Best and worst controls?

Satisfying controls are very important for the continued enjoyment of a game. This is seen very clearly in the app store, where developers have to deal with the peculiarities of the idevice's hardware. Some games try to copy interfaces and controls directly from other hardware, and end up sinking an otherwise good game. Otherwise average games implement good controls, and are suddenly a lot of fun.

In your opinion, which games have the best controls, and the worst controls, among those you have played from the app store?

This is quite apart from the quality of the rest of the game. An excellent game can have horrible controls, and a boring game can have excellent controls.

I'll get the ball rolling...

Best controls:

Pathpix
Peggle
Exorcist
Sky Burger
Card Ninja
iFighter
Snail Mail

Worst controls:

Tower of Souls
Sketch Dungeon
Zenonia

 

The d-pad, mostly. In all my time spent playing the game, I felt I was fighting against the interface, not the critters.

Moreover, the menus are of exceptionally poor design. I'm sure they worked well on mobile phones, but there did not seem to be any attempt made to accomodate them to the idevice.

To forestall the obvious retorts... I've been playing video games since the mid eighties, I play the piano, and I touch-type at 110 WPM, so I don't think there's anything wrong with my manual dexterity.

Zenonia looks like a fantastic game, and I am very much looking forward to the recently-submitted update. There's nothing I'd like more with regards to that game than to be able to sit back and enjoy what looks like a beautiful, polished, deep (by app store standards) experience.

At the moment, with the present, non-updated controls, that just isn't happening.