The Quiet Man is a heavily technically flawed game with an ambitious premise that ultimately is its biggest weakness. In The Quiet Man you play as a modern day post op Hellen Keller [you better congratulate him] who appears to be a skilled fighter akin to John Wick who has the strength of the Terminator, doing shit like punching someone so hard into a door it flies off both hinges.
When you're not watching cutscenes that are a combination of FMV (that's full motion video, referring to actual live actors for you young folks) and surprisingly good CGI you're set into a "game" with mediocre early xbox 360 level visuals and gameplay that would be unacceptable for even an early PS2 game, yet here with are with a late PS4 game like this.
The combat is extremely sluggish and feels like a worse version of the Batman Arkham games combat, lacking an option to seamlessly flow, grapple or even block, or at least if they're there the game didn't say shit about it. Yet the combat can be slightly satisfying at times even with the frequent slowdown.
Mechanically it's basically a Walmart version of what Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons does to an extent, in this, there's almost no audio and almost no subtitles so unless you know how to lipread you're basically gonna be just sitting there twiddling your thumbs up your ass. At least in Brothers there's actually audio and polished gameplay and visuals with the story conveyed through actions, gestures and expressions with a fictional language.
There are moments where bosses inexplicably can block 99% of your attacks until you do a random thing to temporarily stop it, which because of how sluggish the combat is, is a pretty big deal, hell, some segments require such intense button mashing to survive you'll likely develop arthritis or carpal tunnel.
But the real icing on the cake is whenever you die in battle, your wife or mom or whatever [go fuck yourself Sigmund Fraud], she makes a really stupid duck face in a cutscene that goes on for far too long, and sure she's pretty but because I'm pissed off at this piece of shit game, all I can think is wow, you have a punchable face.
Most enemies are Chollos and ICP fans whom you beat up in those "damn bitch, you live like this" apartments, except for some douche canoe with a taser baton who cosplays as a plague doctor and in ch 6 where you fight mobsters, who are no doubt fake Italians lining up to buy tickets to the Mario movie
Honestly I'm not really sure what the story is even supposed to be about, but I'm sure it's one of those games where you don't know wtf is happening but you're sure it's supposed to be sad. But by God by chapter 2 or 3 out of 6 you'll be begging to fall asleep.
Overall, I fucking hate The Quiet Man, it's not just a waste of $15 but more importantly a waste of 5 hours, sure on Steam it was $3 but even that is a ripoff, do not purchase this game under any circumstances, it's easily in the hall of worst games of all time and there's a reason the studio went defunct a year after releasing this pile of camel shit. It's a 0.5/10.
When you're not watching cutscenes that are a combination of FMV (that's full motion video, referring to actual live actors for you young folks) and surprisingly good CGI you're set into a "game" with mediocre early xbox 360 level visuals and gameplay that would be unacceptable for even an early PS2 game, yet here with are with a late PS4 game like this.
The combat is extremely sluggish and feels like a worse version of the Batman Arkham games combat, lacking an option to seamlessly flow, grapple or even block, or at least if they're there the game didn't say shit about it. Yet the combat can be slightly satisfying at times even with the frequent slowdown.
Mechanically it's basically a Walmart version of what Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons does to an extent, in this, there's almost no audio and almost no subtitles so unless you know how to lipread you're basically gonna be just sitting there twiddling your thumbs up your ass. At least in Brothers there's actually audio and polished gameplay and visuals with the story conveyed through actions, gestures and expressions with a fictional language.
There are moments where bosses inexplicably can block 99% of your attacks until you do a random thing to temporarily stop it, which because of how sluggish the combat is, is a pretty big deal, hell, some segments require such intense button mashing to survive you'll likely develop arthritis or carpal tunnel.
But the real icing on the cake is whenever you die in battle, your wife or mom or whatever [go fuck yourself Sigmund Fraud], she makes a really stupid duck face in a cutscene that goes on for far too long, and sure she's pretty but because I'm pissed off at this piece of shit game, all I can think is wow, you have a punchable face.
Most enemies are Chollos and ICP fans whom you beat up in those "damn bitch, you live like this" apartments, except for some douche canoe with a taser baton who cosplays as a plague doctor and in ch 6 where you fight mobsters, who are no doubt fake Italians lining up to buy tickets to the Mario movie
Honestly I'm not really sure what the story is even supposed to be about, but I'm sure it's one of those games where you don't know wtf is happening but you're sure it's supposed to be sad. But by God by chapter 2 or 3 out of 6 you'll be begging to fall asleep.
Overall, I fucking hate The Quiet Man, it's not just a waste of $15 but more importantly a waste of 5 hours, sure on Steam it was $3 but even that is a ripoff, do not purchase this game under any circumstances, it's easily in the hall of worst games of all time and there's a reason the studio went defunct a year after releasing this pile of camel shit. It's a 0.5/10.