So… I thought this might be an interesting little concept game, you're simply searching for your car in various parking lots…
Obviously A Dream About Parking Lots could have been interesting, but it's a tediously simple matter of wandering around looking for your car, while repeatedly pressing the unlock button on your key fob. You may also take part in a soporific conversation with your therapist–but thankfully you don't have to.
The daft thing is that you don't actually know what your car looks like, and it changes from level to level to level, so all you do is search while repeatedly pressing 'X' –which in itself is a pretty dumb piece of button mapping when you think about it because you can't ‘look’ with the right stick and use your key fob at the same time, unless you have 2 right thumbs or contort your hand.
I honestly think the game had potential, but the deliberately blurred (“dream-like” I guess) Amiga/early N64-quality graphics and the lack of imagination or actual content mean the game is like a car that has 4 flat tyres.
The game also runs out of fuel very quickly–if you take more than 40 minutes to complete the game then you were probably writing a stinging review as you completed it–although I suppose Achievement/Trophy hunters will love it as it only costs £4.19.
Sadly underwhelming and underdeveloped, I Dream About Parking Lots is a lot more like a nightmare than a dream. Maybe the developers ate a lot of cheese before bedtime.
Thanks to: Take It Studio, Interactive Dreams and PressEngine