I think I have to give this one five stars. It was too addicting, I played constantly over the past few weeks. Definitely captures the feeling of playing Paper Mario TTYD and in most ways I think it's actually better. Which says a lot because I have major nostalgia goggles for TTYD. Having three characters for the whole game incentivizes you to make each character work. It also made for a perfectly balanced combat system, one of the best rpg combat systems I've ever played. While playing on hard mode there was almost always some way I could tweak my strategy to get that little bit of extra damage I needed to beat a boss.

Music was so reminiscent of TTYD that at one point I could have sworn the battle music was from TTYD. I also just love insects so that's a plus but I felt like there were cooler looking moths and beetles than Kabbu and Lief but the character designs and their personalities were great, especially Vi.

The main criticisms I have are that there's not too much replay value, as there's not much experimenting to do once you've figured out the best medal combinations and the best skills to use. Also, I almost never chose to increase health on a rank up, because TP and MP were WAY more valuable than 1 measly hp for each bug, especially on hard mode, so it often felt like there was a right answer in terms of progression.
Bug Fables is not a perfect game, but it gets pretty close and I would reccomend it to any fan of OG paper mario.

I LOVE the first three Paper Mario games, as does everyone else who wants to play this. So I tried it out just wanting to scratch the magic that those earlier Paper Mario games left me. And my goodness, I got way more than that. This game is incredible and is better than Paper Mario: TTYD in pretty much every single way. This was a blast to play. Only downsides were the presentation having a bit of crust and the platforming being a bit problematic. The game can also get painfully cheesy sometimes, but hey you may actually like that. that was it though. Everything else in this game was great. If you love those earlier Paper Mario games, you owe it to yourself to play this. You will 100% not regret it.

This has been on my backlog for over 3 years and I decided that with the Thousand Year Door remake dropping soon, there was no better time than now to finally finish it. And yeah, it’s great! The story wasn’t anything amazing, but it did what it needed to. The music was very good, specifically Mothiva's Theme and the Final Boss theme. The combat, of course, hits. It's Paper Mario Combat but with some improvements I really like. Being able to swap turns to other partners is an inspired idea, and makes combat way more interesting than it would be if it just copied Paper Mario. However, I have some complaints. Only Vi can attack airborne enemies without using TP and it makes the team really reliant on her, so much so that I'd just reset sometimes if she died without having any revives. Badges aren't nearly as prevalent, I only had one I really relied on which allowed you to do nothing to gain back TP. And finally, once you unlock the Frozen Drill, the game is done. 12 damage for 8 TP. It breaks the game. But DAMN, it was fun. I highly recommend this. If old Paper Mario is truly back, then this game is kind of obsolete. However, even if it is, the game is very good.