Posted January 22, 2016

Evidently, someone was so in love with the idea of the protagonist backflipping onto platforms that they were willing to royally fuck up the overall feel by adhering to the design choice.
Apparently, the protagonist is some kind of supernatural idiot savant, capable of the aforementioned backflip (if the player can execute the highly fiddly command) but any kind of forward jump of a similar height is impossible.