Dawn thos ships starting near me and shooting me while I'm trying to understand what is my current situation!
This is nice! Can get pretty chaotic in seconds, and sure gives you a flush of adrenaline. It's a pretty solid entry, no doubt.
That said, I found a bug (looks like today I'm working as a bug finder XD) . When you restart, you start in hardcore mode with one life. Of course, if you don't wanna fix it you can always say that it's a metaphor for life - "A second chance is always harder than the first one." or something like that :P
Edit: Just found out that it isn't exactly that you start with one life, but with less lives. Now I restarted with 4 lives. And, well, when restarting I couldn't pass levels anymore. Destroyed the two planets, revealing the portal for next level, but couldn't enter... You may need to review how you're setting the variables on restart.