Hands On: The Quiet Man's Audio Patch Brings Some Clarity to the Ears

Girlfriend or Mum? Now we know.

The Quiet Man needs to be a lesson to all developers and publishers in how not to release a video game. After deploying to a critical panning from ourselves and other reviewers, the title is back a week later with the 1.02 update that adds audio in order to entice a second playthrough that promises to answer all the lingering questions you may have had. Who would have thought that the addition of sound would be a patch note in 2018? Certainly not us, but here we are with another attempt at figuring out what exactly this game is.

Before we start prescribing hearing aids, let’s take a moment to clear up any confusion this update may bring. The original muted experience of The Quiet Man is still very much intact, as you only gain the ability to play through the game with audio once you’ve completed that silent playthrough. This means that you’ll still have to slog your way through the initial three hour baffler that raises the questions and vague theories that the second go around attempts to answer. And so if you were worried that last week’s trainwreck had disappeared into the ether once sound had been added, you need not. It’s still very much there in its original glory.

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