The Quiet Man Reviews
For a game called The Quiet Man, it sure did make a lot of noise upon release! Launching as only half of the game, with the full-audio mode coming a week after release, many people were tainted by the muted version of the game and instantly put off, which I feel is a bit unfair as the game doesn’t have the best first impression. You have to play the game twice in order to understand the truth of what’s going on around you, this means reliving the unskippable narrative segments and the awkward combat moments twice over! If you can deal with the clunky combat, be open to interpreting things the first time around so the second time surprises you, and have a thirst for an interesting experimental gameplay mechanic, then The Quiet Man will most likely surprise you. I went into it expecting to come away disappointed and in tears, yet I actually enjoyed the game and loved how different the story is when you’re finally given context.
The Quiet Man turned out to be a complete failure with a messy concept, bugs and a set of banal live action scenes mixed up with a primitive gameplay. Everything is bad here - from the animation and the combat system to the plot, sound quality and direction.
Review in Russian | Read full review
You’ll have more fun waiting in line at the DMV, and you’ll feel more accomplished because at least you know you’ll be done there. The Quiet Man is simply terrible, so let’s hope that was loud and clear.
For sure, designing The Quite Man, Square Enix focused on innovation, but looking at the result, we can say the software house failed. More than all the problems we already discussed in the review, there are several bugs, system crashes, really long loadings, and a boring gameplay. The concept behind is really good, but the final product is not acceptable. This is one of the games that you can really leave behind in this 2018, that gave us a lot of masterpieces. Probably The Quite Man is one of the worst game of the year
Review in Italian | Read full review
The Quiet Man is a complete mess and doesn't accomplish anything that it proposes. Its story is short, uninteresting, noninteractive and doesn't bring any kind of reflection to the player. Its gameplay is monotonous, shallow and full of technical problems. It is a shame that a renowned company like Square Enix allows the release of a title as problematic as The Quiet Man. Unfortunately, in its current state, the game shouldn't even be sold as an Alpha version.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Many have been and will be the games that appeal to the narrative in the extensive world of videogames.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
The Quiet Man is just happy to shit all over disabled people with insufferable artistic choices, garbage gameplay, and racism so overt and casual you’ll be convinced the game was funded by Congressman Steve King. Ladies and Gentlemen, The Quiet Man. One of the absolute worst games ever made.
We give The Quiet Man a point because it exists, and some people worked on it, but it is easily one of the biggest trainwrecks of the video games History. Gameplay is awful, narrative is awful... nothing can be saved, and no one would ever have the patience to play it once and then download the New Game Plus DLC that includes sounds to understand something. It's just too painful.
Review in French | Read full review
Everything is so bad in The Quiet Man, from its fumbled central idea and its terrible combat to a plot that ends in a morass of incomprehensible revelations, that it's something of a modern-day curio. The fact it comes from a major studio such as Square Enix, and has clearly had a substantial budget given its models and lighting, makes it all the more bizarre. Somewhere, at some point, there must have been the seed of a good idea. Whatever happened, the result is a tangle of failures that is best remembered as a bad dream.
The Quiet Man isn't fun, interesting, or worthwhile in any way. No one should play it
It's bold to dish out a product with so many obvious absentees of the most fundamental components to a video game, but The Quiet Man goes one step further in presenting itself as this artistically-flash, cinematically-deep experience it's all too proud of itself over without ever working for that accolade.
The worst of pretentious story games and brainless beat-em-ups combined - with an insulting gimmick that's all its own.
The Quiet Man cannot translate its ambition into a cohesive and fulfilling experience, finding trouble both from a gameplay and thematic perspective.
The Quiet Man is a failed experiment, but unlike other games that share this fate, it doesn't seem constrained by budget or technical limitations – but rather poor execution and abnormal design choices that cause its own undoing.
The Quiet Man is an almost completely silent beat-em-up that combines badly staged live-action drama with a clunky, broken combat system.
The Quiet Man has great live-action cutscenes, but the repetitive gameplay becomes tiresome.
An attempt to immerse players in a soundless world fails to reconcile concept and execution, delivering a baffling story and uninspired gameplay in the process.
A terrible idea poorly realised, with a mixture of pretentious, gimmicky storytelling and banal combat that is almost awe-inspiring in the full extent of its incompetence.
Crap gameplay, worse story and a terrible gimmick, The Quiet Man just barely manages to be ironically enjoyable, but you should probably leave well enough alone.