FEZ 10 Years Later
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- Опубліковано 12 кві 2022
- A manifestation of Phil Fish's love for the original Zelda and the cryptic nature of earlier videogames, FEZ is a squared off, pixelated odyssey that gently invites you into it's world and doesn't stop unraveling until the final.. Cryptic ending. Even 10 years later it's pretty amazing how well this thing holds up.
This game could've stayed Silly, and there is definitely some of that.. But.. It sets up a strong, quiet atmosphere so effortlessly that before you know it it doesn't feel like you're playing a funny little videogame. Navigating the beautiful floating islands of fez's world as you collect cubes, artifacts, and maps is a transient experience I've felt in seldom platformers out there.
Add to that the day and night cycle + the environmental diversity and you have a real recipe for an immersive world.
FEZ is not just an indie, it's years of sweat, and emotion poured into one game, carefully crafted and combed over until even a perfectionist like Phil Fish can enjoy it. It's a snapshot of what Polytron could've been, a time capsule of what it's sequel and it's creator had the potential to keep creating, and it's really unfortunate that things turnt out the way they did. - Ігри
I'm gonna ask of you the typical social media "things" and please leave a like, comment, and subscription if you enjoyed the video. Thanks so much! It's been a while since I did a 10 years later video!
Its kinda funny how public meltdowns and social media tantrums have become so common and normalized the past few years. Phil fish's "unfortunate episode" changed his life forever and destroyed his public reputaion forever, but if this exact freakout happened today it wouldve been a minor controversy for like a week MAX and then everybody wouldve stopped caring. Bro was really ahead of his time
Never thought about it that way but you’re totally right
This game means so much to me, its amazing how some games could give you 300 hours of gameplay, huge open worlds, incredible graphics and still not scratch the surface of what fez sparked in me, the atmosphere, the music, the world design, it created a since of nostalgia on the first time i was playing it. A true masterpiece that when you try and look for similar games you realize there are none.
i used to play this game when i was a kid...i kinda wish there was a sequel
I have played the whole game in about 3 days with some walkthroughs and I must say Phil has done an amazing job. There were mind was literally blown! I wish Fez 2 would someday release, my idea is that there could be like a top view and underview or u use the 4th dimension. Feztal is also great, Krzyhau did an awesome job
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Worth mentioning the soundtrack as well. Really exceptional music
I think of FEZ as part of a subgenre I call a “Cryptic Puzzler”, where plenty of the solutions to puzzles can’t be figured out without exploring more of the game’s world. There’s only two games in this subgenre, with the other being Please Don’t Touch Anything. As much as I wanna say that there’s no reason there should be more cryptic puzzlers, the convoluted nature makes too much sense for why there’s so few.
I would put The Witness in this genre as well, you need context from other parts of the world to understand what's going on. I think it's really beautiful in away
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Maybe I perhaps introduce you to a neat little game called TUNIC just out this year? It might not seems like a Cryptic Puzzler, as you said, on the surface. But rest assured it packs quite a lot of them!
Cave story?
tunic has come out
Neat thing:
RAIN WORLD HAS A UNIQUE ENDING *JUST* FOR FEZ.
THE HEARTBREAK ENDING, FOR THE MOST IMPORTANT SLUGCAT, TOO: *SAINT*
One of my favorite games, thanks for making this!
Amazing video! One of my favorite games of all time and this was a thoughtful video
I don't really know why this video made me emotional, but it did.
Fez is one of the few and only games that has been able to pull me back to my Xbox 360 days, and it all just makes me nostalgic for the hours I spent playing and collecting every little thing in Fez (and thanks to UA-cam for explaining how to beat puzzles I never would've figured out on my own lol).
I dunno, this just brings me back. Thank you.
Woooooow i remember playing this game when I was around 7, played it on my ps4 when I saw it was free, I was mad bored, parents wouldn't be home for the next week, so I could game all I want. I have no memory of what happened in the game and I sadly don't have the time to finish this video for now, but I will be coming back cause so far this looks like an amazing and well put together video for such a small channel!
I first played fez on xbox 10 years ago and something about it was just amazing. The 2d to 3d platforming was great and although the puzzles were way too complicated for me, I wouldn't hold that against the game, it had a distinct direction and I think it worked really well. What happened with Phil fish is just really unfortunate as I would have loved a sequel.
One of the best things I've experienced this year was the game TUNIC suddenly revealing that it was a spiritual successor to FEZ's second layer the whole time. Also that Japanese games comment was hilarious considering that Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, and its DLC had been released by that time.
does the word opaque mean anything in that game?
Thank you for doing this video. This game is definitely a love of mine. I have it on so many platforms. Its very calm and peaceful. I don't believe Phil was fully understood. I still watch the "Indie Game" movie every now and then.
Thanks for watching. I dont agree with much of what Phil says but I hope he's doing well. Feel free to sub! :)
i used to have this game. all the way back when i still had a 360
i never beat it, but i wish i had. i love its asthetic. i miss it. maybe ill get a 360 and play it again someday.
I just discovered this & I'm playing the ps vita version even tho i'm a decade late, one of my favourite games of all time
I only played the demo when i was a kid and i had no idea how to beat the demo at all, but i loved the OST
i wish i had his knowledge in game development
happy birthday gomez!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Karma is ruthless.
Great video my friend! Fez will always be the game that is very close to our innermost memories and emotions! Also, thanks for shedding a positive light upon Mr Fish's past, we all know he could do better, but lets hope he comes back with Fez 2 in his pocket :)
Another person that needs to be mentioned is Shawn McGrath. The idea of a puzzle game in which a 3D space was viewed from four 2D angles, came from him. However due to creative differences the due split up and Phil Fish continued with Shawn's idea.
It's kinda like how the Nightmare before Christmas is Tim Burton's idea, but it was Henry Selick who directed the film and told the story.
Sadly Phil said that he has no interest in Fez 2.
I'll never forget the use of the glasses in the game.
First played fez on the psvita this year, I've just finished the story. Stellar game
Nah you can’t finish the story on the psvita without cheating. Unless you didn’t really get the real ending.
I never played the full game of Fez, but i did play the demo, it was a pretty fun little game
“Fun little game” made me use 100% of my brain power, and the multiple endings were pure mindfuck.
Fez is awesome!
It been 10 years he can make FEZ 2
No!
Comment for algorithm. Fez is my favorite game of all time.
Oh yes, the kino
I managed to get my hands on one of the 500 Limited edditon versions of the game, signed by Phil Fish. It's the best physical game I have.
That sounds awesome. If you join my server you should send pictures. I’d king to see it
i’m sad, i found fez in the switch and enjoyed it so much, and now seeing this it just makes me wanna cry cuz fez had so much more potential and its sequel just got cancelled because of its creator
Gives me Tunic vibes
To me, the aspect of "Community coming together to crack a puzzle" is not a good game desing element. Because in practice, it involves a small minority of very interested players actually contributing to solving the puzzle once, and from then on, pretty much everybody else (me included) has to go to a forum site and read the solution. This is not how a single player puzzle should be. It practically stops being a puzzle for me at that point.
There was one seuence of code where people found it through trial and error. How is that a puzzle? It's a secret for sure. But when I play that level, I get confused, I search it online, I find a sequence, there is no explanation, I enter it and get the cube. How is that fun for me? I think Fez was a fun game overallwith a brilliant mechanic, brilliant level desing and beautiful music. But it did not even clue in the player about the second world inside the game. Most people will learn it through forums. Reading forums is not playing a game. I know I will get some backlash from the obsessed community (or maybe no one because I played it years after release lol) but this is how I felt about it.
I agree, it's a novel concept but whenever a puzzle is so cryptic it involves a whole community I lose interest from a gameplay perspective
As someone old enough to grow up with Raiders of the Lost Ark and Adventure on the 2600, Ladybug and Donkey Kong on ColecoVision, having gone to arcades that had Elevator Action and Cobra Command, old enough to get that golden cartridge and rent for too long Dragon Warrior, which I then had to purchase for $60 from Blockbuster, or pay the $100 rental fee, Fez is the real deal. It’s the Finnegans Wake of videogame history, smashed into a million pieces and put back together eloquently. It’s a dream the proto-videogame had to make sure a record was kept.
Well spoken, sir.
I have a love/hate relationship with this game. It obviously is a peace of art.
But I don’t like that the riddles are too cryptic to be solved alone. It kinda forces you to constantly look up the solution for riddles, which feels like cheating. But I get the idea, that this is a homage to games of the 80s and early 90s.
This was def the video I wanted you to make the most, and it's fucking amazing. Even though Super Meat Boy will still be my favorite game of all time, FEZ is incredibly close. Words just can't describe how much I love this game, all the cryptic secrets, the gameplay, the design, the atmosphere, the music, everything is just pulled off so fucking well. Actual fucking masterpiece.
haha what about Braid 🎙️
Oh wow, I didn’t know that Fez came so close to meat boy for you. Revisiting it a decade later there’s so much I didn’t appreciate, like it’s atmosphere and just quiet beauty.
I still think the areas with the light poking through the trees are the most pretty. It’s just so beautiful
@@bossdoor For real! I agree with the light poking trees thing too lol
Such a great game
I was a little on the dumber side when I was younger, I think I got to like... the third "world" and then got lost, even with the map, I just could not for the life of me find a way to backtrack, I couldn't find any more cubes either.
Still one of my favorite childhood memories is playing that game though.
The worlds first Soyjack face.
Distorting, destroying someone's image is bad. But in everything there is beauty. Distortion shows that our words are like the beautiful figures we see in fez. After all, doesn't he himself imply this in his work? It destroys, rebuilds, resignification and this is geometry with words, but also individual perception
Rewatched, and I just have a comment. You should never be at a loss for cube pieces, because that’s what the map is for. You’re supposed to learn how to understand and use the map to avoid situations where you have absolutely nothing to do.
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so true tbh
Phil Fish needs to come back
What he needs to do is give back the money he stole from his fans and work team with interest, that’s what he needs to do.
@@Amadeo790 he didn't steal any money though, he just quit lmao
Maybe Phil |Was| right, Maybe we really do not deserve Fez 2.
No he doesn’t
@@oo--7714 yeah stealing
i wanna play fez
Dew it
Could we gotten it wrong... Peabeu.... What about "Opaque". I doubt anyone will listen. anyway is mistranslated or can be translated to "Opaque". The meaning of the word literally fits the themes. and if you take out all the vowels you are left with "pq' which looks like a pair of glasses... which i believe is the reward...
i CANNOT with the omori music
I really needed fez 2
i love you
😉
I cant place the intro music but i know i know it, help! Omori? Undertale? Anyway awesome video about a beautiful game
By your side - OMORI :)
@@bossdoor thank you i love you. what a beautiful game omori is. actively avoiding everything about it so i can forget it as much as possible before playing through again. anyway thanks for the levelheaded video about fish/fez, i have recently discovered it and am lost as hell but just enjoying being lost and the exploration, a bit link in yume nikki.
@@li21nljasndvkljhnakshedbxxc Another person that needs to be mentioned is Shawn McGrath. The idea of a puzzle game in which a 3D space was viewed from four 2D angles, came from him. However due to creative differences the due split up and Phil Fish continued with Shawn's idea.
It's kinda like how the Nightmare before Christmas is Tim Burton's idea, but it was Henry Selick who directed the film and told the story.
Sadly Phil said that he has no interest in Fez 2.
this guy sucks. the fame and shot-lived success just brought the worst features of his character to the light. instead of apologizing and minding his own business he kept antagonizing the whole world and wasn't able to let it go, just like a little salty child. you can love his game, but the guy got what he deserved 100%, and there's no defending him
CHOKE ON IT
Wut
@@bossdoor I post that on every Phil Fish-related video I see.
comment for the algorithm :)
Late to this but I appreciate it.
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omor
This game is not only a masterpiece like Doukutsu Monogatari, and Tower of Heaven, this game is rewarding like, you think you’re Einstein sometimes! (If you play it as intended).
this guy thinks he's too japanese to say cave story
@@stinkystink9830 ごめん🙏
I don't think game journalist are good ppl honestly... game review guys are the ones i appreciate. "game journalists" all they do is piss ppl off... this is the evidence. Fez is a really good game and inspired Celeste in case you didn't know this... The composer Disasterpiece even inspired Lena Raine, the composer of Celeste, and Chicory.
Game journalists most of the time havn't even played the damn games they are talking bout, they can't even pass level 1 of most games. This is facts! they have no right making statements about good games. Especially Kotaku and ppl who act that way.
ThIs game is nice but I can't really recommend it to anyone because my gameplay eventually led to me googling the puzzles because I'm not gonna learn the games own language lol. Cave Story is better.
Wow! A few seconds in and I already hate the developer! That's worse than Randy.
Its kinda trash that yet again the community has to pick the pieces up for a creator who had talent but was very unappreciative of his following its an alright game though spent some time on it in highschool
That's how I feel with the binding of Isaac a lot of the time with all the little fixes people do, thanks for watching! Feel free to join the discord too it would mean a ton to me :) discord.gg/HBTyPM8
Internet fame not changing people. It amplifies the characteristics.
Phil Fish was right about Japanese games at the time.
Not only they struggled transitioning to HD era, big japanese IP also started pandering to the west (not idpol things, stuff like RE5, Ace Combat Assault Horizon, DmC etc) which results in some shitty games with no clear direction
As a relative newcomer in the industry he shouldn't have said that though
Not all Japanese games are trash though….
Who cares
everyone should apologize
on phil
Well this whole start of the video aged poorly
Has he been toxic again recently?
i'm glad blowfish left the industry
lmao
I am not joking when i say I´d pay 500 (FIVE HUNDRED!!!) Dollars for FEZ 2 if thats what Phil Fish would charge for it. FEZ is a masterpiece, and the people attacking him where mostly real world NPC´s who never achieved anything.
i think phil fish is a wet fart of a game designer TBH an uber pretentious one at that, too. disasterpiece carried the whole game, looking back at FEZ i can only remember the songs xddd