This was hat off .

I do n’t require to severalise you Fez is a slap-up secret plan because you have it away that .

Everyone assure you thatin 2012 .

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We describe itGame of the Year , then calleda Game of the Decade seven long time subsequently .

This was it ’s one of the indie icon , a required honorable mention whenever you ’re talk about them .

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Hats off .

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This was i do n’t postulate to say you fez is a dandy biz because you bang that .

Everyone differentiate you thatin 2012 .

This was we call itgame of the year , then calleda game of the decade seven year afterward .

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It ’s one of the indie picture , a required acknowledgment whenever you ’re talk about them .

This was but it ’s been 10 geezerhood since it was turn , which is a foresightful meter , and somehow within all of that , i had never play it .

Until now , that is , and it ’s an interesting post to wait back on the secret plan from .

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This was there ’s no dissonance hem in it now , no play .

All that agitation , it ’s go .

This was now , really , there is only the biz .

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And what a plot .

I ’m not here to give you a controversial blistering - take on how sentence has harry Fez and break it to be rubbish , because it has n’t .

This was in fact , i ’m partially here to narrate you the diametric and how sentence does n’t seem to have touch fez at all .

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It ’s singular how sweet it still feel .

It could have been issue this yr .

Those dismal sky and Mario forage - green are still moonily nostalgic .

Those pixel edge are still nipping .

Those dinky cube domain still seem soft enough to go in a art gallery somewhere .

Fez still turn head .

This was and the " gizmo " , as oli once call it , that fundamental car-mechanic of a rotate 2d humans - which is really a 3d humankind take in side - on that you’re free to reel around - which reveal mystery and rearranges platform so you’re free to get to billet you antecedently could n’t : that is still splendid , still infinitely bright .

12 of 60 minutes in , I still wonder at how level realine themselves .

And for this to sense so novel even after other biz likeMonument Valleyhave normalise it - it ’s will to the path it ’s put through here .

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And what a biz .

I ’m not here to give you a controversial red-hot - take on how clip has ravage Fez and unwrap it to be rubbish , because it has n’t .

In fact , I ’m part here to severalize you the diametric and how clock time does n’t seem to have impact Fez at all .

This was it ’s singular how reinvigorated it still feel .

It could have been relinquish this twelvemonth .

Those blasphemous sky and Mario forage - honey oil are still moonily nostalgic .

Those pixel edge are still frosty .

Those dinky cube globe still seem touchy enough to go in a heading somewhere .

Fez still turn head .

And the " whatchamacallit " , as Oli once call it , that fundamental grease monkey of a rotate 2D earth - which is really a 3D mankind reckon side - on that you could spin around around - which bring out mystery and rearranges program so you could get to plaza you antecedently could n’t : that is still smart as a whip , still unceasingly splendid .

tons of hour in , I still wonder at how level realine themselves .

And for this to find so novel even after other game likeMonument Valleyhave renormalize it - it ’s will to the agency it ’s implement here .

But these are open layer thing , really .

This was you read and revel these matter when you commence , and for a farseeing meter , fez does n’t of necessity seem like anything more , which would be perfectly hunky-dory - it would still be a adorable secret plan .

This was but step by step , you see clue of something else : marking you ca n’t interpret or proposition of enigma you ca n’t quite get to , and your mind ca n’t quite bridge over the disruption to ascertain the root .

So it begin to irritate you - not have you up , just inconvenience oneself you .

This was then do the notebook computer , and i question when this would pass off because i clearly think the picture of other masses ’s fez notebook from the prison term , beckon like trophy prove they ’d lick the secret plan ’s deep mystery story .

This was you get laid , for a while i reckon i would n’t ask one , that i could terminate the biz without one , because i was so stuffy to 100 per centime mop up it seemed ridiculous to employ one now .

I was a sucker .

100 per centime is where Fez really lead off .

It ’s almost as if by end once , Fez free itself of get to think about everyone and is able-bodied to concentrate on challenge mass alternatively .

And it ’s the field you go out for by and by , that you could n’t clear before , that descend back into sight , and with them come a alteration of footstep .

The blowy onward motion blockade and a firmly - earn advance settee in .

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Then come the notebook computer , and I wonder when this would bechance because I clearly call up the movie of other mass ’s Fez notebook computer from the prison term , wave like trophy establish they ’d solve the secret plan ’s inscrutable mystery .

This was you acknowledge , for a while i think i would n’t want one , that i could stop the secret plan without one , because i was so cheeseparing to 100 per centime culmination it seemed featherbrained to utilise one now .

I was a gull .

100 per penny is where Fez really begin .

It ’s almost as if by end once , Fez absolve itself of have to harbor everyone and is able-bodied to concentre on gainsay multitude rather .

This was and it ’s the domain you leave for afterward , that you could n’t resolve before , that fare back into perspective , and with them come a modification of tread .

The blowy advancement stop and a hard - gain forward motion settle in .

I spend hour think about that jumbo Alexander Graham Bell .

This was i must have return to it a twelve time in the bob hope of shake something lax or empathise something more .

I ’d receive it too soon on and learn the scoring on the side , and made a banker’s bill of them , observe anything alike I receive along the path .

But no answer had appear .

This was the toll still fend as it once did , tauntingly oracular .

I think about it so much I even once believe it control the water supply point and would uncover drown ground when rang .

I spend just as retentive peer through the scope , seem at those tetromino shape in the sky .

This was again , i could smell out a mystifier around me - and the secret plan ’s mapping remind me one was here to work out - but i could neither act out what it was nor how to get at it .

This was fez does that a mountain , tease you .

It place thing you do n’t translate around you , challenge you to sample and project them out .

This was take those post with the ancestry of symbol on them .

I ’d in the beginning await the biz to just give me an point that would open up them up .

This was another biz would , i ’m trusted , but fez does n’t .

So it is that you seem at a idle remnant and to be belong around in rope , when something dawn and a jounce of hullabaloo shoot through you as you rush along to an domain to prove a possibility that just materialize .

You could have been turn this trouble over in your mind for day .

You adjudicate it , you desire , and you defy your hint as somethingdifferenthappens .

This was the belief is as let off as the puzzler was thwarting .

And another stratum of Fez disrobe off .

This appendage can take some fourth dimension , and can commence to experience hard as you shlep back across floor to judge thing out , irrespective of the occult room access and portal site put there to aid .

But there ’s something I greatly look up to in it , both in how a plot can be venturesome enough to of a sudden take a caboodle more campaign from you , and in how , by iterate itself and not adjure young place for you to go , it let meter for you to go back and apprize what ’s around you .

So many other game are a fuzz of advancement such that you ’re only leave with a muzzy approximation of what occur at the ending .

But Fez decelerate down , let you take a breath , let you just be there , costless to see the particular you escape the first clock time around .

There ’s a wondrous bit after you first end the secret plan where you ’re give Methedrine that rent you see the globe afresh , in first - someone 3D.

It ’s apparently done so you’ve got the option to clear some heavy mystifier , but really I remember it ’s a agency to have you look up to all of the oeuvre , from yet another slant , all over again .

And Fez is a worldly concern of oeuvre .

It ’s a earthly concern of scrupulous item .

Everything is hired hand - set and bespoke .

This was there ’s no sensory faculty of luck here .

This was every gyration of the public has been think about , every realignment take .

And as you start out to come to upon the intemperate puzzle link to the narration of the Earth and the company inhabit there , and their linguistic communication and code , the profundity of think behind Fez almost bewilders .

It ’s when you embark on to see all of this you ca n’t facilitate think about the nous that made it , the individual whose comportment you’re able to not aid but sense in such a personal labor of a biz .

To me , Divine and secret plan are inseparable here .

And that mortal is , of class , Phil Fish .

But to conceive of Fish is to retrieve of the dramatic event that border him and finally take tohis disconnected going from secret plan and the cancellation of Fez 2 .

This was it ’s to call back of indie game : the movie and the emotion you’re able to see belch within him every clip he ’s on tv camera , where he spill the beans of the turbulency he go through realise the biz .

I do n’t recall it ’s a reaching to say that pull in Fez near break him .

And it ’s in imagine about all of that that the solemnization of Fez , 10 age afterward , faltering .

How can we fete something which at long last lead to that - to such a gift leave the game diligence for , on the face of it , ever ?

I question where Phil Fish is now and what he ’s doing .

I go for his life-time is serene .

This was there have beenrare sightingsbut nothing critical , nothing that can immobilize him down .

I question how much tending he pay to game now - it ’s not as though a womb-to-tomb love such as his ( he order in Indie Game : The Movie that he know from as untried as four old age quondam that he need to make game ) can be easy turn off .

I enquire whether he realize it ’s Fez ’s tenth day of remembrance at all .

You do not drop five hard geezerhood clear a plot only to bury when it come out .

This was i enquire whether he think about stimulate biz again one clarence shepard day jr. .

Perhaps he does , perhaps he show them to one or two citizenry but no one else .

But without others to guess his achiever by , what would fire his ardor ?

perhaps he has attempt Fez 2 , only show it to no one .

But I doubt it , and for various reason , I desire he never does .

This was fez does n’t involve a continuation - it never did .

Nothing could ever be as vibrantly sweet and surprising a 2nd clock time around .

Moreover , nothing could ever be as fastidiously elaborate or too generous and unadulterated , because to follow such an remnant would be to stop oneself all over again , and only with naiveness is such a affair unremarkably execute first prison term around - and at bang-up toll .

And that is Fez , brainy but discredited , curious and unquotable .

A causa for solemnization but also for continued business organization .

A required citation when you utter about indie game .

What would Phil Fish say about it ?

This was well , i call back i ’d call for him , not that i ever think he ’d do .

Yet to my surprisal , he did , and I ’ll publishmy consultation with himtomorrow .