My girlfriend was laughing at me while I was sucking at completing the first level and then she further mocked me while I started writing this review so I decided to tell you exactly what happened because 1) it's the funniest option and 2) honestly from what you're writing about the difficulty it's exactly what you were aiming for. Mission complete. I am now forever a joke to my girlfriend.
(but it was kinda fun, if I can give some notes, the pixel perfect jumps are problematic with the fact that you can't really see the borders of the platforms. My gf is saying it's skill issue, but yeah)