You're right that the running direction wasn't random, I missed that completely! You can disregard my point about the characters running around undermining the hiding mechanic then. I went back and finished the game, my only gripe this time would be that I felt the box pushing on level 3 was really hard (I ended up pushing it around the left side instead of the right, against the 2 guards, to beat the level). Really fun game overall tho.