DISCLAIMER:The video you will see will show how Tembo The Badass Elephant got released on PC day one. As and when it’s patched / re-released or god knows what, there will be a follow up if I repurchase the game that is….

I am disappointment in human form.

Having been looking forward to this from when I played at Rezzed back in March 2015, and thus remarked as follows;

To be fair, who hasn’t already thought about an army elephant saving people while collecting peanuts and ramming walls, enemies and putting out fire with their trunk? I did 23 times today alone. So did the chaps who had taken a lot of cocaine over at Game Freak, who did that Pokemon thing ages ago it appears as they teamed up with Sega to bring this to the gaming dining table, slated for later this summer.

Just have to say, this is an instant purchase if the final product holds up to what was demoed here, which apparently was a very early build and slightly suffering from stuttering but nothing which would really put you off playing.

Just the fact it’s an insane idea alone, let alone a very very enjoyable platform game, with a large amount of charm, people to save / ride on your back to freedom, and the double jump brings with it a cute attempt at flapping his legs to stay in the air longer, yeah, I can easily see it’s appeal.

And then…..we get something broken, which possibly was the same very demo that I played back in March.

Another one bites the dust…..

Just like Warner Bros who suspended any further PC sales on Steam and Retail, Sega has now done the same with Tembo on PC, probably to avoid anyone else picking this up in the broken state it’s in. When asked on Twitter why this happened, the response was;

@Shaddex We’re working on that as well!

— SEGA (@SEGA) July 21, 2015

Later, they fully acknowledged the fault and are working on it….

We’re also looking into the Tembo problems on Steam. Sorry about the inconvenience! — SEGA (@SEGA) July 21, 2015

The worst part is, it appears that the demo they added to Steam is the fully working version which means that you can see properly what the game was to be like, well when you don’t attempt to change resolutions too much…..

Hell, at least Batman ran and saved settings and your game progress despite bad performance! This is actually the first game under the new Steam Refund system that I’ve refunded and basically it could not be a more open and shut case for qualifying for a refund.

Steam actually refunded within minutes and the game was quickly removed from my account. It therefore seems to work as intended.

However….that doesn’t mean you don’t get to see what happened….oh no, just see for yourself how Sega let the game out the door on Steam in the first place and perhaps when they’ve fixed the issue, we shall enjoy properly being a badass elephant;

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