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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
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 .
