A poster going by gregSTORM on the Xbox 360 Achievements forums was the first one to cross the finish line. He used a program to generate a list of all the possible solutions, and after entering around 1,300 of them by hand, to his great surprise… he managed to open the monolith. It was just before 3pm PST Wednesday, roughly five days after the game’s release.
This is exactly the biggest problem I have with Fez’s codebreaking “second game.” If I have to code a program to brute force solutions to your video game puzzle, something’s definitely wrong with the design of the game.
(Or maybe that was Polytron’s point. Either way, I think it’s pretty silly to make the most interesting parts of the game so obtuse that the vast majority of players won’t even get to see, much less solve.)
via Ars Technica.