Generations beat Lost Word! What’s the best sonic game? Day 6

What’s better? Shadow the Hedgehog or Sonic 3 and Knuckles? Winner is chosen by top comment; but please don’t downvote those voting differently than you!

Originally I wasn’t sure if I should count shadow the hedgehog as a mainline sonic game, but people seem to generally agree that it counts. On another note, several people have been talking about the way the brackets are set up, so I was wondering, when all is said and done, would you guys like a rematch with revised brackets? Because I do agree that as of now they’re… Not as good as I would have liked