Handles significantly worse that the original. You're really gonna miss that analog stick!

The races with T.T. where you draw your own courses are an interesting novelty, but they aren't that enjoyable in execution. The cool battle modes are still there in multiplayer, but are removed from adventure mode. If this is the first way you played DKR, you'd probably enjoy it, but it doesn't do anything well enough to justify recommending it over the N64 original.