Flicking between the three different sized sheep using the shoulder buttons, you position and time the trio accordingly to complete the puzzles and make it across the finish line as quickly as possible. Despite being labelled as a remastered “Party Edition”, the main mode of the game is designed primarily as a single-player outing. You play as lead sheep Shawn, CBeebies Timmy and lazy extra Shirley as you work your way through a loosely attached version of the film’s plot completing physics-based puzzles that encourage you to collect items and finish in specific time goals to gain better star rankings.
The latter theatrical release, Farmageddon, is the outing on which this “mutton bashing” game (very clever Aardman) is based upon. Other than being home to one of the few video games to have three subtitles in its name, Shawn the Sheep: Home Sheep Home: Farmageddon: Party Edition for Nintendo Switch is also home to… well… Shawn the Sheep! The Aardman animated series is bigger than the Wallace & Gromit franchise it spun off from, and even has its own spin-off for younger children called Timmy Time, a Christmas Special and two theatrical releases.
