Sounds of Fire Emblem from Cipher Caravan ~ Galeforce (2018)
5:41 Gear Up For... - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018, Nintendo Switch)

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Gear Up For... was first played into the mobile Fire Emblem game titled Fire Emblem Heroes, the game was released in 2017 for Android and iOS devices worldwide, and was the My Castle Menu Theme that you hear after the title screen of the game.

This track also had another version from an album titled Sounds of Fire Emblem from Cipher Caravan ~ Galeforce, the third album from the Cavalry Duo, released in late 2018 for the Cipher Festival for a limited time release. This included eleven (11) different tracks, along with two (2) tracks from Heroes: Return to Nifl, the battle track for Book II of the game, and Gear Up For...

And, a few days after the release of the album, was also the release of the fifth, or sixth installment of the Super Smash Bros. franchise, titled Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, released also in late 2018 for the Nintendo Switch. This included this track itself, a Smash Ultimate remix of this track which also features portion of the title screen intro theme of the game in the latter part of the song.

The Ultimate version is the very first mobile game soundtrack that was included in Smash, and also the first one to receive a remix of its own in the game, so it has a unique historic debut of sorts.

This gave every FEH players PTSD from having the tempo of the song increasing, is as if the pain and agony they've dealt with over the years was slowly crawling back to them along with the many, many, many pitybreaks they received from the game itself. Gacha is Pain+ Wrathful refine. (This last part is clear jest, but the soundtrack did history, kind of)

And that's The Evolution of Gear Up For..., you either love this track, or hated it, because it reminds you of Fire Emblem Heroes. It's honestly a pretty decent track, and if you hate it, you're welcome to use the Aether Resort's Concert Hall and purchase some new songs to play there instead, because I sure did lol.