Edited on: September 18, 2025
Posted on: April 9, 2022
M3n747
Gry: 285 Opinie: 26
Where do I go, what do I do?
I heard good things about Ethan Carter back when it came out and even recently from a coworker. So, seeing that I have the game on Epic, I decided to give the Redux version a try. My initial impressions were quite positive: the graphics are quite good, the music is pretty nice (if not terribly memorable), and Miłogost Reczek has a good voice. Unfortunately, that's about where the positives end. I quickly discovered that the game not only doesn't hold the player's hand - which I'd be fine with - but it seems to actively discourage being played. There are no directions given, no hints or clues as to where to go (it's like the game expects you to just know this), no map of even the most rudimentary variety and the environments are absolutely huge with hardly anything to do in them. It's absolutely unplayable without a guide, you'll just run around blindly, hoping to stumble upon anything at all. All this makes Ethan Carter a mind-numbingly boring experience that drags horribly. On the technical side of things the game is admittedly quite stable, I never had a single issue, crash or even frame drop. On the other hand, after launching it again the next day I discovered that the game reverted me back to the default non-inverted mouse look (which is actually inverted, but Quake swapped the defaults from Duke 3D). Also, there's no jump button, which feels just wrong (and caused me to keep zooming in instead while running around), and sometimes the lip-synching on NPCs didn't match their dialogues at all. And lastly, all the letters and notes you find throughout the game are in English only, even if you set another language in the settings. Why? Overall, a terrible waste of time that I cannot in good conscience recommend to anyone who values that precious commodity.
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