Yeah I really wish this game would had focused more on using the rotating world to allow for unique platforming puzzles. Instead all you were doing was collecting shit. I enjoyed what little I played but got burned out fast.

No, you're a wasteland.

@greggd: I had way more fun playing FEZ than I ever did playing the original SMB. A game's relative importance doesn't make it fun. If you're making the case that only one of those is worthy of long-term recognition, then yeah, sure, I'd agree with you. But the reaction to the former was never "this is one of the greatest games of all time" and was more just "hey, this game is pretty cool." I don't know where this talk of "overhype" even comes from.

We obviously don't follow the same people then, because the hype was ridiculous when it came out.

@sissylion said:

Sorry for being unclear. I meant that instead of using the perspective change in a way that led to new forms of puzzle-solving, you pretty much just keep turning it left and right until the platform is there. Instead of requiring logic on the players part, this game simply uses the perspective change as a gimmick rather than a a gameplay aspect.

Now as far as your example using SMB - that was a game that literally laid the standard for every future platform as far as mechanics. So I really don't see you're point. If you were to compare Fez's perspective change to mario's jump mechanics relative to when each game was released, Nintnedo's game was groundbreaking and Polytron's had a neat idea that severely lacked execution.