Purchase this game to get both the original and the Unreal Engine 4 remaster called The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux. Oh wait, that doesn’t apply to the story either. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery. He also wrote about an old man who avoided death by fire by coating himself in sap. Why? Why go to space? Why is there an astronaut here? What does it contribute to the story? Respect to the developers for trying to make a horror game set in daylight, but more mineshaft exploring or tomb raiding would have felt more horrific.Īlso, to those who have played the game: the spaceman thing. In a level design perspective, the game wasn’t dark enough. You play the game as Paul Prospero, an occult-minded detective who receives a disturbing letter from.
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If our game leaves any scars, we hope you wont be able to see them. It contains no combat or explosions of any kind. There is way too much looking around, and knowing how the pieces fall together, the game could have been beaten in 30 minutes. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a first-person story-driven mystery game that focuses entirely on exploration and discovery. The world is linear, but does a good job of playing to open-world strengths. It would have been beneficial from the get-go to have something to base your exploration on instead of being left to fend for yourself in a grassy wasteland. Maybe if the ghosts were real-life manifestations of Ethan’s family haunted by the fact they had killed each other, it would have been scary. The flashback sequences were witless and poorly written. You experience all of those things in a sequence of your choosing, or whichever one you can actually find at the time. It seems like everyone wrote their ideas for the game in separate rooms without consulting each other on how it all ties together. Inspired by the weird fiction stories and other tales of macabre of the early 20th century, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is an adventure game that aims to evolve. So we’re left wondering: How much of the game is in Ethan’s head? It’s like “Hey, Prospero was just another one of Ethan’s stories he was writing while he died in a smoke-filled room.” It’s more of a mystery game than anything.ĭespite being a horror/mystery title, there is no reveal at the end of the story and all of the clues you come across point to one conclusion. In regards to the game’s genre, the only thing remotely ‘horror’ in this game is in the mine section, where the player encounters a ghost man whose story ends with the world flooding and a sea monster being unleashed. The stories you encounter, if you are lucky enough to come across them, seem to have no ties to each other, even as the main story comes to a close. The open-world crime thriller is sparse, segmented and confusing, burying the story beneath pretentious barriers.
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‘The Vanishing of Ethan Carter’ will not keep you up at night.īilled as a horror/adventure title for Windows and PlayStation 4 platforms, this short, indie game leaves too much out and a lot to be desired. For what could have been a terrifying tale about an author trapped in his mind, this game falls flat.