Mega Man: Start

It bugs me this one rates so low, mainly for being short but yes, if you like mega man this is super good. The bad is since its getting critiqued so badly due to the length the suits will just see the score and dismiss it without going into why. Most of these episodes are at least 10 mins long yet this is half that. That's the problem, if amazon were to make a series or movie based on this short I'd be on board for it. I guess this is my plea for them to move forward with something like this and who knows, maybe this was a trailer that someone pitched Amazon and they already passed on it and put the pitch here since someone in the company thought it might be good to fill out the episode count. If so, thanks for letting us see it.

The reviews mentioning it's brevity are missing the point of a series like this. They're basically a petri dish to see how the test works out. In a case like this, it shouldn't get a low rating for the length if its content was good. This was definitely the shorter of, I think all the episodes, but proved that this NEEDS to be expanded upon in its own series or movie. Would be great for all ages to enjoy. The style was a unique blend of stylized animation with realistic textures/lighting that's enjoyable to watch. It was a great proof of concept of what a good Megaman movie could be in this day and age to bring him back to the current generation of kids and adults alike. A nostalgia kick for adults and something new for the kids. A full Megaman project should be given a chance after this.

I have reviewed each episode of "Love, Death + Robots" and am a big video games guy, so thought I'd do the same process for Amazon's "Secret Level".

I was particularly looking forward to this one, as I'm an old school NES gamer and "Megaman" was a big part of my gaming at that time. It's a reimagining, somewhat and whilst fun, a bit short - even for this series.

The evil Dr Wily has hijacked the robots created by Dr Light (Rick Overton) and instead of protecting the city, they are attacking it. Light prepares his biggest robot, Bomb Man, to head out and defeat the others but before he can, that too is taken over. Rock (Alkaio Thiele) a small humanoid robot made to help Light around the lab has been eager to join the fight and, though the Doctor has been resistant, Rock now has the chance to prove himself.

I can understand not sticking to the animated style that the games have established and instead switching to a quasi-realistic one. The robots are reinvented as giant mechs, perhaps designed to help sell Rock as an unlikely opponent for them. It's not the hyper realistic animation though, that we've seen in other episodes.

The problem is perhaps that it's over almost before it's begun. It's comfortably the shortest episode of the series so far. What it does have though, which I loved, was a version of the games music utilised over the end credits. That was great stuff.

Not really much to judge this one, either good or bad.

After sitting through what felt like hours of an evil pacman torturing a clone into eating things then murdering him. We get an amazing episode of Mega Man's origin, we get less than 5 minutes of actual animated episode. Did the rest of the episode get deleted? What is this? How does this even count as an episode? The black screen credits are almost longer than the episode is!

This episode basically consists of a wonderful opening sequence and then credits. Are the credits so long to act as filler? I would say that it is apossibility that the well written narritive and acting makes this episode fly by incredibly fast.

However, when you combine the fact that this episode moves incredibly fast with it being the shortest episode to have been released co far, after having some of the earlier episodes drag on and on, I feel like this displays quesstionable narrative pacing both for this episode as well as the series as a whole. .

People rating it so low don't understand what an "anthology series of shorts" is I guess.

Yes it's a really short episode but that's no reason it should be rated so low. There's no pleasing you nerds.

Due to the recent smashing success of another blue video game character's trilogy of movies, I see no reason a Mega Man movie franchise wouldn't be a success. The lore is there. Plenty of characters for big reveals and furthering the story. It's all there, Capcom, come on!

I've played my fair share of MM games and have been obsessed with Mega Man since Egoraptor's (YouTuber Arin Hanson) Sequelitis Episode about Mega Man X.

This short origin story of sorts only fueled that obsession even further and I need more Mega Man media immediately!