Way back in 2008, SEGA and Bioware teamed up to create Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, a RPG featuring Sonic The Hedgehog for the Nintendo DS.

Now, over a decade later, an interesting piece of cut content has surfaced online. The work in question is a short animated intro movie for the game, created by artist Joel MacMillan and animator Nick DiLiberto. The finished animation features Sonic engaged in battle with his arch nemesis Dr. Eggman, and can be watched in its entirety below as shared by @GameAnim on Twitter:

Sonic Chronicles (2008) unreleased 2D intro cinematic. This has never been shown before in its entirety. pic.twitter.com/T7wgxKqmb6

— Jonathan Cooper (@GameAnim) December 21, 2021

A passion project of Joel MacMillan and Nick DiLiberto, lead artist and animator respectively, Nick left games to pursue a career in Japan making solo 2D films under as "Gorgon Pictures". Check them out if you love old Heavy Metal 2000-style animated films https://t.co/dFlj505zHP

— Jonathan Cooper (@GameAnim) December 21, 2021

This animation was ultimately not used in the final version of the game, which instead features clips of gameplay footage as its intro movie. At the time of this writing, it is not clear why the animation was cut from the game, although some speculate it could be because the style did not quite match the contents of the game.

What do you think? Let us know in the comments.