If you played Dante's portion first, then buddy, I don't blame you. It stinks. Go for Lucia's part first. It has a hell lot of variety in terms of level designs, or as much variety as the game COULD provide.@sshah: I played DMC 2 for like 30 mins and disliked it. The battles were awesome as ever, but there was no story at all and it was too repetitive. But as I compared it to the other DMC games, I realized it wasn't 'too' bad. So, the HD collection is a good oppurtunity to play it.
I only played 2 hours of DMC 4 btw. It was one of my first PS3 games ._. Then I sold it for LBP xD