xrivera
97 escape rooms
If there was a ‘meh’ rating, I’d award it here. The game was ok but had various (body) parts recycled from when this was Motel so it didn’t feel overly exciting or new. We spent some of the time confused about what to do when- our brains clearly don’t think in the same way as the brain that envisioned this room and we had to ask for clues a few times. A couple of things didn’t work & it ruined the immersion a little being told over the intercom that we’d just killed someone & they’d left us a note with a code on it- why not pass us the code on a note?! This is another room that’s murky- ok if you have the eyes of an owl, but not so good if you have any sight issues. We enjoyed this more than Cartel (mainly because we could figure out some of what we were supposed to be doing) but this still didn’t reach the point where I’d say it was enjoyable for me. This was a disappointing visit to Trapp’d Corby as we’ve had some really good experiences there in the past & this just didn’t live up to our high expectations of them.
Gameplay
Atmosphere
Spooky rather than scary
Customer service
Particularly interesting or different
No
Story
Difficulty
Medium
Ideal number of players
4
Scary
Spooky
Minimum age
12
Was anything broken?
Yes
Stopcocks on pipes wouldn’t turn, pipes on that puzzle weren’t commented & some of the stickers were missing. When we queried it we were told that it didn’t really matter, if you couldn’t continue the pattern just randomly start again as if they saw you’d done something with it they’d activate the next bit of the game! 🙁 We needed to put a date code into the computer a second time & it didn’t give that option. After several minutes of floundering unable to figure out what to do next the lady told us to input it again & had to come into the room to rest the computer so we could do that, saying that’d never been an issue before so she didn’t know what’s gone wrong. She did at least tell us the info it’d have given us- but again it somewhat ruined the immersion.
Live actors
Yes
They’ll appear at the door & bang on walls, but don’t try to grab you or get too close.
Physically active
Not at all
Easy to find location
Yes
Well signed & the street it’s in is now one way.
Parking
Easy
