Celebrate "Valentine's Dane" feb 14th

Remember speedrunners Febuary 14th is the official holiday of The Quiet Man speedrun. February is the month I make space on my hard drive, download this abomination of a game and punish myself for not having a date. Welcome to "Valentines Dane"

February is also the only month I'm not allowed to complain about new Quiet Man Speedrun submissions. If you are posting runs any of the other 11 months of the year I want you to know that I despise you because I have to watch and verify those runs and that sucks. I save up those months of hatred and spite and unleash them by hunting 1st place runs so if you have a WR I'm coming for your PB and I won't stop until I beat it. 

The Quiet Man- Basics of gameplay and the "I win" button

The game itself does a horrible job of explaining the controls (it does everything pretty badly now that I think of it) but there is one button in particular you need to know about and it's not the dodge button, it's the "I win" button. 

Contols
Punch
Kick
Heavy Punch
Dodge
Run
Focus (a.k.a. the I win button)

The main strategy I used is throwing light punches at enemies until the red light light on the side of the screen turns blue indicating you can use the "I win" button which is bound to L1 by default. The "I win" button turns every attack into a finishing move allow you to knock out enemies much much faster than by normal attacks and give you a much bigger sweet spot for dodge-countering during boss fights which require at least one dodge-counter attack to break their defense before you can cheese them with "I win" button finishing moves. The game controls are terrible and the characters teleport constantly so it's nearly impossible to be good at this game which is why I used brute force over any real strategy. Get focus, hit the finishing move- that's about it.

The majority of the game time is spent in un-skippable cut-scenes; if anyone figures out how to break these scenes and skip them I would consider them my personal hero; this is a terrible game and any effort to make it shorter is truly god's work.

P.S. -there is a grab button, I forgot it existed as it's practically useless. Never use the grab button.

Name	Author
Celebrate "Valentine's Dane" feb 14th	JeffersonRedeyes 1 year ago
The Quiet Man- Basics of gameplay and the "I win" button	JeffersonRedeyes 4 years ago