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Ultrasonic9000 wrote: Mystic Monkey wrote: Maybe not a new super form, given Super Sonic was merely an unlockable in Sonic Lost World than needed, I just think it be a really nice call-back if they were collected for a change as well as a nice alternative to collecting the Chaos Emeralds.

What we can recognise from the trailers and demo is that Dr. Eggman obviously screwed with time. Either caused by the Time Eater who may have taken a bite from beyond Modern era before it's demise, or as evident in Sonic '06, alternate ways of time travel such as Chaos Control with more than one emerald or the Solaris Project which had a built in time machine that Eggman used. So it could be possible Dr. Eggman could of constructed a brand new chaos powered time machine.

As much as I hope Sonic Forces will conclude what happened in Sonic CD and Sonic 4, as well as how cool it would be if the Time Stones were brought back and needed to restore the default timeline, I'm trying to think practical on what Sonic Team would have for the games story and chances are they would go with brand new concepts that would keep the story simple to follow than old concepts. Such as Dr. Eggman building that chaos powered time machine. Gotta be reasonable. Sonic Team usually establish the games in stand-alone format so they have as little influence on each other as possible. That way, they can get away with more, including a timeline. True, but in doing so it makes what they have established in the past more reduntant. For example, why put in the effort to create a time machine, as well as programming the right energy outputs to not accidentally create a black hole, collapse time in on itself and doomed reality and such, when you can just get the Time Stones which magically can do all the work for you?

And while "magic stones" seem a cop-out, they are excused by the fact they were were in Sonic CD than the need of a brand new mcguffin with new established functions and lore behind it that the audience is little familiar with?

But if Sonic Team will go for the later, they have their reasons.