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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