![]() She’s tenacious, volicious, and vivacious. Cast out from the Bee Kingdom simply for not following the hive mentality (taking the metaphor and really running with it). Vi is a plucky little bee who wears her heart on her sleeve. What shines the most is exactly what you’d expect, however: its protagonists. It is lived in, drawn with consideration, and given a breadth of scope that is a joy to explore and learn about. ![]() It’s not a vague, passive, transparent world. It’s a living, breathing world with a veiled history and even a system of politics and economics that gets fleshed out enough to add real depth and rigidity to the world. But there is a surprising amount of depth in Bugaria’s lore. It wears its Paper Mario inspiration on its sleeve and offers us three likeable protagonists in a world called Bugaria (love the pun), but we don’t necessarily expect much more than a fun quest undertaken by sweet and fun characters with whom we can laugh and fight and have fun. Instead, it’s the characters and the land itself, which feels very much like a character in its own right thanks to some impressive world-building and very considered lore that can be mined as much or as little as the player fancies.Īt first glance, Bug Fables appears to be a game of simple things. ![]() There are a few twists and turns to the story, many of which are signposted early on, but it’s not the story that holds the biggest draw here. On their first mission, they meet Lief, who rounds out their trio for the rest of the game. She won’t be distracted from her goal, and she is immediately sent out on a quest, with her new friend Kabbu, to retrieve an artefact that will bring the ant queen Elizant II one step closer to obtaining the titular Everlasting Sapling. ![]() From here, we’re quickly introduced to Vi: an uppity, impatient, wide-eyed young bee who wants – or, perhaps, a better world would be ‘needs’ – to become a treasure-hunter. Taking cues from the Nintendo school of narrative design, Bug Fables is a simple affair which opens with a storybook beginning that sets the scene of the Ant Kingdom, its rulers, and its denizens (very reminiscent of so many Zelda games). ![]()
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