10 Video Games Way Weirder Than Advertised
1. The Quiet Man
Despite being revealed with a mysterious teaser trailer at E3 2018, The Quiet Man was quietly sent out to die later that year by publisher Square Enix.
The trailers suggested it was a cinematic beat 'em up whose unique hook was that it would unfold from the perspective of a deaf protagonist, Dane, with dialogue rendered inaudible to heighten empathy and understanding with him.
And then The Quiet Man was released, and beyond being panned into the ground for its clunky gameplay, was also met with confusion from most players for the implementation of its deafness "gimmick."
For starters, Dane's communications with other characters are never subtitled for players, so the idea that we're "on the same level" as him is patently, bizarrely false from the outset.
Add in the head-scratching decision to have the same actress portray both Dane's mother figure and love interest - sorry, David Lynch this ain't - and you've got a concoction as patently odd as it is flat-out incompetent.
The Quiet Man's overpowering strangeness caused many to compare it to Tommy Wiseau's cinematic trainwreck The Room, and in similar stead the game has cemented its rep as a perverse trash classic, no matter how unwaveringly terrible it truly is.