As simple as today’s game – Bunny Parking – is, I didn’t really know what to say about it. And as someone who always seems to have something to say, and that’s up to you if it’s of any value or not, this feels a little odd. But I’m going to give it the old college try and we’ll see what happens.

So I picked up Bunny Parking on a whim because honestly, it looked terrible, but in a funny way, and we all know that these can be fun to review. Before I get into detail, this game isn’t as horrible as I thought it would be. That said, it was released about a year ago and it feels like it was supposed to be a 1st generation Xbox Live Arcade title, in the same virtual bargain bins as games like Try Not To Fart, and that Toyota Yaris game. For the record Try Not To Fart was a masterpiece and I would totally buy it again if it were back on the Xbox Store. But that shouldn’t surprise anybody by now.

Bunny Parking is more of a puzzle game than anything else. You pick a bunny and you can choose a boy or girl, and then their color, and then you start the game. You have your choice of either single player or you can take your parking skills online with other players. I thought it was weird that there was no splitscreen offered because the game can clearly support it and it looks like it was made for it also.

You’re dropped off in the map and you have a choice of either going to the parking lot and starting the parking game, or you can explore the rest of the map and see what there is. You can swim in a lake and, I guess I’ll call it a river or creek or something, and you can also get attacked by farmer bunnies by vandalizing their carrots. You can also kick chickens if you have any personal problems with them. There’s very little music and sound and the graphics are very simple. The animals are cute though there’s not much in the way of animating them. One of my favorite things I noticed while exploring is that the cars would drive onto the road out of something that looks like a portal, and they’d slowly drive toward a curve, barely make it, then make their way to a head on collision with another car and they’d usually both break down and the tires would fly off of them. But sometimes one would just plow through the other. A part of me wants to invite my friends over and place bets on them.

There’s also some weird things here that I really enjoyed, like several giant bunny statues, and what looks like some sort of weird bunny gathering with their leader having a bowl of salad in front of him. My daughter managed to get turned into a chicken at one point also. Very weird stuff that you can’t help but laugh at.

If there’s any meat to this game it’s in the actual parking lot where you’ll actually do the parking. Basically each level counts as a day. There’s a car with rabbit ears at the opening of the parking lot, and your job is to clear a path for it to drive through from one end to the other. Why would it drive right through a parking lot? Why not just drive around the parking lot because there’s clearly a road there? These are questions that I can’t answer.

There’s a car with rabbit ears at the opening of the parking lot, and your job is to clear a path for it to drive through from one end to the other. Why would it drive right through a parking lot? Why not just drive around the parking lot because there’s clearly a road there? These are questions that I can’t answer.

What I can tell you, is that blocking the car’s path are a bunch of vehicles that appear to have been parked by people who drive F150s, Corvettes, and anything made by GMC because they’re double parked, triple parked, stuck out in the center of the aisle, and there’s even broken down cars that look like they belong in that trailer park around the corner from the Dollar General you’re stuck shopping at from time to time and you wonder if your next trip there will be the last time anybody sees you. You’re shaking your head like I took that too far but you know what’s up. Don’t act like you don’t.

Anyway you move the cars by – wait for it – kicking them. That’s basically it. Like you get to one end of the car and you kick it, and it moves one space over. You rearrange the cars to clear a path, then you go behind the rabbit car and kick that through the parking lot to the other side, and the puzzle and day are done, and then you do it all over again. Eventually they add in limos to kick, and little golf cart looking things, and there’s this truck that looks like a cement mixer but it has a giant drill on the front. I don’t know what that thing does but the drill doesn’t actually stick out far enough to actually be functional. Speaking of functionality, I don’t know why the rabbit car doesn’t just drive on its own. It drives off when you get it to the exit, but it won’t drive before that?

the multiplayer portion basically lets you join or host a game and people can come in and out and can help solve the puzzles or just run around the map. To my surprise I actually did get someone to join my game. The connection was fine and lag free as well, because we all know how important connection speed is when parking cars. As a side note I’m just going to put this out there and say that the connection on this is better than almost every time I’ve played Street Fighter 5 online.

So I spent $2 or $3 on this game on sale and had a few laughs. The bunnies are cute and the premise, even if it makes no sense, was still original. I don’t know if the glitches in this game were intentional, but nothing was game-breaking and the sloppiness was pretty funny. I know it sounds like I’m going really easy on this, but make no mistake this isn’t a good game. But then Bio Freaks on the Nintendo 64 was awful and I laughed at that, too. Now that I think of it I’ll probably end up doing a review of that at some point.