4. Serpent Shrine: WOW! Your talisman solution here is seriously impressive! It's technically a backroute, but I'll allow it, since it still uses the 'interrupt a basher to form a staircase through the land' trick.

7. Lost in the Desert: Your solution here is a backroute. Well done for finding it!

8. Lost in the Dessert: You are correct that there are multiple solutions, this one doesn't have a set solution in mind. Nice job on this one, as it is a quick solution like you said! 

9. Frozen Hearts: A really elegant solution here, using lasers to go underneath the first frozen blocker is a really nice trick.

10: Chamber of Horrors: Your talisman solution here was quite fun to watch - nice job with the tight timing building over the second gap!

Turbulent:

1. Can I Have a Peppermint: Technically a backroute, but I'll allow it. Nice work!

4. Sugar Rush: A major backroute, I'll have to confer with my brother on this one. Good job on finding it!

5. Lem Acadamy of Science & Energy Research: Another backroute, although this one was really entertaining to watch! I think the upper trick with the laserers, while fun, is less intuitive than the intended solution, so I'll allow this one too.

6. An Omen of Doom: Another major backroute of one of my brother's levels. Fortunately, this one seems quite easy to fix.

7. Bumbly Beach Bazaar: Using a laserer to bypass the upper neutraliser is unintended. However, like you said, this level is extremely complicated, so I may leave it in to make it easier, since the talisman is still really convoluted, even with this trick. Good work on finding it!

9. River Styx: Both of your solutions are quite impressive! For the talisman solution, I was blown away by how you dug down into the cracked pillar to drown those zombies - that was really fun. Great work!

1. Penumbra: Your solution of digging down to prevent the lemmings from turning around is a way better and more obvious idea than what I did for the official solution!

QuoteThe new tileset is gorgeous. I can see myself using this tileset often.

Thank you, and I look forward to seeing what you create!


2. Welcome to the World of Tomorrow! This one was a joy to see you try to solve! (The talisman solution has exactly enough shimmiers! )

QuoteThe various water-pipe terrain pieces and water objects allow level designers to make complicated, maze-like swimmer routes, which, in my opinion, no NeoLemmix style has allowed so far.

Thank you! I feel that swimmers are seriously under-utilised in neolemmix, so all three faithful batches have included a 'water' themed style ('Mosaic', 'Brass' and now 'Freezer') to try and encourage more swimmer usage.


3. Sweet Tooth: Intended solution, nice one! I'm very proud of this level and it was very fun to watch you solve.


4. Serpent Shrine: Another one that was really fun to watch you solve, great work!


8. Lost in the Dessert: Very nice solution, I hadn't realised you could send all the lemmings across to the top left, since the love hearts above the hot air balloons were added after I had already recorded a solution for this one!

QuoteWow, I love the design of the new limited exits! The talisman says not to use any shimmiers and I was wondering how a shimmier could be helpful in this level anyway.

Thank you! I'm really proud of those exits and this level exists mainly to show them off. (The shimmiers are used in this level near the start for getting towards the grey balloon and for traversing the underside of the candy canes.)


10. Chamber of Horrors: This level was made purely to show off the new traps and their disarm animations. (Both the regular and talisman solutions rely on lemmings walking through the traps! ) Your solution was slightly more efficient than the official solution due to using the compression method and a walker at the beginning - nice one!




Turbulent:
2. Lemmings of the Caribbean: Differs slightly from the intended solution, but my brother says that this is fine. (I also love the kraken creature, I was quite blown away when my bro first sent me the level and I saw it for the first time )


3. The Belfry: Nice solution on this one. Originally, the talisman solution was much harder as it also forced no more than 10 walkers. I made it easier as I thought this rank already has way too many difficult talisman solutions.


6. An Omen of Doom: Watching this on youtube, I thought for sure that you were going to backroute this one, but you managed to get the intended solution. Well done! (The timing is really tight on this one, I struggled a bunch when I was solving it for myself!)


7. Bumbly Beach Bazaar: I agree that this one is extremely convoluted. It's basically impossible unless you manage keep track of the lemming with the disarmer.  I was certain that this level would have a ton of alternate solutions, however your solution seems quite similar to mine, so perhaps not?
(You are correct in that the glider is just a trap to be avoided, I don't think it's possible to save any lemming that becomes a glider due to the way the exit is positioned.)


8. Ice Nine: My brother and I were both extremely shocked that you managed to figure out the correct solution for this one so quickly! (It differs slightly from the intended solution but is still acceptable) Great work!


9. River Styx: Another one that was very fun to watch you figure out! I'm very glad you like it, it's another one I'm very proud of, thank you!
You mentioned earlier in the post that this level is very easy for the non-talisman solution, but I disagree. The neutral lemming will interfere with the splitter if it's not taken care of. The zombies also need to be killed off in order to get to the lower exit which makes it quite a tricky level in my opinion.


10. A Tale of Two Cities: I agree that this is a great finale to the pack. My brother insisted on designing a Celestial level to finish the pack off with, and I think he did a great job

The current animation is on the left, the fixed version is on the right.

For 'The Split', the backroute is pretty major in context, although for the purposes of the contest, I suppose it's fine. (The gimmick behind 'Lock and Key' is that it's intended to be a narrative with continuity, e.g., if the lemming is assigned a glider in one level, he'll start as a glider in the next level, but this context isn't relevant for the contest so it's fine here.) I'll have to release an update for it at some point later.

For Epilogue, the solution is very impressive and uses all available skills. Backroutes aren't really as relevant for this one, since in context it's the final level of the pack. Either way, it's fine for the purposes of the LOTY contest too!