Messing around in Mr.Driller Drill Land on PS4 and this happened and somehow I didn't die when I darn well deserved to. = o
I think the lesson is to keep a positive frame of mind--no matter how bleak things look in this game, you could somehow squeak out of it! The physics or hitboxes or whatever seem to leave a certain amount of shall we say wiggle room.
Mr. Wiggle Wiggle Land!
Looking at it frame-by-frame (viewing this on a PC, you can pause, then use the period (".") key to advance frame-by-frame), it looks like my Susumu character's foot was last on the ground one frame BEFORE that red block, almost completely overlapping him, landed; in the frame in which the block landed where he had been standing, he was just barely off the ground, starting to climb up the yellow block beside it--so, it seems that as long as you aren't STANDING exactly when a block lands, it won't squish you. It can clip pretty much all the way through you and you'll be fine as long as your feet aren't quite in the ground exactly when it lands!
This is probably good to know and I'm sure expert players rely on this for all kinds of awesome stuff. I will have to rely entirely on luck to get this again I think. = oo