I'm glad you're continuing
I think the mechanics of the game it self are good and quite fun, but I just don't like how the lives system works.
I think it's really cool how sometimes you need to do a 'sacrificial' jump kinda thing, but on those levels you get the red orbs needed for those jumps. On other levels, there are barely any red orbs, and they are usually very tricky to get, so you (I) end up losing 1 or 2 lives trying to get a cluster of 3 red orbs. It's pretty frustrating and ruins the motivation to get the red orbs.
Maybe instead of putting red orbs in tricky places you could put bonus points powerups or something like that