The vampire manor is a home for the foulest creatures of all. Can you get in to the manor, defeat the Dracula in there and escape the place in time all alive?

Mission X Escape

Vampire Manor

Escape room

Yikes.

I've done rooms at this location before and felt frustrated at the last puzzle being some bizarre "you should have known to remember all the combos/locations you used before" and as a mechanic it just is not fun. As you are nearing the end things should rise to a crescendo as you finally escape, ideally.

Luckily, this room doesn't have the problem the rest of Mission X does. Unfortunately, it has every other problem under the sun.

FIrstly, the room was disgustingly dirty, dusty, and dank. We were welcomed by the smell of weed as we got into the room. We got a half-assed story about following in the footsteps of Van Helsing and stealing a gem that gave Dracula immortality and left in the dark with two flashlights. 

The first room was filled with "Do Not Touch" stickers, half of the objects that were meant to be glued down were sideways, which made it difficult to tell what was and wasn't interactable. Important information was just on sheets of paper stuck to the bottom of drawers or on-top of cabinets that were the primary form of furniture in each of the 3 rooms. All of these things just ruin the immersion entirely. 

The instructions reveal the puzzle entirely, there is not thinking involved particularly or conclusions to make. They are straightforward "Do this". The only puzzle we struggled with involved a poorly written instruction that made no sense. When we asked for a hint, the GM Jonathan came in and acted irritated we didn't get it, explaining it as you might expect a teacher in charge of toddlers to act. (Afterwards we read through google reviews and found similar sentiments about the GM, as well as this puzzle in particular being terribly crafted).

At one point on getting to a new room, there is a chess board with magnetic pieces (an escape room staple), upon exploration in a drawer in a dresser there is a list of instructions that tell you EXACTLY which moves to make to unlock the chest beneath it... which just led to another straightforward "do this in this order" puzzle.

The penultimate puzzle was also missing one of the objects we needed thematically to finish the game. We made an assumption of where it was supposed to be and solved it anyway without.

After we opened we escaped, opening the door to the hallway, our GM was nowhere to find for the next 2 minutes. We had no idea if we had successfully completed it or not during this time as our timer kept running.

As an aside, it was borderline comical that we were given a "this is the type of locks you may encounter in our rooms" spiel before the room started that included a typical number combo and word combo lock. Then we had none of those specific types, including a bottle lock (?) that wouldn't open if your hand was in the wrong place.

Meh.  Confusing puzzles.  A nice set though.  Still surprised it is offered 7.5 years later.

We completed the room with a total of 6 people. Two in group had been in the room before but failed. The room is very atmospheric and a lot of the puzzles are unique and interesting. The directions we received in the room were unfortunately poorly worded. For example, one direction implied that we needed to perform an action to a certain object but we did not have that object and apparently didn’t need it, but we nevertheless wasted time looking for it. There was also a typo on a note that appeared significant but turned out just to be a typo.

Probably my least favorite escape room. The puzzles weren't fun or engaging and the ambiance was lame. Dirty, beat up, dark. Definitely don't recommend.

I can't recommend this one at all. Dark interior, flashlights required but not provided to all players, so there's always someone standing around uselessly. Faded color puzzles - in the dark. Riddles that require mind-reading, the kind of thing that makes sense to the designer but not to the player. A few nice theme elements, but not enough to redeem the poor gameplay.

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