yes I thought the same, the graphics were awesome, places like the sealed ground and temple were really my style, but I loved the reality of TP as well, and in the beginning I didn't care about that, but later in the game I sometimes started to miss it.
The temples had a great system in SS, when you finished a puzzle, next time you were just able to skip that part of the temple. The temples weren't really mazes anymore.
I would love to buy uprising, but I think the 3DS is just too expensive, I have the money to buy it, but I don't want to spend so much money for it.