by Kanyu Escape (website)
South Lodge, Moor End, Wetherby LS23 6ER
2-5 players
Languages: EN
60 minutes
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Eenjoyable game, very immersive with some very nice tech within the game. Again excellent hosting from Bob!
My favourite game at this venue, I do love a sense of adventure, the chance to let loose my inner Indiana Jones if you will! Exploration is key in this game and some of the hightech puzzles feature elements I'd never seen before. Again, this is mostly non-linear but the puzzles are excellent throughout.
Exceptional - best room we've ever done!
This was a fun game with an impressive set. Each puzzle took a bit of time to figure out making it feel rewarding when we solved things. There were some cool tech elements. At one point we had to manually help something out that should have been automatic, but the gm radioed us to let us know that. I think this room will be a hit with people who’ve played quite a few before and are happy to jump right into puzzles without too much direction. Great fun.
I believe we were the first members of the public to try Secret of the Leopard People when it first opened, and I somewhat regret that. It'd be nice to wipe my brain and try again once (hopefully) some of the minor issues we had are ironed out.
Firstly, it looks gorgeous. Clearly a LOT of money has gone into this room, and it's paid off. It's one of the best looking escape rooms we've done in a long time, with plenty of lovely puzzles to explore. The theme is exquisite. Often these kinds of rooms look very tacky, not so here, it mostly looks authentic.
The room doesn't have any written clues, and while this was fine at first, as the game wore on some of the visual clues weren't quite as successful. It wasn't always clear what we had to do, and some games had similar symbols so working out what related to which puzzle was confusing on a couple of occasions. I could sense the GM becoming a little frustrated with us, but I suspect as more people play the game they'll spot if it was just our brains at fault or if they can add things to make it all a bit clearer.
One bit of the room wasn't quite set right, and reset itself during the came which confused us, as I wasn't sure if we'd triggered something. I think it was just a door going back to where it should have been all along though. Similarly, we accidentally triggered something in the latter stage which completed something far too early. Again, it's a learning process and that will hopefully be worked on to make it impossible for future teams to do that.
I think after the game has settled in and the team can tweak any issues it'll be one of the best, it just needs a tiny bit of work. (That may have happened already, it's been open a couple of months now)
We love the games at Kanyu Escape so were really excited about trying out a new room here. This is such an impressive set up and has no conventional locks; the tech is really quite something and, as always with Kanyu, the immersive, story-driven element is absolutely nailed. There are puzzles in here that we've not really seen before, which provides a layer of challenge that pushed us into the fifty-something minute range. A lot of effort has gone into making this immersive and that alone is worth an extra half-star; while we still rate Follow in my Footsteps as our favourite Kanyu game, we really enjoyed this game.