FEZ Pocket Edition 9+

This version of the game introduced me to Fez, and I’m currently going through my second playthrough on my new iPhone XR. I originally played it on my previous phone, the iPhone 6, which was a very flawed, yet suitable machine. When playing Fez on that phone, however, I encountered no bugs or glitches whatsoever, but on my new phone, a giant bug stares me in the face every time I play: I can’t see the map.

Now I’ve heard that this glitch is triggered by going back to the village right after the floating cube thing introduces the map feature to you once you leave the village for the first time. This actually happened when I first tried playing this on my new phone, so I made a new game and didn’t go back to the village when the floating cube told me about the map. I played for a while and then stopped after an thirty minutes or so. The next day, I was feeling sick, so I stayed home. After waking up from a nap, I booted Fez up again on my phone, but lo and behold, there wasn’t a map on my screen. This is something that’s needed, or else I’ll just get lost and not realize what path I should focus on and what rooms and areas have secrets in them. Please fix this bug, it’s gonna drive me crazy if it isn’t, and I really want to beat this game again. Fez is the greatest indie game ever made, and I just hope others can experience it in the way it was meant to be played, and without a game-shattering bug staring them in the face.

The main concept of rotating the 3rd dimension to get different 2d environments, or teleporting through the 3rd dimension via 2d environments, is simple, creative and fun to use. Exploring the bunch of different places in this game to find cubes, is like going through leisurely puzzles that couldn't be recreated in reality. The game is also a good size, keeping places just within reach and comprehensibility, but I only did 80% of it. Some parts of the game are ridiculously cryptic, hardly logical, and without any extra help available. However, understanding that last ~20%, or searching online, is required to even finish the game. If I were determined on completing it, that amount of investment was going to turn the leisurely puzzles into tedious studies, which was nitpicking that I didn't care for and wasn't worth it to me. I'm especially unsure of kids' abilities to work through some of this. At least, most of the game already satisfied me. Also, it worked perfectly on my iOS 17 iPad Air.