A Level Design Nitpick

[Casual Builder]

Sliding into 1-tile tunnels from ladders.



For me, nailing it is always a matter of luck. Yet it's still quite a prominent feature amongst many Mega Man Maker levels... and I can't quite understand one thing: why level designers still use it? To provide a challenge factor / indirectly cause a little bit of frustration / make the player unleashing F-bombs left and right / [insert anything else here]?

[14Protoman]

Sliding into 1-tile tunnels from ladders.



For me, nailing it is always a matter of luck. Yet it's still quite a prominent feature amongst many Mega Man Maker levels... and I can't quite understand one thing: why level designers still use it? To provide a challenge factor / indirectly cause a little bit of frustration / make the player unleashing F-bombs left and right / [insert anything else here]?

Just use slide button.

[Casual Builder]

Just use slide button.

Holy cow... it worked.

Welp... consider this topic officially SOLVED.

[14Protoman]

Just use slide button.

Holy cow... it worked.

Welp... consider this topic officially SOLVED.

-_-

[D-Man]

Now I wanna know... how many players use the slide button, and how many use down + jump to slide?

[NMario84]

I use slide button all the time. in this game It's just that the older games like MM 1-6 never had a 3rd button, so it's kind of hard to remember that newer games have more buttons? That's my only guess on this.

[Casual Builder]

Now I wanna know... how many players use the slide button, and how many use down + jump to slide?

As you can see in the above GIF, I was doing it the old-fashioned way (Down+Jump).
That's a humbling experience knowing that you have an extra Slide/Dash button... Soooooooo I'm gonna join the Extra Button Club now.

Yeah... any level designer who puts this gimmick into their levels are totally aware (and fully using) Slide/Dash button, while others... not so much. I have no idea how many players would go with the extra button, and how many are don't.