No, stop dying! STOP IT! -- Let's play Lemmings 2

Hello everyone! For the longest time I've kept thinking, "I want to LP a game". But I don't know a lot of visual novels and I'm not terribly interested in romance anyway. I like platformers and they're no good for a text LP! I don't like most turn-based games, I'm terrible at strategy, so what is left?

... And then I thought of one game I could play.


Lemmings was one of my favorite childhood games, even though I sucked at it. It's a game where you have a bunch of tiny green-haired people and try to get them to the goal without murdering everyone by telling them what to do. This includes digging, building, and exploding. So when I got enough knowledge of computers to find out that I could play a sequel, I 'acquired' it at once!
... And then promptly got stuck.

So, let's try to play it again! And this time... Let's beat it! Together!

"Load", "practice", "save" and "play" are all pretty self-explanatory. But what's "map"?


Ooh. This, everyone, is the world map. Each slice represents a world, and for each stage you clear, that piece of... something... slides closer to the middle. So, we win through getting every slice to the middle and building the... amulet... thingy! I bet there's a plot here, but I didn't bother checking it.
The worlds are, as follows: "Classic", "Medieval", "Egyptian", "Outdoor", "Beach", "Sports", "Shadow", "Cavelem", "Space", "Polar", "Highland" and "Circus"! Ack, that's a lot to choose from, though if you just push "play" it starts you off at Beach. Well then, where do we begin?

Edit: Crossing out the worlds we've done!

LET'S RUN AWAY TO THE CIRCUS!

I've never played a Lemmings game (I think I read a CYOA of it once though), so I'm curious to see how this is going to work. :D

Please make the images a wee bit bigger. Not huge but a little bigger would be helpful.

How's this size?
And circus it is!

That's better. Thank you.

I loved the Lemmings games as a kid. Nice to see that someone else remembers them fondly as well. :)

I desperately want to find out what their idea of Medieval Lemmings would be.

... Laser blaster?
That... doesn't seem like a good thing for a lemming to have.
But oh well! The first stage of a world is always pretty easy, if I recall, so...





... This is a pretty big stage.
BUT, the goal tent there is right next to the cannon, so this shouldn't be too hard!


I used the glue to pour up a stepping stone so all my lemmings can get to the cannon. :D


... Crap!
Only one lemming can go in the cannon at a time, the rest are falling to their doom!


I tried cutting the wall open with the laser blaster but it aims straight up apparently. D:


Now the ones that USE the cannon are walking over the edge and falling down too! Crap! I have nothing to stop them with!


...
We're onto a great start.

Oh god, between Pipsqueak in Zafehouse and now this, I'm going to forever associate you with cute things dying horrible deaths.

Isn't that the best thing to be associated with?


Anyway, this time let's make a lemming a climber! That way only he can climb over the wall and get to the cannon and thus everyone won't die horribly!


See? The "jumper" option just makes them do a leap, haha. It's pretty cute.


SCREW YOU TRAMPOLINE


And pour out some cement, and... We got a clear path to the exit!
... For the Climber lemming, that is. No word on the rest.


With a few jumps I manage to get out a SECOND lemming! (They jumped in the wrong direction at first. It's a bit hard to see who you're clicking, as you may imagine.)


Laser-blast a big hole in their room up there, and...


Voila! Lemmings falling everywhere and NOT getting squished into mush upon landing!
... This was my fourth try. So many squished lemmings.



There is nothing more satisfying than knowing you managed to rescue every single one of these little moronic creatures, let me tell ya!

SQUISH! ALL! THE! LEMMINGS!

Wait what?

... Flame thrower!? Man, these guys are so very lucky there's no such thing as "friendly fire" in this.


Seems easy so far. Maybe this stage won't lead to everyone dying!


... Oh.
Trampoline stage!


They are seriously adorable when they flail around. FLYING FLAILING LEMMINGS EVERYWHERE!


Eventually, however, they end up back on dry land and have to walk around like normal people. The only thing you really need to do at this point is to dig right there.
I initially thought you had to dig down to the trampoline, but then they hit their heads on the ceiling and fall and the space below is pretty much a death trap. WHOOPS.


Break down a wall here, and... Easy peasy! I don't even know what all this other stuff is for.

... Though, see that 38 where it used to say 40? Yeah, two of them ended up going the wrong way.
I tried to save them, but it was not to be! The poor things are squished somewhere far down below right now.

Do you know what this means?
Unlike in the first Lemmings, where you were always given a set amount of lemmings, the fact that I lost two here means I will have two lemmings fewer for every single Circus mission after this.
I can redo the stage to save those last two as well, but it IS fully possible to just save one lemming and then you have only that lemming for the rest of that world.

Oh...
Oh my goodness.

My childhood. My childhood!! :'D Though, maybe that was the first Lemmings rather than this one (on the Acorn RiscPC) if I remember correctly... Also, dem graphics. ;>

Well done saving them all in the first mission! :D

Thanks for the congrats, but I'm afraid this tribe isn't lasting very long!


Since two people are missing, we now have three big lemmings and eight small ones dancing on the screen.

... I can imagine this getting depressing rather quickly.



Hmm, seems straightforward enough.
... Except there is nothing at all that lets me build a bridge! What am I supposed to do with this?


This is what's below. Lemmings go bouncing up and up and then they're on a path so I need a bridge before they walk off the edge and get squished.


What's THIS now? A second goal?
In the middle of figuring out what to do, I find a second tent they can enter! It looks easier than the top one, even. Sneaky game, trying to trick me...


At this point everyone was already dying though, so I had to restart.
By which I mean "nuking everybody". Sadly, I failed to cap everyone exploding into tiny colorful pieces.


... SOMETHING ABOUT THIS PLAN WENT WRONG
CRAP
The guys bouncing up hit their head and fall down, getting squished! The ones on top walk off the edge and get squished! Only two guys who somehow got onto the other side can be rescued, now.


I think I need a new plan.
Sorry little guys. It's just you two, now.

I can't figure out that stage at all, so let's just move on with our two survivors.
For fun's sake, I'm gonna name them! The first to appear is Danny, and then we have Lemmy trailing along behind him. Sounds fun no?


Toldya it could get depressing quickly.
There were so many more! Just a moment ago!


Here's Danny! ... But where's Lemmy? He should've come out by now.


Ooh, there he is.
This stage is a harmless one -- we just need to dig from here...


Up to the goal over here.


So we have the two brothers meet up...


Conveniently ignore the abrupt change in numbers there on the bottom, signifying I actually got them stuck once...


And bam, we're at the goal!
Good job, Danny and Lemmy!


Somehow, though, this doesn't look too comforting. Oh well! Danny and Lemmy can go the rest of the way all on their own! :D
Watch there be a suicide stage. I bet there will be a suicide stage. And Lemmy will mourn the death of his last relative.

Big Top Time:

In which the goal is right next to the spawnpoint and I'm given flight abilities. But hey, Danny and Lemmy got to experience what it's like to be superheroes and smash facefirst into the floor!

Headache:

In which I find out just how far a lemming can fall before being squished!
Also, that I needed nothing but jumping and climbing to get to the end. Something tells me I was supposed to have all 40 here and go through some big puzzle to save 'em all, but I could bypass that by just having these two.
I should probably feel bad about that.


Circus of Fear, in which... er...
Are... are you two cowering?


You start off up here, with barely anything to work with...


... And have to get down here.
This is straight below, yes.
A lemming falling this far will definitely die.
I killed several Dannys and Lemmys trying to dig my way down there before taking the rest of the stage into account(you can see it on the selection screen).
I am not good at taking care of lemmings.


Once I figured it out it was fairly easy. Danny would become a climber and ready a path...


And then Lemmy would follow, by using a bazooka to blow up the walls in his way.
Why someone would give a bazooka to a lemming, I don't know. It sends them flying everywhere, so if I had more than Lemmy I bet at least five would've been flung off the edge and into the bottomless abyss below.


Bazooka plan failed right at the end, so he had to just fill the hole up with sand instead. But, he got rescued and that's close enough!


Aww yeah.
... Wait.
This game isn't going to judge me by the amount of lemmings I saved later on, is it?
... Bad end ahoy!

Trying .jpg for now. No visible lost quality, good! Gonna fix up the previous posts after this.
And... is that a smiley?


It is!
... Smiling at us as Danny and Lemmy fall to their doom. Who starts a stage like this!?


... Oh! Okay, false alarm.
Still, jerk move. Got worried that I wasn't fast enough to save them there.


There's a cannon, so somehow Lemmy ended up going ahead. He'll have to make the path this time!


... What.


AW SHIT
Pictured is Lemmy trying to build a platform over the pit, tripping over the edge, and falling to his death.
This happened several times. Damnit Lemmy.
I guess he really needs Danny around, huh. This is why you leave the portal last, Lemmy!


Still, several dead Lemmys later, I manage to jump over the unruly pit and get them both to the goal. Woo!


Look at that! We're almost done with the circus world, everyone! Probably just one more stage...

So, we're chronicling the bromance of Lemmy and Denny? How they work together to reach the end. And through the power of friendship, they will NOT let each other die?

Precisely!
And also the tale of me failing horribly at keeping them both alive.
Didn't feel cruel enough to let Lemmy stay dead and narrate Danny's futile efforts to go on alone. Besides, a suicide stage may appear.


The (presumably) final stage of this world!


Good, we start off in a safe area.


Leading to a cannon...


Leading to evenly spaced cubes...


Leading to the goal!
Well, this stage seems pretty simple.


We just pole vault ourselves up (there's no other way to get up, WTF?)...


The cannon shoots Danny off into the distance... Which seems like a completely pointless addition, actually...


And then we hop over the cubes! Easy peasy!


WAIT DANNY NO

Okay, didn't take into account the height of the hops. It looks like I need something else...


Perfect.

(He slammed his head into the green block and fell. I hastily gave him a carpet so he wouldn't walk off the edge, but he proceeded to fly into the wall and then walk off the edge anyway.
... I think I'm doing this wrong.)

Let's try using stuff earlier this time!
If I use the carpet earlier, maybe it can pass over the obstructive block!



Noooo Danny stop!


Okay! Let's go even earlier!
If I block off this path, I can just take the carpet into that pit and avoid half the stage!


Yes!


Noooooo...

I... I have no idea what to do here.
I suspect the builder's to block off that random pit in front of the tent...
The laser is to sear a hole in the starting area to let all the lemmings out...
But what is the rest for?!

... Good news: I figured it out!
Bad news: Holy crap I feel like an idiot.


So, I tried everything I can to get over this stupid box, right?
Can you see anything I haven't used?


I totally forgot that this fan thing existed.
I could raise the carpets by blowing air at them from below.
GAAAH



Damn straight I deserve a gold medal!
For... not understanding or remembering a basic and obvious function!

Friggin' fan.
You have no idea how many dead Dannies and Lemmies are littering the ground. No matter your guess, it's more.

One million six hundred eighty two.

Sadly, the magic carpet stage wasn't the last one.


Thankfully though, this stage is easy! It's just about blocking off hazards (like that little death pit hidden up there) and opening up the path for the others.


Since I only have two people...


This goes way too easily.


Ooh, what's this now? "Award me"? That was the last stage! :D


Bronze is all I get.
... Which is to be expected, what with having a grand total of two survivors and all. Danny and Lemmy get an E for Effort!

Good job pat~

But, that's enough played for today! I might try to do one world per session, until I get to stages that are hard because they're actually hard and not because I derped.
So, until next time... Let's decide on where we want to go next! :D

Egyption.

We really should be going too the Beach next; Banana needs to peel herself out after that harrowing adventure.

I still want to see the Medieval realm. Especially since it gives me an excuse to use a word like "realm."

And so, following the massacre of 38 member of their tribe, Lemmy and Denny (who coincidently were the last remaining lemmings) traversed the twisted circus world. They started from the far end of the realm and escaped the clutches of their handler. They would be used for circus acts! They would remain in cages, forever to be stared at and prodded.

But no, the two did not wish for such an ending to their lives. They would not, could not, let the sacrifice of the other tribe members to go to waste.

And so, the two traveled, from each circus tent to the next, hiding amongst the baggage and cargo, moving closer and closer to the center of the land. They found useful items, such as building material, flamethrowers, and, when drastic measures were needed, cannons. Large gaps and evenly placed blocks were certainly formidable obstacles, but nothing the two lemmings could not overcome together.

Though, there were days when Lemmy grew faint in heart. There were days when he simply wanted to fall down pits and into traps to end this miserable journey...yet Denny stopped him. Denny refused to lose another lemming in his lifetime.

(Besides that random thing, wut did I write??!?!!??!??, I agree, medival sounds pretty amazing!)

You wrote a pretty thing.
A pretty thing that made me doodle lemmings.

(Implying they'd ever turn around at a ledge.)

!!! !!!
( THE FEELZ YOUR DOODLE GAVE ME!!!! GAHH)

Sorry for the double post, but how do you attach something from your computer files here?

There's an "upload a file" sign next to "post reply", so you just click that and it should bring up a window to let you browse your computer for what you want to upload. At least, it's there for me.
If you want to avoid doubleposting, as a note, there's also an "edit" button on the lower left of your post! You can edit or delete posts there. Easy peasy! :D

Hm, I don't seem to have that. I have a "Reply To Thread" and then "More Option" which then turns into a "Preview" if I click that.

Right. Edit. I forgot about that, whoops!

Lemmy cares about Danny so much that he goes against his very nature and turns away from an obvious deathtrap instead of continuing on to his squishy doom. Now that's love.

For some reason, I've always thought that the lemmings involved in the game were actual lemmings (as in, the rodents). I feel somewhat disillusioned. :D;

This looks fun, though! I've heard things about this game (mostly involving lemmings going off cliffs), so it should be interesting to see where it goes.

For the longest time, I had no idea that a lemming was a real-life animal. I thought they were and always had been those little green-haired guys!

It is fun! Though it has quite a few moments of panic whenever your lemmings start going the wrong way and you try to stop them from going into the chainsaw blades or a pit but you're just a little bit too late.
You can also stuff them all in a small hole and nuke them. The result is just beautiful and I liked doing it whenever I got stuck.
Anywho, Medieval will be next!

Dude. I just realized we should have named our Lemmings Lemmy and George. That would have been the best. (I'm an English major, I like literary references, okay?)

Well, the inevitable love rival can be named george, if cutecat agrees, how about it?

If I somehow end up with just one lemming left in a tribe, sure! George can be that guy.
George Genocide. Nice ring to it.

Next stop: The medieval realm!


Look at that. Four big lemmings! :D An all new tribe with 40 people to murder horribly!


This time, the lemmings spawn from a large dragon's maw! Which is hopefully not an omen or anything. Now then, where's the goal?



... What's the dragon claw for?


Either way, this stage is ridiculously easy and something tells me I'm doing it wrong, but damnit if you let me make a giant sand pile why would I use anything else?


Look at all these lemmings being rescued! This time will be different!


I'm gonna get every single one of you stupid little idiots to the end!