*Dies*

>>11836901 (OP)
So, what happened here? Was the stage not playtested or did they just not give a fuck?

>>11837146
I think in general while people can easily point towards X6 as lacking a Q&A phase for playtesting, X5 in many ways has the same problems but not to the same extent. No one should be able to look at Duff McWhalen/Tidal Whale, or the weirdly short clusterfuck of Dark Dizzy/Dark Necrobat, and say, "Yeah, this is good, ship it."

>>11837146
we were not s0ib0ys back then, we beat games like a man, the harder the better

>>11837146
A combination of not giving a fuck and not knowing what to do past X2.

>>11837146
They probably just didn't care.
I mean, its not like you're gonna die more than once to it anyways, and its the literal start of the stage, in a game were lives mean nothing because game overs don't make you lose checkpoints.

>>11837146
>die once
>once the stage restarts, just go back all the way so you have time to jump

pretty simple, it's just a silly gotcha.