‘Golden Axe’ Animated Series Gets New Trailer, And It’s Made Of The Purest Cringe

‘Golden Axe’ has a brand new animated sequence launched this September.

Sega, Paramount

Again in 2024, I lined {that a} new Golden Axe animated series was on the way, and that it was meant to be “hilarious”. Properly, the brand new trailer dropped, and it’s not.

In a world the place video games like Castlevania have genuinely amazing animated adaptations, Sega has seemingly opted to fly within the face of certainly one of its most beloved basic gaming mental properties, Golden Axe.

This was a darkish and atmospheric belt-scroll motion recreation from the late 80s, the place you performed with buddies to save lots of a war-torn realm from the forces of Death Adder.

Sure, there have been moments of humor, reminiscent of getting magic potions across the campfire on the finish of every stage by whacking helpless little elves, however most of it was performed straight, to nice impact.

This new animated sequence has none of that, and I’m genuinely amazed that this feels so tonally off from the unique Golden Axe video games.

The staff behind that is additionally made up of very competent folks, together with Mike McMahan, from Star Trek: Decrease Decks and Rick and Morty, and Joe Chandler, who labored on American Dad.

I imply, even the wondrous Matthew Rhys performs Gilius, which really made me double-take once I noticed the credit score.

So I don’t perceive how succesful folks like this managed to get it so badly improper. To not point out that Sega’s personal Shuji Utsumi is within the credit as an govt producer. Certainly he ought to have identified that this method was clearly improper?

If the trailer is in any means indicative of the ultimate sequence, the humor simply feels off and actually misplaced. I don’t get why they didn’t go down the Castlevania route and deal with it like the unique recreation.

Anyway, this new Golden Axe animated sequence shall be launched on September 16 by way of Paramount+, however for now I’m anticipating the worst.

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