15User Rating: 1 out of 5

Review title of Matt Really sloppy conversion

This is such a let-down. The title screen looks like it was drawn by a ten year old, and sets the tone for the whole experience - there is so little care or polish put into this conversion. I say "conversion" - it's more like the old Lemmings graphics slapped onto a barely-tested engine that does nothing to replicate the feel of the original. It runs sluggishly on normal speed, and not especially fast on fast-forward. You can't change a builder or basher's job once set, so strategies that worked in the original no longer work now. Clicking an unassigned Lemming when they're close to an assigned one is impossible. Even the explosions, a satisfying feature of the original, are dreadful now - instead of the explosion of pixel particle effects spraying across the screen, we get a modern stock fireball graphic slapped over the top of the doomed Lemming, then half a second later the crater appears. This honestly feels like a bootleg conversion, not made with any care for the source material.