This game is alot of fun, I suck at it but I keep trying, stop crying that its not another "easy" hard badge thrown at you, if all you care for is badges you fail at life anyway.
@csjaugustus: While level 11 doesn't really make much sense its very much possible. (And looking at which pieces you get not glitched but meant to be that way.)
3rd try got a bit over 1.5mil points and the hard badge, not all that hard, once youre fat just do rolls on the water and try not to jump out, that way you crush the boats with your tail and have time to eat sailors, when you get like 50 combo a few times its really nice points
13.805.818, Died on lvl 31
My suggestion: Spread Shot, Rapid Fire, Points, Critical/Pierce, the remaining are fluff, try to not lvl up quick at the beginning eg. don't move to collect pixel, rather rack up your combo, always try to keep the shield extra on you. :P