Man that was difficult. It took me 2 hours of struggling with the mechanics and my progress getting lost when pausing the game and having no way to continue as no menu would appear but the game would pause.
Judging by the other comments, I am guessing I'm the only one who did it legitimately. I actually did not know you could cheat until I made to the first cave and came to the game page to figure out how to use that item. It really needs a proper tutorial.
If the game was made to be difficult and infuriating in mind, then it achieves its goal, but I would suggest a simpler mode and adding a challenge mode for those who are daring.
Also my system was struggling upon reaching the top