On August 7th, 1888, a female body was found dead in the Whitechapel district of London. Over the next few months, many more bodies of women have turned up, having been subjected to gruesome and torturous deaths. The community had grown nervous and expressed concern.
The Scotland Yard detective division has hired you as a detective to catch the murderer. Can you find and capture the criminal before anyone else loses their life?
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Played: 31 Dec 2018Team size: 2Outcome: Successful escape!
solid playplaindarknessquite difficult😨creepy
Difficulty by darkness is one of my pet peeves. Just removing the lightbulb and giving players pathetic little torches does not actually make a puzzle any more interesting.
Jack the Ripper themes are common, and there are usually samey, but still an okay theme if you fancy a spontaneous escape game. So, we knew what to expect (cue to plastic unrecognisable body parts, fake bloods and grimy Victorian feel) and were fine with it. We just didn't like the obscurity being used as an obstacle to slow the game play down.
Historical themed game with some hard puzzles at the beginning, recommend more than 2 if you can but we were on the last puzzle when the timer expired, theming is good and the puzzles have a good flow even if its not obvious what you have to do.
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The venue itself is huge, with six games open already. It’s a really neat use of space in the city centre that’s sat empty for a long time now – it’s old office space but just opposite the newly revamped Cathedral Lanes restaurant quarter. It doesn’t still feel like office space though, it’s been well decorated, or least disguised. The whole place beyond the reception area has been done out in black, which gives it a certain laserquest-chic. The reception area itself is large – indeed large enough on this night to be hosting an actual party. We were playing the Jack The Ripper themed room, with the set-up being quite simply to solve the Ripper murders. Should be simple enough.
The iPad system with time penalties for each clue were a downside for me in this game, but one I am able to look past.
A good looking room with a good theme that ran well from one section to the next. Some enjoyable puzzles that really got us thinking, there was one reset issue where a cupboard wasn't closed, meaning that we wasted a bit of time trying to work out what completing a certain had done, despite that, it was a good room and one I enjoyed.
