Catacombs

I so would have loved to love this room, but our experience was disappointing from the start. The staff seemed extremely tired, although nice, so that might have affected the way they solved our issues. The first puzzle simply didn't work, which meant that even though we'd logically solved it within minutes, we fumbled around for 15 minutes before asking for help. We then spent 5 minutes explaining to the GM that it wasn't working, before they opened it manually. By opening up this first puzzle, apparently they mechanically opened up two other puzzles, in a room of relatively few puzzles. Why they didn't ask us to wait before they reset it, instead of ruining more puzzles, is beyond me. Of course technical issues can occur, I understand that and don't mind it, but the GM could have tried to reset it properly or at least warned us that we should close all open apartments that look like they shouldn't be open.

Anyway. The room was nicely decorated with cool compartmentalisation and nice atmosphere. I never really got the storyline. Perhaps that was a language issue, although the room was perfectly language neutral otherwise.

The puzzles were inventive and diverse, but rather simple, with one or two elements to it, but rarely more. The room is very linear. You're always just working at one thing at a time which adds to the simplicity and I can't really imagine a 6 people group working in this (we were 3). One puzzle was hard to solve, simply because it was so worn out, so we solved it with mainly trial and error, which isn't a very sophisticated way to solve things.

Some very cool aspects, like the lowering ceiling, but still, the ratings surprise me as it is absolutely inferior to most rooms I've visited in Poland (in other cities such as Wroclaw and Gdansk).