The Big Cube

This entire page contains **SPOILERS** for the Story Mode of *Just Shapes and Beats*. It is recommended to play the entirety of Story Mode before proceeding this page!

You have been warned.

The title of the page is **conjectural**. Besides internal references, patch notes, Discord emotes or its official PS4 avatars, there is no official, canon name.

## The Big Cube

* Sad
* Happy
* Desperate
* Adrift
* After battle
* Hug

### Role

Supporting Character
Boss Character (Evil)

### Introduced in

PARADISE (game-wise}
LOST CHAPTER (chronologically)

### Associated tracks

*Agrobacter*
Close To Me

### Unlocked in lobby by

Complete a playlist of all Bosses (5)

'*The Friend' or 'The Big Square' redirects here.*

The "**Big Cube**" (also known as "**Friend**" in the game files and its avatar) is a supporting character in *Just Shapes & Beats*' Story Mode. It is first encountered during the Paradise chapter and, as its name implies, it is a close friend of the Player Character. It is encountered throughout the game with the exception of the Tutorial world but plays an important role in only Paradise and Industry.

## Appearance

### Initial Appearance

It is a bigger square or cube with a sky blue color and its corners slightly curved, to make the look seem like the default player's appearance. Unlike the player character, however, it has a face showing two slanted eyes and a smile or a frown that may come along with an additional vertical line to its right eye to resemble a tear, depending on the current situation. When it opens its eyes during a few occasions (ie: surprised or shocked), the eyes are black circles. And when it has a tear, the vertical line will appear as well. It has two smaller aqua squares to act like hands.

Boss Battle

When the machine corrupts the friend to turn against the player during the Industry world, the friend can turn itself to have a pink color, just like the enemies encountered throughout the game. It also loses its hands. The friend's face occasionally flickers as its expression changes.
During Close To Me, a Boss Battle of the same world, the friend flickers to its corrupt form, varying from its initial self to its corrupted self in a pink color, it even goes far as the friend flickers into an outlined pink square with its eyes. During its attacks, it forms or spawns something in order to attack the player besides beams. A few of the attacks involve circular arms with claws as hands seem to take the place of its arms during its corrupted form. It transforms itself into a cog during one of its random attacks. And it grows out saws to itself during the sawblade-related attacks.
The player can usually predict what attack is coming next by the face the friend has right before the attack is initiated. For example, when the eyes turn into gears, the friend will roll to the left and turn into a massive cog. In its normal form, the color of its hands is different than the hands during story sequences, as its hands have the same color as its face during the battle.

After Rescuing
After rescuing the friend during the aforementioned boss battle, the square now has two mini triangles that resemble cat ears. The triangles resemble the pieces of the tree and disappear from the friend's head when the Tree of Life is restored. The majority of its appearance remains the same. Notably, its face looks less sad than its previous encounters and the "tear" line on its right eye is gone, likely since the square is reunited with the player. However, the friend can still get sad during a few story sequences.

Other Appearances
Even if the Tree is restored after the storyline, the rest of the friend's appearance including its two triangle "ears" make an appearance in the game's lobby menu, if unlocked and the end credits. The friend also makes an appearance in four greeting cards (seen below) wearing a different article of clothing/equipment and holding an item.
Like The Boss, the friend's appearance in the Lost Chapter retains the pre-Industry appearance, having the same tear on its eye.

## Introduction

The friend is introduced at the beginning of Paradise, at a hill after the Tree, where it travels along with the player to follow the guide triangles along the way. At one point, the friend carries the player when they travel by water.

## Gallery

* Ingame
* Other

* Aww, look at that happy cube!
* Bye, Big Cube...
* NO! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU!?!?!!? :'(
* The Big Cube has been uncorrupted!
* Awwww~
* big hug
1/6

The friend's icon in the official JSB Facebook profile during Christmas 2018. It is notably wearing a Santa hat and carrying a gift.The friend, alongside other characters, in the official Berzerk Studio greetings card. It has the same appearance as before.The friend, alongside other characters, in the official Berzerk Studio Valentine's Day card. It carrying a bow and arrow and having wings.The friend, alongside other characters in the 1st anniversary picture. It is holding a gift present and wearing a birthday hat.The friend, alongside with the square, what may be the sun, and what may be the Boss's Annihilate form disguised as a Jack-O-Lantern in the official Berzerk Studio Halloween discount card. It is based on the appearance of a vampire.The friend, alongside other characters in the 2nd anniversary picture. This time, it is holding the orange player character and wearing two birthday hats.
## Trivia

* It is somewhat referred by the community as "Sadboi", because of its sad emotion for most of the game's storyline. The cause of this is the rampage by The Boss, ravaging Paradise and its separation from the Blue Square as a result.

* It is strange how the Big Cube suddenly "warps" to one location at another, along with a few other characters in this game. Rather than finding it drifting to the waters as it enters the Industry (as seen at the end of Volcano), it is seen suddenly dropping down to a *different* pipe after Cool Friends. The same pipe where normal flowers drop down.
* During its Boss Battle, when the Big Cube is exhausted during the second phase, they cannot deal with any damage upon contact. Likely because it isn't pink at that time.
* In the same level, with the right timing, the player can see the Big Cube's eye parts (only on certain faces) move when the game is paused.
* The Big Cube will always be the last one to unlock Final Boss regardless if its respective level is selected in the Chapter Select.
* The reason the Big Cube doesn't have its two triangle ears when seen during the Tower or Ending section of Chapter Select is that it's an oversight.
	+ This error has been fixed in 1.2, but only the screen for Tower.

## References

1. ↑ An example of this is *music\_friend\_goodbye* in the *levels* folder inside the game's files.
*In context, this refers to the friend implying to say goodbye to the player character in Island.*

## External Links

* The Friend's profile avatar (PS4)
* The Friend's "Close To Me" profile avatar (PS4)