#The vanishing of ethan carter game series

But the main focus is going to be the murder of EthanРІР‚в„ўs father in the warehouseРІР‚в„ўs office. You can get an elevator working nestled in the cliff, so you donРІР‚в„ўt have to go through the mines again and quickly get back up if you didnРІР‚в„ўt complete any of the mysteries up there. The door on your side is locked from the inside. It crosses the river and has a door to the far side. Also there is the side entrance to the building where the hydro-electric generators are stored. Only the office is accessible and part of the next murder mystery. The area is bisected into two by the river after it flows through the hydro-electric dam. In The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, after you exit the mine, you are on a lower level of the valley. DonРІР‚в„ўt know which this is and frankly donРІР‚в„ўt care. It short circuits a part of my brain that might tell me all sorts of things like РІР‚Сљthat makes no senseРІР‚Сњ or РІР‚Сљthis is terrible storytellingРІР‚Сњ or РІР‚Сљthat was just a glitch they kept it because it looked cool.РІР‚Сњ You get the idea. I like high concept weirdness on the merits of it being high concept weirdness. I admit I do like when a piece of art fucks with my head a bit. Still thereРІР‚в„ўs one more moment worthy of notice. Scott Juster covered another one of those moments in a post last year. However, there are other smaller moment I did like in the game even if they didnРІР‚в„ўt come together to make a better whole. All of them were the side stories and it lead to cohesive argument to use them like that. I covered a lot about what I did liked in The Vanishing of Ethan Carter in my PopMatters essay earlier this week.

#The vanishing of ethan carter game series

This is an occasional series to just that. But they still stick in my mind and I think are somewhat worth mentioning. Sometimes there isnРІР‚в„ўt room in a piece to include mentioning it or there is no simple way to crowbar it in while talking about the game. Sometimes there are moments in games that stick in my mind, but arenРІР‚в„ўt big enough or otherwise important enough to warrant inclusion as a part of a larger discussion.