Here's a look at the Dead Cells animated TV series' first proper trailer
Last June, Dead Cells developers Motion Twin revealed its acclaimed rogue-like action-platformer was being turned into a 10-episode animated series, and a first proper trailer has now been shared ahead of its arrival this June.
Dead Cells’ TV series is the work of Paris-based animation studio Bobbypills – the team behind Dead Cells’ animated trailers, as well as last year’s excellent Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon spinoff, Captain Laserhawk – and whisks viewers away to a cursed island ravaged by a strange plague.
“After the island’s foolish king develops a remedy that ends up turning the population into monstrous creatures,” the official announcement revealed last year, “prophecies depicting a flame-headed hero begin to appear. As it so happens this beheaded hero is real, but saving a kingdom isn’t on his schedule and he just wants to be left alone.”
As to what that looks like in practice (the answer appears to be ‘crudely but enthusiastically animated’), you can see above. And if you don’t speak French, there are English subtitles too.
Dead Cells: Immortalis (as it’s titled in France) has been produced in conjunction with French anime streaming service ADN, and its 10 seven-minute-long episodes will air there on 19th June. An English version and worldwide release is due later this year.
