I've 100%ed Grapple Dog and I'm 1000% ready for more! Grapple Dog is incredible. I can't peel my eyes away from its gorgeous pixel art and animation, I'm bopping along with its great (if limited) soundtrack, and the controller is completely disappearing in my hands with how great everything feels to play. I am the good grappling boy. The gameplay variety is spot on with great bonus stages and a constant introduction of fun new mechanics, and I'm very pleasantly surprised to say that even the writing has me smiling. Grapple Dog will be one of my favorite platformers full stop, and it will likely be my favorite game to release this year.

Some tiny little things:
- 60fps lock, but something weird's going on with that lock if I alt+tab. Easily fixed with alt+enter.
- Collectibles do not save if you exit the level from pause. This is more a pet peeve than anything, but some of the presentation makes it unclear whether or not they will save.
- When falling in a pit, you respawn and are able to move nearly immediately without even having touched the ground. This lead to me walking off the cliff again multiple times. That's probably just my problem, but you also don't spawn with collision invincibility, so if there's an enemy there, you might unwittingly bounce off them into the pit.
- Some boss fights are too easy and/or too long, and do not have mid-fight checkpoints.
- My play time is off by 90mins or so, just an FYI.
- Not enough people are playing Grapple Dog. Play Grapple Dog.

10 doggo pats out of 10.