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[Fez is] a kind of love letter to the old Saturday morning, sitting in front of your tv with a pad of paper trying to figure out codes, NES days of playing games, and this is how he would prefer the game to be played. I don't think he ever said that people couldn't appreciate the game if not played that way, but that this is how it would best be played.
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The point that people are objecting to isn't that they can't play the game their own way, it's the idea that "Saturday morning with a pad of paper trying to figure out codes, like the NES days" is a concept that only exists in the minds of console gamers. And it's just not true.
In my family, the battered old PC
was the console, to be shared and/or fought over with siblings, clustered around on cushions for a Saturday morning game of Worms or Chase Ace. I wrote out levelling plans for RPGS, and drew out maps of adventure games. Sure, nowadays I could just Google these things, but back then (2001+) I was 6, and only aware of things that had been introduced to me by others.
Now, I may have been a child, but there are plenty of PC gamers older than myself, who are just as eager to relive the days when video games were just fancy toys as any console gamer. People
do get up on Saturday mornings in their pyjamas and play PC games. Myself included.
