![]() ![]() AdvertisementĮvery stomp when you hit the "dash" button to run makes the word "BADA" appear in your dust, resulting in a percussive trail of "BADA BADA BADA BADA BADA" that somehow never gets old. ![]() It fits well with the decidedly '70s or '80s manga-inspired art style-much like the designs in Nintendo's Elite Beat Agents and Osu Tatakae Ouendan games-that emphasizes bold lines, expressive faces, and giddily unnecessary blasts of text in intense fonts. Tembo features quite a few cartoon action movie tropes: waves of bad guys in matching, ugly, purple uniforms a leading henchman with a wicked laugh a good-guy military squad scrambling to fight back and one particular soldier (you know, an elephant) coming out of retirement to get the job done. That should be enough pedigree to get any platforming purist excited, and Tembo doesn't take long to assert its, er, weight as a worthy successor. They have a sleeper hit of a platformer under their belts as well: 2006's Drill Dozer for the Game Boy Advance. Tembo comes courtesy of the game makers at Game Freak, who are best known for designing every major Pokemon game. Tembo The Badass Elephant sure feels like one, with an insane challenge curve-and a few curious design decisions-to match. Sounds like a beloved early '90s game, doesn't it? Those are all well and good-really good, in fact-but what about a new game that feels precisely like Sonic? After a long time, a lot of awful 3D Sonic games, and the so-so Sonic The Hedgehog 4 reboot, Sega of all companies has come forward with something that might do the trick. Say hello to Tembo, the so-called "badass" elephant who relies on speed, body slams, and a trunk uppercut to tear through tricky vertical levels full of collectibles. Action Henk might be the best recent game to scratch that speedy, 2D-platforming itch, and other significant platformers of the past five years- Super Meat Boy, Risk of Rain, and Mark of the Ninja, to name a few-have drawn obvious inspiration from Sonic's formula of tricky obstacles, hidden tidbits, and a pressing need to finish levels quickly. Today, the actual Sonic franchise sucks-gosh, it has sucked for decades at this point-but there are plenty of indie developers filling in his spiky-haired void. All rights reserved.Platform: Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 SEGA and the SEGA logo are either registered trade marks or trade marks of SEGA Corporation. Online activity subject to Terms of Services and User Agreement (One-time license fee for play on account’s designated primary PS4™ system and other PS4™ systems when signed in with that account. ![]() Software subject to license (us./softwarelicense). Featuring 17 cleverly designed 2D side-scrolling levels, a whole host of deadly enemies and a unique comic book style art, TEMBO THE BADASS ELEPHANT is the heaviest action adventure of the year…weighing in at about seven and a half tons of fun. Terrifying war machines, emblazoned with skulls, tear through the city leaving a trail of destruction in their wake! As the National Army struggle to contain PHANTOM, General Krenman sees the mammoth task at hand and calls upon the only thing that stands between Shell City’s obliteration and its salvation the peanut chompin’, villain stompin’, PHANTOM romping BADASS Elephantidae…TEMBO THE BADASS ELEPHANT! Aided by his faithful avian companion Picolo, it’s up to TEMBO to jump, smash, punch, swing, and butt stomp his way through the PHANTOM hordes as he aims to bring about the end of their tyrannical onslaught. Shell City is plunged into a state of emergency after coming under attack from the devastating forces of PHANTOM. ![]()
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