


But it is what you make of it, as you can beat it in a couple hours if you run from start to finish and skip most of the mysteries, but you will miss out on its deep story. This powerful story combines with a beautiful, polished world together with an immersive music score and great voice acting yielding a top-notch game. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter shows an interesting and deep outlook on life-the mundane, sleepy world, against the fantastic imagination of a child. These external reports are starkly contrasted by Ethan Carter's own imagination, channeling the same goings-on into those of the supernatural, seen in stories scattered across the valley. This eerie view of our mundane world is also visible through the documents and newspaper clippings found throughout the valley, portraying an outside view of life in this rural neck of the woods. A more desolate, abandoned, feel grows on Red Creek Valley, like it's been neglected by the outside world for decades, its prime time having long passed. The world in The Vanishing of Ethan Carter first appears as a beautiful, yet sleepy, backwoods town, but it quickly becomes apparent that not all is well.
