7 Video Games You Have To Play Twice To Understand

7. The Quiet Man

The Quiet Man, where to begin with this one eh?

This is a title that held so much promise, yet only delivered about ten percent of it. Placing the player in the shoes of a hearing-impaired character who had the ability to kick the spine out of anyone he meets could have made for a really brilliant experience, while also offering a healthy bit of video game representation for the deaf community, yet thanks to some incredibly poor direction this game actually generated more anger than it did understanding.

The game's narrative is intentionally obscured so that the player has no idea what the hell is going on, and seeing as the audio is either muffled or entirely absent throughout, the title never manages to connect with its audience. So incendiary was the backlash that the developers actually undid the narrative choice they'd made and released a patch that put the audio and subtitles back into the game, turning what was a confusing game with a unique, if poorly implemented feature, into just a generic action game.

Still, at least you could understand the plot in the next playthrough, small consolidations, right?