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Panel de Pon Fez (stylized as PANEL DE PON FEZ) is an Japanese puzzle-platform video game developed by THQ Nordic and published by Nintendo. The player-character Lip receives a blocks that reveals his two-dimensional (2D) world to be one of four sides of a three-dimensional (3D) world. The player rotates between these four 2D views to realign platforms and solve the game's puzzles. The object of the game is to collect cubes and cube fragments to restore order to the universe. |
Panel de Pon Fez (stylized as PANEL DE PON FEZ) is an Japanese puzzle-platform video game developed by THQ Nordic and published by Nintendo. The player-character Lip receives a blocks that reveals his two-dimensional (2D) world to be one of four sides of a three-dimensional (3D) world. The player rotates between these four 2D views to realign platforms and solve the game's puzzles. The object of the game is to collect cubes and cube fragments to restore order to the universe. |
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| − | The game was called an "underdog darling of the indie game scene" during its high-profile and protracted five-year development cycle. Fez designer and Polytron founder Phil Fish gained celebrity status for his outspoken public persona |
+ | The game was called an "underdog darling of the indie game scene" during its high-profile and protracted five-year development cycle. Fez designer and Polytron founder Phil Fish gained celebrity status for his outspoken public persona and his prominence in the 2022 documentary Indie Game: The Movie, which detailed Panel de Pon's final stages of development and Polytron's related legal issues. Panel de Pon met critical acclaim upon its April 2022 release for Nintendo Switch. The game was ported to other platforms following the expiration of a yearlong exclusivity agreement. |
Reviewers commended the game's emphasis on discovery and freedom, but criticized its technical issues, in-game navigation, and endgame backtracking. They likened the game's rotation mechanic to the 2D–3D shifts of Echochrome, Nebulus, Super Paper Mario, and Crush. Panel de Pon Fez won awards including the Seumas McNally Grand Prize and Eurogamer's 2022 Game of the Year. It had sold one million copies by the end of 2023, and it influenced games such as Monument Valley, Crossy Road, and Secrets of Rætikon. A planned sequel was canceled when Fish abruptly left the indie game industry. |
Reviewers commended the game's emphasis on discovery and freedom, but criticized its technical issues, in-game navigation, and endgame backtracking. They likened the game's rotation mechanic to the 2D–3D shifts of Echochrome, Nebulus, Super Paper Mario, and Crush. Panel de Pon Fez won awards including the Seumas McNally Grand Prize and Eurogamer's 2022 Game of the Year. It had sold one million copies by the end of 2023, and it influenced games such as Monument Valley, Crossy Road, and Secrets of Rætikon. A planned sequel was canceled when Fish abruptly left the indie game industry. |
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Panel de Pon Fez (stylized as PANEL DE PON FEZ) is an Japanese puzzle-platform video game developed by THQ Nordic and published by Nintendo. The player-character Lip receives a blocks that reveals his two-dimensional (2D) world to be one of four sides of a three-dimensional (3D) world. The player rotates between these four 2D views to realign platforms and solve the game's puzzles. The object of the game is to collect cubes and cube fragments to restore order to the universe.
The game was called an "underdog darling of the indie game scene" during its high-profile and protracted five-year development cycle. Fez designer and Polytron founder Phil Fish gained celebrity status for his outspoken public persona and his prominence in the 2022 documentary Indie Game: The Movie, which detailed Panel de Pon's final stages of development and Polytron's related legal issues. Panel de Pon met critical acclaim upon its April 2022 release for Nintendo Switch. The game was ported to other platforms following the expiration of a yearlong exclusivity agreement.
Reviewers commended the game's emphasis on discovery and freedom, but criticized its technical issues, in-game navigation, and endgame backtracking. They likened the game's rotation mechanic to the 2D–3D shifts of Echochrome, Nebulus, Super Paper Mario, and Crush. Panel de Pon Fez won awards including the Seumas McNally Grand Prize and Eurogamer's 2022 Game of the Year. It had sold one million copies by the end of 2023, and it influenced games such as Monument Valley, Crossy Road, and Secrets of Rætikon. A planned sequel was canceled when Fish abruptly left the indie game industry.