Waiting for download to finish, I got the lifepieces just from a machine translator on the blogpost. It mentioned something about pointdevice in a different bulletpoint, so I'll still check that out.
Edit:Okay, the other two bulletpoints in the announcement mean that there's a limit to the penalty (to your power) from dying in pointdevice mode. Presumably so if you have to retry a hundred times (Shudder, but in lunatic, it could happen) your power doesn't start dropping below 3 and making it effectively a game over. (I mean, if you couldn't win in 100+ tries, and your power then drops to 2, and then 1, well...) I'm not testing what it is, since that could involve dying 50~100+ times, but there you go. XD
The other is just that for the sake of game size, the demo does not have the game over theme. Instead it reuses the title screen theme. Full version will have a game over theme.
And of course, the several bugs in the original demo should be fixed.