We’ve arrived on Snaktooth Island in order to investigate “Bugsnax,” a bizarre genus of hybrid bug/snak creatures that transform the bodies of Grumpuses who consume them. The leader of the expedition and the one who invited us out here, Lizbert Megafig, has gone missing.
So we’re on our own, looking into both the Bugsnax and her disappearance. With luck, we’ll get answers from the other expedition team member as we locate them and bring them back to the Snaxburg. It’ll probably involve a lot of feeding.
We are what we eat, after all.
I probably should’ve canceled this stream since I was exhausted well before I went live, but I wanted to get something out at least since it’s been so long.
The game actually does a pretty good job seeding the late-game reveals early on. A first-time player likely isn’t going to pick up on them, but people who are replaying the game, like I am, get to see the cogs turning. There are surprisingly few “wasted” details in the story, as each scene serves a purpose. Doubly so since some of them definitely feel like throwaway plot points at first blush.
As for the game itself, the tutorials leave a lot to be desired, but the act of catching Bugsnax makes the player feel extremely smart, especially once they’ve discovered the ideal methods. The best example of this is the Cinnasnail we had to catch as part of the story. When I first ran through the game, I remember catching a different Cinnasnail and feeding it to Chandlow. What you saw in the episode was my piecing together the “correct” way to catch it in real-time. While there should’ve been more explanation leading up to it, the fact that I pieced it together myself made me feel really smart.
Hopefully, next time I’ll be wide-awake to appreciate my own brilliance next time.
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