Escape from the Haunted Room
If there is any one group of room escape designers that excel at the art more than any other, it would have to be the Japanese. Don't think so? Then check out the top five finishers for Best of 2011 Escape Games. Another thing the Japanese do really well is ghosts. Whether in stories, manga, anime, or live action films, the Japanese seriously know how to create a chilling atmosphere (check out "Ringu" vs. the westernized remake "The Ring" if you don't believe me). Back in December we debuted a new designer, MyGames888 and their interesting effort, 3 Doors, and this week they're back with the spooky Escape from the Haunted Room. It isn't difficult to see that this talented group is fulfilling the promise seen the first time around.
As the title suggests, the room you're to escape from is haunted, although it is haunted with a Japanese ghost, which means not jump scares, screams, and buckets of blood, but rather quiet glimpses as you explore each area of the tiny apartment searching for a way out. The spirit seems almost benign, merely discretely making an appearance here and there, but don't be fooled. This deceased girl appears lonely and, well, let's just say there are two endings to this macabre little game. Much of the fun involves figuring out both endings.
Navigate using the arrows at the sides and bottom of the screen, click on an object once to use it, double-click to examine it. MyGames888 has once again taken great pleasure in playing with the basic assumptions of a room escape, using found objects in interesting and unique ways. Things aren't always what they seem. The downsides to the game are the lack of a changing cursor, leading to some pixel hunting, and the lack of a save function. Fortunately, there's a "replay" function if you find the bad ending. Some sort of musical accompaniment would have also helped to enhance the already charged atmosphere.
All things considered, Escape from the Haunted Room is an atmospheric little escape game with amusing puzzles. It's not very long, but it contains enough chills to be worth the effort. Enjoy trying to escape the room with the good ending.
Walkthrough Guide
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Walkthrough
- You'll start out facing a black door. Back up once. Turn left. Take the cup on the top shelf.
- Click left twice. Open the white door. Click the mirror. Back up until you face the white door again, turn on the light. Enter the bathroom again and click the mirror. Look the top right of the mirror.
- Back up three times and turn left.
a girl floating across the room
Take the wedge under the wooden door.
- Enter the room. Open the curtain and take the wire on top right of the window.
- Turn Left. Take the remote control under the pillow. Click on the floor right under the picture.
a hand under the bed
Take the coin.
- Back up once, turn left. Click the wooden piece of the wall. Put the wedge in te whole and take the cube.
- Back up, turn left. Use the wire in the plug right the tv desk. Click the tv and zoom the remote control, turn it off.
a face will appear on tv
- Back up, turn right. Enter the door, turn left and enter the bathroom. Use the coin on the screw of the top right mirror. Click the mirror. Zoom the remote control, click all the white buttons. Click the buttons of the safe according to the buttons of the remote control (just the white ones). Take the blue cube.
- Back up twice and turn the light off. Enter the bathroom again and click left of the sink. Zoom wooden cube, click on top. Click the buttons according to the paint on the wall.
- Back up twice turn left and enter the room. Turn left twice click on the wooden part of the wall and place the blue cube in the whole. Take wedge.
- Back up turn left. Click the device right the tv desk. Place the cup on the circle whole. Place the wooden in the triangle whole. Place the wedge in the square whole. Take the wire off before taking the key. Take the wedge back.
- Back up turn right enter the door.
- Bad ending
Use the key in the black door. The girl will get you.
- Good Ending
Turn left twice and close the wooden door. Use the wedge on the door. Turn Left twice, use the key in the black door. Congratulations!!
Posted by: Priks
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February 2, 2012 11:51 AM