God, those fucking bee/wasps.

It was satisfying taking out their king

Yeah I think Tropical Freeze introduced their own version of a bee enemy and they were fairly generic looking, comparatively speaking. Love the game but it could've stood to use more characters/stuff from the old games even without the Kremlings being around.

Agreed; I'm actually not opposed to not having the Kremlings around-(not there outright removal, but letting someone else have the spotlight here and there is fine)-but the replacements were very lackluster. Maybe it's a bit too much to expect story wise from DKC but maybe if the Snowmads were rival pirates to the Kremlings and with them taken out, now they're back to cause chaos, granted their boss would have to be more then just "Walrus K. Rool." I also wanted to like the Tikis from Returns more, I think if they had been minor enemies in prior DKC games that could have been built up in the Kremlings' absence could have also worked. As is the, the Tikis I think make decent minor enemies, as DKC really lacks a lot of memorable enemies outside of the Kremlings.

Part of me wonders if the main villain from DKCTF was going to be K. Rool but the idea got veto'd, but not in time for them to not make his boss fight literally be a remix of the original three K. Rool battles from Rare's DKC's. Otherwise I actually quite dig the Snomads, but they're clearly meant to harken back to the DKC2 pirate kremlings and slightly beg the question why they didn't just have at least K. Rool come back sooner than in Smash.

Yeah I feel the same, I think with a little extra time, the Snowmads could have really shone!

they can not be killed but they can kill you does the rhino hurt them