Finally, A Game About Boxes
March brought Codename: S.T.E.A.M. along, and the gaming world was generally underwhelmed. Intelligent Systems has made phenomenal titles for decades now, including some of the best Nintendo has ever published, and yet this title didn’t quite have any steam to get its boat to sea, primarily because of one glaring issue: it bored many players. As a 3-D turn based strategy game, the fact that enemy turns took about a thousand years to watch every time (I may be exaggerating) turned off many players. Nintendo eventually released a patch to fix this, but it has still yet to make a very big impression.
Box Boy!, however, was the game about boxes that nobody knew the world needed. HAL Laboratories put their game-making skills to the test once again for another strange twist on the 2-D platformer genre by sort of throwing a Tetris feeling into the mix. The result was another excellent game on the eShop with puzzles to keep your mushy, wonderful brain working all through your lovely day. Through its masterful blend of simplicity with complexity, Box Boy! made it ways into many people’s hearts as one of the best games about boxes.
