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.
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.
yay for new game plus since I had exactly 32 cubes going into the end
i love that they did the deal with it shades, disappointed that they don't appear on the sprite all the time
went and spoiled myself on how to read the cube text and I'm glad I did because it's totally bullshit and I never would have figured it out:
in the area you get to through the tree over the main warp gate there's a lazy dog and a quick fox
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.
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.
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.'
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?
I somehow unlocked the "Cryptographer" achievement, but I don't know what I did to do it.
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.
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
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:
In the house in town which has the hidden treasure chest through the fireplace. The map was still showing a secret to be found so I was trying everything. Finally noticed the picture on the wall with a line of guys with hats on the left or right side of their heads. This is the code!
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Re Stone Owl:
I figured part of the secret out. If you stand in the door way you just came through then rotate the world all the way around so that you are behind the pedestal you can hit up and go through the door but you enter a different world with a treasure in it. When I went back the owl now always looked away from me but the map still said there was a secret there. ARGHH
For those who don't want to attempt to learn Cubin' or whatever the language is called, I've put together a chart:
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.
Based on the four treasure maps
1. Box with line at top middle.
2. Box with line on the right middle.
3. Box with smaller box in the top right.
4. Box with line on the left middle.
These have to be those numbers since that was the order I had to go through the doors on the maps to get to the secret.
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:
HI THERE HOW ARE YOU
I WILL BE YOUR
HEXAHEDRON TODAY
SO THIS IS JUST
ROUTINE PROCEDURE
BUT I DO NEED
SOMETHING HERE JUST
GOES WRONG
IF SOMETHING DOES
GO WRONG YOU ARE
GOING TO HAVE TO
CLEAN UP THE MESS
HEY WAIT A MINUTE
CAN YOU EVEN
UNDERSTAMD
WHAT I AM SAYING
AND WHAT IS WRONG
WITH YOUR HEAD
OH WELL YOU ARE
HERE NOW MIGHT AS
WELL DO THIS THING
PREPARE TO HAVE
YOUR MIND BLOWN
ALL RIGHT
WELCOME TO THE
CLUB ENJOY YOUR
FREE HAT
I KIND OF THOUGHT
MAYBE THIS WOULD
NOT WORK BECAUSE
OF YOUR WEIRD HEAD
BUT EVERYTHING LOOKS
AOK FROM OVER HERE
THANKS FOR THE HAND
YOU CAN GO HOME
NOW IT WAS VERY NICE
TO MEET YOU
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.
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.
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?
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.
You have to make the shape that's NOT pictured on the stone. They're all ways to fold out a cube. You had to make one but it had to be one not shown.
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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.
Haha! Just came across the in game way you have a chance of getting the code cipher and it is genius.
In the room with the writing implement artifact is a stone pillar that translates to 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog' (famously a sentence that uses all letters of the alphabet). It's only after I finish translating it from @amnesiasoft 's key that I notice that there is a cute little pixely fox jumping over a dog right there in front of me on the screen next to the pillar. Brilliant.
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?
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.
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Whoops... I mean the non "fun puzzle platforming" parts. I like the puzzle platforming, not so much the crazy obtuse puzzles.
This game is amazing and I am trying hard to complete it on my own.
There are many others like it, but this one is mine.
end stuff:
i love that they did the deal with it shades, disappointed that they don't appear on the sprite all the time
went and spoiled myself on how to read the cube text and I'm glad I did because it's totally bullshit and I never would have figured it out:
Also, what's up with that bell? O_o
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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.
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.
If it's not a spoiler, what was your rosetta stone?
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?
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Oculus Rift: Sir_Grinch
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:
I got one to four if that helps.
1. Box with line at top middle.
2. Box with line on the right middle.
3. Box with smaller box in the top right.
4. Box with line on the left middle.
These have to be those numbers since that was the order I had to go through the doors on the maps to get to the secret.
That's pretty cool
But as long as you don't need the QR codes, I guess it's fine.
Translation of what the hexahedron says at the start:
I WILL BE YOUR
HEXAHEDRON TODAY
SO THIS IS JUST
ROUTINE PROCEDURE
BUT I DO NEED
SOMETHING HERE JUST
GOES WRONG
IF SOMETHING DOES
GO WRONG YOU ARE
GOING TO HAVE TO
CLEAN UP THE MESS
HEY WAIT A MINUTE
CAN YOU EVEN
UNDERSTAMD
WHAT I AM SAYING
AND WHAT IS WRONG
WITH YOUR HEAD
OH WELL YOU ARE
HERE NOW MIGHT AS
WELL DO THIS THING
PREPARE TO HAVE
YOUR MIND BLOWN
ALL RIGHT
WELCOME TO THE
CLUB ENJOY YOUR
FREE HAT
I KIND OF THOUGHT
MAYBE THIS WOULD
NOT WORK BECAUSE
OF YOUR WEIRD HEAD
BUT EVERYTHING LOOKS
AOK FROM OVER HERE
THANKS FOR THE HAND
YOU CAN GO HOME
NOW IT WAS VERY NICE
TO MEET YOU
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.
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PSN: SirGrinchX
Oculus Rift: Sir_Grinch
PSN/Steam/NNID: SyphonBlue | BNet: SyphonBlue#1126
Secretly.
For that puzzle.
You have to make the shape that's NOT pictured on the stone. They're all ways to fold out a cube. You had to make one but it had to be one not shown.
Also there is a glitch that can get a 33rd anticube but I can't find anywhere where someone says how that got it.
http://youtu.be/QC2oZteKKJI
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.
Sort of sad my leader board position has tanked, but I guess that is the nature of puzzle games post Internet....