Really fun little game. While being limited in scope, the visuals, sound design and dialogues are charming, funny, and just on point. The level of creative absurdity and nonsensicalness of the conversation you are nervously listening in while shredding evidence is wonderful.
Some feedback (to whom it may concern):
- Like some already mentioned, the thrill of fiddling around until you finally manage to put the crank away just in time before the lawyer enters is a huge part of the experience playing on real hardware. Just pressing a button, as the latest update allows, makes it way too easy. I think requiring the player to press A or B for at least one second for the shredder to be packed away would maybe help to replicate that feeling of being very exposed while shredding.
- Also mentioned by some already: Saving your own high scores would be great to get a little more time and motivation out of it. (When my friends borrow my playdate they often return to this game, so having each other's high scores to beat would make this feel more complete.)
- Small bug: When I shred fast and then pack the shredder away quickly often the sound of paper shredding goes on, sometimes for one or two seconds, even after the lawyer enters, which is kinda funny but breaks the immersion a bit. Possibly cancelling the shredding sound when the crank is put away would fix this?
- I totally agree that this idea is executed so brilliantly, that an expansion or part two would be very welcome. For its current endless mode with randomly mixed dialogues, some more sentences for variety would be great. But I would also totally buy a full-fetched multilevel story mode version of this. I can imagine lawyers returning every level with new suspicions, interviewing your boss and snooping around, while you try to shred a minimum amount of documents before times up - with extra points for every additional document shredded.
Either way, thanks for this fun, creative little treat!