Fez IGN Review 9.5!

[Panama]

Barozi said:

Panama said:

Sal.Paradise said:

Panama said:
Could have sworn I played this game yesterday online. It was a flash game.

Yeh, you did.

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

 

The game is pretty much FEZ, but free. 

Yeah that's the one thanks. IGN giving extended versions of flash games 9.5, what else is new.

Does it matter ? The flash game also looks great (and I just tried it).
However Sky Island was (amongst others) influenced by FEZ and the dev admits that:

"The game is influenced by most of the Super Mario titles, especially Super Paper Mario.
Other games which inspired this game are Crush and FEZ."

http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=21756.0

Now according to what he wrote, FEZ has 10 times the content of Sky Island.


It's not like Angry Birds, which was a 1:1 rip-off of the Crush the Castle flash game (which IMO is miles better) just with birds instead of the Middle Ages scenario.

Well the difference between Angry Birds and Crush the Castle is their aiming systems. Also I imagine FEZ will cost more than $1, so if anything he's obliged to ensure that the game has content worthy of its price, so 10 times the content of a free game isn't really noteworthy.

I'm just cynical towards reviewers in general.