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Permalink Reply by Michel on April 14, 2012 at 1:21pm

Permalink Reply by Michel on April 16, 2012 at 1:45pm

Bragging:

• The soundtrack is still among the top sellers (#2 today) on Bandcamp.
• The game is now the #1 seller on the Xbox Arcade Marketplace 

Permalink Reply by Michel on April 16, 2012 at 1:38pm

I'm playing the game now (yes, I have an XBOX console =) and it's all what people say about it!. Mind-boggling! And hyper-pretty. I can't believe the depth and the layers of difficulty. How carefully thought out is everything. The game cons you into taking notes, making diagrams, using pen and paper.

...I'm not bragging =)

Permalink Reply by doone on April 16, 2012 at 2:02pm

That is great!

Permalink Reply by Michel on April 16, 2012 at 6:09pm

'Flatland' redux: watch Carl Sagan explain the science of 'Fez'

The plot of Fez begins when a two-dimensional character living in a two-dimensional world suddenly realizes that just beyond his perception lies a third dimension, filled with unexplored wonders and mystery. While it may have lacked the elegant mechanics, devious puzzles and brilliant audiovisual style of the video game, a 19th-century text by Edwin Abbott presented a story and world that is in many ways similar — a kind of spiritual prequel to the transdimensional tale dreamed up by Polytron.

This text was Flatland, a romantic satire written by Abbott in 1884 as a critique of the rigid, class-based social structure of Victorian England. Using geometric figures of varying complexity to represent different members of the Victorian hierarchy, Abbott's descriptions of a flat world given new perspective by a three-dimensional outsider, and specifically his postulation of a fourth dimension, eventually made their way into Einstein's theory of relativity. Then, in 1980, Carl Sagan famously demonstrated a thought experiment inspired by Abbott's Flatland on his legendary television program, Cosmos.

 

 
It's a challenging and fascinating concept: just as a cube can be drawn on a flat sheet of paper, consider that, to the inhabitants of a two-dimensional world, a three-dimensional being could only be perceived partially, as a two-dimensional "shadow" of its true self. Thus, a hypothetical four-dimensional being or object could only exist in our world as a three-dimensional projection.

The rest here.

Permalink Reply by Michel on April 17, 2012 at 1:57pm

Yet another review. And I'm amazed at the degree maturity and articulation of these games critics.

 

The game is now in it's first week and a worldwide critical success (with a score of 90/100 on Metacritic)

Permalink Reply by doone on April 17, 2012 at 2:17pm

Fez – review ‎ You +1'd this publicly. Undo The Guardian (blog) - 8 hours ago A rare game indeed, then. Fall from too great a distance and Gomez, the fez-wearing protagonist, will crumple in brokenness, only to be returned alive and ... Blog: Hats off to Fez, a game of many dimensions (review)‎ San Jose Mercury News (blog) Fez Review for XBLA‎ Gaming Age Fez review [Xbox 360]‎ BeefJack GamersDailyNews- Attack of the Fanboy all 11 news articles »

The Guardian (blog)

• Fez Review: A Fresh New Perspective On An Old Genre ‎ You +1'd this publicly. Undo FanBolt.Com - 1 day ago It's actually the premise of Polytron's debut game. Available on Xbox Live Arcade for 800 Microsoft Points, Fez is an open world 2D-ish puzzle platformer, ... In-Depth: Review: Phil Fish's 'Fez' is an indie passion project worth playing‎ Globe and Mail Review: 'Fez' a riveting retro treat‎ USA TODAY Indie Jeff's Weekly Pick: Fez‎ Shacknews VentureBeat- Digital Spy all 31 news articles »

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• Fez Devs Vows Fixes Are Coming ‎ You +1'd this publicly. Undo WhatCulture! - 10 hours ago The gorgeous 2D/3D mind-bending platformer Fez was released last Friday. Unfortunately, with many games that don't have the luxury of being tested by the ... Mike Shelton Follow Learn more about how authors appear in search by Mike Shelton · More by Mike Shelton FEZ patch coming soon‎ GameZone Fez Devs Say They're Working to Fix Game-Crashing Bugs‎ Kotaku Fez is buggy – but it's getting patched.‎ Lazygamer Joystiq all 8 news articles »

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• Eurogamer.net Podcast 109: Fez! Trials! Witcher! ‎ You +1'd this publicly. Undo Eurogamer.net - 2 hours ago Toms Champion and Bramwell are joined by Oli "gaming's Andrew Marr" Welsh this week to talk about the progressively less snappily titled Fez, ...

• Review: Fez's world-spinning puzzles drive us to distraction ‎ You +1'd this publicly. Undo Ars Technica - 4 days ago By Kyle Orland | Published April 13, 2012 12:30 PM It's hard to think of an indie game that has had more prerelease buzz and attention than Fez. + Video: Fez OST - Forgotten YouTube In-Depth: Fez review‎ Digitaltrends.com FEZ Review – Shifting Your Perspective‎ Piki Geek Blast- Paste Magazine all 44 news articles »

Permalink Reply by Michel on April 17, 2012 at 4:15pm

Hey thanks! Some I hadn't seen yet =)

Permalink Reply by doone on April 17, 2012 at 5:27pm

Get Over Here and Play a Video Game

Permalink Reply by Michel on April 18, 2012 at 12:13pm

Fez tops Xbox Live Arcade chart in debut week

By Fred Dutton Published 18 April, 2012

Acclaimed indie platformer just ahead of Skullgirls.

Rapturously received indie platformer Fez has entered the weekly Xbox Live Arcade chart at number one.

As detailed on Major Nelson's blog, Polytron's game (fresh off a 10/10 Eurogamer endorsement) came in just ahead of 2D fighter Skullgirls, which debuted at number two.

Ubisoft's survival adventure I Am Alive is holding up well in third place, perennial seller Pinball FX2 is at four and Gotham City Impostors is showing some legs at five.

Here's the full top 20:

1. Fez
2. Skullgirls
3. I Am Alive
4. Pinball FX2
5. Gotham City Impostors
6. Castle Crashers
7. Fruit Ninja Kinect
8. South Park: Tenorman's Revenge
9. Trials HD
10. Toy Soldiers: Cold War
11. Dungeon Defenders
12. Real Steel
13. Pinball Arcade
14. Full House Poker
15. NBA Jam: On Fire Edition
16. Peggle
17. World Gone Sour
18. Rayman 3 HD
19. Alan Wake's American Nightmare
20. The Splatters

Permalink Reply by Michel on April 19, 2012 at 12:05pm

Now, for added perspective, here's a bad review of FEZ.

 

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Permalink Reply by Michel on April 19, 2012 at 12:30pm

And now for good measure, one of the best-written if very short review of the game I've read so far, in Forbes.

By Dave Thier, Contributor

The Dangerous Madness That is Fez

Phil Fish lived in the world of Fez for five years. There were other people involved, but for the most part it was Fish, sitting in some basement, obsessively scribbling out walls, platforms, puzzles and alien languages in the increasingly elaborate nightmare that was the game he at some point intended people to play.

When Fez finally hit the Xbox Live marketplace last week, there was more hype swirling around than  for any indie game I can remember. But the game that came out was just as perplexing as the press that preceded it, defying attempts at validation or condemnation. It wasn’t revelatory, it wasn’t life-changing, it was just entrancing. Most games are paced in beats, like a movie or a play — checkpoint to checkpoint, setup and payoff. Fez was just one long uninterrupted moment.

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At the beginning of the game, Fez’s in-game map is a terrifying mess. It’s all hexagons running into each other with symbols that make no sense. Warp gates don’t take you where you expect. That door might lead into a room, a level, or an entire world. You’re chasing rabbits down tunnels, never sure how far any of them will go.

Gradually, you piece it together. Here goes into here, this is a hub world, this is a smaller hub world, etc. The game is all about changing your perspective to get a better look at things — gradually you turn the camera enough times that you gain the ability not just to jump on new platforms but to draw straight lines through the warped synapses of Phil Fish’s mind.

Fez has been called an art game, but that title doesn’t mean anything. Fez is an artist game, which more than any other title on the market puts you face to face with its inscrutable maker and demands you figure out what he’s thinking.

HERE

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