[FEZ] is out on Live Arcade! Use spoiler tags when discussing puzzles and their solution!

Death of Rats · April 2012

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

If you think it's non-fun puzzle-platforming, why did you buy it?

I mean, that's what it was touted as (except the non-fun part)

And these games do have trials

Whoops... I mean the non "fun puzzle platforming" parts. I like the puzzle platforming, not so much the crazy obtuse puzzles.

Guitar Hero Of Time · April 2012

The puzzles are what take this from an ok game with great style, to a great game, for me. Modern games are sooo linear and handholdy....this game actually treats the player like an adult.

This game is amazing and I am trying hard to complete it on my own.

EliteBattleman · April 2012

I feel like this game is one of those unsolvable puzzles that some secret government agency is using to recruit people.

Death of Rats · April 2012

I like puzzle games. Spacechem is one of my favorite games I've played recently. But some of this stuff in Fez is just... really really involved. Like, obsessively involved. But the platforming stuff and some of the easier, none-cipher related puzzles have been fun.

BlueBlue · April 2012

well i got to the credits
end stuff:

Spoiler:

Jam Warrior · April 2012

Don't let the cipher talk put anyone off. I played for joyful hours last night just exploring and platform puzzling. The cipher stuff is very much a take or leave side dish.

Rizzi · April 2012

Not sure if things are just decoration, or part of some puzzle that I'm not seeing.
Also, what's up with that bell? O_o

Mr_Grinch · April 2012

So I bought it even though I didn't like the demo (because I'm dumb like that). Turns out it's fantastic. If anything I'd recommend to people that if they have a passing interest in the game, just go for it, don't bother with the trial.

RainbowDespair · April 2012

Played about 45 minutes. Pace seems really slow. Not sure this is for me. Love the retro-with-modern-tech look though.

Jam Warrior · April 2012

Mr_Grinch wrote: »

So I bought it even though I didn't like the demo (because I'm dumb like that). Turns out it's fantastic. If anything I'd recommend to people that if they have a passing interest in the game, just go for it, don't bother with the trial.

Yay! I was frightened for a while I'd lost you as my 'man on the Internet who likes things I like.'

Everyone needs one.

jclast · April 2012

vonPoonBurGer wrote: »

timspork's ghost wrote: »

Caedere wrote: »

Having trouble with secrets in the first area.

Spoiler:

I somehow unlocked the "Cryptographer" achievement, but I don't know what I did to do it. :lol:

Also, there's a room with a skull and a bunch of Tetris shapes.... I have no clue at all what it wants from Mr.

Cryptographer achievement.

Spoiler:

It is from a specific combination of right and left trigger pulls. You can get it randomly just by playing.

The reason behind it is revealed later on, when you

Spoiler:

find a wall with a QR code on it. If you scan the QR code with a smartphone, it contains the text for the sequence.

Wow. That's complete bullshit.

amnesiasoft · April 2012

For those who don't want to attempt to learn Cubin' or whatever the language is called, I've put together a chart:

Spoiler:

There also seems to be a number system, but I haven't gotten around to figuring that out yet.

Jam Warrior · April 2012

Cool. I was wondering if there would be an in game obvious key at some point or if I'd need to wait for the internet to provide.

If it's not a spoiler, what was your rosetta stone?

Mr_Grinch · April 2012

Jam Warrior wrote: »

Mr_Grinch wrote: »

So I bought it even though I didn't like the demo (because I'm dumb like that). Turns out it's fantastic. If anything I'd recommend to people that if they have a passing interest in the game, just go for it, don't bother with the trial.

Yay! I was frightened for a while I'd lost you as my 'man on the Internet who likes things I like.'

The demo really isn't a fair representation, it lacks any of the charm of the actual game and the sense of exploration, it just seems like a retro platformer with a gimmick, whereas I'm really loving the full game.

Though as someone pointed out, how did the 2D villagers decorate the other walls in their homes?

Jam Warrior · April 2012

jclast wrote: »

vonPoonBurGer wrote: »

timspork's ghost wrote: »

Caedere wrote: »

Having trouble with secrets in the first area.

Spoiler:

I somehow unlocked the "Cryptographer" achievement, but I don't know what I did to do it. :lol:

Also, there's a room with a skull and a bunch of Tetris shapes.... I have no clue at all what it wants from Mr.

Cryptographer achievement.

Spoiler:

It is from a specific combination of right and left trigger pulls. You can get it randomly just by playing.

The reason behind it is revealed later on, when you

Spoiler:

find a wall with a QR code on it. If you scan the QR code with a smartphone, it contains the text for the sequence.

Wow. That's complete bullshit.

Hah! Far from bullshit as the code is hidden in more than the one place apparently! I bet it's all over. I found it:

Spoiler:

timspork's ghost · April 2012

Re Stone Owl:

Spoiler:

timspork's ghost · April 2012

amnesiasoft wrote: »

For those who don't want to attempt to learn Cubin' or whatever the language is called, I've put together a chart:

Spoiler:

The language itself is read top-to-bottom, right-to-left.

There also seems to be a number system, but I haven't gotten around to figuring that out yet.

I got one to four if that helps.

Spoiler:

UnbreakableVow · April 2012

Can I just say how fucking cool it is that this game uses QR codes?

That's pretty cool

DeMoN · April 2012

As someone who doesn't have a smart phone, I think it's really dumb.

But as long as you don't need the QR codes, I guess it's fine.

jclast · April 2012

Yeah, it's less stupid if it's available other ways. If it was just the code though, that's lame. I shouldn't need a computer phone to play a game.

Zilla360 · April 2012

timspork's ghost wrote: »

Played only the very beginning.

Spoiler:

When the cube started talking in the strange language. God damn it. I'm going to need to decipher that. It looked like a letter substitution with the words possibly running up and down.

I need a notebook for this game.

Translation of what the hexahedron says at the start:

Spoiler:

Death of Rats · April 2012

Now that I've decided to just go with it, all these puzzles are tickling my brain in just the right way. Just have to learn to relax and let it get inside of you.

amnesiasoft · April 2012

The clock puzzle is almost as bad as the cloud for the star in Braid.

rayofash · April 2012

Oh God it's finally out!

Inker2000 · April 2012

this game was news to me, but i checked it out cuz it reminded me of meat boy.

it's quite a bit different than that, but an interesting game in and of itself. i would consider it a cross between a 2d platformer and the collectathon games made famous on the n64. certainly recommend it, especially for only 800 microsoft points.

SyphonBlue · April 2012

amnesiasoft wrote: »

For those who don't want to attempt to learn Cubin' or whatever the language is called, I've put together a chart:

Spoiler:

The language itself is read top-to-bottom, right-to-left.

There also seems to be a number system, but I haven't gotten around to figuring that out yet.

This is amazing. No way in hell was I about to try and figure out a cryptographic sequence.

Jam Warrior · April 2012

Now some just needs to work out the Tetris block language and what I think is a mini version of the cube language, though that may just be numbers?

Mr_Grinch · April 2012

Is the answer to the bell puzzle somewhere around the start or may I not have come across it yet?

ruzkin · April 2012

I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm earning black cubes out of nowhere without understanding why. I found an area with six small moveable blocks and a tetris-esque rosetta stone behind them. I assembled the blocks into the shapes indicated on the stone but nothing happened. Then I pushed some of them around and messed up the shapes, and earned a black cube. What in the world?

Rizzi · April 2012

Black cubes are the secret cubes.

ruzkin · April 2012

Well, I get that they're the secret cubes. I just don't know how I'm earning them.

SyphonBlue · April 2012

Yeah I'm enjoying going around this world collecting cubes, but these puzzles are way too fucking obtuse for me.

Rizzi · April 2012

ruzkin wrote: »

Well, I get that they're the secret cubes. I just don't know how I'm earning them.

Secretly.

mastrius · April 2012

ruzkin wrote: »

I have no idea what I'm doing. I'm earning black cubes out of nowhere without understanding why. I found an area with six small moveable blocks and a tetris-esque rosetta stone behind them. I assembled the blocks into the shapes indicated on the stone but nothing happened. Then I pushed some of them around and messed up the shapes, and earned a black cube. What in the world?

For that puzzle.

Spoiler:

timspork's ghost · April 2012

Right. I'm at 204.3% or whatever. Got 32 cubes and anticubes plus everything but one piece of the heart cube. The only place not gold is the monolith, which from looking at the leader boards, only one person on the planet has figured it out. Wierdly there are people at 209% but that is apparently just from the leader boards not updating unless you unlock something else.

Also there is a glitch that can get a 33rd anticube but I can't find anywhere where someone says how that got it.

Jam Warrior · April 2012

Haha! Just came across the in game way you have a chance of getting the code cipher and it is genius.

Spoiler:

Guitar Hero Of Time · April 2012

I have 5 more cube to find. Its starting to feel more and more like I actually need to decode all these runes. So close, yet so far...

amnesiasoft · April 2012

Guitar Hero Of Time wrote: »

I have 5 more cube to find. Its starting to feel more and more like I actually need to decode all these runes. So close, yet so far...

Thus far I'm finding the translations so far provide absolutely nothing to get more cubes (Though I only have 31 cubes and 16 anti-cubes). I'm really getting lost on those tetromino code puzzles. Some of them seem to do things, while others don't seem to do anything at all. Am I missing something?

Krathoon · April 2012

The GB Quicklook on this is funny. The game is trying Jeff's sanity.

It sounds like the game is made to baffle people. No wonder it took so long to make. Is there supposed to be a PC release?

Edit. Looking at their blog. It seems that Polytron is having plenty of trouble with the 360 version. Unless there is a separate team working on it, I doubt there will be PC release soon. Still, it is an XNA game. Porting it should be extremely easy.

Guitar Hero Of Time · April 2012

Woo, figured out the bell through an educated guess!

Sort of sad my leader board position has tanked, but I guess that is the nature of puzzle games post Internet....

Penny Arcade

[FEZ] is out on Live Arcade! Use spoiler tags when discussing puzzles and their solution!

Posts