Actually, DouArf is pretty much right. The only way I was able to beat the levels, even fully outfitted, was to hold down accelerate until I ran out of fuel, then hold down boost until I crashed into the next town over.
At least one thing you can say for the game... it brought the word millimeter into people's vocabulary.
Actually, this game grew on me. Once you understand where all the pixels are, it's okay.
SPOILER ALERT
If you don't pick up kitty, he sends a distress signal while you and the puppies escape, barking happily. nothing blows up. That's literally all that happens.
In case anyone's curious the poem that goes with the chapter titles is called "If." The general summation of it is "If you can do all these things, you'll be a man."
The artwork is beautiful... but the rhyme in which the story was told was not very good, and the ending was kind of predictable. Oh look, a dead lady and child and an outcast in the room, who did not do the murdering but is covered in blood. I wonder what will happen.