The issue, and I use this term lightly, is that I’m staring at my copy of Home Sheep Home: Farmageddon Party Edition, which I’m playing on my XBox One, and realizing it hasn’t even been released yet.
Let’s be honest, being a developer and getting hand picked to tie your design to a massive IP is a dream come true. It’s fantastic that a simple Flash game called Home Sheep Home got enough attention to first become an official Shaun the Sheep game, and then explode with levels and additional content to add multiplayer and extra level packs based on the movie. After all, movie tie-in games are the bread and butter of the marketing to children world, and I wouldn’t expect anything less from a film that involved aliens abducting a group of sheep and then the sheep wreaking havoc. Nor do I think that it’s wrong that a game was created to promote the Farmageddon movie. These people have entirely too much time on their hands and cannot appreciate that, sometimes, a claymation sheep doing silly things is all you need to get through the day. I understand that, for some people who are Wallace and Gromit purists, the very existence of Shaun and his very simple, nonsense-driven animation makes them apoplectic with rage. I feel the need, right at the very top, to defend the existence of Shaun the Sheep.
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