Overall, player feedback for FEZ is overwhelmingly positive, with many praising its innovative mechanics, beautiful art style, and satisfying puzzle design. However, some players expressed frustration with certain puzzles and accessibility issues, indicating that the game's cryptic nature and difficulty can be polarizing.
FEZ hides a hard game inside a gentle one. Gomez, a creature from a flat world, gains the power to rotate his 2D surroundings through a third dimension, and what begins as a cosy pixel-art platformer slowly reveals itself as an archaeology of ciphers, hidden rooms and a constructed alphabet the game never explains. Polytron's 2012 release, offered here on PS4, splits into two experiences: a breezy hunt for cubes anyone can finish, and a cryptography endgame that has players filling real notebooks and comparing findings online. Reception is warm on the art, music and central rotation trick, with the recurring complaints aimed at the most obtuse late puzzles and a history of technical bugs. It is for the explorer who treats a game as a code to be broken, not the player who wants the credits handed over.
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Overall, player feedback for FEZ is overwhelmingly positive, with many praising its innovative mechanics, beautiful art style, and satisfying puzzle design. However, some players expressed frustration with certain puzzles and accessibility issues, indicating that the game's cryptic nature and difficulty can be polarizing.
Based on 100 reviews from steam
