Another Sony State of Play has gone by, and that means another round of trailers for PlayStation 5 games. While things fell off towards the end, the show was mostly full of promising reveals like that Robin Hood game and Crash 4’s colorful mirror levels. Also there was another installment in the increasingly suspenseful drama that is Bugsnax. You heard that right. Bugsnax has a catchy theme song and juvenile sense of humor, but I’m convinced it’s not a kids game. Mark my words: Bugsnax is hiding a dark twist that will make it a cult classic.
Let’s take a look at the latest Bugsnax trailer, which showed us the meat of the story. Apparently the main character is a journalist who is chasing a lead on the origin of bugsnax. Their editor believes the critters are a myth, and even tells the player they’ll be fired if they chase this non-story. So apparently bugsnax only exist on this one island and no one knows how they came to be. The trailer then ends with a warning as a giant pizza moth causes the main character to fall to their doom.
If that’s not ominous enough, look back at the Bugsnax reveal trailer. This one focused on the silly charm of the premise, with the theme song playing as were are introduced to adorable walking strawberries and rolling donuts with googly eyes. All is well, and many probably wrote it off as the game they buy for the kids to justify a PS5 launch purchase. Again, though, the ending portends something ominous. A mutant bugsnak made of ice cream, fruit, and a burger attacks the camera.
This creature looks entirely different from any other bugsak seen before, which all seem to take the form of one singular food. Even in the newer trailer, all the bugsnax are one thing. That leaves the question of where the Frankenstein meal comes from. What force could have spawned such a delicious monstrosity? I’ll tell you: the mutant bugsnak, and maybe all bugsnax, come from people.
The announcement trailer shows that the fuzzy humanoids that inhabit the island of bugsnax (presumably the same species as the player) eat bugsnax. Immediately after they do, these people partially transform into food. They get strawberry hands, curly fry horns, or even have their whole torso turn into watermelon. Do you see it? The people mutate into food. That’s where bugsnax come from.
Bugsnax is set to launch this holiday season as a launch title for PlayStation 5. When it does, many people will buy it for their children, thinking it’s some kind of silly Pokémon clone but with food. What they’ll find instead is a dark tale about an island of people transformed into mindless meal beasts. So whatever you do, don’t be fooled by Bugsnax’s adorable presentation. And definitely don’t use that Snapchat filter. Don’t believe me? Just remember that this exists:
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