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BoxBoy! (game)
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BoxBoy is a 2D puzzle platforming game developed by HAL Laboratory. It was released on the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS in Japan in January 2015, while for the rest of the world it was released in April, after a surprise announcement in the April 1 Nintendo Direct.
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Blurb
Nintendo website
Think outside the box to save a world in peril!
Think outside the box to save a world in peril! Traverse tricky landscapes by creating boxes to help Qbby navigate more than 20 puzzling worlds. Just watch out—tons of obstacles stand in your way, so fortify yourself with a Shielding Afro or other boxy defenses. Then beat some more stages to earn sweet square costumes, like a superhero outfit!
After snaking your way through a plethora of levels, try taking on some challenges. Time attack will have you puzzle-solving your way through an assortment of levels as quickly as possible, giving you the chance to test your skills at creating box-shaped defenses. If that’s not enough, Score Attack has you collecting as many tokens as possible within the time limit while using boxes to lift yourself up and maneuver around a huge stage. All the world’s a puzzle and you’re the only box boy boxy enough to save it!
Nintendo eShop
Think outside the box to save a world in peril! Traverse tricky landscapes by creating boxes to help Qbby navigate more than 20 puzzling worlds. Just watch out—tons of obstacles stand in your way, so fortify yourself with a Shielding Afro or other boxy defenses. Then beat some more stages to earn sweet square costumes, like a superhero outfit!
After snaking your way through a plethora of levels, try taking on some challenges. Time attack will have you puzzle-solving your way through an assortment of levels as quickly as possible, giving you the chance to test your skills at creating box-shaped defenses. If that’s not enough, Score Attack has you collecting as many tokens as possible within the time limit while using boxes to lift yourself up and maneuver around a huge stage. All the world’s a puzzle and you’re the only box boy boxy enough to save it!
Gameplay
BoxBoy! stars Qbby, a box-shaped character that the player controls in navigating stages by spawning boxes from him. These boxes are used to solve puzzles either by navigating around or defending against obstacles, such as lasers or spikes, or to access new areas, the goal being to reach the doors at the end of every stage. Reaching the end of a stage earns the player medals, which can be spent in the in-game shop to unlock costumes, music tracks, guides, and challenge stages. Each stage also holds crowns, which can only be obtained by using within a certain number of boxes in each level. If the player dies at any point in a stage, they restart from the nearest checkpoint, which can be done manually by pressing L and R simultaneously. The player can also reset the current stage from the pause menu.
After creating boxes, done by pressing Y, the player can keep them attached to Qbby, throw them by pressing Y again, or set them in place by pressing down. After placing a box, it can be pushed to another position. If a box is hooked onto a ledge while attached to Qbby, the player can either press down to set the box or detach Qbby if he is in midair, or press Y again to move Qbby where the final box in the chain is. Qbby can only spawn one set of boxes at a time; attempting to create another set after doing so once despawns the current set, which can also be done by pressing X. Each stage also has a box limit, which prevents the player from spawning more than a certain number of boxes per set.
From the world map, the player can access any stage or the shop, or send a demo of the game to another system via Download Play.
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