I threw my notes down and got up to take a break, and when I looked down, the paper was on its side. The shapes didn't line up this way, and I couldn't see how the text I'd copied could possibly form words. I rolled it around, muttering to myself about connections and the spaces between space. I blacked out for a few minutes, but when I came to, I was holding this: "Do you have an extra six-sided die?" I asked. I tried to visualize it on the version I'd copied, turning the paper to try to make the symbols line up in a way that matched the ones on the marker, but I'm really bad at spatial reasoning, so I got nowhere. I thought maybe one could roll the cube around to form words. I copied the faces of the cube into my notes and tried to compare them to the text I'd already taken down. I noticed that its symbols matched the ones from the marker, but I didn't know how they went together. Later on, I found the Writing Artifact, one of the game's several mysterious cubes. I had started down the same twisting path as so many before me: I now had Fez Notes. I didn't know what they meant, but I knew that they were important. I found a blank sheet of paper and copied down the odd shapes. It was only on the third or fourth time seeing it that I made the connection: I'd passed by the purple marker several times already, and its markings had never struck me as unusual. What were people getting so worked up about? That's when I saw The Code. It started out simply enough: rotate the thing, climb the thing, grab the shiny thing. Granted, I break out the graph paper every time I move furniture around in my apartment, but this is just a video game.Ĭuriosity won out, and I bought Fez. What the hell are they doing with the graph paper? I thought. Initially, I wasn't interested in buying this game, but then I heard rumblings on Twitter and elsewhere. Last week, Bitmob editor Sam Barsanti confessed to the world how dumb he is. His brave article has inspired me to write my own confessional about developer Polytron's brain-twisting puzzle game, Fez.
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