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brokenjardaantech · 11 months ago
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a very un-professional analysis of whispers in the walls' soundtrack because i think they deserve a special mention
my feelings after completing whispers in the walls (spoilers hidden below)
ik a lot of people have already screamed about old men yaoi so i won't repeat that here and instead scream about the soundtrack. my memories are fussy so pardon me if i get anything wrong and feel free to correct me in the comments/reblogs.
don't get me wrong, warframe has always (to me, at least) had a dang good soundtrack. from the new war's 'F - C - G A♭ B♭' and the obvious mockery/corruption of 'we all lift togther' into 'for narmer', to the terrifying screams of the angels of zariman, then to the tranquility and peace of drifter's intrinsics, and finally to the wailing operatic(?) soprano of the orowyrm fight. DE knows how to use music to facilitate storytelling.
whispers in the walls is no exception.
the login music being the same as the music played when you first step foot into loid's laboratory? the sense of mystery and meloncholy behind the notes and the vocals? (i would dare say, as if it is loid's lament?) the throat singing in the combat music obviously connecting the murmur to the man in the wall? the this is what you are leitmotif playing when the operator is forcefully transferenced out of their warframe? magnificent. but not just these.
you know how, towards the end of the quest, the operator transferences into the vessel(?) in the lab and reaches out for the other vessel (i presume to be inhabited by the man in the wall)? and when the vessel in the lab touches the other vessel's face i.e. when the qte is done, the music suddenly changes from the combat music to the lab's theme? the lab's theme which, to me, sounds like loid's sorrows? the gestures of the vessels are the exact mirror of the very first cutscene of the quest. in the initial cutscene, it was albrecht caressing loid's cheek and loid leaning into his touch; with the vessels, it is the vessel in the lab caressing the invading vessel's. and you can kind of see the moment the invading vessel no longer carries the man in the wall but albrecht himself: when the vessel's face changed from anger to disbelief, then to the obvious relief as he leans into the lab vessel's touch. that's when they hit us with the harmony, the second voice that is distinct from the original one from the login theme or loid's lab, weaving the notes together with the original as the invading vessel finally closes his eyes and rests. loid and albrecht seeing - or at least feeling - their love for each other again after albrecht's departure since void-knows-how-long. also, the fact that the voices are singing together in the last line(?) of the soundtrack, and the camera is focused on loid, the man himself? (like he finally, at long last, got the final piece of the puzzle and realise that albrecht truly loves him back and wants to be with him?) i don't have words for the emotions sweeping through me apart from quietly sobbing and screaming into a pillow. i would say 'beautiful' but it's far more than that. it feels intimate; the sadness is still there because albrecht is still gone, but i feel like there's also hope that just one day, albrecht will break through, and he can go back to this world without threatening loid with the presence of the man in the wall.
a person with proper musical training can probably analyse the soundtrack much better than me. probably. but even without it, the way warframe utilises their soundtrack as part of the storytelling and play with our heartstrings - and not just to pump our blood during combat - is marvellous. i would even say that without the soundtrack being composed and arranged like this, the emotional impact of the quest wouldn't have been the same, so bravo + standing applause + thundering footsteps for those who worked on the soundtrack, and extra applause for the people in charge of the vocals. the soundtrack is a work of art.
and DE please release the soundtrack soon please i'm begging you. you bet i'll be looping the shit out of it in my orbiter.
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bloodied-serpent · 11 months ago
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tinsin · 8 months ago
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Every time I see @ritasanderson post (incredibly respectfully)
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brokenjardaantech · 10 months ago
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younger loid in the sweater looks so good
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wanted to give small Euleria a floof...
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arachanine · 9 days ago
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On your first day of service, you aspired to be worthy of me. I only wish that I could have been worthy of you, my Loid.
Tennotober day 29 - Murmur
Im really pleased with how this all came together. I think I did pretty good for my first Tennotober :j I just wish I knew how to post to tumblr without the colors going out of wack </3
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gaurdibuja · 2 months ago
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[YOU ARE LATE]
I can't wait to jump in 1999, are you ready, tenno?
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warframestuff · 11 months ago
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sihirbazi · 3 months ago
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classic ship meme. hand hurty so @tasteslikenapalm is on coloring duty for my art
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tauforged · 7 months ago
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de please explain the necraloid i have so many questions
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b1rdthieves · 5 months ago
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"...my last sight of your face must not be marred by tears."
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andr0nap-wf · 5 months ago
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albrecht is having A Time ™
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brighan · 22 days ago
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Day 15 | Wedding
About what Varzia may be thinking about 🍑
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hitrone · 2 months ago
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hi…i kinda into warframe now
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brokenjardaantech · 1 year ago
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will farm 100 plat just for these three and they'll have a front row seat in my orbiter
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"And They Were Roommates" noggle bundle
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arachanine · 2 months ago
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The one time I draw Albrecht and he’s like this
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alteredsilicone · 10 months ago
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I had to draw it
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