It actually gets a bit harder after the first time you beat it, if only because it's hard to tell which "story" is ahead of which when they start overlapping. As far as the message goes it reminds me of those cartoons some people will draw about specific political problems with an overarching analogy where everything is correspondingly labeled, a bit hamfisted but it's a flash game and it was made in 8 hours, who's got time for subtlety?