Secret Level review: Amazon's gaming series doesn't understand the assignment
- Secret Level is an anthology streaming series on Prime Video that consists of 15 animated shorts about different gaming properties.
- Critics say the shorts are dull and do not make the source material compelling or provide new insights.
- The series is described as reducing the gaming universe to basic elements, illustrating combat with little creativity.
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Secret Level review: Amazon's gaming series doesn't understand the assignment
2.0 out of 5 star rating Secret Level has an admirable idea at its core — the Amazon Prime Video anthology series is designed to give gaming franchises a chance to shine on TV, with numerous iconic brands signing up to take part, from Pac-Man to God of War and pretty much everything in between. The project comes to us from Blur Studio, a creative production company full of animators and artists, which was founded in 1995 by Tim Miller. Years …
Amazon’s Secret Level is a hollow anthology of video game cutscenes
Pac-Man. | Image: Amazon Ever since it was announced, there has been some confusion over just what Secret Level actually is. The video game-themed anthology streaming on Prime Video — helmed by Love, Death & Robots creator Tim Miller — is a collection of animated shorts, each based on a different gaming property. So there’s a Mega Man episode that explores the character’s origin and a Spelunky episode that attempts to create a metanarrative aro…
Secret Level boils the rich universe of gaming down to guns and sludge
Two minutes into the fifth episode of Secret Level, Prime Video's anthology series that tells short stories set in the world of existing gaming properties, a text splash pops up, repeating one of gaming's most famous mantras: "In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war." Warhammer 40K's iconic introduction holds true for Love, Death + Robots creator Tim Miller's new animation project, too—at least, if you add "sludgy graphics, laz…
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