K.Bunniii ◊【ESCAPE ROOM】OMESCAPE ♡ Shut Down
Omescape : Shut Down
| Upper Unit 1187 Kennedy Rd Scarborough, ON M1P 2L2 | |
| 60 Minutes | |
| 4-8 players | |
| $28.20 per person – student/social media discount | |
| Unlimited hints | |
| Omescape | |
| 647 800 8038 |
Hello everyone, I'm back! Sorry for slacking off these few days and I know some of you were anticipating the review for the new Omescape room. So here we go - the newest and latest room from Omescape Scarborough!
Pre-Room Experience: Being a huge fan of Omescape, we decided to try out their new room the week it was launched. About an hour before our room I received a called from them saying one of the pieces was broken and it would take around 45mins to put it back together. We already pulled into their parking lot so I said let's talk about it when we get in. Basically, one of the tech pieces was broken and had to be replaced so one of the staff had to go over to the Markham location to get it. Our room was at 10:30pm and we were told they might not be able to let us in until ~11:00pm. Half of us had work the next day and because we lived a bit further North, this was bad news. I was quite disappointed how they didn't offer us anything to make us feel a bit better, even though they knew we were a huge fan of theirs. Luckily they were able to fix the room around 10:45 so it wasn't too long of a wait.
Room Quality: Yep, it was super impressive like always. With this room we got split into two groups. I can't speak much of the other room but for the room I was in, my first impression was quickly "wow". I realized the one thing I don't like about these room splitting is that we never get the full experience. For example, their Joker room when I asked my team about the other room they didn't really like it as it was just a room with all the information. The overall concept of this room was really impressive though. Definitely on the higher end of the rating and connects with the theme VERY well.
Pre-Room Experience: Being a huge fan of Omescape, we decided to try out their new room the week it was launched. About an hour before our room I received a called from them saying one of the pieces was broken and it would take around 45mins to put it back together. We already pulled into their parking lot so I said let's talk about it when we get in. Basically, one of the tech pieces was broken and had to be replaced so one of the staff had to go over to the Markham location to get it. Our room was at 10:30pm and we were told they might not be able to let us in until ~11:00pm. Half of us had work the next day and because we lived a bit further North, this was bad news. I was quite disappointed how they didn't offer us anything to make us feel a bit better, even though they knew we were a huge fan of theirs. Luckily they were able to fix the room around 10:45 so it wasn't too long of a wait.
Room Quality: Yep, it was super impressive like always. With this room we got split into two groups. I can't speak much of the other room but for the room I was in, my first impression was quickly "wow". I realized the one thing I don't like about these room splitting is that we never get the full experience. For example, their Joker room when I asked my team about the other room they didn't really like it as it was just a room with all the information. The overall concept of this room was really impressive though. Definitely on the higher end of the rating and connects with the theme VERY well.
Puzzle Design: Alright on to the puzzle design. This is where I thought some aspects had a downfall. As we were split into two groups after spending around 15 minutes solving our puzzle me and my teammate were left confused on what to do next. That's when their staff buzz in and said we were done everything and was just waiting for the other side now. My teammate and I were just talking and it eventually got boring - major downfall as there was nothing in our room left to keep us entertained. There was also nothing in our room that can help the other team either. After we finally rejoined each other the rest of the experience was entertaining until the last part. Before we get into that aspect, I have to give credit to their new puzzle though. I don't want to give it away too much, but this wasn't your typical room. When I say this, it's not just lockboxes or cool magnets you place to open other doors. There were computers involved and other cool tech! Alright moving on to the last puzzle. This is where it got frustrating. We were pretty certain on how to decode the last puzzle and have tried multiple times, but it didn't work. We tried other method but also didn't work. We actually spent a good 20 minutes on their last puzzle. Finally time was up and their staff came in to ask us what we got. We told him and it was right, so we tried it but nothing happened. So apparently the puzzle is "sensitive" and we had to press them softly. It was quick frustrating as we had it right the very first time but because of the strength we wasted 20 minutes trying to figure it out - sigh. Finally I would say the puzzles definitely weren't impossible in this room. Everything was very straightforward.
Overall: Despite the small fallacies of this room, overall the team and I had a fun time. I would say this was probably the first Omescape room to have so many failing pieces, but maybe that's the consequence of going to a new room in the first week. I wouldn't say it affected us so much though - it was just time consuming I guess. I think the difficulty of this room is similar to Project Sphere from Markham. It also has a very similar theme - I would say this is an upgraded version of Project Sphere. Other than that I would still recommend this room to people as the tech in this room was very impressive.
Happy Escaping!
