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.