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Phil Fish was personally an absolute manchild who had one single good mechanical idea and rode it until the wheels fell off

Indie developers though by their very nature are an extremely varied bunch, and the things they make are a reflection of that



His game was clearly inspired by an extremely good Japanese indie game (Cave Story), which makes his quote about all Japanese games being bad a strange thing to say. Funny enough the Wikipedia page for Fez hasn't noticed the inspiration either.


I don't have a dog in this fight but I found Cave Story to be completely unfun.




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