It's bad. It's really bad. If the game ended about halfway through Dante's campaign it would be around a 6/10 for me, despite being piss easy (I'd like to note that this game genuinely started hurting me physically with the constant mashing of the gun button, A.K.A. the win button). But there was a point, around Mission 14, where the game just became absolutely grueling and had me bored out of my mind. Thankfully, that was towards the end of Dante's campaign, so not much more to endure other than yet another few terrible levels and an admittedly pretty cool final boss. Lucia's campaign, however, dropped this from a 4 or 5 out of 10 to a solid 3. Lucia's gameplay is already worse than Dante's, with the addition of repeat levels from Dante's campaign with very slight changes. This was boring enough as is, but they decided to add water mechanics and multiple underwater missions to her route, resulting in some of the absolute worst moments in any game I've played recently. The main boss of these water levels, Tateobesu, is quite literally one of the worst boss battles in any game I have ever played. Absolutely atrocious underwater controls as is, but add trying to attack an invisible enemy you can't lock on to onto that, and you get yourself the worst boss in this entire game. Lucia's campaign continues past this with more repetitive levels that mirror Dante's own (hey, even Mission 14 from Dante's campaign returns! This time it isn't as bad admittedly but still god awful), with a pretty underwhelming final boss. There isn't enough I can say about this game that hasn't already been said. Without the memes, this would just be a pretty terrible, boring, and underwhelming entry in a generally beloved series, but with the meme status this game has, it's almost iconic with how terrible it really is. I can finally say I have played and beaten DMC 2, and I never plan on replaying it, ever.