Pharaoh's Awakening

The best of the 3 at ESP but not by much. A classic style of room, this was pretty generic and standard in terms of set. Many hieroglyphics and symbols strewn throughout + a pyramid + a sarcophagus = Egypt. Some pretty basic puzzling amongst some extremely obscure stuff, never really big on 0 or 100 style rooms. Don’t recall much story, felt more like just collecting things and placing them where their outlines are cut out. If you’re going to play a room here this is probably the one but maybe don’t? Cool effects with the sarcophagus opening though which can sometimes be a disappointment, hell yeah.

Came into this one with pretty low expectations and managed to not be too disappointed with how it all went. Pharaoh’s Awakening is your classic (albeit generic) Egyptian room, lasers, hieroglyphs galore and not much of a story outside of “escape tomb”. For a room that’s about 90% tech we found a lot of the solves to be pretty finicky having to be persistent in our attempts to trigger whatever mag was nearby. The puzzles themselves ranged from basic to really obscure, with one of the final puzzles being the main culprit. Overall a very uninspired room but somehow the strongest of the 3 at ESP Ballarat. There were some very cool effects with the sarcophagus though, hell yeah.

A lovely themed room! Good puzzles! More puzzle based then lock and key based room!