Fez is a deeply explorative game in deliberately retro pixel style, outwardly a 2D platformer but it's kind of complicated. Here's an addition to the formula: bonus points will be awarded if the game also features moving among the long-abandoned ruins of a once-mighty civilization, like how Tom Cruise must feel about his career.
I've said in the past that the easiest way to be critically acclaimed on cus-blah is to be a game, ideally a platformer, about a small, large-headed humanoid in a big, uncaring, frightening world, like how Tom Cruise must feel at academic parties. Today I'd like to discuss two games that both carry the theme of exploration, something I could do very little of while my tonsils resembled things a habitual nose-picker would be attacked by if he got lost in Silent Hill.įirst up, Fez. So I used the time to catch up on XBLA's recent movements. Basically what I'm saying is, "More painkillers! Yum yum!"īut it gave me the opportunity to sit on the couch playing video games eating ice cream all day - with actual justification for once, I mean. Basically what I'm saying is you could have cut my tonsils out and hid them in a basket of fancy cheeses and no one would have been the wiser. Basically what I'm saying is it looked like a Shoggoth had gotten cold feet while trying to use my epiglottis as a diving board. Basically what I'm saying is the back of my mouth looked like a bunch of incontinent seagulls had exploded in a cave.
As you may have inferred from my pain-racked sobs throughout last week's video, I was at the time suffering from rather severe tonsillitis, so everything that passed me lips magically transmuted into an entire Mongol infantry unit the moment I tried swallowing it.