Recent reviews by Giraffemonogatari

Good platforming! Good characters... sorta! Deliberately irritating dialogue! Really really bad erotic writing, peppered with alliteration!

I enjoyed it.

Portland Simulator 2020, except the rioters are actually cute and appear to have a coherent and moral cause

The mechanics aren't bad or anything, but this is lacking in anti-frustration features even for a rhythm game.

Convinced a sex offender to murder a postmodernist, 10/10

In every way, even better than the original.

I bought this because it's published by Devolver Digital, who can usually do no wrong.

This suffers from Overwatch syndrome: I love everything about it except playing it. It's not fun.

how can anyone give this a positive rating

Kind of like a fusion of Don't Starve and Yume Nikki
would starve again, 5/5

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"Stonerid is a challenging 2D platformer."
That is putting it lightly. This game is tough as NAILS. There's a tutorial level explaining your abilities and the game mechanics, but the first proper level will cause you to do a mental double-take. Even in the first few levels (the only ones I've played so far), a level of precision is expected of you that isn't seen much in modern platform games.
The physics and handling are rather barebones, without the rich velocity control of games like Super Meat Boy, which essentially makes it less forgiving! Thankfully one has seemingly infinite lives, starting from the beginning of the level or the last checkpoint stone you touched. You will need them.
The dimension-shifting aspect can be a shot in the dark sometimes, as the game will not let you teleport into a wall but it WILL let you appear touching an enemy or just over spikes. In a more typical modern game, this would either not be possible or there would be some sort of visual indicator of where you'll appear on the other side, but that's not to say this is an oversight by the developers, I think you're honestly just expected to keep track of your relative position or pay the consequences.
I don't personally care much for the graphic and sound aesthetics, but your mileage may vary.

Anyway tl;dr: this would probably be a good pick for you platformer prodigies out there! It isn't sadistically difficult to the degree of I Want To Be The Guy or Kaizo Mario, and it doesn't have the "♥♥♥♥ you" traps of those or Syobon Action (Cat Mario), but at the same time it is a little too hardcore to be considered a "normal" game, whatever that means to you.