Fri, Apr 13, 2012 | 10:49 BST

Fez launches on Xbox Live Arcade

After years in development, Phil Fish’s platformer Fez has gone live on Xbox Live Arcade. Get it queued to your 360 here at the measly file size of 273Mb for 800 MS points. Reviews have been exceptionally great for the game this week: Eurogamer gave it a ten yesterday.

Watch out later today for a piece on it from Nathan.

8 comments

djjoejoe
13/04/12, 12:49 pm

Yay!

Da Man
13/04/12, 12:56 pm

Finally.

absolutezero
13/04/12, 1:26 pm

Took almost 5 years to come out. Beaten to the punch by a flash game.

http://armorgames.com/play/10899/sky-island

Its alright Fish, at least your in a movie.

Da Man
13/04/12, 1:29 pm

We don’t play flash games.

And anyway.

absolutezero
13/04/12, 1:30 pm

It puts the flash games on its skin.

ukslim
13/04/12, 1:49 pm

It’s a good game, that Sky Island. But it hasn’t the scale or ambition of Fez.

absolutezero
13/04/12, 1:54 pm

Thats because its a small flash title made in a number of weeks and not 4 fucking years.

Fez pretty much is a flash game with a central gimmick spun out a little. Its still got the same tired “retro” asthetic and the chiptunes and every other indie art-game cliche going. Its another 2D platformer only this time there are no enemies and no real chance of failure, I would guess theres a message behind that choice somewhere but I really don’t care either way.

Now that Rayman Origins costs next to nothing why would you buy Fez over it?

ukslim
13/04/12, 2:06 pm

Why look for a message? There’s no dying because that makes it fun, and frees you up to solve puzzles. See Monkey Island etc.