Every quest boils down to catching Bugsnax, and this gets repetitive, especially when four of the game’s eight regions share a spicy/fiery/tropical theme. ![]() If Bugsnax is a buffet of delights, it’s fair to say there are a couple of slices of pineapple pizza in there. ![]() Get far enough into the game and you unlock a tool that lets you play around with the Bugsnax at will, configuring any part of any villager into any snak they’ve ever eaten, like a hangry mad scientist. With 100 creatures and 13 customisable body parts per villager, the possibilities feel endless. The game also features a couple of queer relationships, and manages to make its representation as fun and vibrant as the rest of the game.įeeding a villager a Bugsnak will result in their limbs, teeth, horns, head, or body transforming to absorb it, gaining curly fries for hands, a burrito for a nose, a rack of ribs for a body. Do a few favours for these weirdos, and before long you find yourself making a genuine connection with a washed-up pop diva with pineapple hair and raspberry arms. ![]() Rather than fight the tropes, the writing and characterisation lean into it so hard that they become original again. On the surface, these characters are one-dimensional (the mad scientist, the used car salesman, the gossipy girl), but Bugsnax’s self-awareness and inventive sense of humour wrings every last drop of comedy out of them. Photograph: Young Horsesīugsnax are the stars of the show, but the villagers are a great supporting cast.
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