rev:text
| - We came here for a friends birthday as a bunch of us wanted to try out one of these games and there was a pretty good Groupon deal, so why not?
It is an odd location, in the midst of an industrial area and almost at the back of the address given.
When I called to book a room, there was only one room available and it happened to be one of their hardest rooms: Plan x. Now, when you visit their website it looks like these rooms are going to be beyond awesome and totally detailed, not the case at all. When we entered the facility it was just white on white on white, white walls, no decorations and a real let down. Even when the staff member took us into the room there was just nothing really, two cabinets and some clues. I was a little put off by this and the game had barely begun.
The clues and the room? Bring those thinking caps, this was a douzy and we barely figured anything out without the help of staff. I could tell that the mojo of the event was slipping, we were just not getting into the game and when the staff revealed certain clues to us we were just blank gazes, seriously? They had a really cool laser maze that you had to climb through and that was awesome but it was our first game and I expected a sort-of Sherlock Holmes detective experience but sadly that was not what we were given.
Even though the experience was pretty meh, I am not eliminating escape games from my future, they are a great idea and my group has some good laughs now that the frustration of failing has worn off, but hey you win some and you lose some. I don't think I will be returning to this particular location, however I would love to try again, there are more of these games popping up all of the time! I would love something a little more detailed and some more effort into the decorations of the rooms, it would be cool if the rooms looked a little like what the website depicts.
Just a helpful hint: If you have not done one before ask for an easier room then what we had, it was just overwhelming for first timers, who had no idea what lurked behind that bland, white door.
|