Indie Game: The Movie made Phil Fish's story of making Fez a reality extremely heartwarming with the understanding of everything that went on during development.
Now that the game was released in April on Xbox 360 and the following month for PC, Fez has become a critical darling within mainstream and indie video game press.
Like any successful launch, many are asking about a sequel. If and when it happens, it won't be coming to Microsoft's next-gen console, according to an interview creator Phil Fish did with Polygon.
This comes after the games Xbox 360 launch that was later patched to fix some game bugs. That patch would eventually corrupt saved game files leading it to be pulled by Microsoft. Fish decided to leave everything as is due to the recertification process of delivering another patch becoming too expensive according to reports.
"It's a shitty numbers game to be playing for sure," Fish wrote on his blog. "but a small independent paying so much money for patches makes NO SENSE AT ALL."
Fish continued by mentioning that there was only a few months left before Fez lost its Xbox Live Arcade exclusivity. His relationship with Microsoft would worsen following the Xbox One maker's announcement that indie developers couldn't self publish.
"I hope it's a joke," said Fish. " I hope Microsoft is pulling a New Coke on us, announcing a shit console nobody wants, only to eventually announce the Xbox Classic and winning back everybody's hearts. Microsoft is making a console for itself. Not for gamers. Not for developers. Just for its own, greedy little Orwellian self. I'm not interested."
Along with saying that Microsoft has yet to make changes to their "anti-indie policies," he says that Sony's Playstation 4 "seems to be doing everything right."
News of Fez 2 came last week during E3 where Fish announced it during the Horizon Indie summit. Though new gameplay details were mentioned that it's an "entirely new game." Fish As of now, Fez 2 is without a release date nor platform.
