Rodaran Piratas
The escape room starts with an interesting premise: it’s not about pirates, it’s about filming a movie about pirates. You are famous actors coming to help the virtuoso genius movie director James Walters.
In this experience you’ll actually get to record a movie, really, with cameras, scripts, scenes, a clapperboard and all. You’re going to be able to play dress up, act in your make-believe world, do your best pirate impressions and live a story that, although a bit simple with exaggerated good guys vs the baddies, becomes fun when you get to sword-fight and stab your teammates.
It’s a fun room for a very specific kind of player – which can be both a blessing for some players or a curse for others. You need to be ready to dress up, act your part, recreate some scenes and live your role – it is not optional. If the whole group is feeling humorous and is there for a good time, it can be fine but, a word of warning, it can be, especially with the lack of atmospheric music – a tad awkward at times. If you’re into it, you will love this movie but if, on the other hand, you are the kind of person that doesn’t like having to dance to get a hint in escape rooms, this may put you off.
On the brighter side, this room does something unique: you do dress up, you do brush up your acting skills, and you do record the movie, and you’ll even get to see yourself on a recording a few days later.
Language quirks
The pun “Rodarán Piratas” is clever, in Spanish it stands both for “rodar” which means “to shoot a movie”, and “Rodarán Cabezas” standing for the known expression “heads will roll” – a punishment. Another wink: on a Spanish playthrough, the director (James) speaks with an English accent; and in an English playthrough, the director (Jaime) has a strong Spanish accent. A nice touch.
