The Warrior's Way

This was our first challenging puzzle. While I think some of the puzzles were super clever, like the koi, teapots, and others.. I do think that the room is ready for some maintenance. There are components that jiggle that are clues, items that are delayed, props ripped off the shelves, and holes in items where you would think a clue fits, but doesn’t. We spent way too much time analyzing broken items or holes that it ruined the flow. But I would say we did enjoy our time and the staff was amazing as always.

There was a feature which we spent a good amount of time trying to make work. When we requested help from the GM repeatedly regarding this puzzle, they ignored us (or didn't hear us). After the game was over, they explained that that puzzle was broken. They then recommended that we play the room again some time to break the time record. Otherwise, the room was great and would have been my favorite experience at Red Door.

Decent room. Some puzzles were really well designed but others could use more work.

Give yourself at least 15 minutes to find parking and the location on the weekends. Finding parking was one issue, then finding how the hell to get upstairs was another challenge in its self haha. This room was fun and the puzzles were great. Would recommend at least 4 people as you are split into 2 teams in the first part of the game. Great communication is required. One puzzle was broken in the second room-where you have to place certain objects wasn’t triggering right. Also, there is a smelling portion of this game, the scents are NOT obvious and you are better off guessing then even attempting to figure out what goes where. That puzzle needs to he changed in my opinion.

Not my favorite room but not enough for me to press dislike. This is pitched as their most difficult room and that’s true, but not due to the difficulty of the puzzles but because there’s no clear direction for any of the puzzles in the first room. A lot of time was used up talking among each other wondering what each side does. Had to use a few hints to get the ball rolling. It’s also pitched as you will be needing all your senses and that’s true, you gotta rely on touch, hearing, and smell and that’s all super unique. The amount of unclear direction is what killed it for me. Escaped with like 13 seconds left.

This would be the only room that I would tell people to avoid at Red Door. I didn’t enjoy the gameplay and the puzzles were not as fun like in other rooms. The props were fine as was the GM but the puzzles left a lot to be desired. Skip it if you can. It’s not awful but it’s not great either.

Room was hard for sure, even for escape room veterans. I would say its because there weren’t clear enough signals that something we solved revealed the answer to a code and when some items weren’t clear that they were related. Loved the theme though!

The room starts like typical prison break rooms. Interesting puzzles and it helps if you have an appreciation for the Japanese aesthetic. It says 2+ people but you should really do it with 4+

Great look, but this room is really hard unless you have at least four experienced players. Some of it you need to do in teams. Puzzles are generally solid but there are a couple you’ll need luck to get.

Solid room all around