Sonic: Night Of The Werehog

You are likely familiar in some form with Sonic: Night of the Werehog, also known as Sonic & Chip: House of Horror. It was a CGI animated short, a tie-in with Sonic Unleashed and featured the already Werehog-afflicted Sonic mid-adventure with Chip.  There was a series of three smaller shorts hidden as collectables within the game itself, but this was a standalone and more of a feature. A 3D version even played as part of SEGA’s Joypolis park in Japan for a time. It was pretty good!

Now, a long time back during the ‘peak years’ of the Shadow Depository, Kevin came across a half-Japanese, half-Korean website operated by an apparent member of the development team. Who? No idea. It was a bit of a mess, frankly. But it had a whole bunch of developmental stuff that clearly should not have been there. Short on time a number of ‘high priority’ looking items were snagged.

A couple of days later and the entire site was gone. Damn.

Now putting this up at the time would’ve been a bit rude – and a conflict of interest for Kevin – so it was decided they’d be put away for “another day”. Over the years we’ve put out little bits on occasions, like the sadly now lost video of ‘work in progress’ CGI and a few of the storyboards. There’s still a lot that has never been released however, thanks to it being stuck somewhere on the old Sonic Wrecks-era PC. Until now, that is…