The Quiet Man Reviews
Overall, this is a weird game that shouldn't have been released. Even at around 15 dollars I feel ripped off. The plot is an incoherent mess and the combat is buggy and broken and worst of all, it's just not fun.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
The Quiet Man is an absolute disaster of ideas that don't work, bad design decisions, boring combat, ugly graphics, and attempting to use a real disability as a gimmick in a way that feels borderline insulting.
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.
The worst of pretentious story games and brainless beat-em-ups combined - with an insulting gimmick that's all its own.
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.