I wrote the intro so apologies for the mistakes. Given some other games in the last five years or so have taken to giving infinite levels on the easiest setting, and the lives counter wasn’t going down, I assumed the same here for this game. And weirdly I couldn’t trigger the srtifacts on the easiest setting but I did on the middle setting, leading me to believe otherwise. It seemed logically that other games also stop you getting the best ending on the easiest setting.
I can’t speak for anyone else, but I got at far as level eight. Yes the waterfall level is quite tricky to figure out heh, but that’s part of the fun!