It’s 2012 and I’m a little unemployed. Like a girl unable to devour a banoffee pie due to the mysterious security guard between her and her delectable friend, I want things I can’t quite reach to. Writing about what I want, therefore, will take my mind off of it. Or make me want it more. I don’t know. Who cares! Fez!

Back when I was a wee thing, still wrapping up secondary education whilst ignoring my mums attempts to cut my hair (it was pretty metal back then), I decided to learn how to use Photoshop. My hours of self taught work would end up on DeviantArt, where I would listen to the comments I received to make myself better (less awful). Around this time, I also started following the work of Phil Fish, finding his work on his Deviantart profile to be amazing.

Anyway, I grew up, stopped browsing DeviantArt and generally got on with my life, hiding my dark Photoshop past. Then, a couple years ago, a new game called Fez popped up and started winning a stack of indie game awards. Standing behind the awards was one Mr. Phil Fish. A guy I randomly followed on DeviantArt is now also a game developer? Great!

A game described by others more eloquent than I as “something of a full stop to the pixel art homage movement” (source), Fez takes the traditional 2d platformer and gives you the ability to rotate the world to create new paths across the landscape, similar to the 2008 PSP release Echochrome. It looks beautiful, I’ve heard good things about the soundtrack and I can’t wait to get my hands on it.

If you’ve played it, let me know what you think! If you haven’t, check out the official site right now, or pick it up on the XBox 360 for a cool 800 Microsoft bucks.

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