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FEZ - ARG-like puzzles - Help!
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Crocadillian
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FEZ - ARG-like puzzles - Help!
Lots of unsolved puzzles, need help from an experienced community!

Hey, i've been a member a while back when Perplex City was still in action, and I thought this community would be perfect to help with recent information regarding the XBLA title FEZ, recently released last week.

If you don't want to spoil the endgame puzzle for yourself you have been warned...

***SPOILER ALERT***

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2012/04/why-it-took-almost-a-week-for-the-world-to-completely-finish-fez.ars

Basically to sum it up quickly, the endgame puzzle revolved around a black monolith various gaming communities (Xbox360Achievements, GameFAQs, NeoGaf, GiantBomb, etc) were trying to solve. We didn't understand why but in the end we found the code required to finish this puzzle through brute force.

Recently when the game's soundtrack was released, spectrogram images were found from inaudible noise in parts of various music tracks, including codes, symbols and art (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/85a9hmfaiezis28/bSmFn3aZjs#/ courtesy of GameFAQ user dorkus1218). These puzzles come on top of a range of puzzles that remain unsolved, partly summed up by the ArsTechnica article posted above and partly in various forum posts I will dig up and summarize.

Considering you guys indulge in such puzzles and have such great experience with them, I thought that your experience would be invaluable in this Very Happy

Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 1:21 pm

catherwood
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Joined: 25 Sep 2002
Posts: 4109
Location: Silicon Valley, CA

Re: FEZ - ARG-like puzzles - Help!
Lots of unsolved puzzles, need help from an experienced community!

Crocadillian wrote:

Considering you guys indulge in such puzzles and have such great experience with them, I thought that your experience would be invaluable in this :D

making the dropbox link clickable
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/85a9hmfaiezis28/bSmFn3aZjs#/

I don't have xbox so i can't play this game, and perhaps I don't understand what kind of sequence was brute-forced. Was it a button-mashing sequence? If so, did it direct the character thru a path on screen that might be the key to why it worked? It sounds like right now people are just looking for the way that sequence *should* have been found, and it is assumed that the hints were planted in those audio sonograms? I only looked at one, and the resolution was hard for me to read the numbers.

If you wanted to post specific puzzles (especially in transcribed form), I'm always willing to look for codes to crack. I doubt I could have solved that 3-D book grid of letters, however, so I expect the unsolved bits to be pretty hard.

Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:03 pm

thebruce
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FYI, another thread discussing Fez spectrogram content here.

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