This game is amazing and impressive for a GBA title. The souls system is a great addition, but it makes the game a bit too easy if you farm a bit, combined with the vendor selling really strong item early on. Still a must play !

This is the weakest entry of the trilogy. It's a good game, it has a few new original mechanics, some bosses are the best of the trilogy (more than just jump on the head or throw some barrels). But we are far from the improvement seen between DKC1 and 2. The overworld was a bit disappointing and some of the last levels had artificially increased difficulty with bad gimmicks.

DKC1 will still be the best to me but this game is probably the best sequel I have ever played. It improves DKC1 in almost every way possible. The devs went totally insane with the difficulty, the last world was really hard but was so satisfaying. There was also some memorable soundtracks. A must play. I clocked around 3h30, but real playtime might be around 6-8h, I died a lot.