Secret Level

In short, a pretty uninspiring re imagining of popular video game titles.

"Secret Level" comes loaded down with the usual dose of the DEI, woke codswallop but what really lets this series down, is the largely uninspiring tales it tells.

There's a noticeable deficit of creativity and the art of quality storytelling on offer here. Instead, this series leans heavily on CGI eye candy, dropping in the occasional celebrity actor and a vague sense of novelty, to try and carry it forward.

In summary, woke, unimaginative and generally pretty dull. I watched a few episodes before quickly losing interest. I'll stick to the games instead.

"MovieGuys" saw three female characters in episode 1 and completely lost their marbles!

Episode 2 is literally just Sifu the game, episode 3 is mainly all white men, episode 4 is robot revolution, episode 5 is the best one I've watched so far, but holy !@#$, there's a black guy, as a Space Marine! A BLACK SPACE MARINE?!

I suppose robot revolutions are woke now, and of course, black Space Marines are woke, 'cause we ain't ever seen a black anybody in Warhammer before, and of course, learning to value your "subjects/friends" as a King, is woke as !@#$!

The bigoted, mysogynistic slop that passes for critique these days is just sad. "IS JUST MY OPINION, BRO! I'M NOT RACIST! YOU'RE RACIST AGAINST WHITE PEEEPOL! AFRICANS USED TO ENSLAVE OTHER AFRICANS TOO! SLAVERY, RAPE, AND GENOCIDE ARE TOTES FINE IF DONE BY A CHRISTIAN, BRO!"

Was that too much? Nah, I don't think so.

I TIGRESS!

I don't like the "I FOUND THE SECRET LEVEL, YOU GUISE!!!" cliff-hanger endings in some of these episodes. I'm also not entirely sure what's supposed to be "revelutionary" here, when it's just "Love, Death & Robots" with videogames - there's nothing wrong with that, I'm just a likkle bored already, despite ending on episode 5 and enjoying episode 5 more than most of the others (because is Warhammer, you guise!).

I'm making it sound worse than it is, I'm sorry.

If you enjoyed "Love, Death & Robots", you'll probably find some entertainment here, though you might need to adjust the brightness on those darker episodes.

I might update this "review" if/when I watch more.

We'll do this on an episode by episode basis, picking up from episode 6:

Episode 6 - PAC-MAN: Circle
I like this one. There's a lot of foreshadowing, but the ending still surprised me. My only issues with this episode are, who the !@#$ designed that sword? The handle looks like it would take the weilder's hand off! Also, why in PAC-world would you cook the head of a beast, when you have body and sword to slice flesh with? I get the head looks cool over the fire, but it seems illogical.

Episode 7 - Crossfire: Good Conflict
TBC...

Episode 8 - Armored Core: Asset Management
What am I watching here? Mechs vs. mechs and... a psychopath who doesn't care about the job details or the revelation that he's not actually one of a kind. Are we just here for the photorealism and Keanu Reeves? I love me some Keanu Reeves, but the last videogame project he was involved with was Cyberpunk 2077, which turned out to be a collossal shit-fest when it was revealed that CDPR was literally lying to everyone, every single step of the way, then delivered a game that was pretty much Vice City with a cyberpunk paint job, except with more bugs and more anti-consumerism.