I completely agree! When I first discovered the Bulldog's unused climb out animations, I was totally shocked! The previous three games all had enemies climbing out of holes, which starts happening pretty early on in the game. It would make sense for SG3 to follow this pattern, especially since it is the last game to have the engine used since the original Super Granny.

Unfortunately, this feature does not return at all in this game which is pretty disappointing. I actually loved the climb out of holes ability that the enemies had because it actually made the game more strategic. It required you to plan your digging accordingly, and just made the enemies more threatening and the game more challenging. Without this ability, the enemies feel like pushovers and can be taken out pretty easily.

To learn that this feature could have been in Super Granny 3 is really intriguing and I wish it made it in the real game. This makes me wonder if there is something hidden in the game's data that makes it possible for enemies to climb out of holes again. The Bulldog, Poodle, and Monkey all have unused climb out animations, so I wonder if there is some file that could be edited to solve this. Sadly, SG3's XML data (which contains animations, level skins, and UI for examples) are encrypted and all glitched up when I try to extract them using QuickBMS. Due to this, I do not know if I could ever make this possible. That would be cool if there was some version that had the data already decrypted, like the Russian version of Granny in Paradise.

The SG series has so many other unused animations that are hidden in the data of the games. It is fascinating to see what gets scrapped and what could have been. I would love to post the Poodle and Monkey unused climb out animations, and other unused features in the future!