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

Well really, I imagine Space will be next unless I get a sudden influx of Highland votes, considering last time and all, so don't worry too much.
I'm just using this as an excuse to take a break.
Muahahahaha~

Space.

Space as well :)

SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

WUZZAT SUNNY? I COULDN'T QUITE HEAR YE!

/old joke

Alright, break's over! Time for our next world, which has been an overwhelming victory for...


SPACE!!


Heehee, puns.


Pretty nice hi-tech scenery!
As always, being the first stage, this one's pretty simple.


The only real problem is that pit over there, which your lemmings will fall into if you can't block it off fast enough.
As you can see, I wasn't quite fast enough. Whoops.


But it's fine! While trying to blow a hole in the ceiling, I accidentally blow a hole in the floor, allowing the little guys to slip out!


There we go. As always, I rescued--


Wait... what?
How did-
When did that happen!?

Well, I figured out what I did wrong (a runner who dashed off the stage), but you people want blood and sacrifices so he stays dead! Poor Runner.


Didn't feel like putting up 4 screens for this, so here's the stage map.
Pretty easy, right?? Just need to send someone over.


The Magno boots lets the lemming walk on the walls and ceiling, so sending him around should be a cinch. The rest of them are safe and sound in that little ditch that could easily release them all to certain doom if I fill it up with <redacted> too early.

Sadly, the boots also make him slower than a normal lemming, so it's a pain to wait for the dude to get where he needs to be.


... Unfortunately, when he's upside down or on walls, not a single thing I do can dislodge him from the ceiling.


Trying it without the boots leads to a dead lemming somewhere on the bottom there.


I even try blowing them up on each other to dislodge them and/or create footing that will force them to stand upright so I can dislodge the little bastards. Grr...



Oh dearie me! Now how did that happen?

I wish the lemmings were all wearing tiny pulp scifi bubble helmets on these stages.

(ETA: Oh my god I am now a Despondent Fancybear! I have waited all my life for this moment! I must do a dance tiny enough to not distract the lemmings.)

This isn't Terror from the Deep... yet.

Pictured: Not gonna work.


... Uh-


Pictured: I think I'm cheating, guys.
T-There's no way this is what I'm supposed to do.


... Well, who cares? I've gotten him down where he needs to be and we're running out of time!


Hurry hurry!


And so we get through, with only 10 seconds to spare.


I still have no idea how to beat this level. But I learned how to glitch it, so that's something I guess?
Actually, I think I'm beating a LOT of levels the wrong way. But what the hell, it's possible and it leads to saved lemmings! Good enough!

It's an obstacle course!
Sadly, despite my best attempts, I could not cheat my way through this one.


I send a lemming off on a quest to travel around the whole stage! As seems to be way too common in this game, actually. Hm.
I'm gonna call him Arnold.


Things go easily enough, not counting a missed jump or two hello Arnold mk3 and soon...


We have Arnold digging one way and all the other lemmings burrowing down in the other direction. Ah, victory~


Everyone's safe! Except for those two idiots who decided they'd rather fence in the wrong direction.
They fell off the stage and died.



Let this be your lesson, kids: Always go with the flow.
If you don't, you'll die and be called an idiot for it and I get chastised for not saving you.

This right here is why saving all lemmings is such a pain. If you try to give a crowd of lemmings an ability you can only hope that it goes in the right direction, otherwise you may end up with 1-40 lemmings dying horribly due to digging out the wrong wall.

Is this a good point to say I barely ever look at these things? They're just good post starters so that's why I keep including them.


Either way, this stage is... A spiral! Or rather a vortex.
Looks like I'll have to dig in a spiral, too...


Interesting how I'll need to use different supplies for every area. Hmm~
... What's the javelin supposed to be good for?


And then, while trying to blow up the ceiling, I accidentally discovered that these walls are actually breakable.
CHANGE OF PLANS!


I just dig straight off the side here...


Blow a hole so my lemming will club through the floor instead of stopping at the end of each pyramid...


... And bam!
Sequence breaking go!


At this rate, I wonder if I'd be the best or the worst walkthrough ever.

Okay so I got sidetracked due to being stuck on this stage for so long, whoops

Sounds innocent enough, right?


Let me say this right now: SCREW this stage. Lemmings will die and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it!


You can use your two wall-sliders to get down to the bottom with two lemmings, at least...


After that, lemmings will die when you cover up the holes. You just can't be fast enough to prevent someone from walking past into the abyss while you set up the ropes.


Lemmings will die while you bomb these paths open, they fly up above the screen and get taken by eagles.


And this path continues off the stage, but two lemmings (actually more!) will walk past while the builder's making his wall. And then the builder will walk off the edge, too.


And even if you manage to blow a hole... You fall into the abyss.
I could only save two, those two lucky enough to get wall sliders.
This... This just can't be right. I can't be meant to save only two people!


I send Arnold around and, because a normal wall won't get high enough, I abuse the game mechanics to make him climb up onto that pillar. Put them to build at just the right spot and they move so far into the wall that they climb upward, which they generally only do when they bury themselves up in sand somehow.


But, with Arnold adding a path... At least some of the lemmings are able to survive.
We've had many sacrifices, but...


All we can do is move on.

A vortex is much better than a spiral.

Hey guys! It's time for CC to stop being lazy and/or stuck!


See, it wasn't just laziness this time. I actually got stuck on this stage.
Even though it sounds easy...


It's yet another "send one lemming ahead to fix everything" stage and seriously did the original have this many of them? It's getting a bit ridiculous.


Anywho, off Arnold goes.


The problem is here: You gotta get good timing to hop across these stupid pits.
And when you're on the other side ...


... Arnold hops onto the wall.
Where are you going, Arnold?
You know there's nothing there, right?


Note the tiny hint of a lemming limb vanishing out of the stage.
How am I supposed to get past here if he just hops onto the wall!?


... Well, it's not this way that's for sure.
I eventually took note of that little wall cropping up and thought "that's it! I'm supposed to have him drop down onto that thing!".


You wouldn't believe how long it took to make him drop into the right hole.
But yes! Finally I can move on and beat the-


Squish goes the Arnold.
Yeah turns out it was still too high.
On the bright side, my constant attempts to make a lemming drop into a tiny hole to hit an outcropping he wasn't supposed to helped me figure out how to ACTUALLY proceed.


Which was to use a jumper (a big jump) to make him land and walk normally before he could hop off the edge.
I am evidently not a smart Lemmings player.

The rest of the stage went pretty easily.


Arnold's not winning any spear-throwing competition anytime soon though.


That's better! Not really GOOD, but... passable.
And yes... That little stick is the sole reason for that huge stupid trek around the map.


Without a stick to break their fall, all the lemmings up there die.
But nope, I had to play by the rules this time. And all of the lemmings were saved.
...
What was the pole jumper supposed to do, anyway?


Oh well, who cares?
I WILL beat this stupid Space world today!

Oh yeah, as for not updating I guess I was also busy with some school stuff and drawing several pictures of a zombified mouseboy reploid.

Hey, I get this joke! :D


Yet again, it's time to send out Arnold to save everyone's asses.


... Er.
Long story short: I missed.


Evidently they cannot reach the other side just by running.


This guy hit his head on the steel pipes and fell to his doom.


... I got annoyed.
To be fair, seeing ~10 lemmings getting squished all at once is a good way to cheer yourself up.


While trying to hit the wall with a bazooka I accidentally shot in the wrong direction and destroyed those steel pipes up there, allowing a lemming to jump through to the other side. Success!


... Though, not sure what to actually do up there, I mostly ended up building this path.


Evidently I cannot get into that gap just by running.


... Further tests with the bazooka were negative. This is no way to get to the other side.
I'll leave it up to your imagination how I managed to get those two lemmings there.

Oh, my god, now I have to go play Lemmings for hours on end.

I can get one dude down safely, but I can't make him turn around to build a bridge. Thus, I plan to build a wall and then hit it with a bazooka so he gets knocked down on the left side of the wall and has to turn around!


Success! Kind of! Please ignore the hole in the wall.


... Though sadly, the fall's too great for all the lemmings above and they get horribly squished.
Frick.


...
Well, Arnold.
Looks like it's just us, now. Because I'd be damned if I know what I'm supposed to do here.

Poor Arnold. He doesn't even have a friend to keep him company like a certain circus lemming did.
But he's strong and not about to give up, so let's move on to...


Odyssey! In which holy shit portals.


And in which I completely disregard the fact that this is supposed to be a maze.
That hole wasn't there a moment ago.

Easy enough stage even if it took a stupid amount of time!

And next up is... Inside the Steel Box!


In which the game taunts us, once more.


And in which I find out that 1: airlocks are a thing, and 2: they hate lemmings.

Poor Arnold.


3: I am not very good at building paths.


4: Teleportation mazes SUCK. wait I knew that already


Hitting the wrong teleporter puts you right back down at the lemming-hating airlock. Time to fire up a new Arnold, I suppose.


Seriously, I am the worst at building paths.


But whatever, I don't care as long as I get to the goal. Which is also an airlock apparently and the lemmings go flying into that one too, but it doesn't kill them somehow?
Lemmings are strangely context-sensitive when it comes to their durability.


It's been a while since I saw something so triumphant yet so pathetic...

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE

You're better than I was. I always would lose ALL OF MY LEMMINGS on the first stage then have to finish everything else up with just one or two.

I'm pretty sure that's how I did when I was young, Vide. Checking out my old saves, I only ever beat one world (Cavelem), with just one lemming to spare. The rest? Got through a stage or two then got stuck, apparently.


Either way, time for this stage!


And again they tease us.
...
If you're wondering, he died from the fall. Don't run and jump, kids!


Arnold mk.XX, stop that. Get down from the walls you derp.


Then I misclicked and poured out all the glue I was supposed to use to make a bridge.
... Maybe I'm lucky everyone else is dead already. okay wait that sounds horrible


But it DID leave Arnold at risk of running off the edge and having to redo it all, so I made him fire the bazooka in his own face until he turned the right way and wandered into the goal.


Award-- woah, already?


I wouldn't have expected anything else, game.


I checked out the "practice" option on the menu to find something to pad the update with, turns out you get to pick your own skills and tribes! So, have a bonus image of all the lemming skills!

And now it's voting time again! We have "Classic", "Outdoor", "Beach", "Sports", "Shadow", "Cavelem", "Polar" and "Highland" left!
But please pick something easy.

Something easy, you say?

Sounds like you could use a day at the Beach.

I just hope you don't end up all washed up.

The lemmings must go to the shadow realm.

Shadow.

Eh, I've got this urge to create a Yu-Gi-Oh joke...but then my inspiration pooted. So, here you go.

I second beach, for a Nice, relaxing day.

Okay so I didn't mean to actually take a break there but hey, free break!


Let's go to the beach! Because man, it's the starting world. If this one's not easy, what world is?


For unknown reasons they have triple entrances, all with tiny obstacles to overcome.


If you're given flamethrowers, what possible reason would you ever have to use anything else? I mean just look at all that other stuff, who needs it?


And voila, all 40 ...
uh ...
30 ...
I appear to have lost some of my lemmings, hold on.


Theeere we go.
By the way, these lemmings have tanned skin which is a cute touch.


Still white in the victory screen, though.

And that was delightfully simple! Will the rest of this world be this easy?
Spoilers: No.

I don't get any of these surfer puns by the way.
If you do, you are more of a dude than me.


By the way, we start right next to a clearly fatal fall. That whole "maybe this world's easy" theory went out the window pretty quickly.


But, I just use a jetpack to send someone down, and keep the rest distracted with a musician.
The musicians in this stage are DJ's, which is awesome.
I'm gonna call this world's "let's clear the path" lemming Jay.


Since glue is the same color as lemming skin, this world... seems to have brown glue. I think it may have expired.


Things are going-- oh god
WHAT'S GOING ON


OH GOD JAY NO D:


Okay, let's... skip over that lemming-popper by blocking it with sand.
I seriously need to start suspecting everything new or strange-looking of being a death trap.


PUNCH. THROUGH. EVERYTHING.


EVERYTHING.


Fun fact, I had to redo the stage at least once because the goddamn laser misfired and halfly hit the steel wall and didn't make a hole.
Stupid picky game...

In which we get KAYAKS! :D
Kayaking's gonna be awesome!


The game wastes no time in letting us try it, either. Off Jay goes!


They have a tiny animation for bringing up and putting away the kayak, too. Come to think of it, this game put a lot of detail into everything didn't they? The only thing I can think of that this game needs is the explosion sequence from the first game, when you kill all the lemmings and they hold their heads with a cute little "Oh no!" sound right before they pop.


When diving, please make sure you actually hit the water.
Failure to comply may lead to your every pixel shattering.



...
After diving, please make sure to open your kayak as soon as possible so you don't drown.
Somehow I failed at this twice.


But, Jay's off! Circling around so we can reach and release the other lemmings.


Aww yeah, look at that incoherent mess of green-blue-brown.


Centilemmings!
Hmm, maybe this world won't be so bad after all~ We'll just have to see!

Coastal Suction Function which is the weirdest name ever:


In which Jay gets to surf! That must be one happy lem.

Next is Sand Stone in which--


Oh god no.


Let me just totally bypass that stuff by digging through a wall and a floor...


... And bam! Everyone's safe aside from two lems who were just a little bit too fast for their own good.

Then we have Beach Lems!


In which Jay dives off the side of a huge cliff to his evident doom!


...

...
Where is he!?

I looked up and down in confusion - he wasn't dead, I still had 38 lemmings, but he was nowhere on screen! Jay, where did you go!?


Huh?


Ohh.
So that's where. I honestly had no idea about this, I just sorta sent him diving off the edge anyway to see if it'd work, since he was obviously meant to jump off at some point.


... I mean of course I meant to do that! Either way, he can build a bridge so nobody else goes and drowns, and voila!


I'm breezing through this world! Won't be long until we get to that 'award me' screen now!

Sorry 'bout that random break, back to do the rest of the Beach stages now!


And we start off with Sand in yer Sarnies! Which... is probably a pun? I have no idea what a sarnie is though.


That little hole leads to certain death by the way. What a good spot to start off at!


Two dead lemmings later, I've managed to plug up the holes so my lemming crowd will be safe.


... Other than Jay, who somehow slunk past while the bridge was being built.
Well, someone does need to open the path. Pickaxes go down a bit, so it's the only way to reach the goal.


It's a pretty long, but easy, trek around the-


...
It... ate him.
The seashell thing ate him!
I thought it was a set piece and tried to have him dig through it but it ate him!

There really is no explaining the feeling you get when you think you're doing fine and then something seemingly harmless murders your lemming. It's just staring blankly at the screen while you process it.


Jay mk.3 jumps over the thing, however, and continues onwards!


And here we are, the escape path's done!


And here I had to stop Jay because he started digging through the bridge blocking off the pit there. No murdering your friends!


Woo~

Next up is... This one! Sounds innocent enough! Let's start!


Whoops.
Uh, sorry Jay.

Attempt 2:

The goal's on the other side of that floating ball of sand, so if I can just build over that, everything will be fine!


...
Hello and welcome to today's edition of CC doesn't know what she's doing!


Okay, attempt 3! Jay uses up both carpets to move here...


... Securing a path for the others to follow.
Once the path is secured, one of the lemmings who ended up extremely conveniently positioned will blow a hole in the ground.


But they'll all fall down that hole where the last Jay died, and then they can't get back up. I need to block the path off somehow.
But Jay either bumps his head before finishing, or he doesn't reach enough to block it off properly.
Evidently I'm doing it wrong, but that's not gonna stop me! No, I found a solution!

Can you guess what it is?
...
...


The return of the arrow stairs! :D
Seriously, there's no way I was supposed to do this. I don't think I'll ever use arrows correctly.


But it worked and that's all I care about!


Aww yeah.
I think the next level's the last one for this world but I have yet to play it so -- stay tuned!
After that probably the shadow world but one world's enough for one day, I think.

Next stage is Sand Blaster!
... I didn't get the significance of that title for quite a while. Maybe I should pay more attention to that kinda thing ...? It seems to have been a hint.


Sending Jay off as usual, so we don't have 37 drowned lemmings.
Man, he must be so jealous of all the other guys right now.


Blasting through this sandcastle takes ages because every shot sends him flying across the screen.


Friggin'. Ages.
Oh, and then I failed to get him up onto that outhouse, so I had to redo it.


By the way, this is on the other side of the outhouse.
... That fall couldn't be more fatal if they tried. There's no way I can send my guys down there...


So then I accidentally messed up and had to redo again.
Still, I need some way to get everyone down... Some way safe ...


Bonus picture in which I tried to save bazooka shots by climbing up as high as possible. Turns out that whole "go flying across the screen" thing was a bit more lethal from a high height, though.

... I have stupid ideas sometimes. It's the only way to progress sometimes, I swear.

But! Back to our more successful lemming-rescuing!


In which I realize that, hey! The mortar bombs go in an arc! So then I can make a nice big hole for everyone else to go through!


Then I just make a path from hookshots, so nobody drowns or squishes upon falling down, and use my remaining mortars to blast a hole in it.


Tada!


It wasn't the last level, though. Darn!

I'd say I'm cheating, but... at this point, maybe this was what I was supposed to do?
With this game, I just don't know.

That name in no way tells you how cruel this stage is.
It doesn't even have surfing!



Right next to the spawn point is a giant pit...
And there is literally no way to slow the lemming tide. None.


The only thing I can do is this; building a bridge down there, minimizing casualties as much as possible.


...but there is another fall. And nothing I do can--
...
oh holy shit writing this update just told me how to do this.
BRB SAVING LEMMINGS


:D
And I accidentally managed to put the upper bridge so perfectly nobody died!



I SAVED ALL 38 OF THEM!
I don't care if I got silver!
I was so tired and couldn't figure it out that I'd resigned myself to saving only 4 of the little buggers! And then I figured it all out when I could take a second look at the screenshots!

Aah, it's the best feeling~

Our remaining options are "Classic", "Outdoor", "Sports", "Shadow", "Cavelem", "Polar" and "Highland" left! Haha, this is exciting~ We're actually gonna beat the game! :D

That Sun... Lemon-thing is going to haunt my dreams. /shudder

Since the beach was cleared so handily, why not cool off with the Polar world?

(I am going to be so disappoint if there aren't any polar bears in the area. :<)

That, or the shadow realm world. It sounds like a lovely place to die visit! :D

Let's go to the Polar world!

Shadow! It sounds suitably foreboding.

Shadow!
Because I'm sure it'll be a headache and we love you.

Okay, I'm briefly not busy with watching Kamen Rider updating my ask blog reading other LPs watching retsupurae ...
... Okay so I get distracted easily.

But hey! Update! And we're going to...


The shadow realm!
Please ignore the slightly misaligned Polar piece, I may or may not have done a stage before the votes changed.


... Woah what, is that a lemming in spy gear wielding a gun? This is... not what I imagined when I read "shadow"!


The shadow realm turns out to be something out of a spy movie! :O Which is way cooler than what I'd expected! Even the music's pretty cool.


... Ohh no, I am not setting off those. There's no way those are not fatal.


Pictured: I am evidently incapable of making a proper bridge.
Instead I just poured orange glue onto anyone below. Whoops!
By the way, even our lemmings are being all secret-agent-y. I like their color scheme!


Oh come on, how'd you get stuck down there?
Luckily, since this is the first stage, I had plenty of extra stuff to bring him back up with.


I am very clearly the best at pathmaking. It's beautiful.
And the bridge almost leads the lemmings to a fatal fall, but... uh. That's fine. These are hardcore lemmings! They live on the edge!


One lemming accidentally wound up way ahead of everyone else, so he got to disarm the rest of the traps, allowing our entire hardcore troup to get into their secret telephone booth hideout.


Mission... Complete.

By the way, since this world too will most likely have a bunch of "one lemming fixes everything" stages, what should we name our little secret agent who will risk his life to save the others?