Not to be a dick, but this is plenty easy. I'm not good at these games and there are lots of other top-downs on Kong that are much harder than this game.
THis was fun, though. The fairly long upgrade tree is nice, although even with 10 levels of weaponry, it fills up fast. The two-weapon combo is fun, too.
Fun; the new level generator makes much less mindless puzzles than the original.
I agree that the ability to freeze tiles would be nice; also, on the really big levels with small tiles, a handy tool would just be coloring the tiles on whether or not they're matching all of their neighbors. There were a couple times where I had to strain my eyes looking for that last tile that wasn't quite right.