Don't Play The Quiet Man, But Do Observe Him

What do you mean 'Square-Enix Published This'??

The Quiet Man is a cinematic experience experimental gameplay that manages to mishandle its themes so poorly that the deafness of its titular character is portrayed as both a superpower and unrealistically limiting factor, while at the same time only being vaguely discernible as either. This is because aside from one line at the front of the game, and the lyrics of the outro song, there are no subtitles in this game, where you are a totally hearing impaired individual. There is only a smattering of ASL used in the game. Not well. It's not subtitled either. Because in a few days, the audio track will be released as free DLC, so we can know the truth of the storyline someone that needs to get out more thought would be mindblowing. 

This game also features child abuse, a weird Oedipus complex deal driving the storyline, and a long running war between two gangs, one of which is composed of what a particularly uncreative casting director thought the Latin Kings should look like (only green, not gold), that started over motherfucking shoes.

Do not under any circumstances purchase or play The Quiet Man. The professionals have done this for you, and their footage is readily available. So take the previous paragraphs as a particularly florid content warning if you're the type to object to that sort of stuff in your media, because if you're like me, and you love bad games almost as much as you love good ones, you're going to want to jump in this big pile of garbage immediately. 

I have absolutely seen a game this inept before, sure. I absolutely have seen bad games out of Square-Enix before, sure. They made The Bouncer. However, what was not expected was for a game that got E3 trailer time during their presentation, to be a worse Bouncer. The Quiet Man is a significantly worse version of The Bouncer, released in 2018 by Human Head, and published by Square-Enix, is an unmitigated shitshow, the likes of which hasn't been seen been seen in a long time. Big publishers don't release games like this any more. Usually, there either has to be some controversy of some shade to get games so talked about. This one is the controversy. It is that bad. And I will take it's poor impression of the experience of being unable to hear, and I will add silly sounds to it, because that's all it deserves from me.

That, and maybe a Gamewrecks episode down the line, once we get some idea of what the hell just happened.