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Mission escape games4/30/2024 ![]() Price: $120 total for a team of 1-3 players, $35 per player for a team of 4+ players ![]() Here are our recommendations for great escape rooms in New York City. There are plenty of restaurants in the complex.īook your hour with Mission Escape Games’ The Ultimate Bank Heist, and tell them that the Room Escape Artist sent you.Carbon: 3708 is one of the best escape rooms in New York City.Park on P4, Purple Level (Upper Level) near the North side.This game is located at Anaheim GardenWalk.In the end, the escaping felt born of our playing an escape game. ➖ The Ultimate Bank Heist would be enhanced by a more bombastic finale, and a bit more narrative arc and closure. ➕ We especially enjoyed The Ultimate Bank Heist’s most explosive sequences. It was fun to think we knew how something would play out and then experience a slight twist. ➕ Mission Escape Games inverted some common escape room tropes, adding their own direction or swimming upstream. While we enjoy this style, and we don’t think newer players will feel the similarities we did, we would have liked a bit more variety. ➖ A number of the puzzles were variations on the same theme, leading to the same type of solution. While they were generally well mapped, it would be even better to vary the digit structures. We frequently had at least two available to us. ➖ We encountered a lot of 4-digit padlocks. This puzzle would be perfect to engage newer players with meaningful contributions to a fun reveal that can be appreciated as a group. ➕ Mission Escape Games dedicated one wall to a collaborative process puzzle with a satisfying extraction. This was always exciting, and kept our momentum. ➕ Mission Escape Games used lighting to direct our attention to newly available props and set pieces. Mission Escape Games’ The Ultimate Bank Heist was a standard escape room with a moderate level of difficulty.Ĭore gameplay revolved around observing, making connections, and solving puzzles. The changes weren’t massive, but they were impactful. Mission Escape Games elevated the experience with a few effect-based cut scenes that augmented the environment. The Ultimate Bank Heist was set in an old bank that had a simple elegance about it. We figured we might liberate some cash from the local bank. Mistakes were made, and we were in a lot of debt… debt that we couldn’t pay. If it were closer to me, I’d take newbie friends there. Mission Escape Games introduced us to many of our favorite early experiences, and this game feels like it’s part of that tradition. ![]() If you’re newer to escape rooms, The Ultimate Bank Heist is a fantastic choice of adventure. Overall, it felt like a sort of prototype for the style that Mission Escape Games is developing and realized more fully in their newest game Carbon: 3708 in NYC. The set was elegant, the puzzles were well-executed, and there were a few memorable effects that functioned as short cut-scenes. ![]() The Ultimate Bank Heist felt like it was more focused on beginner players… which made a lot of sense for its location in the Anaheim GardenWalk mall. So while we were in Anaheim, we had to make a withdrawal. We go way back with Mission Escape Games and The Ultimate Bank Heist is one of the few games that they have produced that has never been available in their New York City location. Physical Restraints: No Physical Restraints REA Reaction Price: $120 for the team for teams of 2-3 players or $32 per player for teams of 4-10 players (Monday-Thursday) $135 for the team for teams of 2-3 players or $35 per player for teams of 4-10 players (Friday-Sunday)
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