I usually just stay away from these parts of OCR, but to be honest...
...no wait; screw that.
I've played SH 2, 3 and 4. I'm rather annoyed about this subject, because I dropped playing the 4. I really liked the beginning. The plot was well written, monsters well palanced and the game play easy enough. Pluzzes were a let down, really. No challenge and mostly just to stretch the game. At some point I'm starting the just to end. Now I got this hospitalized chick following me around and offering me more headache than Friday night while I'm fighting my way through these stupid ghosts that you can't kill and just trying to make to the final boss. But no; the bastard just won't show up. Suddenly I'll find myself back from the burned orphanage and find out that I'll have to gather 5 pieces of bodyparts to start some kind of ritual that'll probably take me to prison/other-kind-of-child-holding-tower-thingy-building-thing where I'll have to fight against even more ghosts and one of those murder victims (which I'm really starting to loath, especially when my crippled side-kick gets stuck at beating them with what ever weapon I've been able to arm her with). But yeah, I'll have to get five body parts while this flame-ghost-hill-billy-murder-victim tries to kill me and my better side while the murder fellow follows me around and tries to shoot me. Frigging shoot me. It's a surival horror game. Enemies don't supposed to have guns! I can't even run away from him, because you know who will stick with him and try to hit him with a purse or whip or whatever. It's just grazy! And I can't heal myself in my apartment any more now that the fan has come down. At least I was able to get rid of those stupid spirits with my candels, but I'm just not enjoying this game anymore. It just pisses me off that I can't (or more like don't want to) finish the game.
I really liked the 2nd and 3rd, but this is just beating yourself with a +2 flail.