Badass elephant11/21/2023 Then you have the difficulty of some stages that is just ridiculous, and has you rely more on luck than skill. The other control options in the game don’t improve much and don’t let you spreading out the controls to other buttons, which would have made Tembo the Badass Elephant a much better experience. Holding a trigger has Tembo spray water, but aiming is yet another job for that poor left analogue stick. You can quickly find yourself dashing when you want to uppercut and vice versa if you move the analogue stick even slightly in a different direction – you can use the D-Pad instead of the analogue sticks, but I actually found that just as cumbersome. To understand the predicament you first need to know the default mapping of the controls with (on PS4 at least) Cross is jump, while it’s Square to dash, Square + up to uppercut, Square + down to slide. Fighting the enemies for the most part is easy enough, but the shine is taken off when wrestling with the controls. Everything is in place for what should be a contender for best side-scroller of the year, but the actual gameplay can be so damn infuriating.Įach level follows the same basic premise of getting from beginning to end while destroying as much Phantom equipment as possible, as well as save ten captured civilians, which really encourages you to explore and find hidden areas within stages. The environmental sounds of Tembo trumpeting, people cheering, and glass smashing are all well done, adding to the fun atmosphere that Tembo the Badass Elephant tries to generate. The sound and the music is also top notch, with some suitably powerful tracks cutting in as the bigger boss battles begin. Tembo the Badass Elephant is one of the better looking side-scrollers I’ve seen in a while, and is on par with some of the best in the business in that field. It is all set against a fantastic series of environments which are vibrantly colourful, and each area carrying its own identity from Shell City to the rolling green hills. And this can be incredibly be fun too as you watch Tembo dash across the screen then jump right on top of a tank, or uppercut a helicopter with his trunk. What you’re presented with then is a 2D side-scrolling action game in which an elephant dashes into enemy soldiers and smashes up all sorts of vehicles. Tembo doesn’t have an army supporting him in this fight though, going in as a lone commando while he comrades seem content to sit behind friendly lines and let the elephant cause chaos. A war elephant isn’t that much of a stretch of the imagination considering they were part of armies for centuries, with Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps one of the most famous mentions of their presence. Apparently the only hope is a former war elephant, Tembo, who is called back to service to destroy the Phantom horde. The shadowy, evil organisation of Phantom has invaded Shell City with wave after wave of soldiers, helicopters, tanks, and even mechs occupying the city. The question is whether Tembo will be remembered for all the right reasons, if at all. Though that particular influence is noticeable, Game Freak has tried to make a mark of its own in the side-scrolling platformer genre. That game is Tembo The Badass Elephant, a new IP that borrows quite heavily from a blue coloured member of SEGA’s stable. Game Freak is a studio that is most famous for the Pokémon games, with years of developing exclusively for Nintendo’s platforms, so it was a bit of surprise when SEGA announced it was publishing a game by the studio for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.
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