The first act is like an action movie! Crazy sets here. The tech wasn’t always cooperative, but the tech that did work was freaking incredible. I can look past some fiddly issues due to the fantastic ambition.
Very creative puzzles here, including several that border more on roleplaying than puzzling. A couple didn’t seem to completely work or were very finicky. However, that’s the price of high-tech and ambition.
From the entrance to every subsequent room, there were elaborate decorations (including two full-size cars, a sewer system, and stacks of barrels). The star of the show is your robot companion LUMO. As you’ll learn, he’s adorable, awesome, and very helpful.
Due to playing with 2 players, we were given some excessive hints at times, but I’m sure we needed them, as it’s a big room. She was funny, helpful, and very accommodating with our non-French-speaking selves. :)
Particularly interesting or different
Yes
Gigantic scale. Very action-oriented opening act.
Very Terminator-esque, but done really well with some nice story beats that you actually care about. Even signing the waiver for this one is thematic!!!
There were a couple puzzles that didn’t make sense without quite a bit of explanation, and there was one that I think I never understood how it worked. Most were challenging but fair.
Guns, lights, robots, breakers, and water values are some of the non-traditional, high-tech interactions.
Big space and a lot to do!!!
There were the remnants of a dead person, but nothing graphic.
Minimum age
Tough puzzles and one scene that might be too intense for youngins!
At one point, the computer spoke French instead of English, though that wasn’t a bit deal. Also, due to a lack of warning, we hit the emergency exit button and ran through an abandoned escape room or haunted house instead of the proper thematic exit. LUMO the robot kept telling us to come back. It was actually really funny, and we loved it.
Live actors
Yes and no. At the start and end, you’ll have an actor thematically guiding you in and out. Inside, there is LUMO, who is an autonomous robot guided by a person.
Physically active
Somewhat
There is some crawling required, as well as ducking/hiding.
Accessibility
A couple bits with color were very difficult for me, and one bit wouldn’t work if you didn’t align it just right.