Headscratchers / Tasty Planet

• Why can't you ever simply eat the police officer's bullets?
  • It's probably going just too fast for you to break up.
• Why, in some games in the series, does your size keep yo-yo'ing up and down between levels?
  • The grey goo suffers from not being in sync with the laws of physics because it ate the interaction with itself.
  • Several things in the game (bullets, large predators, celestial bodies, and cars) can shrink your size if you aren't big enough to eat them. (Though in the first game, some things will outright destroy you if you come into contact with them.)
  • Some levels may not be canon.
  • The reason can be summed up to Gameplay and Story Segregation. I think the developers may have considered having the player characters get a linear size growth across levels to be unconventional for gameplay (and probably also so that they could get as many objects of different sizes as possible).

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