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07-27-2015, 09:00 PM
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That said, there is a banner right at the start of the game that explains how to jump laterally. It says something like "Press X and THEN tap sideways" or similar.
What percentage of players do you think read the banners as compared to simply mashing buttons and expecting things to work like every other game they've ever played? And even if they had read the banner, muscle memory is a difficult thing to retrain. Even after I'd worked out what I should be doing I still got it wrong on a regular basis.
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