Escape from Bug Island fails to deliver in Japan, and it continues to fail in the US.
The story is simple enough. You are Ray, a non-looking action character type who has a crush on Michelle. Michelle is the one that got you into going to bug Island in the first place, so if you make it off you're going to need to give her a good talking to. Your shotgun happy pal Mike who is on the train wreck as well, is only there to try to nail your love interest within the first 10 minutes of the game. After Mike lays the moves down on her (Mike you player you) Michelle leaves the group and you end up running after her like in every bad horror movie you've ever seen. Unfortunately for the people that play the game, the story after that won't mean much to anyone.
The limited soundtrack of the game is just another showing of how lazy the developer really is. The soundtrack that is present will just keep looping and looping constantly. I hope you like the same tracks over and over.
Moving around the world is done with the Nunchuk, while pressing and hold the B button, and then swinging the Wii Remote down will supply you with melee attacks. To add a bonus to all this unwanted Wii Remote waving, the developers have decided that you are not able to move once you've started swinging. This wouldn't be so bad if you could actually line up your enemies. There have been plenty of games on the Wii where the controls hinder the experience, and Escape from Bug Island is just another on that list.
Graphically, Escape from Bug Island is very unimpressive even for the last generation of consoles. The fog that is in the game will slow if not stop all progress of moving because you can make out where you are going. Colors that are present in the game are of a few types. Greens, Browns, Grey and Black. The lack of overall colors makes this Escpae from Bug Island an eyesore to look at. Some reviewers have stated that this game came from the N64 era due to the fog and other grainy features. While I would agree with them to an extent, I want to point out that Resident Evil 2 on the N64 looked, sounded, and played better than Escape from Bug Island.
In closing, it truly boggles the mind that Eidos would put up the money to license this game from Japan. It was awful in Japan, and it has not improved any by coming to the states. If you want Survival Horror on the Wii, get RE4 and call it day.