Return Surmised as Part of Sonic Unleashed 2
Sega may have to again get into damage control mode.
Speaking to Videogamer.com, Tetsu Katano, the director for Sonic and the Black Knight, fielded a few questions about Sonic the Werehog, and the alter-ego’s appearance in Sonic Unleashed. The concept and mechanics of the Werehog were widely panned by the gaming press, and only received slightly better by Sonic fans.
Videogamer.com leads into the Werehog with the question of whether creating him was a mistake. Mr. Katano notes the Sonic Team was pressed for time when making the game:
In principle, I think that the users are always right. They’re the ones paying the money and playing the games. If they don’t enjoy it, they’re not going to buy it. I don’t think that producing the Werehog was a mistake per se, but there were a lot of things we could have done better if we had more time and resources.
But it’s the next question from Videogamer.com that has so many Werehog haters scared. When asked about improvements to the Werehog and, point blank, whether he will return, Mr. Katano confirmed he’ll be back, only to dance around the issue as he continued to speak:
For the improvements, I can’t think of anything right now off the top of my head. If I think of any ideas then Sonic Unleashed 2 will be the time for that, so I don’t really have an answer for that. But you will see the Werehog again. I like Secret Rings very much, but when it came to making (Sonic and the Black Knight) we chose to do something different. All the good things about Secret Rings belong to that specific game. So in the same way, unless we’re going to make Sonic Unleashed 2 you might not see him again. But if we are going to make it, you might see him again. It’s a possibility.
The mere fact that Mr. Katano is speaking about the Werehog may indicate something is up. But keep in mind that the Werehog’s next appearance could be in something as minor as the upcoming Mario and Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games, wheremuch of the current Sonic cast of characters will be used. Murmurs of the next Sonic Unleashed-esque title have been thrown about for a while now, but with assurances that the Werehog would be absent.
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No, no and HECK no. One time was one too much!
Oh yeah, next Sonic storybook game should be Sonic and the Bean Stalk.
Seriously though, this is Black Knight’s director. I don’t get the hysteria. Does anyone even read or think before losing their mind? I realize he could have inside info on Werehog appearing again, but his comments had no authority(he’s not a part of the main team, from what I gather) and he certainly didn’t speak with confidence. He parsed his words with backtracks, if/but’s and other useful ways of saying nothing new.
This isn’t news, it’s a supposition. A prediction. An inferance. If this was the director of Unleashed….maybe I could see it.
I, for one, like the Werehog stages. If they were a minority…say, 30% of the game, or a couple level gimmick, many people would view it more affectionately. Or if you could change characters for conveniance with alternate routes or play styles…like Zelda. I thought it was fun enough. But fair enough, it wasn’t popular. No need to act like children. I’m a huge Megaman fan, and we take our franchise’s fall into obscurity(MM9 excepted) with a tad more grace. And Sonic’s new titles are arguably superior to trask like Mega Man X7. Even ’06 was better than that game. Ugh.
What if Unleashed 2 had Werehog as the main badguy? What if like, when he dissapeared with Dark Gaia, he was trapped in nothingness and picked up Mephlies’ essance and came back? Then at the end Super Sonic reabsorbed him. Then in Unleashed 3, they’d have to beat, a now evil, Sonic. Boom, there you go Sega, Unleashed trillogy.
cool, SU 2? but why r SEGA doing it again? The night crap? SIGH they must hate us
well i didn`t mind it 1st time but i hope it gets made and i hope its Wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy more improved! But….. SEGA.. Why will the werehog appear again? oh well bring on SU 2! Hey its like back in 1991! Sonic 1, 2, 3 etc… lol. 
well only time shall tell eh? good luck though
I thought the Werehog could’ve been awesome of they had did this to the game:
Instead of making day and night levels, make the levels themselves transition from day to night in real time. When Sonic does transform, he becomes a bit more brutal and violent, and loses his Sonic charm. Therefore, Sonic has to cope with his inner demons.
If they want us to hate the werehog, give us a good reason to….
@crysore:
they haven`t ran out of ideas! 
theres loads ya can do with him! GET WHAT YOUR GIVIN 
If anywhere that they’re plan on putting the Werehog, put him in the next SSB game.
^^ Gosh, the people above just love to complain about things, don’t they? =/
Tbh, I wouldn’t mind seeing the werehog again =D. I hope the new Unleashed game is better than the Wii version of Unleashed, if not then I’ll just remember to get it on xbox360 !
Loved the daytime stages, but the nighttime would need some fixing. I found them annoying with how long they took at times. Talk about an adrenaline breaker.
I doubt this will end well if a Unleashed 2 is made. Damn you Tetsu.
I think somebody already said this, but I’ll say it again. The werehog gameplay is fine by me, and werehog was okay for one game . . . but they ought to scrap werehog and give the gameplay to Knuckles. Oh, um . . . Tails can have gameplay like the speedway stages from the original Spyro the dragon trilogy.
What!! I haven’t even played the first one yet.(0_0) I know I’m late, i’m going to buy it next week for my ps3 :”>
ok bottom line for me is that after i made the werehog stronger and along with the added over 30 combo moves i enjoyed the gameplay and it wasn’t as bad as everyone said it would be ! but i gotta say if unleashed 2 were to happen i would not bring the werehog along but if they did then just fix some of the camera angles and don’t make ‘em so long !
oh ! and longer daytime levels please !
whine whine whine! Werehog werehog werehog! for fuck sakes! Its up TO SEGA/SONICTEAM NOT US!
fucking ungrateful bastarads!
lolz, i just don’t understand, if Sonic fans KNOW so much that the game is gonna suck, why buy the game at all. cause deep down inside, you know you all love it XD, you just don’t want to admit to it
it’s like jumping off a cliff. You know it’s stupid, but you’ll probably end up doing it anyway cause inside you really wanna know what it feels like anyway =O
or maybe that was a bad example o.o
so true!
i wont lie the werehog did kinda suck he stole the damn game and all in all everyone out there knows all they wanted to do was beat the werehog parts as quickly as possible just to get back to the good ole sonic action
I guess that one explanation is that the Werehog is part of the Unleashed series if it returns in a sequel. I personally want the Werehog to appear in multiplayer Sonic games in the future and as a Sheik-esque character for Sonic in SSB.
I really liked the Werehog, because the combat system is pretty good. The only minor things they have overlooked were a few Sonic’s props from his regular self, such as the Homing Attack and his trademark speed. I suggest putting those props to good use and enhance the Werehog to a good extent. I don’t care if his running is feral or normal, just as long as he keeps his speed. And also, what would be better, the Final Boss Fight, where Sonic transforms into Super WereSonic (a fusion form of Sonic the Werehog and Super Sonic) and battles the true enemy.
Please bring the Werehog back. I miss him.
sega sega sega… so dumb dumb dumb!
how old are you werehog complainers? 8 or 28, cause either way YOU are complaining because YOU can’t handle the werehog, whether it not being able to accept him, or play as him(read: you suck at night stages), you are trying to get YOU’RE way because you think YOU’RE way is better than everyone ELSE’S way. You are selfish idiots who can’t shut up and look at the possibilities in front of YOUR F*CKING FACE!!!!! (note: I’m not talking about those who don’t mean any offense to anyone about their views, and people who are acting maturely about the situation and argument at hand (ie, those who are merely pointing out the werehog had minor flaws that could easily be corrected with pliers, a hammer, and duct tape))
end of rant.
i repeat sega is dumb to the brain!
i like it now
but still silly! how are they gonna bring him back? a werewolf attacks him?!? lol…. 
NO WAY MAN!
I didn’t mind his werewolf form being in Unleashed, BUT it wouldn’t make any sense it ever appearing again becuase the issue with dark gaia has been resolved! And it is certainly NOT what the fans want, even if they liked it in unleashed, they are not going to want to play the ‘wherehog’ again!
Besides, without the ‘wherehog’ they can still tap into Sonic’s other physical abilities, you know, the stuff we know he can do becuase of cutscenes but you never do in gameplay? He can jump several hundred meters, is super strong and super agile in addition to being super-fast, he punches reasonably but can kick like a mule.
Why then are you restrained to using springs to jump, and rolling into a ball or headbutting things in order to attack?
Yeah Sega should really show what Sonic can actually DO normally without some sort of transformation.
And they need to write the characters better, I don’t really care about backstories, just they don’t act as they should do according to their personalities, Sonic in SaTBK was absolutly perfectly portrayed! But in Unleashed his writing wasn’t quite up-to-scratch and he returned to being goofy and slightly lacking in his attitude.
XD IS IT REALLY APPEARING OR NOT?
WELL WEVE GOT SONIC COLORS TO LOOK FORWARD TO
HOPEFULLY IT COULD RETURN IN 2011? :O
:S :@ AND THEY HAVE NOT RUN OUT OF IDEAS
ITS UP TO THEM NOT US
SERIOUSLY IF YOU HATE SONIC THEN WHY DONT YOU JUST LEAVE THE FANBASE AND NEVER COME BACK DONT TALK CRAP ABOUT SONIC
:@ 
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@Blueblur …Seriously you think SEGA is dumb? huh call yourself a sonic fan eh?
A true sonic fan would stick through sonic from good and bad ya know 
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I like the werehog he’s the shit i just didnt like that he had the same attitude as sonic maybe if he was alot more aggressive and beast like. it may work for su2. one mor thing fuck those haters up there if they was a sonic fan they should know that it take time to get use to something, like werehog sonic and i would love to see super werehog and all the sonic characters in it even the ones in the comics. please and thanks for your time.
Ah, come on, Sonic the Werehog is one of my best favorite Sonic the Hedgehog characters, and one of the Light’s Treasure allies in my story. He’s also my favorite kind of beast because he’s so werewolf-ish and cool. I made the Werehog to be an ally of my Vampire Cerulean character. Don’t worry about that. My Vampire is too good and lady-like to be bad to the heart and the bone. From what they said inspires me to do that, and now, I made the Werehog from transformation to a character, more loyal as Sonic, smarter than him, but his voice sounded the same as the Jason Anthony Griffin. I also made forms after him for Princess Cerulean.
At first, he may be scary, but now, he’s not. Lucky for Sonic, he’s still the same as the Werehog. ( Well, almost.)
In one of my stories, I created a transformation based from the Werehog, along will Knuckles, Amy, Big, and the others as a Beast Cross transformation for my character, Princess Cerulean from the Cybeast transformations she controlled on.
I also made my character become a Werehog like Sonic, too, and a counterpart of Vampire, and Werehog becoming nice and loyal to people like a fine gentleman he is. I love that beast than the one in that Disney movie of Beauty and the Beast. I’m also cool with him because he’s too werewolf for a beast, but I don’t care! Sonic the Werehog is my favorite beast and he will always will be. Even when people said dumb, trash talk about him!