I often found myself replaying the first, easiest level repeatedly, just to build up a nice stash of peanut butter.ĭon’t let the fiendish difficulty put you off though, as Tembo the Badass Elephant is, for the most part, a delight to play, and even its most troublesome areas can be overcome with patience, skill and practice. Despite Tembo’s stature, he’s not the most robust of heroes, and in these later levels, death comes all too easily. The levels start out nice and easy but quickly become rather challenging, especially some of the later levels that seem to throw entire armies at you in a tight area the enemies’ projectiles making the game feel sometimes like a bullet hell shooter.
Each enemy you kill and civilian you rescue adds to your “Phantom score”, and achieving set goals will allow you to progress through the game. On each stage, you’ll be wanting to collect monkey nuts, as collecting 300 of these will award you a nice jar of peanut butter (that’s an extra life to you and me). The standard levels see you making your way to the end point whilst defeating Phantoms and locating captive civilians that are generally hidden within the environment. The game is split up into four distinct areas, each containing a number of standard levels and concluding with a boss battle. Using his trunk, Tembo can also put out fires and water plants to create temporary platforms, useful for reaching hard-to-reach areas. When you’re not charging at your enemies with the force of a 10-tonne truck, you can be spin-jumping at them in the vein of Sonic the Hedgehog, uppercutting them with the force of Mike Tyson in a bad mood, or using your heft to come crashing down on your foes like a tonne of bricks. Luckily, Tembo has quite a wide arsenal of moves to achieve his tusk task which makes him feel unlike any other platforming hero you’ve previously controlled. Gameplay is largely the standard platforming fare, with enemies to trample on, monkey nuts to collect and fiendish environmental hazards to negotiate. Charging, jumping, spinning and spraying, you’ll control the titular Tembo across 18 stages on his quest to wipe out the invading “Phantom” army, and save any civilians in his wake.
#Tembo the elephant series
but not only is he an elephant, he’s a badasselephant.ĭeveloped by Game Freak, well known for their work on the Pokemon game series for Nintendo, Tembo the Badass Elephant is a game that harkens back to the golden age of platformers. There’s been a lot of games with animal protagonists over the years and we’re well overdue a new one to enter the fray.
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