Thread:Myself 123/@comment-26253917-20150508002907/@comment-4220590-20150601104516

Sonicisawesome2448 wrote: If you don't have proof of Sonic ever collecting rings, you can't dare say that he ever needed rings. Yo even said Sonic gets hurt when he loses rings and he did get hurt in Sonic Advance 3 and Sonic Generations and yet no rings were seen flying out of him but he IMMEDIATELY turned into Super Sonic after. You involve too much when it comes to game mechanic and it can easily be proven that. The fact that game mechanic falls into play,  UNLESS YOU CAN GIVE SHOWN PROOF THAT SUPER SONIC NEEDS RINGS your argument is invalid! Statements means nothing without shown proof...especially when game mechanics are involved. Summed up, no matter what you say based on what you find logical, will never match up to mine because I have the Word of God as support.

I dare say so because the creators' statements on the profile support the Ring drain. As to the control over the transformation, this more than likely suggest that the transformation can be turned on and off mentally, BUT still require energy to be maintained, like a flashlight that runs on finite batteries.

As to game mechanics, this is a series full of inconsistencies, so you have to expect some of the gameplay mechanics to flow together with the story. Needless, what the creators say is the one law above all else, and those profiles points towards that Super Sonic relies on a finite energy source to stay super. You can say that it is the mind, body or whatever that determines it, but you know what? That is your perspective drawn from what you find most logical. I take a more objective approach, and the word of god points more likely towards the Ring drain; we see Super Sonic burn through Rings when transformed and it cannot be the Emeralds' energy he uses because YOU POINTED OUT THEY HAVR INFINITE ENERGY. Other than that, it is painfully obvious.

I suppose you refuse to accept this concept because Rings appear only in gameplay and is thus automatically invalid. Well, let me tell you something: the world of Sonic is not black and white; in fact, it is a mess of chaos and bleeding info, and some things in gameplay just means something in the story as well; the boss can do that because we saw it in gameplay, Sonic can perform Trick Action because he did this in Sonic Rush, Angel Island looks like that because we saw these regions in gameplay. There are a lot of information that is valid even if it is only seen in gameplay. And that include Super Sonic's reliance on Rings to maintain his form.

So let me underline it: Gameplay does not equal invalid story info.