BYE-BYE BOXBOY!

This game is no longer available for purchase digitally due to the closure of the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS in March 2023.

BYE-BYE BOXBOY! さよなら! ハコボーイ!
Game Information
JP	さよなら! ハコボーイ! (Sayonara! Hako Bōi!)
Developer(s)	HAL Laboratory
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Release	JP: February 2, 2017 EU: March 23, 2017 AU: March 24, 2017 NA: April 12, 2017
MSRP	$4.99 £4.49 ¥680
Platform(s)
Mode(s)	Single-player
Genre	Puzzle-platform
Credits
Director(s)	Yasuhiro Mukae
Designer(s)	Yutaka Watanabe
Programmer(s)	Takaaki Kawahara
Sound	Jun Ishikawa Hirokazu Ando

BYE-BYE BOXBOY! (JP: さよなら! ハコボーイ!) is a 2D platforming puzzle game developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS. It is the third and final installment in the BOXBOY! trilogy. It was released on the Nintendo eShop on February 2nd, 2017 in Japan, March 23rd, 2017 in Europe, March 24th, 2017 in Australasia and April 12th, 2017 in North America.

Characters

Main Article: Characters

Description

English (US)

Wait…a box is the last defense against annihilation?!

Well, fear not—Qbby is no ordinary box. Using his four startling new powers, you must solve hundreds of puzzles across 18 deadly worlds. Create boxes to climb, hover, warp, and bomb your way to salvation! Whether you're a newcomer or an old vet, thinking outside the box has never been more fun.

Scattered across many challenging worlds, Black Smoke and other new hazards threaten to destroy Qbby. Survive vicious winds, viscous water, and more on your mission to rescue the mysteriously cute little wonders known as Qbabies. Each Qbaby you rescue will offer a new power: hit high buttons with a Boxrocket, destroy parts of the environment with a Bombox, teleport with a Warpbox, and even levitate a Remotebox. To the victor goes the goodies: earn new in-game costumes, comics, music, and challenge worlds by beating levels or tapping amiibo. Tap a Kirby™ series amiibo™ figure to receive a costume based on the tapped character! King Dedede box, anyone?

• Create boxes and unleash four new box powers to solve new puzzles
• Journey across 18 worlds of puzzling stages with unexpected new hazards
• Earn new costumes, comics, music, challenge worlds, and more!
• The new challenge worlds are unlike anything in the series so far
• SAVE THE QBABIES!!!

English (UK)

A grand adventure

Determined not to be boxed in, Qbby and his pals board a spaceship and go planet hopping! Each world they visit brings exciting new challenges, unique play styles and even different colour schemes, so the action never gets dull.

Pit your wits against oodles of obstacle-filled levels, including new stages where you’ll need to think outside the box and ensure a safe passage for both Qbby and the adorable Qbabies. Create boxes out of thin air to build bridges, hit switches and reach riches! Whether you’re tracking down crowns, conjuring up laser-beam-blocking barriers or summoning a spike-shielding stairway, there’s always something to keep this clever cube on his toes.

Japanese

四角いアイツの、大団円!!

ハコを出すことができる、四角い体の主人公「キュービィ」を操作して、さまざまな障害物を乗り越える『ハコボーイ！』の第3弾。今回キュービィは、さまざまな惑星をめぐり、星ごとに異なる多彩な仕掛けに挑みます。果たしてハコで宇宙を救うことはできるのか？ ひらめきで解き進むパズルアクションゲーム、最終章！

Plot

After the events of the previous game, Qbby, Qucy, and Qudy travel through space in the Box Ship to restore various planets which have been destroyed by the Black Smoke. On each of the three planets, Qbby encounters a Qbaby in need of help. Qbby helps the Qbaby and escorts the Qbaby to the World Map, where it stays there.

Once reaching the final World in a planet, Qbaby creates a being similar to Planetron out of the ground underneath the final World Door, which gives Qbby various special abilities such as the Rocket Box and Bombox. Upon completing the final World of a planet, the Planetron-like being goes back inside the Qbaby. The Qbaby then sacrifices themselves on the Planet's machine, which removes the black smoke on the planet.

After beating the first three planets, a giant wormhole makes a fourth planet appear, which is covered in more black smoke than the previous ones. The Box Ship fires three machines at its surface, and the black smoke planet fires black smoke projectiles at the machines. Only one machine makes it to the surface, but its top part gets destroyed by one projectile. The black smoke planet loses a significant amount of black smoke, and the Box Ship heads there.

The black-smoke Planet does not contain a Qbaby that needs to be escorted. Rather, once reaching the planet's final main World, an unknown Qbaby-sized box covered in black smoke wakes up temporarily and makes another Planetron-like character out of the ground, then mysteriously disappears in a cloud of black smoke.

Qbby steps out the final World Door, and the fourth Planetron-like being transforms into the top part of the planet's machine which was destroyed. Qbby enters the machine's hole and closes his eyes, but a geyser of black smoke interrupts and attacks Qbby, preventing him from using the machine. Suddenly, various boxes hit the geyser, plugging it. These boxes apparently came from Qucy and Qudy. The machine's hole became a much bigger hole in the process of plugging the geyser, requiring more than one box to activate. Qbby, Qucy, and Qudy jump into the hole (in the exact same pattern as the game's icon) and close their eyes as the machine starts again. The black smoke piles up around them, and their power successfully activates the machine, exploding the black smoke planet and finally bringing peace to the galaxy once and for all - at the sacrifice of Qbby, Qucy, and Qudy.

In a post-credit scene, three of the Qbabies have somehow woken up and arrived on the Box Planet. They run around for a bit before stopping in front of the grayed-out Qbby, Qucy, and Qudy. The camera then zooms in on Qbby, as the game's "The End" text shows on-screen. If one waits long enough on this screen, Qbby opens his eyes, blinks a few times, then closes them again, ending the game and therefore the trilogy.

Characters

Main article: Characters

The game introduces new characters,Qbabies, that need to be escorted to the goal. The main characters return as well.

Gallery

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  The game's icon on the Nintendo 3DS HOME Menu.

Trivia

• For an unknown reason, this game is the only game in the series to not be released in Korea.
• This is the only game in the BOXBOY! series to have support for Amiibo.
• This game is the only game in the BOXBOY! series to have more than two release dates in various regions, instead of the previous two games' separate worldwide and Japanese release dates and BOXBOY! + BOXGIRL!'s single worldwide release date.
• This game was marketed as the third and final entry in the BOXBOY! trilogy.
• This game is the third and final game to be released on the Nintendo 3DS.
• The game's logo and title screen show a Qbaby with a purple-colored corner, but this Qbaby does not appear in the game anywhere besides the title screen.
• This game is no longer available for purchase digitally as a result of the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U consoles' Nintendo eShop closing. It will still be redownloadable to those who previously bought it for the foreseeable future, and its Japanese version can still be obtained legally by purchasing Hakoboy! Stuffed Box secondhand.

Games in the BOXBOY! Series
BOXBOY! trilogy ▪ ▪ Non-trilogy Mainline Games Demos ▪ ▪ Miscellaneous ▪ ▪ BOXBOY! + BOXGIRL! Jigsaw Jumble