How would you change a game?

[Darky's Reincarnation]

Okay I can't find it. But I'll just say some of the things I would do.

One of the biggest problems of DK64 is that there are too many specialized items for specific Kongs. This makes exploring with a specific Kong a real pain. Let's say you climb up to this really hard area with Diddy only to realize... you needed to be Chunky.

This problem would easily be solved if:

1. All Bananas and Banana Coins are the same color (yellow) and can be picked up by any Kong.
This will allow you to explore more freely as your favorite and not have to worry about retracing your steps over and over again.

2. Less switches with Kong's faces on them and have more intuitive barriers you need specific Kongs to overcome.
For example, instead of having a Golden Banana in an area that requires Donkey to groundpound a switch with his face, make it an area that encourages the player to explore as Donkey. The fact that you had to be Donkey in that area was not made obvious until you reached the switch. If the environment looked better suited for DK to explore, it will feel more natural to switch between Kongs.

Now on to other problems.

Like poor Donkey Kong having the worst powers in the game. Each Kong has unique and cool abilities by DK himself has the power too... pull levers? Here's what they needed to do, cut Chunky and give DK his powers. Sorry Chunky but DK is better suited for smashing things and lifting heavy objects.

Another problem with powers is that there were a lot of pointless ones. The ability to play a musical Instrument was just another excuse to activate switches as a specific Kong. Just get rid of Candy's musical Instruments.

Barrel throwing, not Orange Grenades. Get rid of the Orange Grenades and replace them with barrels you can pick-up and throw scattered around the world. This is more appropriate for the series as barrel throwing was almost completely absent in that game and would achieve the same goal as throwing Oranges. Also it would be one less move you'd need to worry about. Instead of holding Z and pressing a C button, there with just be a barrel nearby you could press B to pick-up.

Lessen the amount of collectables. Don't even bother having Film to collect when capturing Banana Fairies. Don't even bother having to collect Crystal Coconuts and just make the transformation timed. No more Orange Grenades and Headphones (for powering Instruments). Less things to collect will make the game seem less like a chore and will allow the player only have to worry about collecting Bananas, Golden Bananas, and Banana Coins.

Replace Tiny with Dixie. Yeah everyone wanted to play as Dixie, the Kong we all know and love from the DKC series. Why replace her? Lanky Kong was a good original Kong that was unique so he could stay. But Chunky was essentially what Donkey Kong should have been. As a result we would have had these characters to choose from: Donkey, Diddy, Dixie, and Lanky.

i actually totally agree with you, i always found it rather stranger and a downer that in the final battle you did the final blows with chunky rather than dk