Harmony is formally no extra, and neither is the studio that made it because of current layoffs at Sony. However the ill-fated PlayStation shooter is ready to stay on in Amazon’s upcoming Secret Stage online game sequence, and the present’s creator reckons its Harmony episode – commissioned lengthy earlier than the sport’s destiny was sealed – reveals the ‘potential of its world and characters’.
Talking to Rolling Stone (thanks IGN), Secret Stage creator Tim Miller – who additionally directed the primary Deadpool film, and oversaw Netflix’s sci-fi anthology sequence Love, Dying & Robots – defined the potential for eradicating the Harmony episode from Amazon’s anthology was by no means even thought of. That is regardless of Sony pulling the plug on the live-service sport simply weeks after launch and its current choice to close down Firewalk Studios.
“I do not really feel dangerous that it is part of the present,” Miller informed Rolling Stone, “as a result of I feel it is an episode that turned out rather well, and you’ll form of see the potential of this world and the characters. If it is the remaining vestige of that product, I hope the builders really feel that it is ultimately worthy, just a bit bit, of the blood, sweat, and tears they put into it.”
“There was no nicer, extra invested group of builders than the staff on Harmony,” he added. “I actually do not perceive why it did not work. I do know that they had been making an attempt to do the most effective they may, they usually had been a proficient group of artists, so I really feel horrible for that.”
And whereas Miller acknowledged the irony of airing an episode based mostly on a sport that not exists, he famous it isn’t an entire lot totally different to the Secret Stage episodes devoted to long-dormant franchises corresponding to Unreal Match and Mega Man.
Secret Stage makes its Prime Video debut on tenth December and consists of 15 episodes, reportedly starring the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Keanu Reeves. Armored Core, Crossfire, Dungeons & Dragons, Exodus, Honor of Kings, New World: Aeternum, Pac-Man, Sifu, Spelunky, The Outer Worlds, Warhammer 40,000, and quite a lot of PlayStation Studios video games are additionally set to characteristic – with the primary batch of episodes protecting the mature finish of the spectrum, whereas the latter is extra household pleasant, based on Miller.
