It has the retro feel down, and only when it wants to does it break that.
There is never any backtracking or redoing a level because you died midway through. When you die, you're reset to the last safe platform you stood on. Whenever a new mechanic is added, your cube companion will tell you exactly how it works (assuming you listen to him), and often these new mechanics draw directly on previous mechanics in creative ways. These little throwbacks are everywhere, and Fez is all the better for it every time I would open a chest, I would hear that tune and fondly remember my Ocarina of Time days, and that's just one example, Fez is littered with them.īecause the game is so simple, there shouldn't ever be a time when you don't know what to do. For example, every time you open a chest, you hear a melody strikingly similar to the one you'd hear in a Zelda game. The worlds you explore are always interesting, and if you are old enough to catch them, often you can see throwbacks to previous games. This explorations is what Fez is all about, and what will keep you playing for hours. Just when you think you have a level all figured out, you rotate the display one last time, and find two more doors to other levels.
You start the game innocent enough in your 2D world, where everyone actively loves being two dimensional (and will tell you just that), but that soon changes as a mysterious cube shows up and "blows your mind." From here on, you can now rotate each level by 90 degrees, with each side being a standard 2D platformer, so it is ultimately up to the player to best figure out how to reach that ledge that is just out of reach, or that cube piece that seems too high to fathom, or the door to the next level, by changing perspective and Fez shines in it's execution of this mechanic. it is a straight up platformer, with a twist.
And the game is simple, no "powerups," very few timing puzzles. It has it's own unique retro feel while drawing on past games (that weren't retro at the time).
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