both levels were WAY to trial and error for me

Same here.
Also Level 1 was too busy graphically so that you have absolutely no clue about what you're doing. There are WAY too many sawblades in here. I managed to beat it, but it was purely by accident. This level is almost entirely-luck based, which isn't a good thing.
Level 2 fared better, but I didn't really care for it that much. There's been a bunch of levels with this concept that have been made by other people and while it was nice to finally have a camera that zoomed back far enough to actually see the level, it wasn't particularly fun to play.
I'm sorry, but these levels were not very good. You can do better than that. Take some time to look at some levels to see what makes them fun to play and do the same thing. As hard as the original game is, most levels don't have a huge clutter of obstacles and keep things simple. Most of all, avoid trial-and-error gameplay, as it isn't fun to constantly die in order to figure out that one part.