Secret Level

The animation is beautiful, that is undeniable. I struggle to get excited about such short episodes though. They seem like apprentice attempts. Can't get fully enthralled as you know it's over before you can even get any sort of connection with the characters. Was nice to see some celebrity involvement. Reeves and Arnie both play enjoyable parts. It's just all a little too experimental and depthless for me. Additionally If I was given the chance to choose the source material. I reckon I would have chosen a completely different set of games to revere. The Pacman episode was o.k. But was a demonstration of taking artistic licence to its absolute limit. It made me laugh at least. Overall I found the whole series to be a little underwhelming. 6 for the visuals.

Short stories within the setting of video games. Or very loosely based on the setting of the games. Very different games, ranging from Pac-Man to Warhammer 40.000. Even Concord, where I assume the creators have been cursing themselves when seeing what that game ended up being.

It's mainly meh stories about mostly mediocre-at-best games I often have hardly even heard about. The visuals are great though. But except for one or two out outliers there is little substance. I am sure the cutscenes for most of those game were better. Let's not compare this to anthology shows like Black Mirror or Love Death and Robots.

Still. It's made by people that seem to be gamers.

You will get entertained here. Some episodes are good, some are great, some are just incredible. You need to make that decision for yourself. For me, 1.5 "You Shall know no fear" is the best of the bunch, but 1.5 is the best animation of Warhammer history and it does everything right. My god, it was unbelievably good. That said, there is no reason to read my review, go watch the episodes instead and choose your best one.

I knew that the creators of love death and robots knew how to nail animated short stories, but this simply is amazing. We need more of it.

And we simply require more of the Warhammer Universe. Exactly! As shown here.

I've always wanted a series like this. When watching cinematic trailers or cutscenes for video games I've often thought that some would make for peak television.

I knew the creators of love death and robots would nail another animated anthology series and am glad to be proven right. The Warhammer episode was definitely the highlight for me so far I really hope to see more in the future. My only complaint would to be given more time for certain episodes.

There are so many solid video game stories that this show can delve into and adapt into fleshed out episodes, the possibilities are very exciting and I'm glad they've gone for a more gritty and adult tone throughout. I am very pleased with what's been shown so far and am anticipating what's to come.

I was really disappointed when I saw critics say this show was just mid. I've watched it and all I can say is most of the critics are wrong. I really enjoyed this show! The episodes could have been longer, that's my only gripe honestly. If you love video games, definitely check this show out. It's a quick watch too. Now I want to go play some of these games again after seeing their episodes. I would imagine the whole point of Secret Level is to attract new players, and in that regard, I think they succeeded. There was heart in a lot of the episodes too, which I also really liked. Hopefully this show does well enough to warrant a season 2. If they do make a season 2, the only thing I think they need to improve upon is the length of the episodes. I really, really wished they were all at least 20 minutes. Overall though, I'm thankful we got this show because video games mean a lot to a lot of people, myself included. Thank you to all of the people who worked hard to bring us this show. You guys rock!