Here’s our initial Toybox review, guide and tips after our first impressions of playing the app. Toybox combines a side-scrolling space shooter with a match 3 puzzle game. Made by Barrel of Donkeys, you can download Toybox in the App Store for all iPhone, iPad and iPod. Toybox is a fun, hilarious and often chaotic example of what happens when you try to do two things at once. On the left side of the game, you control a space ship as you face an onslaught of enemy ships. You maneuver the ship with your left thumb on the screen while the ship shoots automatically. The color of certain enemy ships correspond with the blocks that fall on the right side of the screen. As you are shooting other ships and avoiding enemy fire, you use your right thumb to drop blocks trying to connect 3 of the same color. When you make a match, it gives your ship a short powerup, spraying out bullets in a circle that destroys enemies near your ship. Making consecutive matches also increases your gunpower, letting your ship shoot up to 3 bullets at once.
Read on for our Toybox guide and tips to get farther in this tricky mobile game!
Toybox Tip #1
If you shoot down an enemy ship with a flashing light, it will drop a block of that corresponding color on the right side. This is useful to know when you are trying to make a certain color match on the right side.
Toybox Tip #2
Pay attention to the right side and don’t let random colors build up in the columns. The game gets harder very quickly with tons of enemies and enemy fire surrounding your ship. It’s important to make matches, since it will send out a spray of bullets, clearing most of the map. It’s best if you try to keep your colors as organized as possible with one color per column. Easy in theory, harder to actually execute!
Toybox Tip #3
Following up on Tip #2, making matches is SUPER important in Toybox. Relying on just steering your ship and its little gun isn’t nearly enough to keep your ship safe. Making matches gives you a
mini explosion that destroys many enemies at once. It also gives you power-ups and lets you earn extra lives.
