Secret Degree’s Creator Hopes Harmony Episode Showcases Its Misplaced Potential

Amazon’s upcoming online game anthology present Secret Level has an additional stage of intrigue constructed into its launch. Not solely will it showcase a who’s who in gaming previous and current, however it’ll additionally memorialize what might have been with Sony’s canceled team-based hero shooter, Harmony. Fairly than have a look at the state of affairs with a glass-half-empty perspective, Secret Degree‘s creator beckons followers to enroll in the concept that it’ll showcase the sport’s misplaced potential as an alternative.

Talking with Rolling Stone, Secret Degree creator Tim Miller broke his silence concerning Harmony‘s sudden cancelation. He additionally expressed how he feels no sense of disgrace having the sport featured as a part of his anthology, and hopes viewers take it as a chance to understand the exhausting work its builders put into the sport’s world and characters by means of the present.

“I don’t really feel dangerous that it’s part of the present, as a result of I believe it’s an episode that turned out very well, and you’ll type of see the potential of this world and the characters,” Miller advised Rolling Stone. “If it’s the remaining vestige of that product, I hope the builders really feel that it’s not directly worthy, just a bit bit, of the blood, sweat, and tears they put into it.”

In September, Sony unexpectedly introduced the shutdown of Harmony simply two weeks post-launch on PlayStation 5 and PC. Kotaku reported Sony’s resolution stemmed from a mix of low gross sales and inadequate concurrent participant numbers. Harmony’s cancelation additionally culminated within the shutdown of its improvement studio Firewalk, two years after Sony bought it.

“There was no nicer, extra invested group of builders than the workforce on Harmony,” Miller mentioned. “I truthfully don’t perceive why it didn’t work. I do know that they had been making an attempt to do one of the best they may, they usually had been a gifted group of artists, so I really feel horrible for that.”

In accordance with one other report from Kotaku, Harmony value Sony a whopping $200 million to develop. For perspective, Riot Games invested $250 million in each seasons of Arcane, its League of Legends Netflix present. So think about if, after two weeks of the present being out, Riot and Netflix pulled the plug on it and eliminated it from the streamer as a result of it wasn’t getting the numbers they hoped it could. That’s the streamer equal of what Sony did with Harmony after eradicating it from on-line storefronts two weeks after its launch.

Harmony‘s cancelation led of us to take a position whether or not Secret Degree would scrap its episode. That’s, till events near the present’s improvement confirmed with IGN that no such plans had been in place.

Secret Degree‘s 15-episode lineup encompasses a smörgåsbord of hit video game titles like Warhammer 40,000, Mega Man, God of Warfare, and Armored Core. Its voice cast is also stacked, that includes huge marquee actors like Laura Bailey, Keanu Reeves, and Arnold Schwarzanegger amongst its checklist of Hollywood expertise.

Secret Degree premieres on Prime Video December 10.

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