Hi everyone
This review is
incredibly late and overdue – apologies to Akos and Martina that it’s taken me
so long to write up this review.
My usual fellow
escape room buddies and I (4 adults in total) headed back to Paniq Room in
January 2020 to check out their new rooms House of Jumanji and Godfather. You can read my review of House of Jumanji
here (and my previous reviews of their Supercell 117, Abandoned Military Bunker
and S3NS3S here, here and here).
Godfather was our 140th room
(and our 92nd room in Sydney) to date.
My team has always
loved Paniq Room’s rooms. It had been almost 4 years since my team had
been to Paniq Room, which was back when we played S3NS3S in April 2016.
We were VERY keen to come back and check out their latest rooms.
Godfather has the
following room summary on their website:
There is a rat in the
family who has betrayed Godfather, the head of Corleone family. He has fallen
in love with the daughter of a rival mafia-boss, Tattaglia. He has stolen an
important tape from their previous payoff action and gave it to the rival mafia
family to earn their trust. He must return it immediately before Godfather
finds out that it was copied. He has called upon your help to infiltrate and
smuggle the tape back to the safe in the godfathers house.
Can you find the
hidden key in the garden to enter the notorious office?
The Godfather's
family is at a christening today along with the Rat so you only have one hour
to complete this difficult task otherwise the Rat is revealed and you all sleep
with the fishes! Good luck and god speed.
As always, I will
start with what I liked about Paniq Room’s Godfather room:
- Godfather was nicely themed. Unlike House of Jumanji which contains a lot of automation and is quite linear by design, Godfather is a little less linear and lower in tech (although there certainly are hidden tech elements throughout the room and linear elements with points of convergence).
- There was a nice mix of puzzles (of varying difficulty). If I was to describe the puzzles in this room, I would describe them as the kinds of puzzles that require a very keen eye (which is something my team is particularly poor at), but we got there in the end. There was a nice mix of different puzzles.
- I would describe the difficulty of the room as being more towards the medium to difficult end of the spectrum. I’m not sure how long it took us to escape from the room, but I don’t think we had much time left on the clock. This was in part because it took us some time to solve a couple of the early puzzles.
- The communications system used is the voice of Got, which is the best system I have seen used to date. As always, Paniq Room always has a dedicated game master who is watching your every move, ready to provide hints to ensure you have a fun experience.
As for the parts of
Godfather that we think could be improved, there were 2 aspects that we raised
with Akos. The first
was an early puzzle that contains markings/hieroglyphs. We didn’t think the solution was as clear as it could be – we
lucked onto the solution and when we were shown the solution after we escaped,
it didn’t quite feel like a perfect solution.
There was also one other puzzle element that we all saw but which we all
thought was something we shouldn’t touch (and we therefore didn’t). I think this could probably be addressed by
signposting or maybe the initial briefing from the game master.
Nevertheless we all
enjoyed Godfather. Akos tells me that
the theming is based on a particular famous scene from the Godfather movie (but
having not seen the movie I can’t really comment further). The room was nicely designed, with a
frightening amount of puzzles to do in the second half (which really got the
adrenaline pumping).
Where:
40 Gloucester Street, The Rocks (entry Cambridge Street)
Duration:
60 minutes
Themes:
4 themes
Cost:
$168 for 4 adults (we played at the kind invitation of the owners)
Overall
Summary: Lots
of interesting puzzles requiring a keen eye!
More
details:
http://paniqroom.com.au/
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