The gameplay wasn't even bad. My biggest complaint with 2 was just how repetitive it got. Pyramid Head became the poster child for the series and he's far from the most memorable design in the franchise. 3 is much more nightmarish and goes a little more crazy with the designs. By the time you get to the hospital and start getting the notes from Heather's admirer, it drives home that you're in a very private, intimate Hell. It's like a small terrarium of evil, like a child growing up in a festering hoarder crack head's house, or one of those lunatics that locks their family members in secret compartments to keep as sex slaves for decades. The only way to even reach Leonard is to go to an abandoned hospital, shift into Hell, and then crawl through the ductwork until you reach the festering pit he wades around in. 2 has a little bit of that with the Abstract daddy, the room you fight him in with the leaking orifices, but most of it is pretty generic. 3 is sadistic.