Posted: August 5, 2012
Vaporware has been condensing recently, with Duke Nukem Forever hitting the shelves after years of development. Compared to that abomination and its generational gap development time, Fez’s five year nostalgia-taunt seems tame. Since 2007 Fez has routinely made its presence known, soaking up every indie and innovation award it could get its grubby little mitts on. But since 2007, when graphical superiority was all the rage and an NES-inspired puzzle platformer was a step outside the box, a huge portion of indie developers have begun using “8-Bit” aesthetics. So can Fez hold its own among today’s sea of retro puzzle platformers?