"This is the character that is going to do it for Saturn!”
- Steven Spielberg

this quote is the most famous thing about Bug! because it is very, very funny. no one really cares about Bug!, not even enough to check if this quote was real - it's not. that is how little the world cares for Bug! and i say that as someone who fully completed Bug!. Bug! just isn't very fun, regardless of how many exclamation points are in its title. its cramped camera, tedious and labyrinthian level design, crushing difficulty, lack of continues, insufferably slow pace, and abundance of bugs really bugged me. Bug! is an interesting landmark in the history of 3D game development, its quality is the result of an insane development timeline at a point in game history where the 3D platformer didn't really exist. it's an incredibly impressive and unique experiment. the prerendered graphics are really fantastic, the concept and design for Bug! as a character aren't that bad - but the game doesn't take advantage of the character or theme. he's supposed to be a movie-star on a filmset but every level is just a generic game level, it's a huge missed opportunity for charm and flavour. a green little quippy film guy was neat conceptually, but would be done better later with Gex's 3D games. but Bug! has more exclamation points than Gex did, so maybe not.

Reviewed on Sep 20, 2020


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