How Would It Feel To Walk On A Rocheworld?

A while back I saw this video talking about the habitability of double planets and Rocheworlds. I haven't seen any questions about the latter case here, so I decided to take a swing at it.

For some background, a Rocheworld is a double planet system that is so close together that the two planets share an atmosphere and have started to merge together. This would eventually result in the two planets violently becoming one large planet.

Hypothetically, it could be possible to travel from one of the planet components to the other over the region they overlap. I think that since these are two planets overlapping, this could lead to some intersting gravitational effects that could impede travel between the two sides.

How would a person feel gravity as they tried to walk from one part of a Rocheworld to the other?

(As in, would they feel a strong tug from either planet as they walked the overlapping region, or would it feel unanomalous?)

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