Great game, but... – Home Sheep Home Review

Engaging, cute, challenging, and enjoyable--but, also, frustrating, infuriating, maddening, and, ultimately, often more irritating than fun! Level 13 -- even when I have "cheated" and seen the online videos of solving it -- remains essentially impossible. Far too much fiddling, trying, jumping, positioning just so, etc. After a dozen+ tries, I'm ready to delete the app, sad to say. UPDATE: Look for the "secret way" video. It's still tricky, but eventually doable. Hint: Shaun also can move the safes! Other thoughts. There is a fair amount of repetition across levels and it is often hard to decipher the drawings! They are 2-d renderings of 3 dimensional space and, thus, lack depth. You end up having to smash the poor sheep into buildings, poles, etc. to figure out which are obstacles, which are in the distance and which close. HINT: Hit the Retry button for any level and you'll get new hints, although they do quickly run out. Wish there were an option to bypass a level--I must have done Level 13 sometime as Level 14 is available. The fun is in figuring out the solution to the puzzles, and making that happen-- not having to manage incredibly, excessively tricky manipulation of the sheep, which go awry. The developers should rework things or give us a "simple" option to make controlling easier. Also, please include an option to turn off the shimmering of the sheep--that ends up making one feel rushed rather than contemplative. To be fair, to be a kind reviewer, I'm raising this to 4 stars! I can only imagine just how much goes into developing an app and armchair potshots must be discouraging!
Review by AstroPaul on Home Sheep Home.