Secret Level continues to look like a sizzle reel for a new console launch lineup, but in a good way. The Prime Video series featuring over a dozen stories set in the fantasy and sci-fi worlds of actual video (and tabletop) games has one last trailer before its premiere, and it’s packing in a lot, including the briefest glimpse of a story based on Sony’s recently scuttled hero shooter Concord.

Revealed last summer, Secret Level is from the studio that made LOVE, DEATH + ROBOTS and each of its 15 episodes is a one-off animated take on a popular gaming franchise or property, from classics like Pac-Man and Dungeons & Dragons to more recent indie hits like Spelunky and Sifu. Complete with a star-studded cast featuring the talents of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Keanu Reeves, and others, the show’s latest trailer whips between each one-off episode to demonstrate the full breadth and visual variety of animation powering the series.

I don’t know if any of the stories will actually be good, but I’m excited to watch:

Buried between the Warhammer 40,000 space marines and Keanu Reeves piloting an Armored Core mech, there’s a lightning-quick flash of a beautiful blue and magenta nebula with a ship flying through it and the title card Concord overtop. That episode will be the last gasp of an ambitious sci-fi universe the developers at Firewalk Studios helped to jumpstart this year. Unfortunately, the game itself ended up being an unprecedented flop, and Sony shut down the studio just last month.

ā€œI don’t feel bad that it’s a part of the show, because I think it’s an episode that turned out really well, and you can kind of see the potential of this world and the characters,ā€ Tim Miller, the lead creative behind Secret Level, told Rolling Stone this week. ā€œIf it’s the remaining vestige of that product, I hope the developers feel that it’s in some way worthy, just a little bit, of the blood, sweat, and tears they put into it.ā€

He added that he personally has no idea why Concord failed the way it did. ā€œThere was no nicer, more invested group of developers than the team on Concord,ā€ Miller said. ā€œI honestly don’t understand why it didn’t work. I know that they were trying to do the best they could, and they were a talented group of artists, so I feel terrible for that.ā€

Secret Level premieres on Amazon’s streaming service on December 10 with new episodes dropping throughout that week. That might be when players finally catch a better glimpse of what Concord’s developers hoped would make it so special.

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