It's easy to hate the PAR when most of the ones you do line you up nicely on the taxiway, or would fly you into a mountain/hill. In NUW I got many a terrible PAR for practice and I was pretty disenchanted with the whole thing. One dark and stormy night...well, actually it was clear and a million, everywhere but that huge ass fog bank sitting in the valley where NAS Whidbey is located.
Long story short, i shot the approach to mins on runway 25 (which at the time was 100 and 1/4) and it was by far the best PAR i have ever been given. That controller was varsity, dead nuts on the whole way down. I broke out at about 90' as i was about to wave off, made a quick right correction, and landed it. I then removed the seat cushion from my ass.
I'm more of a fan of the ILS, because i'm completely in control then. But, if you have to do a no shit PAR, they work, I'm a believer.