>>714823484
the difficulty steep from getting there was, at the very least, not sudden
>forces the player to stick using the polar star for half of the game
>trains them even further by ditching the earlier ver. of the booster jet-pack
>once you did get ver. 2.0, you got like quarter of the game to get used to the more unique controls of it
>then you have the last cave (hard), which emulates the upcoming hell that the player will have to experience
If you manage to pass all of these, you're ready for the true difficulty of the game