Had a nice little time with this! Astalon is one of those absorbing metroidvanias that you can just comfortably slouch down and go full butt city into for a good week because of just how good the exploration is and how impossible it can be to put down due to the regular flow of new paths, secrets and trekking oppertunities. Also add on some nice pixel art and some cool character stuff and you've got yourself a good time!

Just don't go into it expecting anything real in-depth or pushing your gaming skillz. The difficulty of the game and bosses aren't that bad to start and only get easier as the game goes along, the beginning is probably where it's the toughest. You have a limited health pool shared between all three of your characters with a scarce resource being the only way to get health back BUT when you die you can cash out the EXP you gained to level up your characters and also add some mechanics to the game world. Afterwards you get sent to the beginning of the dungeon and continue on. It's a neat way to deal with death but it also creates this situation where dying is kinda good and is how you progress. You level everyone up, you get full health again and you carry on back to where you were. I don't know if it was just me but it ended up making me go from trying my hardest to survive at the beginning of the game to taking less care of myself and not really caring about dying because I would get in a better state, y'know?

Idk, that stuff aside, I had a comfy time with it. If you like the idea of quality metroidvanias that give you the good brain juice for exploration and isn't too demanding then this a good one.