PS5 game Bugsnax gets a new gameplay trailer during the new State of Play stream. The new trailer teaches fans more about the game's story and what they'll be doing in the game, showing just how much Bugsnax developer Young Horses has been inspired by games like Viva Pinata.
In the new Bugsnax trailer, viewers learn that they are a journalist on assignment from GNN, the news organization run by the brilliantly-named C. Clumby Clumbernut. As part of their reporting into Snaktooth Island, the disappearance of Elizabert Megafig, and the Bugsnax, the player character will find themselves helping out the island's inhabitants, like a fever dream version of Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Players can capture and take photos of various Bugsnax to learn more about them and, in one mission, to feed them to island inhabitants. Bugsnax gameplay will also see players testing out traps, playing with Bugsnax, and helping to bring visitors back to Snaxburg, a town on the island. Developer Young Horses has confirmed that there are more than 100 varieties of Bugsnax in the game, suggesting that it will take players a while to learn about them all.
While the trailer is mostly delightful and features conversations with NPCs, friendly Bugsnax, and the amazing Bugsnax theme tune by Kero Kero Bonito, it does end on a darker note. As the player character stands at the edge of a cliff, a giant pizza Bugsnax flies overhead, making a terrible racket. Looks can be deceiving but the creature doesn't look very friendly.
When the game was first announced, many did wonder if Bugsnax is secretly a horror game. The pizza creature in the trailer and a new screenshot, which seems to show the skeleton remains of a Snaxburg inhabitant, does support this theory.
The new trailer has given fans a good idea about what they can expect from Bugsnax, but Young Horses likely has much more to show before the game releases on PS4 and PS5 in holiday 2020. The developer has also confirmed that Bugsnax will use the DualSense controller's features. The PS5 controller has features such as haptic feedback and has a built-in microphone. It's possible that this microphone will be used to lure Bugsnax into traps so that the player character can feed them to the citizens of Snaxburg. This hasn't been confirmed but more trailers are expected ahead of the game's launch later this year.
Bugsnax will be launching this holiday for PC via the Epic Games Store, PS4, and PS5.
