I was driving with my friends the other day, discussing Fez with one who had all but solved the game. They had remaining only the Security Question and, of course, The Monolith. After mentioning the need to learn a language and the monolith, the driver suggested that the monolith could be a reference. I responded with "of course, the internet's figured out that it's a reference to 2001, but no one knows what it means."

She responded by saying, "No, I think it's a reference to The Edifice." The Edifice, as I've done my research, is a 1997 text adventure game in which the major puzzles involve learning a language to communicate with one of the characters and a towering smooth "edifice."

Has anyone played this game? It can be played here, and those wishing to simply dig through a walkthrough can find that here. I'm planning to dig through this if nobody else is interested, but as an early winner of the Interactive Fiction Competition, it could very well have some ties to our friend Phil Fish. My immediate thought is that the monolith solution could be tied to a set of instructions one has to enter to complete the game, but I'm not entirely sure. It could certainly be much more complicated than that.

Also, summoning known Fez fans to the thread. COME, @mracoon@Brackynews@C418@MSG@I_smell@patrickklepek@Jeff@TwoLines@Mr_Skeleton@jonnyboy@Jaqen_HGhar@aurahack@Mesoian@Lokno@oraknabo@Twiggy199@Kowbrainz

That was a bit random... Anyway as devilish as Phill Fish might be I don't think he went that far.

I shall download and have a look!

Decided to patch the game (and corrupt my save, yes) before I went back to see the monolith, so I have yet to "experience" it as many have.

That would be pretty nuts if it was.
 
Also "édifice" is a french word for "building", as in the structure. It certainly would fit the shape of the monolith, should it be meant to look like a tall building.

@aurahack said:

That would be pretty nuts if it was. Also "édifice" is a french word for "building", as in the structure. It certainly would fit the shape of the monolith, should it be meant to look like a tall building.

Yeah. We use the word in English as well.

@aurahack said:

That would be pretty nuts if it was. Also "édifice" is a french word for "building", as in the structure. It certainly would fit the shape of the monolith, should it be meant to look like a tall building.

Yeah. We use the word in English as well.

@aurahack said:

@mtcantor said:

@aurahack said:

That would be pretty nuts if it was. Also "édifice" is a french word for "building", as in the structure. It certainly would fit the shape of the monolith, should it be meant to look like a tall building.

Yeah. We use the word in English as well.

I wouldn't know. D: I've only had it used in the French language around where I live.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/edifice

Yep. Somehow we manage to get by without all the accent marks down south.

Oh God... I was clean man! I was clean, and you just keep briningin' me back!

...I'll check it out. Sigh.

"put headdress on horse"

Ah, adventure games.

Nice pull by your friend, and I wouldn't be surprised if Fez has some deep cuts like that.

I tried to post here last night and for some reason, the editor wouldn't let me.

I'll admit I just stopped trying to solve the monolith and while I haven't actually gone in to look at the leaderboards lately, not seeing any reference on google to anyone legitimately beating 209.4% by now, I'm just assuming that there is no real solution. I mean, someone should have at least brute forced it by now, right?

@oraknabo: The monolith was brute forced a month or two ago. Nobody knows how you are supposed to find the solution, though.