Fez is a beautiful plateformer that emphasizes exploration and puzzles with a unique mechanic of rotating the camera in 3D/2D environment. The game is simply impressive on many levels, the degree of immersion and the enjoyment of exploration is at its peak and the game is full of challenging puzzles. Some of the last puzzles are almost impossible or require a heavy amount of investment (such as learning how to read the in-game alphabet) but most of the game is fairly balanced, with backtracking being the only issue until you get used to the game's map.

The controls are a little on the stiff side and quite be annoying from time to time, especially when you've revisited an area dozens of time but need to backtrack to a puzzle, however it's a minor nitpick. It takes about ten hours to complete most of the game (excluding the hardcore puzzles), so it's not a very long game. The same as Tunic, Fez ultimately provides a truly enjoyable experience of discovery.

Perhaps one thing that I really didn't appreciate is that one part of the game is locked behind getting the first ending and the game gives no clue in that regard. Starting NG+ will unlock a new feature and requires you to backtrack all over the place once again until you realize what you can use it for and considering this happens pretty late, it's easy to skip and forget checking some things and not making the required connections.