The Legend of Zelda escape room struggles to adapt the classic game

Sometimes even the greatest heroes need a team.

At the Social Hall at The Regency Center in San Francicso Monday night, I tried out a press preview of Scrap Entertainment’s Zelda-inspired room escape: Defenders of the Triforce. So-called room escapes — where people are locked in a room and given a time limit to solve puzzles and escape — are booming around the country. According to MarketWatch, this entertainment grew from none at the start of 2010 to nearly 3,000 attractions by mid-2015. The Zelda themed room also falls in line with Nintendo’s current strategy of leveraging its IPs outside of video games, such as the upcoming Universal Parks partnership,