Fez’s Shifting Genres (Nightmare Mode)
Nightmare Mode's Tom Auxier takes a look at Fez and finds a game that's selling something entirely different than what's on offer.
"What Fez is about—the existence of a world, and its idiosyncrasies, fully formed inside a work of art—is not how it is about it. Fez wants to be about the befuddling puzzles that took the world a week to solve, but instead it’s a platformer. Fez oozes brilliant puzzles from every pore, yet the way it goes about delivering its exceptionalism comes in a series of decidedly mundane jumping puzzles and a startling screen-shifting mechanic that’s already old hat."
