Posted July 03, 2014
Enebias: I'm very, very tempted to increase my list of quitted games to 3 (lifetime total) by adding Fez. I started it a few weeks ago, and I really can't force myself to go on... that game lacks any kind of challenge but then, out of the blue, it asks you to deduce an alphabet and a numerarion system by following apparently inconsequential clues found in random -and entirely missable- rooms. I also had to watch some solutions using the internet -I hate to do that- because I didn't have any kind of QR Code reader device, and that is (imo) unforgiveable. Shallow gameplay and nonsensical riddles are definitely not my favourite elements in gaming. Maybe it's just me, but I really can't understand all the praising reviews it recived.
I feel similarly, except that I quite enjoyed the easy parts, but then the game lost me when I was suddenly required to figure out all that abstract cryptic stuff. And it was no fun traveling back and forth between the unsolved puzzles screens by having to pass all the solved ones, and with that somewhat confusing map on top of it. The quick travel teleporters didn't really help that much in this regard. I haven't officially admitted it yet, but it seems like Fez will join Braid on my list of games I will never finish. I actually want to like them because I think they're cool on the surface, but apparantly their 'puzzles' are too difficult for me, and for all the wrong reasons.