Tembo himself is a likable character, and he’s surprisingly agile for a 7.5 ton elephant. What Makes It Worth My Time And Money?Īpart from that one major flaw, Tembo The Badass Elephant would be a very enjoyable game. I tried for hours to get the required scores to progress and though I made it close, I didn’t quite reach the score needed.Ī brick wall. For the people that just want to get through the game, this mechanic is a roadblock that will most likely just turn players off.
Those who want to go for score ought to have the option to do so, nothing in Tembo prevents those folks from doing that.
It’s really a shame that Game Freak put in such an arbitrary mechanic. That means you the absolute minimum threshold to progress is an average of 80% completion across the first three levels. What do you think a reasonable score to access level four would be? 300? 400? 450 maybe? Nope, to access level four you need to score 600 of that possible 744. The three levels added up have a total possible score of 744. I can understand giving players the option to go back and explore levels to gain completionist achievements, but a threshold set this high makes score attack a required part of the game’s progression. The trouble is that Game Freak have set that score threshold to be far too high. It’s strictly a “Did you kill everything?” number. Saving civilians or getting through a level in a timely fashion doesn’t effect this score. Each level has a maximum number of Phantom troops to destroy. The fourth stage in the zone will require you to meet a score threshold in order to gain entry to it. The first three stages of a zone you can go through with no trouble. The game is split up into three zones, each with four stages and a boss battle at the end. This is where Tembo The Badass Elephant’s biggest flaw shows itself. To get the scores you’ll need to progress you’ll need to play a bit more patiently and strategically. You can blow through them like, well, like a raging elephant, but that will only get you so far. The levels are setup so you can play them in multiple ways. And finally, the only optional goal in Tembo is rescuing 10 civilians that are scattered through each level. These are few and far between, so you’ll have to make them count. You’ll also find apples that will replenish your health. Along with dealing with the Phantom army, you’ll collect peanuts that act very much like coins in games past. Those actions involve running, jumping, sprinting, sliding, bouncing, and putting out fires with Tembo’s trunk.
Tembo never says a word, apart from the occasional trumpeting, but he’s the sort of character who’s actions speak much louder than words. He’s big, he’s confident, and that confidence gives you the feeling that you’ll be able to deal with any situation that may arise. Sega and Game Freak have created an instantly likeable character in Tembo. Needless to say, anyone forced to cut their vacation short to go back to work would be annoyed, so you can imagine how peeved a seven-and-a-half ton badass elephant would be at getting called back from leave. These skull-masked jerky-jerky have taken over the planet, and you have to cut your vacation short to deal with them and save the world. In Tembo The Badass Elephant you play as the eponymous pachyderm in his mission to rid the world of the evil Phantom Army. Sega and Game Freak are hoping to inject some life into this stagnant genre with Tembo The Badass Elephant. Sure we’ve had a steady dose of Mario and Sonic over the years with varying degrees of quality, but you just don’t see a lot of new Mascot games coming out. We haven’t really seen much in the way of Mascot based platformers in the past few years.
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