The creator of Prime Video’s upcoming video game anthology series Secret Level says he hopes the Concord episode will show the potential the game had.
Secret Level, which was announced during Gamescom‘s Opening Night Live presentation this year, is a new “adult-animated anthology series” featuring original stories set within the worlds of various video game series.
There are 15 episodes in total, including stories set in the worlds of such video games as Pac-Man, Armored Core, Mega Man, Spelunky, The Outer Worlds 2, Sifu, Unreal Tournament and Exodus.
Now, in an interview with Rolling Stone, series creator Tim Miller said there were never any plans to remove the Concord episode, following the game’s disastrous launch and Sony’s decision to remove it from sale after just 11 days.
Miller – who directed Deadpool, Terminator: Dark Fate and Love, Death & Robots – said that during the course of the three years he spent working on the series, he enjoyed a healthy relationship with the team at Concord developer Firewalk and feels bad that their efforts ended badly.
“There was no nicer, more invested group of developers than the team on Concord,” he recalled. “I 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.”
He also notes that while Concord will never return as a game, and while Firewalk has since been closed down, he hopes its presence as part of Secret Level will show what could have been, and highlight the story that could have won players over.
“I don’t feel bad that it’s a part of the show,” he explained, “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.
“If 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.”
Secret Level will arrive on Amazon Prime Video
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