What a great game... spent many hours on this back in the day.
> The ultimate Lemmings 2 achievement, needless to say, is to collect gold stars across the board.
Turns out this isn't quite true... I (and many others) achieved that long ago, but a few years back I found someone had gone through the whole game without losing a lemming on any level, which is pretty astounding; in many levels that seems completely impossible. Never underestimate what dedicated gamers will achieve...
I didn't play Lemmings 2, only Lemmings, but it seems completely impossible there and very constraining on the design space, if you want to make sure that's always possible (you can never have a level that requires a blocker or a bomber, which are two of your 8 abilities).
I see from the article they added a lot more abilities in the sequel.
However, the article suggests getting gold stars across the board is mostly equivalent to not losing a lemming
> To wind up with gold at the end, you usually need to have kept every single one of the little fellows alive through all ten levels.
I think that pretty much every level with bombers available could be solved without one, if you were sufficiently versed in the edge cases of how the game worked. I could be wrong, it’s been decades.
Your statement directly conflicts with the initial comment that said "but a few years back I found someone had gone through the whole game without losing a lemming on any level"
Who's right? Who got the sources to back themselves up?
For sure, many fond memories of playing this! I’m not sure what the secret sauce is, but it was but it was so much fun. Might be worth dusting off and see if it holds up.
> The ultimate Lemmings 2 achievement, needless to say, is to collect gold stars across the board.
Turns out this isn't quite true... I (and many others) achieved that long ago, but a few years back I found someone had gone through the whole game without losing a lemming on any level, which is pretty astounding; in many levels that seems completely impossible. Never underestimate what dedicated gamers will achieve...