The game operates on X,Y coordinates and not traditional hit boxes (i.e., it isn't like Poacher Chase & Fire Escape which have hit boxes for the obstacles and the lion). What's happening is turning too early or too late, causing the game to end. With Impossible mode, it's much less forgiving as far as the timing goes. Since the turning animation renders in the grid block that you are turning into, the game ends immediately if the block is occupied.




In this example, when you press down, the move can only render if the grid block is unoccupied. When you turn too early (or too late), and the block is occupied, there won't be any animation to show that you turned too early/late (i.e., it can't show that you started to turn into an obstacle since each segment is a fixed width/height).

It would end up looking something like this:


I hope this helps explain what's going on!

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