Well, i think discussing about DKL would be interesting. I'll tell you my points of view of the trilogy:
DKL was a great game. When i bought it, i was afraid it would be a 8-bit copy of DKC...but it wasn't a bad copy: new scenarios like ships, submarine temples, cities, zepelins, etc...and finding all bonus levels was a challenge.
DKL2 was a bad copy of the great DKC2.
DKL3 was better than DKC2, because isn't a copy of DKC3, we have different stages, and this is good.