Video: Here's The Official Mega Man Trailer For Amazon's 'Secret Level' Series

Astro Boy/Mighty Atom will always be better.

Definitely some robot child-soldier uncanny valley feeling

Interesting… but the other selection of IPs is pretty MEH.
Not enticing enough to make me watch it all.

Wait lol… there is a Concord episode in there? 🤣

should make the cartoon style

For crying out loud, MAKE A NEW GAME, please

Looks like a rip off of Mighty No 9

Are they all going to have this generic Hollywood, corny tone? It's like a parody of mainstream American movies but using a Japanese IP.

This just looks so awful like why did they make him look like that it reminds of the werid astro boy movie from the early 2000's and also that roaster of Ip's is just kinda the most whatever stuff out there.

The character design.... Awful.

Well, I guess that's what people want animation to look like now.

I'm a pretty avid Hollywood critique but i think this looks freaking awsome! People have been smokin too much Old Toby. Character design is good, and tone as well. Only time will tell if this is art or not.

Capcom doing everything but making a new Megaman game lmao.

I can’t wait for this show!
It feels like those video game cenimstic that I would just wish would run for awhile longer.

Out of all these shorts I’m most excited for pac-man, I really curious on how they will interpret him!

I very much enjoyed Love, Death + Robots, so I'm betting that even the most mundane IP usage might spin a decent tale.

At the very least the characters didn't get the netflix treatment.

I am not entirely sold so far. I mean, Arcane is amazing and Captain Laserhawk was pretty cool too. But this looks a lot less. Doesn't help that most stories are based on either franchises I don't care about or haven't played. That being said, a free to play online multiplayer game (wich I don't care about) produced the best series (Arcane).

Love, Death + Robots had some of the best sci-fi in recent memory (Jibaro, Swarm, The Very Pulse of the Machine ❤️)
This would usually trigger a lot of alarm bells but in this case I can’t wait.

If only they would make mega man 12 or X9.

Ok it’s well done so won’t take that away, but it looks so generic. Where is the stylisation? It’s an animation based on a video game, go ham!

Secret Level teaser: “Discover Concord”

Me: “No…”

I might give it a look, but the entire premise sounded lame to me from the very beginning.

So maybe I will watch the most interesting episode first, see what it is... I doubt it though

There should have been no need to make this into a generic computer generated Mega Child fest imho. Oh well.

I must be getting old.

Is it me or does this look a bit AI generated?

@97alexk oh I agree. I haven’t much cared for Mega Man since the SNES days but this looks pretty high quality.

Kind of surprised to see all the bemoaning here.

@HammerGalladeBro
It’s a combination of that, Nintendo Hire This Man and the Uncanny Valley. It’s probably what the show will be remembered for along with having an episode dedicated to perhaps the fastest dead game in the history of this medium.

@HammerGalladeBro ...it's just you dude. It looks strange, but AI is no part of this lol.

@LUIGITORNADO These guys are just never happy. They always expect what THEY want, not what we end up getting. I get that this could probably be a little better, but shouldn't we be glad we're getting SOMETHING Mega Man related at all? Feels like it's being neglected a lot of the time.

Yeesh I think I’ll stick to pixel Megaman, 8- to 32-bit, preferably.

Hyper-realistic CGI Megaman is definitely not for me 😵‍💫

I'm continuing my boycott of every piece of media related to my beloved DEAD series until new games happen in those series.

No, I won't buy an Earthbound planner. No, I'm not interested in a random MegaMan episode. Why do they think anyone would still care about a series if they don't?

@GoldenBot

"I get that this could probably be a little better, but shouldn't we be glad we're getting SOMETHING Mega Man related at all?"

this makes no sense to me unless you consume simply to consume ✌️

@Arkay

im almost afraid to ask.

...what is "the Netflix treatment?"

I don't know why the show runners wasted their time with obscure game series' like Mega Man when they could've given us a whole seasons worth of Concorde.

Looks good but kinda lifeless.

I think it is time for me to learn to consume stuff, that really resonates with me or feels like it has soul, instead of just consuming the new things, because they are new. In the meantime I can enjoy the classics, those I already enjoyed and those I missed.

@nessisonett sounds like something a nerd would say on prom night.

@-wc- it means they get taken down off Netflix in a few months, even if they were good. It happens a lot.

Also, it's kinda funny how oversaturated Mega Man was in the 2000s and 2010s, and now we haven't gotten a new game in 6 years.

And Itoi said Earthbound/Mother as a series is done. The most we are getting are a localization of M3 and/or HD 2D remakes of all three games.

@N00BiSH How many Mega Man games are there? Why do we need another one? If you need your Mega Man fix, go play one of the several hundred that already exist. Bring back Maximo.

The only one I really care to see is the Sifu episode. That was one of my favorite games this year so I hope they do it justice.

@-wc- race-swapping characters for no reason.
That and shutting a good series down for no reasom either.

@Arkay

I knew that'd be it. it's funny how much more you hear people complain about white-to-non-white swapping now, when the same people were perfectly fine to have white faces swapped in almost by default since the dawn of time. 👍 source: I remember 10+ years ago.

Not you per se, i dont know you, but it's been impossible not to notice. 👍

But yeah let the characters be the characters. Though I will say, Mega man for example is white already "for no reason." 🤔

As far as shutting good series down: no matter what the show/series/thing is in mature, if its the one i like, guaran-f'n-tee you it's the one that gets unceremoniously cancelled, ended production, whatever it is. every damn time. 😅 cheers

@-wc- nooooooo, don’t ask!

Dammit. You might as well have said Bettlejuice 3x, there’s no mystery what ghouls that question summons.

@Rainbowfire I can replay those, sure, but I'd like to be surprised by something brand new. 11(in spite of its flaws) felt like it was going to usher in a new age of Mega Mans and my frustration lies with Capcom not really acting on that in a meaningful way.

Ah, yes, an anthology of beloved series, such as... uh, Concord. Because that was a major success...

Believe it or not, I'm actually quite excited for this... Not the Mega Man episode or most of it really, but Unreal Tournament. This is still one of my favorite games and the franchise has been in ruins for a while now, so it's thrilling to see... something.

@batmanbud2

"The most we are getting are a localization of M3 and/or HD 2D remakes of all three games."

I'll take it!

but not the planner 😂

@DannZan

lol whoops 😅 ah well.

@-wc- I'm a brownskinned dude from the Caribbeans. I don't like any kind of swapping: White to black, black to White, male to female or female to male.
For example Samus is one of my alltime fav characters and I'd hate it if they changed her into a man.

@HammerGalladeBro It might just be the animation style they went with, but yeah, it does look like a lot of the ai generated imagery I've seen.

Hmm, I've always thought Megaman had potential to make for a great animated film, and I enjoyed Love Death and Robots for the most part. I'm not entirely convinced by the trailer, but I'll give this a chance. An anthology series based on video game properties is intriguing in any case.

This looks utterly lifeless and generic, like it was cooked up by a boardroom to add value for shareholders but they forgot the customer value proposition part. It seems like Amazon was just like "Hey, you like IPs! Enjoy [series about IPs]"

This could've been a hand-drawn nod to the original cartoon series (with all the "robit" jokes anyone can handle) or something, but I guess that would've involved using union labour and oops I briefly forgot Amazon doesn't play that game. 🙄

@Arkay

"For example Samus is one of my alltime fav characters and I'd hate it if they changed her into a man."

I think this would be among the least popular things Nintendo ever did 😂

I'm pretty much with you, but I'm highly skeptical of the "outrage" that swapping produces in the current political/social climate, in my country. ✌️ thanks for the conversation.

Some of you cynical people here need to grow up. Good grief. Even I want a new Mega Man game and understand the frustration, but some of you are just being downright petty.

The last Mega Man game was only six years ago, don't really know why people keep acting like it's been decades.

@Lizuka Cause Mega Man's only had one totally new game that wasn't a Legacy Collection or XDive in 13 years. Coming up on 14.

So it literally has been a decade.

I didn't know it was the people behind LOVE, DEATH + ROBOTS. I'm actually looking forward to this now. And to whatever the Concord episode will amount to.

So are these just one-off anthology-style? cuz like, I have no interest in that. give me either a film or a series or... why bother??

Was anybody actually expecting this to be good? Especially after that awful Pac-Man reveal for this series? Plus the huge push for the Concord episode…

@Arkay

For example Samus is one of my alltime fav characters and I'd hate it if they changed her into a man.

I'm with you there. Thank goodness DiC Entertainment didn't have it their way back in the 80s. Remember that cartoon pitch where Samus was a man for no reason?

The more realistic you try to draw Megaman, the worse he looks. He works best as an anime character, this design is basically one step away from the old NES covers that looked terrible.

Why is it ground breaking? Honest question.

I know there are mixed feelings about this trailer, however as a long time Mega Man fan I'm excited to check this out. It'll be interesting to see this interpretation of the property. However if this isn't your bag you can always check out the 2010 fan film from Eddie LeBron.

Excited for both this and the God of War episode, though ima likely watching them all.

People complaining about the artstyle are mad for no reason.

@HammerGalladeBro And here comes the AI fearmongering once more.

It doesn't look so bad. I'm actually pretty interested in it. I'll probably watch this episode at least.

I'm just going to have fun with it. Not too worried about the details too much, as long as it's entertaining.

Can't wait! As a big fan of the blue bomber, this looks like something I'd like to watch. And since I have an active Amazon sub, why not spend some time checking it out?

@BulkSlash Yep! Pinocchio looked more like a real boy than this.