Ok, they're a french word for this kind of piece of fiction, it's called a "nanar", a bad movie/manga/etc that is very bad and full of issues, but on its own way it follows and you can still enjoy reading it.
This saga is exactly it, it's badly narrated, the chapters are pretty lame individually and way too short, it doesn't even have the kicks of the original series being overly gory and the characters are pretty lame, but the story follows and the art is still good enough, so it's still fine taking a couple minutes reading it times to times.