Interesting concept, but I think the game is too hard right at the start, there is no time to get used to the controls. Maybe tone it down a little bit and scale the difficulty with time.
I persisted though and I was able to have a lot of fun!
Yes the whole interest was to make the player want to try again to familiarize with the controls and reward it with a better score ... that said the curve is really too steep from the start haha