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Tokyo Lab

Tokyo Lab

Escape Rush

  • Escape room
  • IRL
This is the only room in Brussels to make it into the 2022 TERPECAs top 100 (it fell out in 2023) and it's pretty good, although I expected something better for its ranking. Now, to be clear: this room is grandiose. The spaces are huge and beautifully decorated, especially the Japanese street that you can see in the photo. They are huge to the point where I question whether the space could not have been taken better advantage of: at the start you get ushered down along corridor into a room with a projector that is like a small seatless cinema just to watch an intro video after the GM has already briefed you on the mission. But the street room has the ceiling so high it actually gives you the feeling you're outdoors. And the lab entrance ceiling is even taller and makes the lab AI feel like it towers over you. So if you like big grandiose rooms, this is the game for you. On a more ciritcal note, it feels like it's trying to stitch too many different themes together. The Japanese setting is quickly forgotten once you reach inside the laboratory, at which point you're introduced to an AI guarding the lab which is a rip-off of GLaDOS from Portal - they even use exact voicelines from the game. Extravagantly executed but lacks originality. The puzzles in the street are few and some of them are not working very well. We've seen a residential street setting much better executed in terms of puzzles at The Game's Tremblement de Terre in Paris, and that is nowhere near the TERPECA lists. The puzzle at the lab entrance where you quid pro quo with the prisoners is probably the best aspect of the room because it's telling a story through a puzzle. The bit where GLaDOS pits the players head-to-head in some reaction speed games was not so heartfelt for me because it just felt like they were trying to pad the game time (and sneak in another joke from Portal) in a way that doesn't necessarily make sense for the story. The final section in the lab proper is my second favorite as it has some pretty solid logical puzzles. In conclusion, this is a good room but could have been better especially considering the steep price!
Le Vol du Manneken Pis [The Robbery of the Manneken Pis]

Le Vol du Manneken Pis [The Robbery of the Manneken Pis]

Escape Hunt - Brussels

  • Escape room
  • IRL
We found the Manneken Pis but it wasn't the most pleasant experience. In fact, the room's attitude towards us would best be described by the statue itself. The hosts warned us that this room is quite old and "easy" and even offered to switch us to another room, but we insisted on playing something Brussels-themed. I guess we really asked for it then. The room is very short but it wasn't easy for us. When you play many modern escape rooms, you stop paying attention to combination locks not thinking they would have clues on *them*. That is how we ended up spending around 30 minutes on a single puzzle, partly because we were stubborn but also partly because the GM took a *looong* break from listening to our calls for help, which is not great GMing. The final puzzle is one of those "track the guy's steps on a map of Brussels" that we've also seen in a Paris room since, which I now believe to be a staple of "touristy" rooms. It's quite difficult to figure out what it wants from you and not in a good way. You can get to it without having found all the necessary objects, which is quite egregious flow-wise.
Alice Au Pays Des Merveilles [Alice in Wonderland]

Alice Au Pays Des Merveilles [Alice in Wonderland]

Let Me Out Brussels

  • Escape room
  • IRL

𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 �𓅝𓃄 �𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿 𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 𓂨𓅝𓃄 𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿

La Résidence de Monsieur Fogg [Mr. Fogg’s Residence]

La Résidence de Monsieur Fogg [Mr. Fogg’s Residence]

Enygma

  • Escape room
  • IRL
This is a good, very classic lock-and-key escape room, but not void of surprises. Theme-wise, there's nothing about it that really shouts "Around the World in 80 Days" apart from some small references, but rather generic old-timey gentleman's home. Minor spoiler alert: My favorite part was having to find a code by classifying 9 different scents. The most "unusual" three are the ones needed so you may have to work it out by exclusion. Sure, it requires some outside knowledge but when you've played so many rooms, outside knowledge puzzles feel kind of like a breath of fresh air (or fresh aniseed in this case. I'm never going to forget that smell after this one 😵‍💫) Also, make sure you know the name of Fogg's wife. It might come in handy.
L'Évasion des Dalton [The Daltons' Escape]

L'Évasion des Dalton [The Daltons' Escape]

Escape Prod

  • Escape room
  • IRL

𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 �𓅝𓃄 �𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿 𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 𓂨𓅝𓃄 𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿

Alarmstufe Rot [Red Alert]

Alarmstufe Rot [Red Alert]

The Escape Zürich

  • Escape room
  • IRL
Red Alert! 🚨 We have another bad room in Zurich! Quite a small room that flows poorly due to state changes that are not communicated well (for exmaple, a shortcircuit sound that is supposed to indicate success - what? and a periscope that changes what it shows with no indication) and a really anticlimactic ending that leaves you like "where's the rest of the room?". Quite disappointed with this one actually. The second-generation rooms from this business (Submarine and Bank Robbery) are somewhat better than the first-generation (except for Pirates) so I was hoping the third generation would similarly step up the game, but this room is so small and uncreative that I don't think we will try their other 2 third-generation rooms (Sherlock and Bankjob).
La Cerveseria [The Brewery]

La Cerveseria [The Brewery]

Enigmik

  • Escape room
  • IRL

𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 �𓅝𓃄 �𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿 𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 𓂨𓅝𓃄 𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿

La Toma De Control [The Takeover]

La Toma De Control [The Takeover]

Prison Experience Barcelona

  • Escape room
  • IRL

𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 �𓅝𓃄 �𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿 𓆜𓋘𓄁 𓊛𓇙𓋸𓌤𓌥 𓌦 𓅐𓆢 𓆣 𓀉𓆤 𓆥 𓅑𓆘 𓆙 𓅒𓄙 𓄚 𓄛 𓅓𓃺 𓃻 𓅔 𓅕 𓃕 𓃖 𓃗 𓎷 𓄁𓎸𓅖 𓅽 𓅾 𓅿𓅗 𓅘 𓇆 𓇇𓅙 𓅚 𓁵 𓁶𓂵 𓂶𓃝𓋲 𓋳𓀬 𓅛𓁃 𓂺𓅜 𓂨𓅝𓃄 𓄁𓅞𓂙 𓅟𓂿

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