New Trailer for Secret Level's D&D Episode Released

Amazon Studios has released a new look at the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons episode for Secret Level, their new video game-themed anthology series. The trailer, which runs about 45 seconds, shows off a few characters from the trailer, including a gold dragon, a goliath character of some kind, and what appears to be a lich riding a giant bat. You can check out the full trailer on the social media site formerly known as Twitter.

Secret Level is the new video game anthology TV series created by Tim Miller, who also created Love, Death and Robots for Netflix. Each episode focuses on a different game franchise, ranging from Warhammer 40,000 to Mega Man to Pac-Man. Two episodes will be released per week starting on December 10th. Dungeons & Dragons and Warhammer 40K are the only tabletop games appearing in the show, although Warhammer 40K's episode is serving as a sequel to the recently released Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 video game.

 

[Hexmage-EN]

This whole series feels like 50% homage and 50% Amazon testing IPs to make into full series, like what is popular enough to be profitable. I think that is why Warhammer abs D&D get episodes instead of two more video game primary IPs unlike the rest, because Amazon wants to test how popular those settings are for TV shoe purposes, especially at the animated level because they are having issues with live action studio space, but great success with CR animated shows for a reasonable cost.

I was wondering what the criteria are. Mega Man in particular is a weird franchise in that 2000 to 2010 had a huge number of new Mega Man video games, but since 2011 there's only been two new games (one of which was an obscure mobile game). Also since then there's been one comic series, a (mostly bad) cartoon, an upcoming new comic series, and now this. It's kinda weird how they keep making tie-in media for a game franchise that isn't actually coming out with new games.

 

[J-H]

After 150-something Robot Masters (I don't know anything beyond about X3, but there are at least 3 Zero games and a Battle Network), it's hard to come up with new concepts. Releasing remakes isn't going to get them very far, since you can still play the originals pretty easily, and most of them hold up well.

 

[Hexmage-EN]

After 150-something Robot Masters (I don't know anything beyond about X3, but there are at least 3 Zero games and a Battle Network), it's hard to come up with new concepts. Releasing remakes isn't going to get them very far, since you can still play the originals pretty easily, and most of them hold up well.

There's actually been a number of canceled Mega Man games that have been unearthed by fans in the last decade, most of which seem to be pretty major deviations from the original games. For example, at one point a first person shooter Mega Man X reboot called Maverick Hunter was in development with a radically different art style.

The last we've heard is from a 2022 leak about a Mega Man game in development that was planned to have the biggest budget of the entire franchise, but no news about it was ever officially announced and we have no idea if it's still happening or not.