reeseriley1776

I enjoy Fez for it's beautiful art style and unique gameplay. However there is way too much back tracking and that is something that I hate in videogames. Seeing something in the beginning **** but not being able to do anything until you come back towards the very end is such an annoying thing that developers need to stop doing. It's such a tease when you are shown something new that you cannot access and it distracts you from what you are already supposed to be enjoying. Many secrets and new areas are kept from you, requiring you to go back to the same areas long after you are finished with them. This game is nonstop when it comes to this issue and I really can't stand it. It isn't rewarding and it can be confusing when trying to make progress. Missing something requires you to back track through multiple doors, warp gates and repeated puzzle platforms. I found myself feeling less rewarded halfway through the game and more like wanted to just be done with it. I do not want to finish the game because I don't think it will make me feel like I accomplished something or had fun, which is how I hoped I would feel when I first started playing the game. Overall the art is very pleasing to me and the music is nicely done. There seemed to be some pretty interesting lore behind the world and its characters but I didn't get far enough to tie it all together. I really liked the puzzles and never had any trouble solving them it's just the constant warping, jumping, climbing and trying to go back and forth that really makes this game hard to enjoy. I do not like being forced to traverse the same levels over and over to progress in a game but unfortunately that is mostly what this game is. I don't like the map of the world and I absolutely hate not being able to fully complete a level until I have completed several other levels. Game designers should not make a game where things can not be completed in order! It makes the player have to worry about remembering to come back to places they already fully explored which is BORING. The player wants new things and to progress in a straight forward process that doesn't make you constantly wonder if you missed something in a previous level! This is very unfortunate because of this one thing, Fez goes from a charming and care free puzzle platformer to an exhausting mess that is slow and mind numbing. I really hope someone reads this before buying this game because it seems like such a good time in the beginning and you slowly just don't want to keep going anymore.