Post by Indigo on Apr 14, 2012 17:11:22 GMT -5
I don't know how many of you have an XBox 360, but you may have heard of a superb game called Fez for the Live Arcade. It just came out yesterday, and I jumped on the opportunity to download it as soon as I could.
Basically, it's an absolutely gorgeous 2D platformer, complete with a graphical look that resembles a NES game if it had been painted on a canvas. And not so basically, it has a really weird but really cool gameplay hook. You play as a little marshmallow dude named Gomez who happened to stumble across a magical fez after a cube exploded and made black holes appear everywhere.
...Yeah. I can't really explain it, so I'll let this little video do the talking.
Anyway, I've been playing it for a few hours, and oh my god it's mind-blowing. The puzzles bend your perception of, uh, perception in every possible way. Gameplay is pretty Metroidvania-ish; it doesn't have "stages" like Mario, but rather an open world you can explore, with an increasing number of paths that open up as you collect Cube Fragments (this game's Power Stars or Jiggies). And it's not one of those tiny indie games, either, like VVVVVV; the game world is huge. It's ridiculously easy to get lost.
Anyone else get it or at least hear of it?
Basically, it's an absolutely gorgeous 2D platformer, complete with a graphical look that resembles a NES game if it had been painted on a canvas. And not so basically, it has a really weird but really cool gameplay hook. You play as a little marshmallow dude named Gomez who happened to stumble across a magical fez after a cube exploded and made black holes appear everywhere.
...Yeah. I can't really explain it, so I'll let this little video do the talking.
Anyway, I've been playing it for a few hours, and oh my god it's mind-blowing. The puzzles bend your perception of, uh, perception in every possible way. Gameplay is pretty Metroidvania-ish; it doesn't have "stages" like Mario, but rather an open world you can explore, with an increasing number of paths that open up as you collect Cube Fragments (this game's Power Stars or Jiggies). And it's not one of those tiny indie games, either, like VVVVVV; the game world is huge. It's ridiculously easy to get lost.
Anyone else get it or at least hear of it?
