Target Audience: Looking for a overlooked platformer

Summary:

Box Out! Isn't going to turn heads, but is a solid platformer that shows me a developer with real potential: As a lot of the design decisions regarding natural player progression, level design, and basic gameplay shows a lot of good design elements and smart decision making. While the game does seemingly lack content over the long haul, the two based action gameplay regarding switching between forms is the highlight here, and while the art and collision detection fails at points, it was an enjoyable experience in the end. I'd pick it up on sale when you have the chance.

Gameplay Footage: http://youtu.be/CNFDsA21wSk

Lists:
Positives:

• Good Elements of Level Design here, leading to teaching the player the rules of its world naturally, rather then through a tutorial.
  
• Switching between elements is probably the most action packed it gets and can be rewarding
  
• Different objectives leads to different paths in the world to go through and try a level differently.
  
• Controls are what you would want for game like this and give you the freedom that you need
  
• Some designs of the actions are rather nice, despite the 8 bit nature of them.

Negatives:

• Art sometimes ends up being misleading as a spike end for example is deadly, but the base of the spike is.
  
• Can lack oompf. Doesn't stand out at any point, hitting the solid point and nothing more.
  
• Music can wear on you after a while.
  
• Extra Modes seem derivative of the main mode.

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Cute platformer game where the levels on average are not that hard to complete if 'just getting trough' is your goal.

The difficult part comes when you try to grab achievements. First world is a breeze but then difficulty goes up as on every level you compete for a) time trophy b) using least amount of transformation action c) trying to get all the 3 trophies scattered around in the level. Game has a nice hook built into it here which ensures i will be playing this some more.

Time trophy targets especially are EXTREMELY tight. I raise a hat to those who are able to grab these achievements.

Arcade and Time attack mode gets unlocked after awhile too.

GREAT GAMEPLAY, EPIC CHALLENGES, AWESOME GAME !

No deep storyline here, Box Out! is gameplay focused. It is a real "easy to learn, hard to master" type of game. Kind of a mix between a platformer and a puzzle game but made for speedrunners.

The 6 transformations are very fun to use (I love the rocket and the spikes forms). Learning curve is well balanced so you can feel the difficulty slowly rising. Three optional challenges in each level: retrieve 3 cups, beat the level under a certain time, beat the level using a limited number of transformations. You can sometimes get 2 trophies at the same time, but generally I had to do seperate runs. But it's all good, half of the fun came from perfecting the run and the satisfaction of beating the clock by 0.01 second (YOU FREAKING PIECE OF SH**)!!!

Extremely fun, met a guy who worked on the game on omegle. Great platformer, and cool aspect of the different "boxes".
Challenging but fun, even though I've just tryed it out I expect to play more of it.

A hard but addictive die & retry platformer. Getting all the objectives seems pretty difficult! The learning curve is really smooth though, and the absence of loading times combined with very fast paced gameplay allows you to keep on trying without losing your mind. I would recommend this game to anyone out there who likes their old school 2D platformer skills challenged.