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NEWS: Secret Level Animated Series Gets 2nd Season

The Pac-Man one which was similar to the Winnie the Pooh horror films was so bad it should never have been released, it seriously hurts the brand.

I The Pac-Man one which was similar to the Winnie the Pooh horror films was so bad it should never have been released, it seriously hurts the brand.

Of all the Secret Level shorts, Pac-Man had by far the best excuse not to engage in stereotypical video game violence, or even genre staples like boss fights, to instead just be a ghost story about a maze that demands to be completed simply because it’s there. That’s plenty scary on its own- but the short barely even uses the ghosts! This is especially odd, since the fairly obvious twist ending both implies where the ghosts came from and also why they have any interest in trying to stop Pac-Man from finishing the maze at all. Episode 106 of Secret Level isn’t really bad so much as it could have been a whole lot better.

In the single worst episode of Secret Level, the iconic character is crammed into a maze of generic, gritty, sci-fi adventure gore.

The New Pac-Man game is a spinoff of the Secret Level episode rather than the Amazon episode being created to promote it, Secret Level episodes have apparently been in production for over 5 years and Namco started working on the new Pac-Man game 4 years ago after beginning the collaboration on the show.

"When we talked to the developers, they said, 'You can do whatever you want for Pac-Man, but can we show you what we're doing for the next game?'" series creator Tim Miller tells Entertainment Weekly. "What they showed us was so f---ed up and off the hook. It was a swordsman wandering an apocalyptic wasteland, Pac-Man was a mobile gun platform, and the ghosts were these mutant things. It was so f---ed up! If you gave me a million years to guess what the next Pac-Man game would be, I wouldn't have got there."