Neither, Sonic was never good. It was boring in Sonic, Sonic 2, Sonic 3, Sonic and Knuckles, Sonic 3D, and all it's iterations. Oh yeah, I get to run really fast, deal with extremely limited and simplistic platformer gameplay, and finally get to experience some fun by actually accelerating through the levels, and I hit some random enemy that didn't quite load, and get to bounce back and hear those damn rings crash. Or I get to jump from platform to platform and dodge enemies with very set patterns and navigate complex obstacles with a character that couldn't stop on a dime if he was a Jewish lawyer. It's amazing that his supposedly bad-ass attitude led to such a cult following though. Because jumping on robot bunnies is so much more hardcore than stomping on walking mushrooms.