** I didn't include any critique in my video; it is the original gameplay and commentary, edited to enhance the comedic elements of the session. Discussion is below video **
Okay, so, where to begin? I have so much to say!
I believe this game is a metaphor comparing how we treat animals, specifically pigs in a slaughterhouse, to human life. Either that, or the game is a showcase for how grueling, dark, depressing and dirty working in a meat plant can be for the below-average joe ho hasn't reached Mrs. Verbeck-levels of sorcery.
We as human beings like to believe that we are free when in actuality, we are not; the majority of us, that is. We wake up just to go to work and are expected to produce a quality of work without fail that is befitting of whatever massive corporate monopoly we slave for each and every day.
Mrs. Verbeck appears friendly to us because we are told to greet her before we start our tasks and she waves back, smiling; however, she is the butcher and the executioner, or the one who causes our demise. Our superiors in the workplace can be viewed similarly. She has the hefty job of killing the pigs while the main characters job is to perform grunt work and prepare the finalized product which is all the consumer ever sees. A top-level manager at Walmart signs the documents while the workers transport, recieve, organize, sort, stock, and etc. the products.
The main character attempted to fix a major problem without direction from the voice and was killed because of it. In reality, any injury that causes us to not be able to work is "death sentence" for both ourselves, and the company. We need to work to make money, buy food and have shelter; the company is effected by less work being done due to one (or more) less workers which can effect a whole week or months of earnings.
I love how the voice repeatedly tells us how important our work is and that we are a valued member of the meat processing plant, yet doesn't even give the character enough time to eat more than one sausage during the break. Reminds me of working an 8 to 12 hour shift and only being allowed a half hour for break or be penalized.
In a slaughterhouse, the pigs are given just enough shelter and food to live long enough to become food. We as humans are given just enough choice of resources to survive so we can work and work and continue walking along that path until willfully throwing ourselves one-by-one into that old bloody grinder with only death to save us.
To conclude...yes, I enjoyed this game and all its queasiness.
* QUESTION: Is there a message in the work and what is it?