If you wish to preserve even the slightest chance of appreciating Sega's animated short, Night of the Werehog, there are a few things you'll need to accept:
Sonic (a blue, cartoon hedgehog, as you'll recall) transforms into a mutant lycanthrope with stretchy limbs. We have no idea why.
Sonic and his diminutive sidekick are haunted by a pair of ghostly voyeurs.
Aside from the mascot's metamorphosis, it's difficult to decipher any connection with the story presented in Sonic Unleashed. We'll venture that it's probably a good thing.
If you have the bandwidth, download the high def version of this short, it looks absolutely stunning! Its a 1.51 gigs size file btw, but worth every byte.
Why the fuck do Sonic games need a story? The acceptable amount of story these games should get is roughly what Sonic Heroes gave us. Three Fucking Cutscenes; One at the beggining, one mid-way to show Egg Man invading with his fleet and one at the end showing Eggman defeated. Adding humans,werehogs, million annoying sidekicks and other bullshit only fucks it all up which is why I'm not sure what SEGA & Team Sonic are trying to achieve...
Ehhh? Did you play the same Sonic Heroes I played? Cos mine had hell loads of cutscenes!
But I agree, I don't have a clue what Sonic Team are trying to achieve. Sonic Unleashed looked like the perfect return to the classic Sonic formula...until they announced the fucking Werehog.
Sonic transforms because of the power of the Dark Gaia, some sort of evil entity sealed in the core of the planet. Eggman unleashed the power of Dark Gaia, in an attempt to harness the power so he could create "Eggman Land"
Basically a similar story to Sonic Adventures 1 & 2, Eggman tampers with forces beyond his control, chaos ensues
What a stupid short! It makes no sense. Why did Sonic and Tails go into that haunted house anyway? What was their motivation? It just seemed like a cheesy plot device to set up what was admittedly one of the most epic battles I've ever seen.
I do agree with the poster above about the female ghost. She gave me quite the boner. The end was disturbing though where those two ghosts have Tails tied up, presumably to rape him. I don't know how SEGA ever greenlighted that!
Dear god, why have none of the bloggers pointed out in an article that were means man and hog refers to pig. Sonic the Manpig. Sega is full of morons, I guess they thought were means wolf.
Well, wouldn't you think that Sonic was always a Werehog? If "were" means man and "hog" is short for hedgehog, then wouldn't his walking around on two legs and speaking make him a werehog? And he definitely turns into a werewolf too...
Yeah, Sega are morons for calling him a 'were-hog'.
If they were smart they'd make the entire game make perfect sense. Because, you know, every game that doesn't make sense is retarded and made by ugly people who are also stupid.
Can't wait to get home and NOT play this, because it makes no sense. Instead, I'll play some Mari... uh, Hal... erm, Biosho... Steel Battalion! Fuck yeah! I can't wait to play nothing but that for the rest of my life!
Fantasy is all well and fine, but it should make some sort of sense. You can't get involved in a story or game without it pulling you in some sense. If they want to make sonic a half wolf half hedgehog that's cool, go for it. Just don't name him Sonic the Manpig unless he turns into a manpig.
You know what I'd like? For every blogger to mention at least once in every Mario post that Mario is a plumber/carpenter and we have yet to see a single game where he's laying down pipework or bricks.
Or that Sonic's name is Sonic yet he doesn't run nearly fast enough to constitute such a name.
Megaman? He's not mega, nor is he a man. There goes another franch-ah fuck, you see where I'm going with this
This video begs the question: why would I want to spend $59.99 to see Sonic jump the shark- again- when I can see it here for free and a considerably smaller time investment?
Ludwig! Get yourself together, man! Your blind adoration of Sonic games will be your undoing! Let these posts fall by the wayside and tarnish the pages of Joystiq no more!
Sonic is not without its flaws, and there are many, but i can honestly say i have continuously enjoyed his exploits.
Certainly none of them have reached the same level of awesome that Sonic Adventure 2 did, but only one game in the world can even claim to be better than SA2, and that's Metroid Prime
Khan, that's a heavy statement. I loved Sonic Adventure as much as the next guy, but 2nd best game ever? (I liked the first one better, actually. And Metroid Prime is for the win.)
I loved the treasure-hunting portions, as well as the shooting portions. In fact, i liked those portions better than the speed portions, because i was better at them. The story was perfectly balanced, as it was purposeful, but didn't get too heavy-handed. It also had the perfect amount of replayability, and the Chao garden was the ideal complement to the main game
It just clicked. It has also withstood the test of time quite well.
You've seen my lengthy argument against Sonic Adventure being anywhere near the 'best game ever', Khan, so I won't get into that.
Instead, I suggest you pick this game up - the Werehog parts are tolerable if you like the speedy parts, which control tighter than that Adventure bullshit could ever hope to. Not to mention the fact that the music DOESN'T SUCK FOR ONCE, the voice acting is getting better, the animation is far superior to what we've seen from Sonic in the last few years, etc.
