The Time Stones (タイム·ストーンズ Taimu Sutōnzu?) are seven gemstones that appears in Sonic the Hedgehog CD. They lie dormant on the Little Planet, a natural satellite orbiting the Earth, and they have power to change or manipulate time. In the game, they can be obtained from Special Stages, much like the Chaos Emeralds in most other games.
Description
The seven Time Stones are colored red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and cyan. When used, they have the power to control time itself and let their wielder move through the passage of time. It is also said they can cause an event of miracles to occur, like transforming the polluted water and the surrounding desert around it, into a beautiful lake.[1]
Overview
The origin of Time Stones has not been explicitly stated other than that they are found on Little Planet. The satellite, along with the Time Stones, are able to move through time, which is why Little Planet only appears in the earth's atmosphere for one month every year above Never Lake.[1]
Time Stone after completing one of seven Special Stages of Sonic the Hedgehog CD.
In Sonic the Hedgehog CD, Dr. Eggman attempts to collect the Time Stones in order to take over Little Planet and the rest of the world. Sonic tries to stop his plans by finding them first.[1][2]
In the game, Time Stones can be collected from seven different Special Stages. In order to enter a Special Stage, the player has to collect more than fifty Rings and jump into the Giant Ring found at the end of a Zone behind the signpost. In the Special Stages, the player has to destroy all of the UFOs. Collecting all the Time Stones in the game unlocks the good ending of the game. In addition, anytime the player travels to the future in a Zone, they will always travel to the good future, meaning that the player can enjoy a beautiful landscape and not face any Badniks.
In the good ending of the game, Sonic collects all Time Stones, finally defeats Eggman in Metallic Madness and frees Little Planet from Eggman's control as the planet leaves earth with the Time Stones. However in the bad ending, Eggman nabbed one of the Time Stones as he escapes from Little planet.
In other media
Sonic the Comic
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Sonic travels back in time with a Time Stone in Sonic the Comic #28. Art by Richard Elson.
Time Stones also appeared in the British comic publication, Sonic the Comic. They were first mentioned in a Sonic's World back-up strip, in which it was revealed that there were six Time Stones rather than seven (at the time, the series also included only six Chaos Emeralds). The strip also mentioned that they were hidden somewhere on the Miracle Planet and that Doctor Robotnik wanted to find them so that he could control time and become unstoppable.[3]
One such Time Stone appeared as part of a bizarre time paradox during the series adaptation of Sonic CD. Whereas the Time Stones that had appeared in the back-up strip appeared to be multi-coloured gemstones (as in Sonic the Hedgehog CD), the one in the main story looked like a normal, oval-shaped grey stone, although it glowed when it was being used.
The Time Stones from Sonic the Comic #25. Art by Mike Hadley and John M. Burns.
Robotnik had somehow located a Time Stone, and used it to power a machine that cyberformed the entire Miracle Planet in the space of a single month (between the planet's appearances over Mobius). Later, after Sonic had chased Metallix to the Miracle Planet in order to rescue Amy Rose, Sonic received the Time Stone from a duplicate version of himself from the future. He used it to travel back to a time before the planet had been cyberformed (although the Time Stone disappeared when he did so). He retrieved a past version of the Time Stone from Robotnik's machine (destroying the machine in the process), then travelled forward in time again to give the Stone to his past self (who then travelled back in time, as part of a closed loop). After Sonic's past version had left, the machine's effect on the Miracle Planet suddenly disappeared, as did Metallix.
Neither the Stone's origin, nor its eventual fate after its disappearance, were ever explained.[4][5]
Sonic the Hedgehog (TV series)
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In Sonic the Hedgehog animated series, there were two Time Stones. They were found on the Floating Island in a temple, and they could only be accessed by defeating the temple guards and answering the riddle asked by the Keeper of the Time Stones, an enormous, ancient owl.
Sonic and Princess Sally used these two Time Stones to transport themselves back to the day of Robotnik's takeover of Mobotropolis during the two-part episode "Blast to the Past" in an attempt to stop the takeover from ever happening. This ultimately failed as Sonic didn't keep his mind on the exact date, but Sally was able to download the original roboticizer plans from one of Robotnik's terminals and saved her nanny Rosie by telling her to never leave Knothole no matter what (due to the fact that Sally knew that she would be captured while out in the Great Forest and roboticized by Robotnik).
Archie Comics
The Time Stones are mentioned in Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog comic book series and spin-offs. In this media, much like in Sonic the Hedgehog CD, the Time Stones are hosted on the Little Planet, where they are rumored to be protected by Nicholas O'Tyme or the Knights of Kronos. One of them is used by Silver the Hedgehog and Mammoth Mogul to travel through time.
Trivia
- Time Stones in Sonic the Hedgehog CD have varying appearances through the game. In Special Stages and the ending cinematic, they appear to be milled amethysts with six sides but in the result screen after completing a Special Stage, they are seen having eight sides to look similar to the Chaos Emeralds from earlier 16-bit installments.
- Time Stones' similarity to the Chaos Emeralds is striking, in appearance as well as their ability to manipulate time and space. The only major change being that Time Stones are shown to be much larger, as Sonic grabs them after completing a Special Stage.
- However there seems to be an inconsistency regarding its size, as its shown that Robotnik is holding single Time Stone in the ending cinematic, which is small enough to hold it in his hand.
- The major difference between the Time Stones and Chaos Emeralds is that the Time Stones only seem to be able to warp through time on Little Planet itself.
- Like Chaos Rings later in Knuckles' Chaotix, Time Stones cannot cause a transformation to its user.
Gallery
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An achievement featuring a Time Stone from the Xbox 360 port of Sonic CD. |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Sonic the Hedgehog CD (Sega CD) Japanese instruction manual, pg. 4-5.
- ↑ Sonic the Hedgehog CD (Sega CD) North American instruction manual, pg. 2-3.
- ↑ Sonic the Comic #25, "Prologue: Once Upon a Planet..."
- ↑ Sonic the Comic #27, "The Sonic Terminator, Part 4"
- ↑ Sonic the Comic #28, "The Sonic Terminator, Part 5"
External links
- Time Stones at Mobius Encyclopaedia, the Archie Sonic wiki.
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