The Room Three

The room sempre dando o seu melhor. Mas neste ficou um pouco complicado alguns puzzles que não soaram muito naturais, ou seja, não evoluiu de forma orgânica, principalmente em seus finais que seria quase impossível descobrir como fazer sem algum tutorial no youtube, se tornou um pouco confuso. De toda maneira é um ótimo jogo, exercita a mente.

I am conflicted about the entry of the “The Room” series — from the bottom of my heart, this is the best among the four for me, but there are also flaws that I can’t get behind. I highly recommend this game, but please be aware of the following points if you share my pet peeves as someone who has extensive experience in the escape room/ARG industry. Compared to the previous entries, The Room 3 no longer teleports you around, but traps you in a mansion with rooms unlocking as you progress with the puzzles, and 5 one-off pocket dimensions that serve as the “main quest”. You unlock a room, find a key item, unlock a pocket dimension, solve the pocket dimension, collect another key item, unlock another room in the mansion… rinse and repeat. While the cycle seems boring and repetitive, the new elements and the mysteries you see in the mansion that can not yet be solved provide sufficient novelty and motivate you to go further. However, this main attraction of The Room 3 also reveals some unpleasant cracks in its core mechanisms. Both the mansion and the pocket dimensions have well-designed puzzles that link one to the other, especially in connecting the rooms, or even in playing with the space (and time) itself. That’s really cool, but it also means there is a lot of travelling. You will spend half a minute on room transitions to pull a lever or pick up an item, just to head back to where you were, which becomes really annoying when solving the mansion puzzle. Please note that this is not a criticism of the puzzles or atmosphere (which are great), but rather of some minor quality-of-life elements. If you don’t mind this, then what I just wrote should not deter you. One key feature of this game is — spoiler alert if you haven’t seen the achievement list — the multiple ending design, which is now a common practice to improve the replayability of physical escape rooms. That being said, this is not a conventional “choose your path” crossroad-ish, multiple-ending design, but a more linear one. You finish the main quest, then unlock the option to keep on solving puzzles that ultimately lead you to ending 2, 3… and so on. It is possible to solve everything, then experience the endings one by one in a row. But considering the final part of the game is unskippable, kind of like how you need to beat the Elden beast over and over to see different endings in Elden Ring, I would recommend you go with the flow to avoid the sense of repetition. Overall, this is the most grand and ambitious game of the series, and it is definitely worth the price tag if this genre is your jam. The main quest takes around 3.5 hours to finish, and an additional 1-2 hours if you aim to do all the endings, which makes it the longest among the four entries. Beware: There is a particular puzzle that’s, how do I word this without further spoilers… quite TIME CONSUMING, so watch out.

The Room 3 is simply not fun anymore. Uninstalled after 4 hours. Not recommended.....

Two great game, and then a masterpiece? I wonder how good will the 4th be!

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非常的好玩，解密有些有点弱智，但是大部分很惊艳，没有太多需要记忆的密码，推荐。