It's interesting to me how much of Rain World's speedrun movement tech was intended by design. eslides, eijumps, wall-pounces, pole hops, maybe even vaults, were intentionally designed aspects of the game's movement system, and even most tech that wasn't necessarily designed is still non-exploit emergent behavior. And yet a casual player will never see any of this. a casual player will maybe learn to backflip, roll, or slide. The only movement the game ever expects from the player is a pounce and wall jumps. it's so strange to me. The game's movement system is so very deep with so much emergent behavior and none of it will be touched by 99% of the player base. why design all this and not intend it to be used
#rain world#movement tech#I am aware wall pounces were patched out and later back in#so you could say that it's reasonable the game never intends the player to wall-pounce#and eslides and such do facilitate avoiding predators#still strange#I feel like most casual playthroughs I see they do a roll by accident and maybe a backflip and never engage with the movement system furthe#and the movement system is so fun#maybe i'm just speedrunnerbrained
