I bought this game back when I beat BOXBOY! last year and really enjoyed it. I had some time while waiting for a doctor's appointment earlier today, and decided to bring along my 3DS with me and fired up BOXBOXBOY! to play. Like 8 or so hours of playing later, I was done with a game that is a significant improvement on its original. I did a "perfect" on every stage, so I basically 100%'d the game, but it isn't that hard. I needed like 11 or 12 hints, and used the wizard costume to get an extra block to get like two of the crowns because I absolutely couldn't figure out how to get them XP
Fast mentioned in the Slack chat that this game is basically like a Warehouse Cleaner (Soukoban games) and a platformer had a baby, and that isn't exactly inaccurate. It's a puzzle platformer by HAL, and it just drips with all of Kirby's charm but in a much more subdued and relaxed package. The presentation, from the graphics to the music to the simple design of Qbby and his friends are all simple and easy to distinguish while very aesthetically pleasing. If BOXBOY! is the single-player version of Portal 2, then BOXBOXBOY! is the co-op mode of Portal 2, where the addition of a second set or portals makes the potential puzzles far more complex and interesting. As the title suggests, Qbby can now generate two sets of boxes instead of just one, and that makes the puzzles SO much more fiendish than the first game had. The first game felt almost like work for a lot of the puzzles because they were so simple. BOXBOXBOY!'s puzzles will really test how you think with boxes. :P Verdict: Highly Recommended. BOXBOXBOY! is a fantastic sequel to an already well designed game. It only does a simple change to the overall formula, but the level design is done in such a way that it feels like a totally new experience and in only positive ways. For its $5 downloadable price tag on 3DS, it's a very easy recommendation for me to be a time-killer when you have some down time, or something to go through on a day off
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