
Gaming Remakes That Felt Worse
I classify this as a remake as the game was remade from the ground up-ish, it's like a hybrid of the Snes port while adding new features.
All the DKC remakes feel like they were made just to cash on the games of the series one more time. We already had DKC 1 on GBC and the semi demake Land games on GB. I really don't like the weird bright colors that plagued most GBA remakes, the added dialogue/ cutscenes which feels so poorly made/ filler yap sessions (reused a lot of animations so it looks like a fan hack), the new bosses in DKC 2&3 just look ugly and misplaced compared to the rest of the game. Then the new mini games oh man the new mini games look horrible. The music is also GBA style so it sounds screechy.
Now a days there's no really point to play these besides nostalgia or curiosity. You can't really admire these games either as they didn't really push the hardware of the GBA unlike DKC 1 on GBC.
Maybe they were good for the time being but playing these on hardware isn't fun for me.
I honestly wished they just used a different art style for the remakes like FF1&2 or just made 1 good spinoff.