FEZ recieved quite a fame and infamy even before release. On one hand, this was clearly a product of love, passion and dedication with interesting (if seemingly inspired by Cave Story) visuals and cool mechanics. On the other hand, the name behind the game, Phil Fish, recieved so much infamy for his words and actions, that it tainted the reputation of the game itself. It's good, then, that the game is actually very fun. FEZ mixes really nice visuals, fun exploration, beautiful music and interesting and often 4th wall breaking puzzles in an exciting adventure around time and dimensions of an interesting world. Unfortunatelly, puzzle design is what sometimes brings the game down, as it requires some things, that could've been done from inside the game, and some inconvinient for player desicions which simply don't feel okay, if you played gmaes like Antichamber before this one. Plus, the game is quite buggy and glitchy, mostly visually, but I've heard of some seroius bugs even with 1.03 version, which was available next day after release.
...which probably should've just been a simple addition to the original. But more on that later. Let's start with the good things - this game, as the original, is fun and funny. It has a lot of cultural references yet manages to be unique and not loose itself in them. It looks fantastic. It mostly keeps puzzles fun and interesting - rarely too easy, rarely too annoying or needlessly complex. Unlike the original, this game is pretty short, which could be a plus, since the game could have had little filler content in it. And it mostly did. Mostly. However, I couldn't stop thinking, that the game was designed as a short expansion, which would either require the original or would cost less than it does, but then the developers realised that they need to sell it as a standalone game at a specific price, so they decided to "appropriately" fill it with more content. So the last third of the game feels needlessly longer than it should be. Cultural references and jokes become slightly lazier, puzzles require more pointless walking and figuring out what else the game wants you to do. And it's a shame, really, as the game starts very good, and the characters of Nate and Critter are good from the beginning till the end. This should've been a cheaper expansion/DLC, with most of its last third removed in favor of not tainting the magic of the first two thirds of the game. But I'd still recommend it for those good parts.
Omikron has the same great and bad features as all the Quantic Dream games - it starts as something amazing, full of ambition and clearly unforgettable. It ends as a mess of broken gameplay ideas, idiotic plot twists and long since it has outstayed the welcome. The concept was simple, but intriguing - you, and I mean YOU-the player, are drawn into the parallel world, inside the body of one character living there, to save that world from some danger. And while it is theoretically possible to complete the game inside that character, with all his relationships and special abilities, if he dies, you can transfer your soul into one of several other characters you may have met in that game world. This idea sounds great, and it is, however, its awesomeness is undermined by a lot of gameplay ideas. The basic controls in the game are rather ok, but when it decides to become a fighting game, or an FPS, it turns into the worst possible kind of that genre with horrible controls. And in the end, you have the game that starts full of ambition, with a cool city you can explore and go to David Bowie concerts, with some really fun ideas, but ends with you hating all of it, and that is if you can bring yourself to complete the game at all. It would be nice to see this game getting a remake or a proper sequel (which has been announced a very long time ago), yet the game itself should be taken more of an example of what can be done in videogames, but how it shouldn't be done.
