Very Very Valet | Nintendo Switch Review
Hit the accelerator! No road? No problem! Toyful throws you and your friends into a valeting crash course (pun intended) in Very Very Valet. The idea of a video game centered on being a valet sounded outlandish and bizarre when I first caught wind of it. So, I grabbed my family and drove in head first. I had no idea that I was about to turn the key on a fun filled weekend bursting with tear-inducing laughter and competitive sibling mayhem.
Park It
The world is in the midst of a parking valet crisis. There are hundreds of vehicles waiting to be parked at hot spots across the globe, and you are the newest agent of the Valet Brigade. Well, you along with your friends; up to three. Now get out there and park those cars!!
For a party game like this, the story was what I expected it to be: wacky, kooky, and completely irrelevant. The point of Very Very Valet is not to take you on a magical ride through a story, it’s to get your friends and you jumping, laughing, and hollering the whole night once the console is powered on.
Un-Parallel
As you’d expect from the title, the premise of Very Very Valet is parking cars. Sounds pretty lackluster, right? Not so much. Toyful has you flying around corners, driving off of buildings, launching cars from a catapult, and doing whatever you have to do to get those cars parked and retrieved before each one’s timer runs out. If you fail, the car is simply beamed into outer space. In the world of Very Very Valet, nothing makes sense, and it’s all the better for it. From the isometric view, you’ll move as fast as you can, cooperating (or competing… heh heh) with your couchmates, to fetch a car from a patron.
You’ll then have to maneuver the surroundings, quite often an over-the-top obstacle course, to park the car in the designated area. Each patron will give you a subtle hint to help with your staging skills, such as “I’m a slow eater.” or “This won’t take long.” hence giving you some semblance of order as to when each car will need to be retrieved. Get the job done as fast as you can, by any means necessary, and if you and your comrades are efficient enough, you’ll earn enough stars to unlock the next level.
Final Verdict
Very Very Valet is a game that is as extraordinary as the concept itself. All of the wacky gameplay achieves its goal and goes beyond. It’s cooperative format is edged just enough with a competitive flare to make it a blast for everyone, whether competition is your thing or not. Next time you’re sitting in your living room with your friends, trying to break that eerie, awkward silence that comes after everyone’s run out of things to talk about, pick up Very Very Valet and drive the night crazy.
To hear me talk more about Very Very Valet, be sure to listen to Episode 348 of The Gaming Outsider Podcast around the 1:39:45 time stamp.
This review is written on a Nintendo Switch copy of Very Very Valet provided by Renaissance PR for coverage purposes. It is exclusive to that platform.
Very Very Valet
$24.99
Pros
- Extremely Fun, Wacky Gameplay
- Family Friendly
Cons
- None
