Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27441478-20160724084959/@comment-679780-20160724180318

In all honesty, I don't want it to be a "Sonic Generations 2" for three reasons.
 * 1) Sonic Generations, while part of main stream games and it's story canon to the series, it was more of a tribute game. It was more to look back on Sonic history and enjoy the nostalgia than to be regard entirely as a mainstream game. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind a "Sonic Generations 2" someday, but perhaps when there is three, six or nine more games to add additional eras to play through.
 * 2) I always regard Classic Sonic as a "Tribute Character" as in, more of an extra or unlockable character for the sake of nostalgia than regarded part of the main characters. For Sonic Generations it's logical he was a main character in the game since Sonic Generations was a tribute game. But showing up in the main story means time traveling is involved and since I don't believe the game is "Sonic Generations 2" I have the same concerns of "time travel shenanigans" confusing the story as it had happened in Sonic '06.
 * 3) In the San Diego party, when the trailer was announced, Hirokazu Yasuhara (Was it? I can't recall who announced it) said that the upcomming game was "Not a sequal". Now he could mean it's not a sequal to Sonic Lost World (brilliant!) but he was not specific if it was a sequal to anything else, thus we can only pressume that the upcoming adventure is a stand alone adventure from his previous one. (The very least I imagine Time Eater or very least the Time Stones to be involved.

I believe the game will simply be about Dr. Eggman using some sort of time altering method to make himself the world conquerer, make it that all his past battles with Sonic and GUN have him the victor and successfully conquer the world while Sonic and his younger self must correct the timeline.

This might result in the games series very own "Super Genesis Wave" which I hope not. But if it comes to that at least hope not a complete recon of the series like Sonic '06 tried to pull off and that past Sonic games will still be valid.