by Experience (website)
Cottaer Str. 15, 01159 Dresden
2-5 players
Languages: EN, DE
90 minsJapan is famous for many culinary specialties. While you are looking for a special traditional restaurant, you take a shortcut through the woods. Deeper and deeper in the forest you realize that you have lost your way. The mobile phone signal gives up and dusk is breaking. But then an old weathered temple appears. Next to it is an abandoned Japanese hut. Hopefully a way to contact the outside world.
A mysterious figure steps out of the shadows and tells you a story about the forest...
show full descriptionA mysterious figure steps out of the shadows and tells you a story about the forest...
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Played: 26 Jul 2023 Team size: 5
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Is Huntingdon an escape room? In most respects it is, but the emphasis and the experience are different enough that you should try hard not to bring to it any preconceptions about how escape rooms normally work.
Where many rooms introduce the story with a perfunctory video, our host went to some lengths to set the scene using verbal descriptions, setting it up with considerable effort made to give a more or less plausible backstory for how we, specifically, as real people, could have ended up i...
However, this can be remedied by trusting that the goal is not to solve everything as quickly as possible, but to calmly focus on the gamemaster and enjoy the story.
Denn "Huntington" ist nicht einfach nur ein Vorantreiben der Story durch das Lösen der Rätsel. Viel mehr müssen hier auch in der Gruppe Entscheidungen getroffen werden, die unmittelbar Auswirkungen haben, wie sich die Geschichte für uns weiterentwickelt. Das ist was Besonderes, darauf muss man sich auch einlassen und das macht auch einfach einen Heidenspaß.
Dabei steht vorrangig die Frage im Raum, wem man in dieser Geschichte eigentlich trauen kann. Daraus entwickelt sich innerhalb der Gruppe eine sehr angeregte Diskussion und ein Austausch der Argumente. Schließlich sind wir dann aber auch immer zu einer Gruppenentscheidung gekommen und trieben die Story in dieser Form weiter