Cut paper into various shapes and create as many boxes as possible within the time limit to earn rewards! Climb the corporate ladder in the world of BOXLIFE using your wits and… paper? Use the Nintendo DSi Stylus to cut and then manipulate the paper into a box shape. Be careful though: if you’re not efficient with your cuts, you’ll waste paper and be penalized. R&D mode teaches you new patterns and then challenges you to complete various ranks, while FACTORY mode gives you the chance to earn money by making as many boxes as possible from an endless sheet of paper. Success in each mode brings its own reward: clear ranks to be promoted and change your character’s appearance and use your earnings to acquire new items for your character’s miniature garden. With its stylish graphics and catchy sound, you may just find that thinking inside the box isn’t such a bad thing sometimes!Games in the Art Style series feature elegant design, polished graphics, and pick-up-and-play controls, creating an experience focused purely on fun and engaging game play.
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BOXLIFE is a puzzle game all about getting big sheets of squares and cutting them in such a way that you can fold the cut piece into a cube. Of course, there are only so many configurations of 6 squares that they can fold up into a cube, so you need to take care in how you do your slicing and dicing. The game's R&D section is basically your tutorial for the score attack section, as it presents an increasingly hard selection of time attack modes that introduce to you a new way to fold a cube each time, and you need to cut and fold 10 large sheets of squares into cubes before the timer runs out. As the sheets of squares you get get larger and larger, it gets trickier and trickier to get it perfect, and it gets to be a real doozy by the end of it. Each sheet does technically have a pre-determined set of patterns that it can be cut into to make squares, but especially for the larger sheets, there's very often more than one correct answer (although you will be given the pre-determined set as a hint if you take more than 10 or so seconds to solve it). The end result is a puzzle game that's incredibly addicting, and if you're anything like me, it might have you end up looking at things in your real life with your brain trying to turn them into cubes without you even trying XD
The presentation of the game is very simple but also very charming. The little worker men who work at the box factory are simple but cute, and all the furniture you earn for your little worker's "Box Life" in the score attack mode is adorable as well. There are a good handful of music tracks, one for each level of difficulty, and they fit the game great, and provide excellent background atmosphere for cube forming~.
Verdict: Highly Recommended. This is definitely up there with PictoBits as an absolutely great time in the Art Style series of games. It's definitely not easy, but it's so darn fun and addicting that even if you can't make it to the credits, there's still tons of fun to be had in the score attack mode. This is absolutely one to look out for if you're looking for goodies on the 3DS eshop and aren't quite sure what to pick up~.