MUSIC DIRECTOR REACTS | WARFRAME - This is What You Are 

This track was released way back in 2015, it's super early in Warframe's life, it came with the story Quest "Second Dream" and was a major plot point in the story that I won't spoil. It's wild how good the music in Warframe was, even in the early days.

This has pretty much become the main character theme for the game. And the song structure is very much the same as the character's story. You are basically a child with way to much power and responsibility for your age. You start by relying entirely on your mother in game, who guides, supports and helps you in everything. You then go into losing her and having to find your own strength as a person. Finally you build into going back and rescuing your mother from what's taken her and protecting and helping HER this time.

As someone who has been playing Warframe for 10 years, this brings back very fond memories of one of the most mind blowing and epic plot + gameplay pivots in all of gaming history. Almost teared up again listening to this.

Keith Power is a fucking legend.

The song is beautiful representation of the story. The main character one of many tenno (child choir) and the Lotus (mother, female voice) is at the start, a simple relationship, ehich gets more complicated due to external factors and the children growing into hardened warriors (Primal vocal section is where it peaks in terms of the warrior theme), then there is the epic unity of all elements that represent the tenno but at the end there is space mom, still here. She never left. That mother and child relationship and its complications is a core of the story

"Dream, not of what you are, but of what you want to be" Some remember songs or themes from a certain event or happening in their life. For warframe players, its pretty much the pinnacle of the story. The cinematics, the song, the story, this unique centerpoint of emotions. Those moments are rare in games, very rare that i can only remember a handfull (FF7 aeris, WoW 'is it over', RDR2 'i tried' to name a few). And for people to reconize this as a great piece even not knowing the game or its story, only proof that this is one of those unique ones in gaming history.

As a grown man this moment in the game is the only game to make me tear up. Not a sad piece in itself necessarily, but in the context of the story it's like a 30 hour pay off. Beautiful moment and massive plot twist. True art, from a visual, audio, and writing perspective and a brave decision to hold this signifiant moment that far back into the game, where it has all the more impact once you are attracted to your character.

The eastern-style string instrument you pointed out is the Erhu! It's honestly my absolute favorite sounding instrument, it has such a beautiful and unique quality to it. And I agree completely, this track really does give similar vibes as Halo's OST (specifically the main themes).

It's crazy how Music Artists manage to deduct some of story elements from warframe just from the music alone.

I have been a warframe player since December of 2015 and i still get emotional when i hear this track 😁👍

Years later this song still brings a tear to my eye

This is perfect example of how music can trigger memories of a moment. Whenever I hear this theme, the emotion attached to it from the game and the reveal of what we are was so strong, I still get the feel of it from just hearing this. It was a monumental moment for a lot of us who had played the game since it's start and after all the speculation at what we were, it was such a beautiful and crazy experience to live it. Many other games gave me emotions, but Warframe will always be at the top in terms of impact with this music piece and the emotions attached to it.

Man, 8 years later this OST still hits just as hard and it still fits the game's narrative to this day. I love that throughout the track it's like a back-and-forth between one motherly voice and a choir of younger people. And it was building up. The percussion and strings that come in sound very heroic and epic but it still felt like a build-up. Very much in tune with how The Lotus woke up the Tenno and the Tenno are slowly learning to stand on their own feet. And then when the track drops the melodic parts and it's very percussive even with the vocals, it feels like a turn of events. The low-sounding chants of a group of lower voices makes it feel like the enemies arrived. The variations in the percussion and the lack of melody makes it feel chaotic and alarming. And then the finale. Where if you notice in the first few sections, the sequence has been the Mother singing and the children sing it back. But in this finale, the choir representing the children sing first, and in an explosive way. They're their own people now and they're ready to fight. And right at the end there, everything slows down and it becomes more intimate as the Mother voice closes it out. Almost like affirmation. "Yes, this is how strong you are, child. This is what you are." It's such a powerful piece. I'm glad you liked it that much despite it not being that complicated in its melody and harmony. The main melody is simple and kinda repetitive but they carried it throughout the song in different context. This track might not incorporate words as the voices are just singing and humming, but it tells a vivid story.

chills... from fear to hype... Warframe invade that cosmic horror aspect and keep going on that...

I love the vocals on this track; they're so simple, clean, and beautiful. Simplicity is one of the hardest things to do, because if you mess up at all, you have nothing to hide behind; it has to be basically perfect. And, on this track, it is.

If I could take a pill to experience a piece of media again for the first time, the moment this song plays for the first time would be pretty high on the list

The top comment here didnt really start at the beginning of the story where this piece is relevant so here goes, il explain how this piece marks the start of our story. These children who we the players control, are in cryo sleep scattered through space and void. The space between space that can lead to other timelines, quite literally lost BETWEEN space and time, until we wake up alone. Our adopted mother is calling to wake us. An enemy is breaking down the doors and shes to guide us from danger, toward the power to protect ourselves. We survived being lost at void and there are billions of soldiers from a wide range of factions who will stop at nothing to trap, study, kill, and dissect us. In order to take our new found power for themselves. This piece of music is about us waking up and echoing our adopted mothers call to action. She sings to wake us, we get up to echo her song, but she tries to interrupt. She has bad news and is in a hurry to make sure we understand. The solemn strings are her explaining that we have enemies, that theyre here, and why. Then we spring into action. Nowhere will be safe, we take to space and become warrior nomads, whether we like it or not. Mere children with enemies crashing through the front door of our every home, forcing us into a solemn life of war we never chose.

To this day this track gives me the chills! I still remember how it brought me to tears hearing it for the first time in the game.

Warframe Warframe! Hope someone suggests Smiles From Juran next, it's an emotional powerhouse of a song that so perfectly fits the moment it plays in the story that, in my opinion at least, you can feel it even if you have no idea what the story is about

I would love for you to do We All Lift Together and Sleeping in the Cold Below! Some of my favourite music from Warframe.

I really have to thank you , that you re reacting to such an emotional support of a Song for me. You are awesome and we all really think that you are a great Music expert. As soon I saw you your Video I was crying because it means so much to me. Even if you wouldn't liked it your opinion would be very important to me.

To whoever requested this song, You are a legend!

you should do scathing mockery from warframe, if you love percussion and vocals you will find it quite unique (just a side note the song is not gibberish, it is a language that the community is working on translating actively)

What I really love about this song is it almost tells the history of the Tenno all on its own with how it develops. This is heavy *spoilers* so I'm gonna drop a few bars - - - - - - It starts lost in the void. Then the voice of Margulis rescues them as the vocals rise. The children choir calls out. But then it gets a little sad and ominous again, the council forces them to train as soldiers and Ballas forces them to pilot the Warframes. Margulis tries to save them and is sent to the Jade Light, the children lament. Lotus takes her place, completes them as Tenno, and guides them through the war against the Sentients as the song intensifies. And then... the beat of the Naga drums. The drums that marked the victory of the Tenno over the Sentients and their simultaneous rebellion against the Orokin. Full soldiers that are ready to discover their own fate, and their place in the system. And an empire falls for their freedom as the song crescendos with the vocals blending back with the drums and shouts. And yet, despite their newfound freedom, the Tenno must yet dream under the watchful eye of the Lotus, as the Tau system will not remain isolated forever and the Sentients will return, and the Orokin will rise again, and the Corpus and Grineer will pillage their power, and the tenuous balance of the system will be disturbed, and the Tenno will wake, but for now, the song lulls to dreams again under the voice of Lotus.

The female voice in the beginning is a mother calling to her children, the choir are the children responding to the mother

I unironically found this video while playing Warframe on my other monitor- 'This is What You Are' always gives me goosebumps. You should look into ''We All Lift Together'' and ''For Narmer'' those are connected and easily one of my favourite soundtracks from Warframe.

Dream, not of what you are, but of what you want to be.

This piece basically tells the whole story of the Tenno from beginning to where we are now.

Love those heavy percussive elements.

Warframe is SOO GOOD! I hope it gets more popular!

Been playing the game since 2012. Back then in closed beta and the start of open beta for the game, the only music in the game was smaller drum rolls and percussion only. This was the first real song added to the game, and represents a MASSIVE turning point in the story, and more importantly, set the bar for what Warframe was going to be for so many years after. It's hard for me not to get emotional when the chorus explodes at the end, knowing how much the game has come since those early days, but the core of Warframe is still intact. It feels like watching a child grow, and this song was right there at the forefront when it happened

10 years later and this piece still hits me in the feels like a skana between the ribs.

3:50 children's choir. Perfect description regarding what happens at that point

I get goosebumps every single time I listen to this track. It is, by far, my absolute favourite among all of the Warframe soundtrack.

Aaah, u're reacting to another one. Hope the devs see ur videos about their game. They always shoutout to streamers, creators, artists that talks about their game. Especially when it's about the creative part of it. (and i'm here for that)

This track gives you chills in the scenes its used in the game. Even the title is a reference to some of the most poignant lines and concepts of the game. It's so eerie and beautiful

I discovered you because of kukuo and now you're my favourite music recommendations channel

LETSGO! I'm happy you reacted to this!

Warframe will forever hold a place in my heart, one of the greatest f2p games of all time Spot on with the "children sounding choir" hehe

Amazing how this ost stills give me chills as if I'm playing this part of the game for the first time again.

Warframe reuses this leitmotif but changes it to indicate what is going on. Such as a version without the female vocals, replaced by an ominous deep male droning, and the children's choir sounds woeful and depressed...

Pretty sure the "cultural" instrument you refer to is "Erhu", I remember the devs talking about it took some effort to hire a Erhu player.

The energy in ttheir song is infectious; it's impossible not to get swept up in it.

He got it right by saying the part sounded like polite/children because this song has connection between a mother and her children.

Man, this song brings back memories.

The ending was feeling like lullaby

Always tear up when that violin sets in. Hits me somehow. It's incredible, really.

It is my absolute favorite song since it came out...and for a good reason.. its so beautiful.

First time I played Warframe and heard this track, I knew it was supposed to make me feel like a young god. Time, violence, even the ineffable void of space and beyond. We were born to stride through all of it and bring it to heel. Very few other mediums can express reverence the way WF music does.

Man, its been so long, but i still get shivers from this.

Been playing Warframe since 2014, and this brings me back. This video made me realize how great this soundtrack was and still is.

Something I really love this song is that it’s not quite a lullaby but it calls back to one in my opinion. At least in the beginning. Which is VERY fitting for the quest it’s involved in

This piece plays at multiple major plot points in the story, sections of it here and there and together makes the entire piece. People forget only the quite sections play during "The Second Dream" quest while the rest plays in the next quest, with variations of it during the quests after. This is the closest Warframe has to a "main theme", and it tells the story Warframe as a whole: the relationship between all players, represented by the children choirs, and Lotus (the character in the video thumbnail), represented by the solo soprano. A mother and her children. Lotus calls her children, and they respond. The quite sections play during The Second Dream quest, a major plot point where we learn hard truths and why the world is the way it is. Unpleasantries, betrayals, lies, secrets and more. This is only the calm before the storm however and why only the quite sections are there. At the end of the quest, Lotus doesn't tell us to calm down or take it easy despite us having too many questions in mind. She tells us the work is not done and that we should get mad for what we endured. Despite that, we are tired, we want to calm down and digest everything that happened, all while Lotus is right in front of us telling us more hard truths that will make everyone mad. The next quest is called "The War Within" and where we actually do something about the state of affairs. Now we get mad, now we are violent, now we take revenge. Now the loud sections play and we want more of it.

This one and We all Lift Together are my two Favorite Warframe songs, however drastically different they are

I've had random customers at work go "I like that song what is that" I blast music from my headphones they let me so long as it's not vulgar.

At the beginning there's an almost whimsical/pensive start, maybe even a little hesitant, like drops of water in a pond. A mother calling out to her children, and while their response at first mimics hers, by the end of the phrase it becomes their own. A little bit of sorrow, almost a keening wail of the strings, and then an explosive leap forward. Grief, and then the attack. The child is now a warrior, but always coming back to that original root of their mother's voice. Love, loss, pain, anger, courage, the will to fight all represented with just music, and at the end the voices of your brothers and sisters and then the mother with a fade to silence leaving you in a literal void. At which point you think about the title, "This is what you are?" Overall an incredible musical summary of the story of Warframe so far.

as a Warframe gamer, i approve :) its pretty awesome seeing someone push forward something one might consider as unimportant (but actually very important) which music in a "everyday" moment of joy and relaxation is. also kudos to developers paying so much attention and resources to music in their products.

Not a clue if you have ever reacted to any of the Destiny's soundtrack but i definitely recommend it. As one of my favorite games (along side warframe here) Destiny 2's deepstone lullaby, the shadowkeep sound track. Destiny 1's Taken king, Rise of Iron and Sepik's Redux, all of the music is just so gorgeous.

If you like this track, you should check out 'Smiles from Juran,' also called 'To take it's pain away.' It's another gorgeous track from Warframe, and it's from a really well done quest line that gives the main weapons you're using in the game *so* much more depth than just suits with fancy powers.

If you havent heard the black clover ops i would recomend all 13 of them they all hit and have many styles of music in them i think you would love them.

Please react to Warframe: We All Lift Together Composer: Keith Power Singers: Kevin Durand, Murray Foster, Jason Lewis, Damhnait Doyle

Dream... Not of who you are... But of who you want to be. So dream deep friend. Dream of who you want to become. Dream of every detail of person you wish to become. Dream it hard, feel it into your core. Dream it, and bit by bit, you shall be able to become them. Dream of person who you want to be, so you may become them!

Another game with an incredible soundtrack that I think would be interesting to see you do a dive into is Outer Wilds including the DLC songs. My favorite specifuc tracks are 14.3 biillion years, echoes of the eye, and travelers encore. They all give me chills almost every time!

Ah yes! This is the Warframe i fell in love with all those years ago! If you want to look into more videogame music with cool percituons, Monster Hunter World has cool mount themes involving percutions. I recommend the Zinogre theme and his mount theme as well.

One of my favorite plot points in gaming history. Second Dream goes HARD.

As a percussion guy nothing will top this song. But We All Lift Together from Warframe gets close yet couldnt have a more different vibe.

Think of the beginning vocals as a parent calling to awaken. The next part of the vocals as a call and response of child and parent, the child not being awake yet. The precussive and primal vocals as a call to action, a precursor to the awakening. And the ending vocals as a response from child from the beginning, to say that I am awake now.

The main draw for this song is how emotional it is. I appreciate you pointing out how it flows and the instruments, but you should let it speak to your soul as well.

shit was polite as fuck btw! xD

Definitely reccomend reacting to "we all lift together" if youve been enjoying the warframe music

i think you need to play the game till this quest and listen to it as you do the quest you will know how the plot is so fitting with it , hope you can try warframe some day

More Warframe? Lets gooooo

а теперь надо пойти потрогать траву))

Finally its here hes done it thank the void

i would love to see you reac tto delirious or sukuna's domain from JJK

Loved the breakdown (also love the game and the music) Could you be the first to react to the ARKHAM CITY THEME track? I can't find anybody analyzing it, and it's in the same tone as this one was.

Warframe songs are so good

That last segment after the minute four makes me think of Avatar, the wild, the power of nature. But what I think when the song ends is: WHY IT HAS TO END 😭

Next should be the fortuna song

Listen to more warframe music, this shit slaps

DrumRollTony you should try the op of the anime "Dark Gathering"

Fortuna it’s still warframe and a slightly different style but it’s still great

You should react to fire emblem awakening conquest

Nice reaction! Please next check "Lost Ark OST - Astalgia of Phantasm", you will absolutely love it.

This song IS Warframe

goo listen fortuna theme. its crasy good

[Spoilers] A mother calls to her sleeping children. Survivors of an inter-dimensional accident that gave them with other-worldly powers; but left them as cast-outs and rejects. The mother gifts them solace from the torment of the void; surrogate bodies. They dream... not of what they are, but of what they want to be. They wake inside new forms; expressing unique forms of their power. Only to be turned into child soldiers of a corrupt empire. They serve with honor and strength, against an enemy created by that same empire; only to grasp opportunity in the chaos to revolt themselves. They slaughtered the empire that abandoned them, rejected them, re-built them... _enslaved them;_ leaving only a sole survivor. They fall back into slumber, to rest as the cosmos collapses around them. You wake up after countless ages to the same call from a mother, only to later find she is an imposter-turned-sympathizer. She calls to wake you but you do not realize you are in a dream within a dream... a second dream. Propelled by a half-forgotten tragedy, you find yourself face-to-face with extinction. Against an enemy you thought you defeated, with the help of one who should not have survived. It is there you are shown and you see for the first time in eons: _This is what you are._

Waiting for your Reaction on Genshin Impacts new Boss theme. Its called "All-Devouring Narwhal".

3:52 you said like children singing that might be something about the story quest wont say it its spoiler if you want to hear i can write it to under this comment

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