I got boxboy last night for less then £5 and have loving it. Its a simple, fun, charming and novel game. The visual style is bare bones but does blend old skool gameboy with modern hardware (the animations are detailed and high frame rate, but minimally applied).
The shop system is charming and addresses the initial simpleness of the game. You've some tiny attachment to your plucky box and its skills and then you get to 'buy' (with ingame points, not IRL payments) costumes for it at which point it becomes your own.
Others may disagree about whether that charm matters but the gameplay and puzzles themselves are great. Its true it does feel like you're in learning mode for a long time (I think I'm 30-40% of the way through and it still feels like that). That could be viewed as a positive or a negative though - even if continues for the whole game that would break the pattern of most comparable games where you yearn for a new element to be introduced.
TL;DR - 6/10 is way too low. 7 would be stingy. 8 would be appropriate and 9 the most accurate seen within the confines of the genre.
Reviewers have a small responsibility not to slate originality where its fun and engaging. This should be seen as a kind of pure, minimalist logic puzzler. To criticize it for that would be like to criticize Qix or Tetris for the same qualities.
Buy the game, its cheap and don't be put off by this websites review!
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Re: Review: BOXBOY! (3DS eShop)
This review is overly negative.
I got boxboy last night for less then £5 and have loving it. Its a simple, fun, charming and novel game. The visual style is bare bones but does blend old skool gameboy with modern hardware (the animations are detailed and high frame rate, but minimally applied).
The shop system is charming and addresses the initial simpleness of the game. You've some tiny attachment to your plucky box and its skills and then you get to 'buy' (with ingame points, not IRL payments) costumes for it at which point it becomes your own.
Others may disagree about whether that charm matters but the gameplay and puzzles themselves are great. Its true it does feel like you're in learning mode for a long time (I think I'm 30-40% of the way through and it still feels like that). That could be viewed as a positive or a negative though - even if continues for the whole game that would break the pattern of most comparable games where you yearn for a new element to be introduced.
TL;DR - 6/10 is way too low. 7 would be stingy. 8 would be appropriate and 9 the most accurate seen within the confines of the genre.
Reviewers have a small responsibility not to slate originality where its fun and engaging. This should be seen as a kind of pure, minimalist logic puzzler. To criticize it for that would be like to criticize Qix or Tetris for the same qualities.
Buy the game, its cheap and don't be put off by this websites review!