(It was also unnecessarily and obnoxiously complicated by that left over puzzle infrastructure from the end of room 2.) The third room turned everything that we thought we had learned on its end and presented what I think is the most difficult twist that I’ve ever seen in a puzzle game. Unfortunately, the remaining infrastructure for the more complicated version was still there and its presence was confusing as hell…
The conclusion seemed like it had originally been designed as a far more complex puzzle and Boda Borg had smartly simplified it after play testing. There was one massive oversight in this room. We got to a place where we worked through this challenge with military precision. The second phase of Potions was a mostly self-evident dexterity puzzle. When we knew what we were doing, it was possible to complete this first room incredibly quickly. It was smart, challenging, and fairly well clued. The first room was a purely cerebral puzzle. The set had that earthy, medieval vibe that immediately conveyed fantasy.
Potions was a Potter-esque wizard’s laboratory where each phase took us on a journey to best a dragon. Potions is one of the new games, and one of the most – if not the most – aesthetically pleasing installments in Boda Borg Boston (rivaled only by Alcatraz). It can be done, but the photos of teams that have successfully completed all available challenges are shockingly few. That’s why this is more than acceptable it flat out works.īoda Borg isn’t meant to be fully won. In an escape room, you cannot abandon a puzzle that you aren’t enjoying or cannot solve. This play structure is complicated by the occasional unexpected and barely-clued psychotic spike in difficulty.īoda Borg offers some beastly challenges that would be a nightmare in an escape room because of time constraint and limited freedom.
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This leads to what I call Boda Borg superstitions: situations where we more or less know how to solve a room, but because we don’t quite have it all figured out, we try not to change anything from what had worked before, resulting in us adding an extra step or constraint that has nothing to do with the proper solution to the room.
There is a real opportunity, and need, for Boda Borg to clean this problem up as it can break otherwise fantastic experiences. Sometimes this was just a fluke sometimes it shattered our trust in a game. We’ve lost for seemingly no reason in rooms that we knew how to solve. The systems work really well, most of the time. This gameplay is overseen by automated systems. Failure isn’t just inevitable it’s how you learn to play in a Boda Borg game.
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Players learn how to puzzle through each game with trial and error. The hybrid of challenging gameplay, automation, and some basic flaws in the human brain makes Boda Borg both brilliant and messy. I love and hate Boda Borg I mostly mean this as a compliment. It’s the main topic of today’s discussion. This teamwork/ physical challenge/ puzzle mashup had a phenomenal ending. This was a fantastic addition to the Boda Borg lineup.
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Update 12/6/22: If you enjoy Boda Borg, we hope you’ll check out our interview with President/ CEO David Spigner on The Reality Escape Pod.Īfter two and a half years we finally returned to Boda Borg Boston… and there were some new games.
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