Developer Young Horses and artist Kero Kero Bonito have released the full theme song for Bugsnax, which is titled "It's Bugsnax!" Before long though, the poor berry’d been caught, eaten, and in a body horror twist, become part of what we now know as a Grumpus’ arm. They really dove in and played it and read all the stuff that we gave them and you can tell particularly in the lyrics of “It’s Bugsnax” um, that they really really know what’s going on with the game. PHIL: I think in a similar way to how comedians take comedy very seriously, we take the absurd very seriously. How does that happen? It’s interesting. British indie-pop group Kero Kero Bonito’s earworm played no small role in the trailer’s popularity. Yeah–and some of their tenets are “we want to make people laugh and want to be silly.” Sounds like you guys kinda have weirdness baked into everything you do, and that’s perfect, because I think it’s something that a lot of us that are weird kids that have weird thoughts are looking for. I heard that somewhere far off in the ocean There lies an island where the creatures roam JOHN: I think my favorite is the Scorpenyo, which is a scorpion made out of chili peppers that shoots little spicy projectiles at other bugs and sets them on fire, causing them to run around in a panic. If you like the video game, tabletop, or other technology content that Third Coast Review has to offer, consider donating to our Patreon. PHIL TIBITOSKI: So something interesting, or interesting to me at least, is that we tested the game with a lot of people before this announcement–friiends and people our friends knew and stuff like that–and we got a lot of positive responses from that. We’d been concepting and working on that initial trailer for actual years before it came out. Pretty much the entire team had a hand in bringing it to life. It would be easy if we had named all of them by choosing a pun first, and then creating the design–. Cue incredibly catchy theme music and what you have is the amazing announce trailer for Chicago based developer Young Horses’ new game, Bugsnax. It gives me a much better idea of what’s going to be happening in the game as I’m actually playing. In fact one of the things I was thinking was “I want to be in the room with you guys when you create a new Bugsnak”. We’d been concepting and working on that initial trailer for actual years before it came out. That resulted in like a much smaller version of like, the system in Breath of the Wild where anything can be set on fire or frozen–something like that ended up in Bugsnax just because that was an inspiring thing that arrived on the scene while building these systems. | Report a mistake in the lyric or send us the correct lyric. Kinda bug and kinda snack Try to catch ’em in your trap Feed somebody and you’ll see We are whatever we eat Find ’em hiding in the sand Tearing up a ketchup patch Come to Snaktooth Island and Discover its Bugsnax. ‘It’s Bugsnax‘ features catchy lyrics and a chill melody, and people all over the gaming space just can’t get away from it. ! So we were looking around for inspirations–music that fit the mood of the game and the vibe of what we wanted to give off. You may have heard of Young Horses before, and if you have, you’ll likely see the through line from a little cult hit student title, Octodad,  about a totally regular human dad who was in no way an octopus in disguise.