I absolutely despised PH- the entire game was a failure. The dungeons were totally uninspired and boring, the story was predictable, the sailing was much more boring than that of WW, they tried way to hard to make the game feel like WW but the DS just isn't powerful enough to do that.
For example, the cutscene where you find out what that fairy is... it could have been epic, uplifting music, sweeping camera, expressions of shock from all the characters involved... but instead, I remember it as a slightly tilting camera, Link's ugly, bloated face only changed slightly, and a few text boxes.
And don't even get me STARTED on the temple of the Ocean King... worst game design that I've played since the Library in Halo 1.
The controls and boss fights were both great though.
On the topic of NSMB, I don't like it, not because its a bad game, but because I fail miserable at all 2D Mario games.
