The era of the DS was beautiful in the way that Nintendo still had the creative confidence to just fuck around a bit, even in it's most popular IPs. NSMB DS, Bowser's Inside Story, this, etc. all had a bit of extra flair that sequels in their respective series seemed to sanitise.

The mission mode, playing on the DS stage, drawing your own emblem were all the sickest fucking thing and it's such a shame they were just straight up dropped.