>>2768158Until you get a line of blocks in your way, or an enemy which can send you falling to your death. In the early levels you can generally fly over everything, but in the later levels they put obstacles in your way to disallow this tactic.
I feel that many people on this board play the first level or two of a game and base all of their opinions on that. I see it time and time again. For example, one poster claimed that every DKC level is a jungle level.
