L'Aventure Fantastique: our test of the immersive journey between escape game and role-playing game in Paris

Forget your previousescape game experiences and enter a fantasy world unlike any you've seen before! L'Aventure Fantastique is a large-scale role-playing game, where you'll have to play the role of a hero and work as a team with your team-mates, to complete the quest you've been given: to recover a golden egg, in the heart of a dangerous dungeon... But beware: your journey will be strewn with creatures who don't mean you any harm, andriddles to solve!

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Immersive theater is no stranger to escape games or role-playing games, but this new concept is a unique blend of all these elements, making it easy to get hooked! Near Porte de Montreuil, you'll descend underground to explore 500 m2 of exceptional, immersive settings, featuring epic battles, climbing, monkey bridges and other adventures!

But you'll have to choose your role before you start! As in any self-respecting RPG, you choose your character from mage, healer, diviner, warrior, thief or archer, and then equip yourself with medieval garb, fearsome weapons (made of foam, of course) and, for some, a relic or artifact! While up to six people can play together, it's also possible to join a team on your own or in pairs, so you're sure to bond quickly.

Equipped with our new finery, each of us quickly got into character and began to enjoy the game. For overan hour and a half, we moved from room to room, from a tavern to a goblin's cave, passing through a magic room and a few secret passages - but beware, bad encounters are frequent! You may have to negotiate with larger-than-life, more or less friendly demons, werewolves and immortals, or confront them directly, but you also have to collect as many gold coins as possible, which will come in very handy!

Here, you don't spend more than ten minutes in any one room, so don't expect to solve all the riddles - it's all about discovering the way forward to lead your team to the golden egg, and making a decision that could well have an impact on the whole world - but watch out for betrayals! There's no denying that this is one of the most exceptional experiences we've ever had, with realistic sets and costumes that plunge us into a parallel, labyrinthine and timeless universe!

A very original adventure, full of adrenalin, a few moments of panic and lots of laughs, that we recommend you try out 100%, whether you're a fan of this type of universe or simply curious! Don't worry if you're not very athletic, or if children (over 8) wish to take part, as some sessions are adapted to be less scary, starting at 23 euros per person.

And we can tell you, our team can't wait to come back and experience new scenarios, since all the coins you recover allow you to obtain codes, which give you the opportunity to continue your quest later and improve your characters!