Paradox Project 3: Το Ωδείον [The Music Academy]Paradox ProjectEscape roomIRLA good room, solid, really. But to be honest not as overwhelming and impressive as we hoped it to be. The 3 hours go by, quickly. But there are just way too many puzzles just consisting of opening locks the traditional way, number code, 4 letter words and finding keys to insert. Nowadays, there are rooms which work better mechanically and technically and feel more modern and thus more seemingless. That being said, the GM and her assistant were delightful and gave it their all, and the story is nice and catchy and the set design and how they utilize all their space is really cool. As mentioned in other comments, some of the puzzles could need better explanation or a lead there to, as being intervened by the GM all the time because you‘re on the wrong track, hinders the experience and most importantly the flow. The flow could be better with the puzzles.
The TavernEscapade NZEscape roomIRLGood room, great decoration, nice theme. And as others have said a good Lord of the rings theme to it as well. I‘d say it is missing a bit of that cohesion and there are a lot of locks and number locks and when you find a new key or number, there‘s no telling which one to put it into and you try all of them out. So a bit more of a line or narrative to stick to and it would be better:)
The Flaming PearlEclipse EscapeEscape roomIRLReally good room, good structure, clear what to do and what puzzle to work on. Well designed and really like that all the puzzles are mechanical and technical and no locks or numeral code cracking required. Well done :) Sizewise: when you are only 2-3 people, upside is you really get to do every single puzzle and can soak it all in. Downside, you have to be advanced and quick and get the puzzles done quick, otherwise you might not make it in time. There‘s a lot of puzzles to this room. When you are a lot of people, say 5 or maybe even more: Upside is, you get the room done in time easily as you can split up in little teams and work on multiple puzzles simultaneously. That‘s good. Downside, with too many people, from a single persons pov, you will miss out on half the puzzles or more and even though you‘ll make it in time, you will have no clue what the other little teams have actually done and what cool puzzles you missed out on. So both advantages and disadvantages. 🤷🏻♂️
The CabinThe Cipher Room NewtownEscape roomIRLBeautiful room, all their rooms are soo good. Good theme, good puzzles, right difficulty, some of the puzzles really unique and cool. All in all a beautifully done room with a nice vibe ans just the right length :) can‘t get enough of their rooms 🫢
End of the RoadNext Level EscapeEscape roomIRLGreat Room! Nikki was fun to work with! Nice story, nice setting, a lot of twists and turns involved, puzzles are quite easy, but I like how with every one of their rooms the GM is heavily involved and you constantly check back on them. Opening monologue to explain everything is a bit too long, I feel like there could be a couple things left out as you don‘t really need them to solve the room. Otherwise a great concept and design and we liked it like all their rooms.
Area 1: Nuclear EnrichmentProject Immersive Escape RoomsEscape roomIRLBrilliant room, really immersive and takes you in from right from when you arrive. It‘s well done and executed and I love how it is in that big abandoned building and hall. Really fits the mood and the feeling is just right. Puzzles are more on the easier side and quickly done, also not too many. Would have liked to have a couple more. All in all a very good experience though :)
Steampunk: Alchemist RevengeQuest RoomEscape roomIRLMarvellous room, brilliant design and puzzles. All soo nice within the steampunk theme and what you expect of such a room. All mechanical and clean, no locks and numbers to memorize. Really loved it !
The FreakshowPadlock'd Escape roomIRLVery cool and creepy room ;) quite scary, but also some of the jumpscares predictable and thus less scary if you want to ;) but overall a very nice room, I liked the decoration and puzzles :) just a bit short I would say, we did breeze through it and didn‘t even use half the time even though we didn‘t even try to be fast but went around rather cautious and slow🙈
The NightmarePadlock'd Escape roomIRLReally cool room, nice and spooky and some nice jumpscares, but overall not tooo scary. There‘s some nice puzzles and they all make sense. Decoration is creepy and fits the theme, the live actors are fun to tease and are doing a fantastic job :)
Dark DungeonLost LocksEscape roomIRLNice room! Really fun doing it in pitch black darkness, can‘t see a thing. Puzzles are somewhat easy and quick to do once you find the clues or parts needed. Could probably be a couple more puzzles, as we got out in under half the time and there would be so much more time to it. But overall, a really nice room and unique experience:)
The Crystal MinePadlock'd Escape roomIRLGreat new room, nice decoration. Struggled a bit to start with and make sense out of all the given items and clues, but once we got going and knew where to start it was pretty easy and pretty straightforward. Honestly, it could probably have a few more puzzles in there and a little bit more story, as it is more based on decoration and theme than anything else. But anyway, it is a nice room and a solid addition to Padlockd‘s rooms :)
베니스 상인의 저주받은 저택 [Haunted House of Venetian Merchant]Seoul Escape Room Hongdae 2Escape roomIRLCool room, nice theme, nice decoration. A little outdated and oldschool and some things not working soooo perfectly; you can tell that South Korea or atleast Seoul doesn‘t have that much of a Escape Room community, there‘s not too much competition and hence improvement going on here. But a good and solid room nonetheless. I think it‘s the better one of their rooms.
아마존의 잃어버린 도시 [The Lost City of Amazon]Seoul Escape Room Hongdae 2Escape roomIRLAlot to do in this room. The decoration and jungle features are really nice and worth it. But there is way too much deciphering needed to make this room work and you constantly have to go back and grab things from earlier and some of the puzzles could really need a proper hint as we just figured out the solution by pure chance or elimination of even stupider solutions. Nevertheless a nice room with alot to do! If the puzzles would make more sense and the clues would be better given, this would really be a topnotch room.
Creature Magiche [Magical Creatures]Magic Escape 2 - San GiovanniEscape roomIRLFun room. Really some nice ideas. One of the only rooms with an actor that isn‘t scary, so that was really cool ;) For some of the puzzles the instructions were a bit unclear or we weren‘t sure what to do. But overall it is good fun and we had a good laugh and the puzzles fit the theme. Beautiful decoration as well and nice design :)
漆黒の悟り [Shadow Zen]Studio Escape Daikoku-choEscape roomIRLAwesome room, nicely decorated, storyline and puzzles make alot of sense. Room is really immersive from the moment you enter the building, you don‘t realize how you‘re already in the puzzle. Really the best room if you wanna play a japanese-decorated room, as it really is beautifully done here. Gamemaster gave a few too many tips/hints and too early, to our liking, but language barrier of course makes it hard to convey. Overall, though, well done room and very suitable for English speaking Escapees. Really liked it!
Escape from the Red RoomREAL ESCAPE GAME CROSSING AsakusaEscape roomIRLA really unique room, with a unique mechanism and unexpected puzzles. Game concept is nice and new and I can see why it got the Terpeca Nominations. A few things we didn‘t like and are worth mentioning, tho: -Game Master is with you in the room, a bit awkward and can‘t really speak English anyway -Hint system on an iPad is not really helpful, the hints make little sense and only really clear up, once you know the solution -we booked the room for 2 Players, and were put together with 2 other foreigner girls , without being told so. They didn‘t really speak English either, but a third language, and we didn‘t know them, which makes communication and working together really hard -30mins is really tight for this room. Just figuring out the unique way of solving the puzzles alone, takes quite a while. There are not really many puzzles to solve, but the 30mins seem unnecessarily tight. You can extend by another 10mins for 800yen (~8 AUD), though, which, given the cheap price of the Escape Room, is at least something to work with. All in all a nice room with some novel, nice way od presenting and solving puzzles, but execution, at least from my foreigner point of view, is not ideally done and could be better.
Blackwood ManorEclipse EscapeEscape roomIRLA very cool room, great set design, nice puzzles. Not too scary or spooky, but a nice theme and all the puzzles made sense within the theme. Escape with plenty of time left with 3 people, so not really too hard if experienced. But still, very enjoyable.
The Serial Killer - CLOSEDPadlock'd Escape roomIRLA nice room, with a scary theme and some nice puzzles. 1 or 2 things harder to come by and find, which they are aware of. So I‘m guessing they have to give these hints and clues every single time. Still though, a nice room with some great, tricky puzzles. The music and sounds in this room are awfully loud, to be honest🙈🙈
The Other SideFox In A Box Gold CoastEscape roomIRLGood room, nice theme, nice decoration, puzzles well done within theme. We found it lacked feedback for the puzzles, though. Didn‘t really know whether we‘d be on the right path for puzzles when trying out things or not, since there was a lack of feedback like sounds or lights flashing green or red or similar things. That made us try a bunch of things and just wasting time. Also, a bit much reading involved. But overall a nice room with tricky puzzles.
Knights Templar - CLOSEDEclipse EscapeEscape roomIRLA pretty good room, nice theme and flow from room to room. Puzzles made sense and were the right amount of difficulty. I don‘t think switching it from Medium to Advanced makes a big difference in difficulty, though. Could really use some background music. For example in the Internet Cafe there could be some radio or public speaker music playing, then later into a different type of music. Overall a good room with nice puzzles, though
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