KevinCow said:It's not a puzzle. It wasn't intended to be a puzzle. It was just shit game design.
And sure, if you stand there and press every button on the pad, you'll figure it out. But that's not what most people did, as I explained in the rest of the post you quoted but apparently ignored. Most people saw that jumping - their primary means of interacting with everything else in the entire series up to that point - had a noticeable effect on the barrel, and spent their time trying to jump on it the right way to get by. And they'd almost get it, so they figured they were on the right track and kept trying.
No, it doesn't excuse it from being shit game design just because some people figured it out.
I read your post, dont jump to conclusions.
I just fail to see what the problem with the barrel is. I seem to remember it posing a minor trouble, but nothing to warrant turning the game off. I had more trouble with the random pinball bumpers spread throughout the level.
From rough memory, I figured it out when jumping did a little bit, then I tried doing a crouch spin. Then that made the barrel descend further. Trial and error perhaps. Obscure and worth quitting? Please.