Like I said about Shadow Moses Island, Pirate Ship is a pretty sweet and awesome stage in Brawl. Gameplay fighting on Pirate Ship is well balanced and fair to fight on.
Animation and Music wise, Pirate Ship has a good number of great songs for the LOZ series remixed well in Brawl and Pirate Ship, with everyone finding a few songs they will enjoy while fighting their opponents and friends on Pirate Ship. While, the cel-shaded animation in the level will not appeal to everybody, it looks fits the style of the Zelda series from Wind Waker and Phantom Hourglass well.
Like I said earlier, Pirate Ship's gameplay is very well balanced. Pirate Ship has water in the level and thankfully, part of the water portion in Pirate Ship is balanced well because unlike Hanenbow where if you fell in the water you die, Pirate Ship gives you time to get back to surface. On top of that, the stage is decently sized well. Pirate Ship is a stage where it is not to big or to small in size.
Other Gameplay elements in the level are fairly well balanced and fun as well with cool effects such as flying in the rain sky in one portion of the stage in Pirate Ship.
LOZ Stages in the Smash Bros. series are some of best stages in each instalment in each Smash Bros. game and Pirate Ship is no different. Overall, Pirate Ship is a very fun stage in Brawl and even do some people are not going to like the Cel-shaded animation in Brawl, it is easy to overlook this problem. Just about anybody will have fun moments with their opponents fighting on Pirate Ship.