Secret Degree continues to seem like a sizzle reel for a brand new console launch lineup, however in a great way. The Prime Video collection that includes over a dozen tales set within the fantasy and sci-fi worlds of precise video (and tabletop) video games has one final trailer earlier than its premiere, and it’s packing in rather a lot, together with the briefest glimpse of a narrative based mostly on Sony’s not too long ago scuttled hero shooter Harmony.
Revealed final summer season, Secret Degree is from the studio that made LOVE, DEATH + ROBOTS and every of its 15 episodes is a one-off animated tackle a preferred gaming franchise or property, from classics like Pac-Man and Dungeons & Dragons to newer indie hits like Spelunky and Sifu. Full with a star-studded solid that includes the skills of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Keanu Reeves, and others, the present’s newest trailer whips between every one-off episode to reveal the complete breadth and visible number of animation powering the collection.
I don’t know if any of the tales will truly be good, however I’m excited to observe:
Buried between the Warhammer 40,000 house marines and Keanu Reeves piloting an Armored Core mech, there’s a lightning-quick flash of a lovely blue and magenta nebula with a ship flying via it and the title card Harmony overtop. That episode would be the final gasp of an formidable sci-fi universe the builders at Firewalk Studios helped to jumpstart this 12 months. Sadly, the sport itself ended up being an unprecedented flop, and Sony shut down the studio simply final month.
“I don’t really feel unhealthy that it’s part of the present, as a result of I feel it’s an episode that turned out rather well, and you may type of see the potential of this world and the characters,” Tim Miller, the lead artistic behind Secret Degree, instructed Rolling Stone this week. “If it’s the remaining vestige of that product, I hope the builders really feel that it’s indirectly worthy, just a bit bit, of the blood, sweat, and tears they put into it.”
He added that he personally has no thought why Harmony failed the best way it did. “There was no nicer, extra invested group of builders than the group on Harmony,” Miller mentioned. “I truthfully don’t perceive why it didn’t work. I do know that they had been making an attempt to do the very best they might, they usually had been a gifted group of artists, so I really feel horrible for that.”
Secret Degree premieres on Amazon’s streaming service on December 10 with new episodes dropping all through that week. That is likely to be when gamers lastly catch a greater glimpse of what Harmony’s builders hoped would make it so particular.
