Kinda with Xero on this one. I wouldn't call Sonic "decent" but it was far better than expected.
But primarily I take an issue with Kotaku here. I have worked on projects for Netflix and I think articles like this are overtly disingenuous about the process of television/filmmaking.
The idea that "Netflix" is one thing making a show is like assuming your Guinness actually was bottled in Ireland.
Whether a show produced for Netflix is successful or not isn't a true marker of a future projects' quality in the way that you should have expectations of something like HBO. Kotaku (and by extension, this thread) invokes the failure of Cowboy Bebop as if that's some metric as to why Mega Man will fail, but they are completely different production studios adapting them for television. And of those umbrella studios how much is farmed out to smaller studios with more specificity?
Like, I've personally worked on movies where you wouldn't necessarily realize our studio was so heavily involved. I know people who don't work for Disney/Marvel but worked on Avengers: Endgame because a VFX studio was hired for support. There's more levels to this stuff than just <company> is producing <product>, and Netflix is first and foremost a platform rather than a service production company.
To put it one last way: You wouldn't expect Uwe Boll and his team to create a motion picture at the same level of quality as Denis Villeneuve's just because both were directing films for New Line Cinema. Articles like this just prey on the general public's ignorance of the industry as a whole.
Now, having said all that...I personally dislike all these pushes to make live action adaptations, and more often than not adaptations are garbage when the source material was perfectly cromulent. I don't have interest in this project, but I will watch without paying extra it if it hits a streaming service I am subscribed to (as I did with Sonic).
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