A lot of wasted potential, that's how I would define what happened with "Secret Level", I could also say that it was "Love, death and Robots" but bad.
This Amazon bet, which although it turned out fantastic (record viewing and confirmed a second season), did not seem to me to have lived up to expectations.
It bets only on one type of animation, it hardly experiments and we are only left with hyperrealism, which although it works for some chapters, it is not the solution to everything. Although the comparison with the Netflix series can be annoying, I think it is a great point of support when we evaluate "Secret Level" in general.
Another thing that was not right was dividing the episodes into two batches, with a first part that is far superior to the second in terms of quality and variety. Ending with a totally malicious Play Station advertisement.
When one thinks about the possibilities, the limits are infinite, however, in practice, only 4-5 chapters are rescued at most. Warhammer 40000 is the best episode without a doubt and I suppose I breathe a sigh of relief thinking about the series that Henry Cavill will star in in the future. It looks great, it's impressive, just a few minutes are enough to be inside the franchise.
Unreal Tournament was another episode that I liked, in that fight of the machines for survival against the corporation that wants to destroy them. It gives a little more in terms of the philosophical concept of the machines and their feeling.
The Pac-Man episode, although predictable, I also liked, it experiments with animation and is extremely dark, one of the few in that sense.
Honor of Kings, which has nothing to do with the LOL plagiarism game but has a very interesting background and concept. At the same time, it is the only episode of the second batch that is very good.
I hope that the next season is much better than this one and that great intellectual properties are included and that classics like Megaman are respected, which was a shame here.
