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Meh. If you like this sort of thing, you'll enjoy FEZ.

FEZ is a 2012 game, available in the current Humble Bundle at https://www.humblebundle.com/ .. which I would characterize as a more interactive and celebratory accretion of spatio-visual mismatch and cunning.

I'd recommend not previewing it or reading about it: just buy it, then play 30 minutes of it. You'll go nuts. It's really trippy. (Mark of the Ninja, in the same bundle, is also great)

Less than the cost of transport to a gallery, and far more engaging. The internet is the art gallery of our era.



I haven't played FEZ, but if you like platformers, try Braid.


I've played braid and FEZ is definitely very much more connected, being built around oddities of 3D geometry and projections. It's almost like a platformer meets nintendo-retro meets Flatland. Honestly, you'd like it, you should try it!


Why all the hate? Geez. It's clearly related.


1) Starting with "meh" makes you sound extremely dismissive.

2) It's barely related. This art is about exploiting physics to make things that seem like they shouldn't be possible. FEZ is about solving puzzles by looking at them differently. (Or something... I haven't played it yet. The gist I get is that you're doing stuff in 3D when everything looks 2D.)

3) One great way to get down-voted is to complain about being down-voted.


Err, like I care about downvotes. I care only about understanding people's thoughts. Unfortunately, your content didn't display many, boiling down to: "Use of meh sux", "Even though I don't know because I haven't played it, I'm going to claim there's no relationship", and "stop whinging". This place is going downhill.




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