Rabbids Go Home is a stupid game. That’s really the only fair way to describe Ubisoft’s latest vessel for its bizarre new mascots, a frankly insane collect-’em-up where the Rabbids wreak all kinds of ridiculous havoc while making, as one onlooker so perfectly observed, ‘a big, noisy mess’. The opening sequence involves the odd little chaps formulating a hair-brained scheme to reach the moon by piling up stolen junk so that they might go to bed there. And the oddity continues with the likes of bouncing on ill patients, flushing aeroplanes down toilets and screaming the clothes off members of the public. Rabbids Go Home sidesteps the sensible so often that it ends up walking like some kind of garishly painted, mentally unstable crab that can’t stop screaming.

The mission is simple: push your shopping trolley around a series of areas to steal enough stuff to make a stack of assorted tat that stretches to the moon. New concepts are introduced frequently enough to keep things interesting for the game’s somewhat brief lifespan, adding speed boosts, ranged weapons and a number of comical situational abilities that push the gameplay in humorous new directions. Given how utterly nonsensical the whole fetch quest is, Rabbids Go Home is given frequent opportunity to be hilarious, and between ingeniously sadistic use of the Wiimote, surreal cut-scenes, and sequences of utter insanity, the Rabbids are so brazenly stupid that you can’t help but chuckle.

While the hub world merely hints at the Katamari-style open-world chaos that could have been, the rest of the game is confined to item-riddled corridors that occasionally open up a little so they can hold more junk. Combat – if you can even call screaming at baddies to get them naked ‘combat’ – is never as taxing as the platforming elements and if you want to find all of the goodies in each level (which you must do to unlock the final stage), you’ll need some crazy skills, a lot of luck and plenty of spare time.

If you were to ask Timmy Mallett to think about Supermarket Sweep and Ren & Stimpy at the same time then peek into his brain, you’d probably see something that looks a bit like Rabbids Go Home. It’s a wholly entertaining romp filled with non-stop nonsense and inspired moments that set it apart from almost every other Wii game. But while it might be among the most ridiculous titles we’ve seen in years, this latest Rabbids release is pretty much the polar opposite of the rest of Ubisoft’s output and is all the more enjoyable for it.