According to Nintendo's Official magazine (who've had a test play of the game), in stages...
OH NOES, HUMANS!!! D:
lol I know SOMEONE's thinking that XD. I hope it can be easily skipped in the game, cause I don't wanna spend alot of time speaking to towns people.
Also, they say "Been wary of getting too excited? We can assue you that it's now safe to do so..."
Yay?
EDIT: Another thing in the magazine I find interesting is that it says "If you can't be bothered with Sonic's homing attack you can just jump over enemies.. and shows a screenshot of Sonic jumping over like 4 enemies XD. Makes me think.. does this mean I can easily just skip through enemy areas by just jumping over them all?