Goodboy Galaxy is a cleverly condensed low-stress Metroidy time

Metroid-style platformers are common enough now to be a little tiring when you're a weirdo who pays too much attention to all the wrong things. In a year that included the excellent Biomorph, it's been difficult to give many a fair shake of the ol' scoutstick. There are more sprawling, more ambitious, more challenging contenders, but frankly, those often exhaust me.

Instead, lately I have been rather taken with the simpler, condensed, slower-paced cartoon planet exploring and befriending of Goodboy Galaxy.