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Bugsnax 212/13/2023 ![]() ![]() These creatures appear everywhere on Snaktooth island, each representing humorously designed edible pastiches of real-life insects that all have their own profiles and personalities: Ranging from the skittish Strabbie’s to the far more aggressive likes of the fiery Preying Picantis, an amalgamate of various Bugsnax that resemble tacos, burritos and a nacho for a face. ![]() The ultimate goal in all of this is to find out what happened to Elizabert and to complete your article.Īll of this is achieved with the capture and devouring of Bugsnax. The core of the story revolves around meeting each of Snaksburg’s inhabitants and solving both their personal issues and the rifts between them and their neighbours. The town of Snaksburg has a fractured community and all of its inhabitants have moved away due to a falling out, which happened shortly after the disappearance of Elizabert and her partner Eggabell who went exploring to parts unknown. On your way there, you find yourself being knocked out and landing smack in the middle of a crisis. The famous explorer, Elizabert Megafig has invited you to chronicle the happenings on the island and its native inhabitants, the titular Bugsnax. You play as a journalist who is sent a short video, leading you to Snaktooth island. Little did I realise that instead of finding a game about cute looking edible creatures that you can capture by various means, I found a game that included all of the above and also a genuinely interesting story with surprising amounts of character depth. All I needed to invest was that image of a strawberry with googly eyes running around on his leaf petals. The short trailer didn’t give much to go on and as more came out, I think I was just as confused as I was with the first one. This weirdness set a bar and when I saw Bugsnax for the first time as part of Sony’s belated E3 press stream, I was both dumbfounded and downright ready for that dose of wholehearted surrealism again. You had a game about an Octopus, pretending to be a loving father to a family of two children and a wife that were oblivious, despite the main character being a clumsy fellow and also clearly an Octopus. Anyone who remembers the 2014 paternal mollusc simulator will be aware of just how weird it was. ![]() ![]() This is the latest effort from Young Horses, the fine people behind Octodad: Dadliest Catch and…not much else. I figured that was as good a reason as any to chronicle the utter enigma that is Bugsnax. PS5’s are pretty hard to come by right now, so your choices are either buy it on PS4, or to get the download later when you get your console, likely be for a price. When it comes to titles like Bugsnax though, things are different. Either that or the game has been out for a while already and is considered ‘old news’. The reasons for this are that there is a good chance a lot of you are playing the game already, adding it to the ‘play later’ pile. When it comes to the PS Plus freebie games, we are normally not the first to jump on and review. Novemin PS5 / Reviews tagged Bugsnax / Everybody's talking about / Kero Kero Bonito / Young Horses by Grizz ![]()
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