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#46 - Art Style: BOXLIFE
The Art Style series of games on the Wii and the DSi were quietly some of the most interesting games on Nintendo consoles at the time. Much like the Bit.Trip series, they took simple concepts and basic graphics and found a way to turn them on their head just a bit. Sadly they didn't quite have the same success as the Bit.Trip games, but they mostly were just as good.
BOXLIFE in particular was a favorite of mine. However, it is one of those games that when I tell people about they think I'm an idiot. Or possibly 5 years old. Or maybe just a really slow 8-year-old. Here it is in a nutshell. You're given a sheet of segmented paper, and you have to trace out segments that could be folded up into a box, creating as little waste as possible. You do this for 14 levels, and for some reason it is insanely fun. Oh, and you get a reward too. When you clear a segment, you get new papercraft figures for your home that you grow from an empty field to a farm to a house to a giant building.
I could try and explain it further, but it's just one of those things that doesn't make sense until you actually play it yourself. And even then, if you're not really a fan of puzzle games, or making boxes, I suppose, you still might not think it's worth a damn. But I will say that when I first started it, I was immediately addicted and I pretty much played straight through until I had completed every level. It's a real shame that it's essentially locked away on the closed DSi and 3DS shops.
The Art Style series of games on the Wii and the DSi were quietly some of the most interesting games on Nintendo consoles at the time. Much like the Bit.Trip series, they took simple concepts and basic graphics and found a way to turn them on their head just a bit. Sadly they didn't quite have the same success as the Bit.Trip games, but they mostly were just as good.
BOXLIFE in particular was a favorite of mine. However, it is one of those games that when I tell people about they think I'm an idiot. Or possibly 5 years old. Or maybe just a really slow 8-year-old. Here it is in a nutshell. You're given a sheet of segmented paper, and you have to trace out segments that could be folded up into a box, creating as little waste as possible. You do this for 14 levels, and for some reason it is insanely fun. Oh, and you get a reward too. When you clear a segment, you get new papercraft figures for your home that you grow from an empty field to a farm to a house to a giant building.
I could try and explain it further, but it's just one of those things that doesn't make sense until you actually play it yourself. And even then, if you're not really a fan of puzzle games, or making boxes, I suppose, you still might not think it's worth a damn. But I will say that when I first started it, I was immediately addicted and I pretty much played straight through until I had completed every level. It's a real shame that it's essentially locked away on the closed DSi and 3DS shops.
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If you are a Beatles fan, but you don't own this game, you've done a tremendous disservice to yourself. It should be considered a requirement, right up there with owning a copy of the White Album and watching A Hard Days Night.
As someone who was a pretty big fan of the Guitar hero and Rock Band games, I never would have thought you could do one game with just one band. Lord knows they've tried it enough times and it never really worked again. I'm pretty sure the Van Halen edition of Guitar hero is a collector's item now, because no one wanted to touch it with a stick when it was released. But in retrospect, it made sense that it worked with the Beatles. Not many bands changed that much over a 10-year period and consistently made excellent music the entire time.
In a more fair and just universe, we'd be having this game remade every console generation instead of Grand theft Auto V or The last of Us, so that everyone would still have a chance to play it on modern hardware. Until then though, this is why I'll never get rid of my Wii version.