I actually think the room designs on 2 and 3 are much better than the first one. As for the dark world being fairly limited and the fetch quests used to artificially increase the gameplay time... blame Nintendo for that one. Game wasn't ready for the 2004 holidays, but they forced Retro to quickly finish it all the same. Anyway. My main complain is the small FOV. I actually got headaches from playing some of my favorite games for more than thirty minutes or so :/