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[Eric Cartman]

watched Secret Level Part 1 because of fucking course I did, and like Love Death & Robots the animation is uniformly great, the actual quality of the short varies widely.

A lot of them just seem like promo materials or cutscenes that got cut for time or budget - the D&D one especially felt like the fade to black at the end was supposed to be a promo card for something or other - but are generally watchable. I think they might overall be stronger than LD+R actually.

• "Dungeons & Dragons: The Queen's Cradle" - its fine, I liked the Chris Pine film more. 5TH EDITION AVAILABLE NOW AT ALL GOOD STORES
  
• "Sifu: It Takes a Life" - pretty good, nice standalone
  
• "New World: The Once and Future King" - one of the better ones, starring AHNULD in a sort of king conan self parody, works great as a standalone story which is probably a good thing as about that amazon mmo
  
• "Unreal Tournament: Xan" - sure, whatever.
  
• "Warhammer 40,000: And They Shall Know No Fear" - actually fucking great, watch this one even if you skip the rest whether you know the WH40K property or not
  
• "PAC-MAN: Circle" - pretty interesting, in that it reimagines pac man as an existential threat trapped in a sci fi maze planet as a containment protocol, but then TGA just promo'd this:
  
  and now Im wondering if this legit just spoiled a major game plot twist
  
• "Crossfire: Good Conflict" - its fine?
  
• "Armored Core: Asset Management" stars KEANU but is also generally just fine... another one that seems more like a promo trailer or ingame cutscene than a standalone story.