Lemmings is a game where you must save hundreds of mindless, disturbingly cute rodents from ruthlessly attempting suicide. So instead of laughing your ass off as they fall directly to their doom one after another, you must give them a helpful item out of the plethora in your inventory. Equipped with these (umbrellas, ladders, the ability to climb, etc. etc.) they usually find their way to relative safety, symbolized by that tiny hole to paradise at the end of each level, which, by the way, you'll never be able to get to at the final levels of the game.
Lemmings is a game where you must save hundreds of mindless, disturbingly cute rodents from ruthlessly attempting suicide. So instead of laughing your ass off as they fall directly to their doom one after another, you must give them a helpful item out of the plethora in your inventory. Equipped with these (umbrellas, ladders, the ability to climb, etc. etc.) they usually find their way to relative safety, symbolized by that tiny hole to paradise at the end of each level, which, by the way, you'll never be able to get to at the final levels of the game.
It’s not that this game is truly hard, the first few levels are cake. Delicious, delicious cake. It just seems that as you go on,
the game increases ever so slightly in difficulty each level, and once you manage to get yourself past three thirds of the levels (and there are a lot of them) you reach the 'impossible zone' where Satan is your only master, and the light of hope is a far off thing. (And let’s face it, it wasn't all that bright anyway.)
I'm sure that you won't really care about the difficulty though, cause you and me, we're the best, we're number one, and we don't have these kinds of problems. So we can enjoy the finer things about the game, which first to mind would probably be the graphics of it. Well, I shouldn't say the graphics of the game, mainly because for a game from 1991, these weren't amazing. Not bad, but not amazing.
Then there is the game itself, which is nice...For the first two hours that you play it. Afterwards it just seems to be more of the same, more of the “La-de-da I have to prevent these suicide risks.”, and that gets boring. It gets boring fast and hard and hard and fast, my friend. Which is sad, because that would be my biggest fault with the whole franchise: every Lemmings game has essentially been the same Lemmings game. There has been nearly no upgrade or variation in game play as a whole (with the exception of Lemmings Paintball).
However, the original is still that, the very first, and in my mind the only. It will last just long enough to hold your interest, and it will puzzle you enough, for the most part, to leave a nice lasting impression.
