Dude I remember watching my brother play this for hours. In awe with the worldbuilding and how he would be able to solve the puzzles because I was too stupid to understand them. I never realized how nostalgic I would get listening to its soundtrack years later, remembering the simpler times I had as a child. Thanks for being a part of my childhood, you charming little game,
Thirty years later I'll occasionally listen to the eight bit Mario soundtrack. I was listening to 8bit cover versions and my girlfriend recommended this - it stands alone, utterly baffling and beautiful. I remembered some really lovely memories of watching my big brother play TMNT on the NES after reading your comment. Awesome stuff.
FEZ has become somewhat kind of important for me. When someone would ask what's my favorite game, I'd always answer this one without even knowing why. But it's here, always in a corner of my grey matter, making me have goosebumps whenever I think of it. I kind of feel sorry for Phil Fish, even though he acted like an asshole in general. This game must really have meant something to him. But whatever Phil wanted to make us feel with this game, I felt it. So much that I can't begin to put it into words. Games like Journey, even with its magnificence, got nowhere near what FEZ achieved to me.
Yeah, this game is not about only the gameplay or the puzzles or the amazing soundtrack, his value trascend more than that, is the undescribable feeling that convey you. I once watched a video about the game and they say that the game as platformer is really easy and as puzzle game is frutrasting and yeah, it´s true but that means that the appeal of the game is something else. I think that the "something else" has to do with the emotions that the game is capable of give, throught the exploration of those scenarios on combination with music, perfect pixel art, and world building. I think that this piece has the genius to explore what videogames are able to do and more.
Something about this game makes me feel something that no other game has made me feel before _or_ after it. Ever. It puts my mind at ease no matter what. It'll always hold a special place in my heart.
Good to see there are more people out there feeling this way about the game. Every now and then I boot FEZ up again just to feel the aesthetic. I feel the reason this game is so special is because of its unique feel of freedom, adventure and mystery in a "friendly" world. Very little games do exploring without enemies. The gameplay itself (the puzzling, collecting) is nothing special, but it's the environment it's taking place in and the feel of the world and the music. Personal opinion, of course!
+NakeyJakey You haven't lived until you've played this game. I can't think of any other way of describing other than saying that it's...an experience. It's just one of those games that's perfect for a relaxing, rainy day.
NakeyJakey Be warned, though, it can get a bit cryptic. I recommend printing off a copy of the Fez alphabet and number system, otherwise the game gets tedious. Here: cdn.segmentnext.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/FEZ_Alphabet.jpg And here: cdn.segmentnext.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/FEZ_Numbers.jpg
Disasterpiece also did the score for the film "It Follows", which is a cool weird horror movie. The music is of course amazing and worth listening to on its own.
Although it's not a soundtrack as far as I know, Dp's album Rise of the Obsidian Interstellar certainly plays like one. It's in my top 3 favorite Disasterpiece albums. It's here on yt as well. Try not to hurt your neck on the track Club Wolf! 🤘😁😎
Personal favorites: 00:00 - Adventure 12:54 - Beacon 15:27 - Flow 19:15 - Formations 21:35 - Legend 22:54 - Compass 25:37 - Forgotten 28:12 - Sync 37:28 - Spirit 44:32 - Knowledge 49:51 - Memory 55:08 - Nocturne 1:00:21 - Majesty 1:06:16 - Home 1:07:51 - Reflection Since I listen to this so often I thought I would make a little cheat sheet, its all based on personal preference but you can use it or ignore it if you want.
Progress is one of my personal favorites. I dunno, it just... stuck out to me. The rest of the songs are amazing, they can be relaxing, foreboding, and many other feels. But, as soon as I found my way into the Industrial District, the music started playing, and it stuck out to me. Anytime I hear the song, I remember those metallic sounds of the city. I also played this game a year after I went to college, situated in Porto, one of the biggest cities of my country, so maybe that's why it stuck out to me so much. The same goes for Beacon, those tropical, relaxing tunes remind me of the calm, comfortable breezes during a summer day at the beach, not too cold, not too hot, just comfortably warm.
This is an excellent soundtrack for a game with a memorable adventure. Unfortunately, I started listening to this during a difficult moment in my life so far. It was nothing too serious, but it still made me feel like absolute shit. Every time I hear this OST, I would get slight glimpses of those sad thoughts. But I also get inspired since it comes from an incredible game that unfortunately never got a sequel. I hope that similar works like these motivate me enough to make great things and eventually inspire others to create memorable experiences similar to the same inspiration FEZ gave me.
many of us don't have the time to play very much. So we just listen to game soundtracks without ever touching the game. Sometimes I buy just the soundtrack, to give at least something back for the thousands of hours I heard great music for free :)
Fun fact: Glitch (around 30:30) is exclusively made up of parts of the other songs in the OST. For example, near the beginning, you hear the rhythm you hear at the beginning of Puzzle (03:18), albeit pitched down. Near the middle, you hear the high-pitched violins you can hear throughout Fear (33:53).
I played this back in my elementary school years... I was really bad at it, so my Dad always helped me with the controls and the riddles. I still remember being very scared of the rooms/worlds with those black holes in them (I don't remember what they were called-). I'm happy my dad bought me this game back then, it really was somewhat magical.
For every Fez nerd out there. Disaterpeace released remixes of a bunch of song and added a fresh taste to everything and it was only released a year ago. That’s newer than all your comments. Highly recommend FZ: Side ruclips.net/p/OLAK5uy_nuCvy9sQLTUfKeGNBOtCnEVY1LDaOhGkQ
Phil may have been an asshat but damn did he deliver one of the best indies during a time when indies were just hitting the scene... Damn you Phil I still want a Fez 2
I've done so many workouts to this music. Legend and Adventure take me up to the stratosphere and gently place me back on earth once they're done. Sadness, wonder, discovery and hope, qualities I look for in good music. Thank you.
If anything Fez II should be about fixing the void and about the older gnome who also has a fez and the camera in his room it would be cool if it was about going back into time to fix the void that rips the future
^this... Agreed... I'm all about synth strings and he manipulates them perfectly IMO. I wonder if he will work on Heart Machine's next project as well...
If you haven't seen it yet, It Follows is also brilliant, a showcase of his pure horror-skills and legit some of the most terrifying music I've ever heard @@Dnobagav49
I don't play much platformers or puzzle games but FEZ got stuck in my head. Beautiful game through and through. Too bad that we will probably never get a sequel
I realized I managed to give the correct names of the tracks solely from what I felt while listening to the OST. Still amazed how Disasterpeace nailed them down so precisely...
I only like this because my profile picture was of this game since April 2019 without me knowing, until yesterday when i found out while scrolling through Xbox games
I finished this game few days ago, after it sitting untouched in my library for 5 years. It was very fun to play, I really liked the gameplay and albeit it was little confusing at times (got stuck several times and didn't know what to do), the soundtrack was a wonderful company to push me further and finish it all at the end :)
I liked it before my gamedata on xbox360 got corrupted and the game refused to boot. got stuck a lot and didn't like that part but exploring the world and taking in the beauty was well worth it
Wasn't FEZ made with like 3 other people aside from Phil Fish? If so then he doesn't exactly own all of it and the other people could technically make FEZ 2, seeing as they also "own" part of it?
![Braid Soundtrack - [Full] - [HQ]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/TqOVpiXfq0o/mqdefault.jpg)
00:00:00 - Adventure
00:03:18 - Puzzle
00:05:32 - Beyond
00:08:37 - Progress
00:12:53 - Beacon
00:15:26 - Flow
00:19:13 - Formations
00:21:33 - Legend
00:22:51 - Compass
00:25:35 - Forgotten
00:28:09 - Sync
00:30:28 - Glitch
00:33:53 - Fear
00:37:25 - Spirit
00:40:17 - Nature
00:44:27 - Knowledge
00:46:16 - Death
00:49:47 - Memory
00:51:03 - Pressure
00:55:03 - Nocturne
00:57:16 - Age
01:00:14 - Majesty
01:03:36 - Continuum
01:06:11 - Home
01:07:46 - Reflection
01:16:48 - Love
this has been a long time coming in need thanks
Beacon and Compass just make me melt with joy
+Sebastian Baran Not all hero's wear capes
+Sebastian Baran Compass.... so wow.
I play chess, go etc... w/ Sync xD, it works for everything.
Listening to the ost by itself you realize how crucial it was to the mystique of FEZ
Dude I remember watching my brother play this for hours. In awe with the worldbuilding and how he would be able to solve the puzzles because I was too stupid to understand them. I never realized how nostalgic I would get listening to its soundtrack years later, remembering the simpler times I had as a child. Thanks for being a part of my childhood, you charming little game,
Thirty years later I'll occasionally listen to the eight bit Mario soundtrack.
I was listening to 8bit cover versions and my girlfriend recommended this - it stands alone, utterly baffling and beautiful.
I remembered some really lovely memories of watching my big brother play TMNT on the NES after reading your comment. Awesome stuff.
shut up
In remembrance of FEZ 2, what could have been.
FEZ has become somewhat kind of important for me. When someone would ask what's my favorite game, I'd always answer this one without even knowing why. But it's here, always in a corner of my grey matter, making me have goosebumps whenever I think of it.
I kind of feel sorry for Phil Fish, even though he acted like an asshole in general. This game must really have meant something to him. But whatever Phil wanted to make us feel with this game, I felt it. So much that I can't begin to put it into words. Games like Journey, even with its magnificence, got nowhere near what FEZ achieved to me.
Yeah, this game is not about only the gameplay or the puzzles or the amazing soundtrack, his value trascend more than that, is the undescribable feeling that convey you. I once watched a video about the game and they say that the game as platformer is really easy and as puzzle game is frutrasting and yeah, it´s true but that means that the appeal of the game is something else. I think that the "something else" has to do with the emotions that the game is capable of give, throught the exploration of those scenarios on combination with music, perfect pixel art, and world building. I think that this piece has the genius to explore what videogames are able to do and more.
Something about this game makes me feel something that no other game has made me feel before _or_ after it. Ever. It puts my mind at ease no matter what. It'll always hold a special place in my heart.
I feel the exact same way
Group hug, you guys!
Good to see there are more people out there feeling this way about the game. Every now and then I boot FEZ up again just to feel the aesthetic. I feel the reason this game is so special is because of its unique feel of freedom, adventure and mystery in a "friendly" world. Very little games do exploring without enemies. The gameplay itself (the puzzling, collecting) is nothing special, but it's the environment it's taking place in and the feel of the world and the music. Personal opinion, of course!
I still haven't played through this game, but the soundtrack alone is mesmerizing. Disasterpiece is the baby guy for sure.
+NakeyJakey You haven't lived until you've played this game. I can't think of any other way of describing other than saying that it's...an experience. It's just one of those games that's perfect for a relaxing, rainy day.
+NakeyJakey Not to mention it's only like $10. Definitely worth every penny.
You had me at rainy day
NakeyJakey Be warned, though, it can get a bit cryptic. I recommend printing off a copy of the Fez alphabet and number system, otherwise the game gets tedious.
Here: cdn.segmentnext.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/FEZ_Alphabet.jpg
And here: cdn.segmentnext.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/FEZ_Numbers.jpg
thanks Moop
Perfect for making studying that little bit more tolerable.
I was literally thinking this and then I saw your comment. so chill
I was literally thinking this and then I saw your comment. so chill
@@amandaodriscoll9212 I was literally thinking this and then I saw your comment. so chill
Literally what I'm doing right now lol
@@ionisator1 I was literally thinking this and then I saw your comment. so chill
The most beautiful game soundtrack in history.
Disasterpiece also did the score for the film "It Follows", which is a cool weird horror movie. The music is of course amazing and worth listening to on its own.
Hainsaw yeah .... damn right. One of the greatest untill yet. 😄☺
Hainsaw is
This deserves more likes and replies.
Although it's not a soundtrack as far as I know, Dp's album Rise of the Obsidian Interstellar certainly plays like one. It's in my top 3 favorite Disasterpiece albums. It's here on yt as well. Try not to hurt your neck on the track Club Wolf! 🤘😁😎
Personal favorites:
00:00 - Adventure
12:54 - Beacon
15:27 - Flow
19:15 - Formations
21:35 - Legend
22:54 - Compass
25:37 - Forgotten
28:12 - Sync
37:28 - Spirit
44:32 - Knowledge
49:51 - Memory
55:08 - Nocturne
1:00:21 - Majesty
1:06:16 - Home
1:07:51 - Reflection
Since I listen to this so often I thought I would make a little cheat sheet, its all based on personal preference but you can use it or ignore it if you want.
Progress is one of my personal favorites. I dunno, it just... stuck out to me. The rest of the songs are amazing, they can be relaxing, foreboding, and many other feels. But, as soon as I found my way into the Industrial District, the music started playing, and it stuck out to me. Anytime I hear the song, I remember those metallic sounds of the city. I also played this game a year after I went to college, situated in Porto, one of the biggest cities of my country, so maybe that's why it stuck out to me so much. The same goes for Beacon, those tropical, relaxing tunes remind me of the calm, comfortable breezes during a summer day at the beach, not too cold, not too hot, just comfortably warm.
This is an excellent soundtrack for a game with a memorable adventure. Unfortunately, I started listening to this during a difficult moment in my life so far. It was nothing too serious, but it still made me feel like absolute shit. Every time I hear this OST, I would get slight glimpses of those sad thoughts. But I also get inspired since it comes from an incredible game that unfortunately never got a sequel. I hope that similar works like these motivate me enough to make great things and eventually inspire others to create memorable experiences similar to the same inspiration FEZ gave me.
Lovely comment and inspiring in itself, you've already started the journey ;)
Dat url tho
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I never meant to hurt you
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His music seems reminiscent of C418's music. I love both.
That's exactly what I thought.
Boards of Canada
@@TheActualTed If my 2 most favorite artists, C418 and Boards of Canada, had a baby
now dat you said it-100% agreed
This OST succeeds at capturing the feeling that the game also attempted: a sci fi epic bursting forth from pixelated constraints.
26:40. No wonder why David Robert Mitchell hired Disasterpiece to do "It Follows".
holy shit really ?
one of the only 2 horror movies i liked
It's very similar to "Jay" on the it follows soundtrack
Yeah I watched that film yesterday and it instantly reminded me of this games soundtrack, then I found out the same guy did both :)
Damn, didn't connect the two.
I LOVE J HORROR ... lol .... What movie? 😂
Never played the game, but I've listened to the soundtrack 1,000 times.
You can get a demo. Definately do that. DO IT
many of us don't have the time to play very much. So we just listen to game soundtracks without ever touching the game. Sometimes I buy just the soundtrack, to give at least something back for the thousands of hours I heard great music for free :)
And it's even better when you've played the game, I feel many things by re-listening to this right now
Micah Buzan it is such a good game :)
i agree
Fun fact: Glitch (around 30:30) is exclusively made up of parts of the other songs in the OST. For example, near the beginning, you hear the rhythm you hear at the beginning of Puzzle (03:18), albeit pitched down. Near the middle, you hear the high-pitched violins you can hear throughout Fear (33:53).
There are also quite a few parts that appear to be taken from Forgotten (25:35).
Which im sure was meant to imply a literal corruption of their universe as its "data" becomes fragmented just like in a computer glitch.
I noticed that, that's really cool
It's called a leitmotif, Toby fox use it a lot in his games
22:54 don’t mind me I just love this time stamp 🔥🔥
same
i played FEZ while on LSD and it was absolutely transcendent
I played this back in my elementary school years... I was really bad at it, so my Dad always helped me with the controls and the riddles. I still remember being very scared of the rooms/worlds with those black holes in them (I don't remember what they were called-). I'm happy my dad bought me this game back then, it really was somewhat magical.
@JM Coulon I actually planned on doing that sometime in the future, when I'm a bit less busy. I'm sure the game won't disappoint.
This is my ultimate comfort music. I can listen to this so many times and I'm never tired of it. Really just thoroughly beautiful.
This ost never fails to make me tear up a lil bit each time.
notice the URL says "mAMMA" at the end.
damn its true
For every Fez nerd out there. Disaterpeace released remixes of a bunch of song and added a fresh taste to everything and it was only released a year ago. That’s newer than all your comments. Highly recommend
FZ: Side
ruclips.net/p/OLAK5uy_nuCvy9sQLTUfKeGNBOtCnEVY1LDaOhGkQ
Absolute beauty in visual and musical composition.
1:03:43 Chopin prelude in e minor
Phil may have been an asshat but damn did he deliver one of the best indies during a time when indies were just hitting the scene... Damn you Phil I still want a Fez 2
I've done so many workouts to this music.
Legend and Adventure take me up to the stratosphere and gently place me back on earth once they're done. Sadness, wonder, discovery and hope, qualities I look for in good music. Thank you.
damn i was just playing this and thinking Disasterpeace made the soundtrack, looked it up and I was right lmao
I had the reverse experience- listened to this soundtrack all the time, so when I watched It Follows I recognized him instantly :L
Phil Fish and Axl Rose, both of these people hate; but what they have created, people love.
Tim Lepo why do people hate Axl Rose?
John Smath www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/18-reasons-why-axl-rose-is-the-biggest-douchebag-in-rock
Tim Lepo thank you.
Tim Lepo Hahahahaha, People liking gun's and roses, Thats a good one man, where did you hear that? Gotta share that one with my friends.
+Tim Lepo so true
thanks for the upload. This soundtrack is so beautiful, and so relaxing :)
If anything Fez II should be about fixing the void and about the older gnome who also has a fez and the camera in his room it would be cool if it was about going back into time to fix the void that rips the future
Fez two should be about it's creator realising that he needs criticism and that he shouldn't be such an arsehole.
I love HLD's OST... Listening to Fez's OST just reinforced my opinion of Disasterpeace's work... Tremendous talent.
^this... Agreed... I'm all about synth strings and he manipulates them perfectly IMO. I wonder if he will work on Heart Machine's next project as well...
CHRIS SMITH Indeed... Can not argue that point of yours.
If you haven't seen it yet, It Follows is also brilliant, a showcase of his pure horror-skills and legit some of the most terrifying music I've ever heard @@Dnobagav49
an award for the people that randomly found this watching with their "mAMMA"
It's been a few years but I can still here all the climbing and jumping sound effects while I listen to this.
I needed this. Thank you.
Once I got over the rampant pitch-bending that made me feel slightly seasick at times, I really liked this soundtrack! :D
The first song is so good. Best one to start with. love it.
If this ever came on the Switch I would buy it even though I own it already
Well you're in luck buddy
I just can’t get off the first song. Listening over and over and over and over…..
I don't play much platformers or puzzle games but FEZ got stuck in my head.
Beautiful game through and through.
Too bad that we will probably never get a sequel
Man, I love the Fez soundtrack!
I friggin love this game and soundtrack. Needed to share my tears while listening to this again ;(
I realized I managed to give the correct names of the tracks solely from what I felt while listening to the OST.
Still amazed how Disasterpeace nailed them down so precisely...
Listening to this soundtrack makes me feel very emotional for some reason.
I wish they'd hurry up and deliver that vinyl rerelease! I want the record of this so badly!
I got it for Christmas! It's beautiful. BEAUTIFUL. The package/sleeve and the golden orange discs themselves.
Just got repressed my man
So they have! I'm torn between FUCK YEAH and oh I wanted it in orange...
MrRandomPerson The white vinyl looks beautiful. Really considering getting this for myself, didn't know how much I needed this
The clear orange is still the one that's doing it or me!
Everyone check out ‘reflection’.. that track is transcendental
Fun fact, the track 'Continuum' (at 01:03:36) sounds 100% like it's a cover of Chopin's piano prelude in e-minor!
You know, Fez 2 is in the currents of life.
Ive never even played this game and the OST gives me nostalgia for my chikdhood playing other games like Sim City on SNES
play it
To this day, nothing has topped it
I only like this because my profile picture was of this game since April 2019 without me knowing, until yesterday when i found out while scrolling through Xbox games
i'm only 6 years older than this video meaning its been posted longer than 50% of my life
Personnally 10 years older than the video, which has been posted about 10 years ago, so it's right 50% for me
I'm pretty sure this shit can cure depression
tout bonnement splendide
Good Music, this feels like good. 😊
I
LOVE
IT
Polarize into who you want to be, to get rid of the corruption of thy souls.
Listen with headphones. Good headphones. Thank me later.
Listen with ears. Good ears. You won't be able to thank me later: I don't know you.
Nah can't my ears broke I'm gonna need to buy new ones.
sometimes I pull up this soundtrack along with some nature sounds. I especially like this soundtrack with ocean waves ;)
This music is so god damn nice, I love it!
omg your icon is the drawing my friend marti did!
This video is the whole reason I found a bought FEZ, great game.
Hearing the first 5 seconds of this soundtrack reminds me I need to make an indie game.
Almost on par with the likes of Vangelis' Blade Runner score
The first track is amazing.
This is so beautiful
Beautiful
I feel the Hyper Light Drifter mood in that
Amazing game and super soundtrack
wow, this is fantastic. This music reminds me of the soundtrack for the, "Cosmos: A personal voyage." With Carl Sagan.
God I need to play this game again.
I finished this game few days ago, after it sitting untouched in my library for 5 years. It was very fun to play, I really liked the gameplay and albeit it was little confusing at times (got stuck several times and didn't know what to do), the soundtrack was a wonderful company to push me further and finish it all at the end :)
30:20 damn that hits hard
I had no idea that Puzzle and Beyond did that when played one after the other.
21 mins 35..
love it
Masterpiece
Love you all.
This music image is cool, there's are glasses.
My Mamuse-famuse is a cute Clefable.
This is such a great game! For anyone who hasn't played this, they REALLY should
46'23 is sounding like It Follows main theme 😄
The director of It Follows contracted Disasterpiece because he liked the way Fez sounded. Many of the soundtracks use Fez motifs.
Song at ~ 26:00
I liked it before my gamedata on xbox360 got corrupted and the game refused to boot.
got stuck a lot and didn't like that part but exploring the world and taking in the beauty was well worth it
Beahan Shores
my favorite is death
Loving the Chopin reference at 1:03:36 !
00:46:16 - Death INSPIRATION TO "IT FOLLOWS" THEME COMES FROM HERE
best game ever
Prelude in E-Minor 28#4 anyone??! C`mon, music-lovers!
Александр Багмутов а то.так я Подсел на Шопена
When a movie is made by thx: 5:44
no fez 2 for pissing phil fish lol
KOMPAAASS :D
01:03:36 raindrop prelude?
thx to this music i spaced out :D
2019???😭😩
55:13 reminds me of stranger things :D
Wrong, Stranger things remind you to Fez.
haha cube go brrrr
there are ingame tunes not release on the ost.
157 Larry River
Wasn't FEZ made with like 3 other people aside from Phil Fish? If so then he doesn't exactly own all of it and the other people could technically make FEZ 2, seeing as they also "own" part of it?
He made the art, which was a huge part of the game. Even if you dislike Phil Fish (which I don't), you have to admit he's talented.
mAMMA mia