Let’s ignore for a moment the fact that Fez was nominated for two awards at the Independent Games Festival this year. For the sake of argument let us even ignore the fact that it won an award for Excellence in Visual Design and that aside from looking completely gorgeous it is adorable as all hell.

This is a game about a diminutive albinoid with an over-sized head, an affinity for Mediterranean cranial stylings, and a jones for inappropriate nudity. By that description alone your interest should be piqued, though there is another draw, one far too insidious to be unintentional. Don’t see it yet? Give the little bastard a pipe and you, my friend, are playing what is likely to be one of the greatest gaming achievements of our era: a John Brownlee simulator.

Strange coincidences and eerie alignments this Tuesday morning. Steve Scott is a London based animation director and illustrator who also, apparently, has some sort of telepathic ability that has allowed him to lick the collective brain of Ectomo. This piece, entitled The Society of Victorian Mutants is as close as I believe I’ve seen to summing up the fetishes of Ectoplasmosis’s hive-mind in their entirety.

We don’t think it goes to far to say that Ectomo and Steve -if we may be so bold- should, and shall, be Best Friends Forever and we can hang out and do each other’s make-up and talk about tentacles and Cthulhu. We are sure of this, surer than anything in our entire, short lives. Make haste and hit up his site for an impressive collection of moustaches, Victorian fashion, robots, and pin-ups. Also, could you to pass him this note: “Do you like Ectomo? Circle one: Yes No”

Steve Scott [Artist’s Site] : Thanks, Bira!

Concert promo by Kipling West. You can see the finished, lettered version here.

Smokin’ Cobra in a Fez [Seven Deadly Sinners]