Further biscuit supplies

[davidn]

Having been in sore need of some familiar comforts recently, I was amazed when this parcel arrived from my parents in addition to the Christmas presents that we knew they were sending over. It felt a lot heavier than it looked, because it was crammed to the brim with these:


These were added to the Fox range (terrible news channel - great biscuits, though) at some point in the last couple of years, and they're made of some sort of honeycomb-like substance with chocolate spread on one side. They, like most of their biscuits, are absolutely wonderful - and unlike the Creams, these ones have the added bonus that my weird friends can't make any dirty jokes about their name.

Comments

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

I made the mistake of listening to the first video's audio out of curiosity; I seriously just put the Ecco song back on to wash it out of my brain...

[davidn]

The Trauma Center boss music? That's actually one of the very few things in games that I know other people have said they were scared of, and that I never really had that reaction to - for me it's sort of so over the top that it becomes slightly funny. Having heard the DS interpretation of a choir sound first might have helped with it...

[ravenworks.livejournal.com]

No, no, no - the N song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCxv2ZPU3vg).

[davidn]

Oh yes, that... I didn't listen to a whole lot of it, but it did have a rather unpleasant feeling of being constantly shouted at.

[kjorteo]

The best part is how it only took a sequel for them to figure out that the DS actually can do a convincing choir, complete with what sounds like actual lyrics, though I can't figure any of them out beyond what sounds like "the Aletheia" at the very beginning.

[davidn]

I still think that that's the most amazing piece of music that I've ever seen coming out of a handheld. And I know that it isn't even... impressive on a technical level, these days - you could easily just throw an MP3 on there and have a codec to play anything at all - but alongside music that tends to be kept slightly lower-fidelity for space reasons (or in Etrian Odyssey's case, because they know how amazing it sounds in its own way), it makes the grandeur of it stand out all the more.

"The Aletheia will be"... "waiting"... "with a"... "mug of metal"... it's so indistinct that I can't even mishear anything funny out of it, but I don't think it's meant to be English.