If there's one trilogy that DOESN'T need a remake, it's the DKC trilogy.
- DKC3 wasn't very good, and that leaves the predicament of either leaving out a part of the trilogy and greatly disappointing its small fandom, or spending time and money remaking a game nobody really wants to play.
- Aesthetically the trilogy holds up really well to this day and is still stunning to look at in spite of digitization. In fact I'd argue it's aged better than a lot of early Pixar stuff.
- The only real flaws of the first two games (currency saving system and limited lives) can be negotiated with save states, which have been a consistent element of Nintendo's official emulators since the 3DS.
- Nintendo would probably go for live instrumentation with the soundtrack, which while good in its own right would not be able to capture the charm of the original soundtracks. (Compare Tropical Freeze's Stickerbush to DKC2's. Night and day.)
- The accursed "Mario Mandate" would likely result in some of the stranger fellows in the trilogy, especially 3, being tamed down or replaced.
- The DKC games were filled with cheeky British humour, which could very well be lost in translation if the games were to be remade by a Japanese staff then re-translated into English
- And the biggest blow of all to a potential DKC remake: instruction manuals are dead, so no more Cranky actively criticising Nintendo's business decisions in the manual.
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