RMN The Room

Uhm. I know what are you thinking... sadly NO, this game called The Room: Pandemonium in the Palace Penthouse isn't a parody of that infamous movie by Tommy Wiseau, called The Room. It would have been awesome. BUT this is still a parody, of another Rpgmaker game called... The Room:!
I'm confused because I never played the original the Room game and it's too late to back away, so I decided to play this game nonenthless.
I mean it's also quite short, so why not?
And it's surreal, random and weird.
Ok are you curious now? Because I was veeeery interested when I heard that!


Well yes, make sense! Buuut it's a pity, this was a chance to leave this haunted room!

RMN The Room is a wacky, linear, simple and short adventure game about a man who lost his memory due to some kind of incident (well yes, he lost his memory so he does not know what happened, of course!) and find himself inside this room wearing just his shorts.
Even if the game takes place inside this single room, prepare to an incredible journey through time and different dimensions... well, more or less this is the game, and a certain point the narrator even admits that non even the developer knows what's going on (since it's all so random and weird).

So prepare to visit different versions of this infamous Room and solve small, easy puzzles collecting the items that I'm sure you will get while you are interacting with everything in the Room just to read the funny dialogues! Because that's what the game is all about!


Whoa PIZZA! Ancient BUT still edible! Things are going really well now!

Visually the game uses the popular RefMap resource pack, and despite the presente of just few maps that are all just a variation of one (guess what? The Room!) everything is placed and structured in a believable way. The Room(s) is nice and cozy, and despite it's small size there is a lot to do there. Yes! There are interactions everywhere, some are funny and some are not, some are useful to make the story proceed, others are just a waste of time. Some parts of the game are also really cheesy, anyway there are also other visual effects and features that are really stylish, for example I liked a lot how the screen splits during the phone call (a similar visual technique was also used in another YDS game, Vanilla Villain).
Oh and the game was made in just one day... one day for a complete game, so what do you expect?
I did expect nothing at all and I was really impressed. Oh and there was also some reference to the other game I reviewed before, RMN Midsummer Dreams, that was released the same year of RMN The Room (2010) but three months before (Vanilla Villain was instead released during the beginning of 2010).


Oh no! We met ourselves! As Doc Emmett Brown once said "The consequences of that could be disastrous!"

Final Verdict
The Room: Pandemonium in the Palace Penthouse is similar to the other games made by YDS: short, cheesy, easy and totally random. Still it's a parody, theme of a three-day contest that required to make a game using ONE room only.
Understood? A very short time and a strict requirement, but despite this the game is... ok! I found no bugs and I think that the map(s) is(/are) vey well done! Once again the RefMap resources are used extremely well, and here the developer also experimented with the new (at the time of the game of course!) RPG Maker VX.

Seriously, as the developer noted "Play at your own risk of losing braincells".
For me probably was too late because I enjoyed this 30 minutes wacky story. Yes! I still do not understand what I played and watched but... uh it was ok, short silly and surprising!