Board Thread:Question of the Month/@comment-29935361-20160910192139/@comment-679780-20161015204647

Alexj98 wrote: they have done time travel quite a lot I can sort of agree and disagree with this I'm not sure I'm hoping if it is time travel, then the Time Stones will be involved. Now I know Sonic 4 wasn't well recieved but it's story was left unconcluded and Sonic '17 can perhaps conclude what happened to the Little Planet which was turned into the Death Egg mk.II and instead of being destroyed, was merely disabled.

Perhaps Dr. Eggman got back the DEm2 and made it into a "TARDIS" of sort, goes back to change history and all that. In most Sonic games the story has you collect the Chaos Emeralds. For Sonic '17 the Time Stones will be needed to be collected while the Chaos EMeralds can be a side-thing to unlock Super Sonic.

The reason why I would prefer it this way is because Sonic CD was the first game that established time travel and did it well. It be nice to impliment classic era elements into this new modern story. Also when Sonic collected all the Time Stones, it assures a possitive future without the need of time travel, which means those who possess all seven Time Stones can "will" the future how they like it. whenever the TIme Stones only work on Little Planets personal timeline or not is unconfirmed.