M, yeah. There are systems in place to make it more balanced (if a liacon is faster than you, they are proportionally more greedy and will try to take longer strides even after the wake up warning), but the numbers need tweaking and right now it is definitely possible for some runs to just be impossible because a liacon is faster than you and also lucky enough to not be punished for it.
I actually had the most trouble with the pumpkin smash game out of the 3 — i guess im just bad lmao