Bugsnax's New DLC Introduces The Best 'Snak Yet

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Yesterday I reviewed Bugsnax's new DLC, The Isle of Bigsnax, and you may well have come away from that review thinking I was not particularly fond of the game. I found the new home customisation mechanic to be a disappointment that makes you work too hard to enjoy its fruits, the silly little hats were too little in quantity, and the Bigsnax, bafflingly, were not that big. Actually, they were huge, but in order to catch them you needed to make them tiny again, which seemed to defeat the point. It's true, on all three new features, I was left disappointed. But I just love those Bugsnax so darn much that I can't stay mad at it. Maybe they're absorbing my soul from the inside out and are parasitically controlling my mind, compelling me to love them, to consume them. In any case, I want to talk to you about my new best friend, the Clawbsteroni.

There is an art to a good Bugsnax. It's why we all love the Kwookie and the Bunger. Much like a Pokemon, which Bugsnax clearly takes inspiration from, there is a right way and a wrong way. The soda can 'snax might be decent if there weren't so many of them, but they all feel a little samey. You can have a few dupes that riff on the theme (neither Kwookie nor Bunger are unique), but the soda cans and the Snackpods both feel a little phoned in. You also can't be too complex (Picantis), too simple (Eggler), or too ugly (Buffalocust). Those three come from the same region, which if you ask me is a region positively loaded with stinkers, but you get the idea. Much like Pokemon, we'll disagree on our exact favourites, but we're largely in agreement that Dragonair has a better design than Probopass.

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