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It's been a while since I played Lemmings World Tour, the largest pack of levels which can be found here in the forums. I started playing this monster of a pack on April 17th in 2021 and finished it almost exactly five months later on September 18th. The pack had outstanding visuals and a relatively flat learning-curve - apart from a very harsh first rank which was meant to be a tutorial-rank, but went a bit over the top. I feel it's time to dedicate myself Strato's second pack which is much shorter, but lays emphasis -  at least that's what I have read - more on the puzzle aspect of the game. I will note down my progress here, that's what I do since several packs now - it's easier for me than writing a huge conclusion in the end when it's hard for me to remember the solution of every single level.


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NeoLemmix Levels / Re: Casualemmings 2.0
« on: March 15, 2024, 01:08:00 PM »
The Hyper-rank has fallen. Now, it's time for bonus-stage to follow. Kaywhyn told me that these levels are quite simple except Troll 4 and 5. I expect lots of Gimmick-levels that are not really fun to play. But we will see...

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All my solutions can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@Swerdis

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General Discussion / Re: Birthdays
« on: March 14, 2024, 05:19:13 PM »
A happy belated birthday from me as well. I hope you had a nice celebration. You're officially nine years younger than me now again - until July  ;).

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NeoLemmix Levels / Re: Casualemmings 2.0
« on: February 25, 2024, 10:00:03 PM »
Having arrived at the "Hyper"-rank, I expect slow progress to come. We will see...

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NeoLemmix Levels / Re: Casualemmings 2.0
« on: February 12, 2024, 04:38:45 PM »
I feel a bit "twitchy" at the moment. Let's see if I can master this rank.

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NeoLemmix Levels / Re: Casualemmings 2.0
« on: February 01, 2024, 11:36:13 PM »
The "calm" rank is history, now it's time to get "perky".

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NeoLemmix Levels / Re: Casualemmings 2.0
« on: January 30, 2024, 11:42:14 AM »
Hello nin10doadict,

my journey through the level packs continues. After I completed "The lemmings have grown" yesterday, Kaywhyn gave me two recommendations: Lemmings Open Air and Casualemmings. I decided to do the latter first and then the other one. I already completed Lemmings World Tour some time ago and so I know a bit of Strato's content, but for you, this is my first pack. I'm really excited what to expect. I will report my progress here with some notes for any individual level - and everything starts with the calm rank.

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All my solutions can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@Swerdis

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Hello David,

it was my undertaking for this evening to solve the remaining four levels of your pack and I finally did it - even though it's already past midnight. It feels good as it's more or less the case with every pack, and I think it was a great travel during the last months -  I started August 23th last year and had my breaks now and then. As I already mentioned your pack has been composed with a lot of love for details, I like the visuals as much as most of the puzzles. I also appreciate that you still work on it as you seal backroutes, swap levels and so forth. It's a challenging pack I think, but not among the absolute hardest, the learning curve is quite steep in the beginning, but it's flattening towards the end. I would not say the final rank is much harder compared to the penultimate one. My favourite level, if I had to choose one, is probably Marathon 10 for it's unexpected, very surprising solution - no wonder it's also one of the hardest in my opinion. If you ever want to create new material you can be sure that I will definitely play it - I will find the time despite work and my three little daughters that are already quite interested in papa's games. We'll read from each other ;)

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Hi David,

thanks. Yeah I make small progress at the moment. As you know I had skipped Marathon 18 due to the problems with the single file, but I could solve it today. Wasn't that bad though at the first glance this level looked really intimidating for me. But this was nothing compared to Marathon 22. You had reduced the number of builders to 17 here, and I'm still stuck - short of 1 bridge all the time. But I'm continuously working on it.

This builderless level Kaywhyn mentioned is actually quite easy - because it's meant to be open-ended. I've got a feeling I should go back to the drawing board soon, making new levels. Got lots of inspirations by you and other designers ;)

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Hi David,

thank you very much for your detailed feedback. This will take me a while to go through your intended solutions. In most cases I compared mine with those of Kaywhyn and Icho, but it will be pretty interesting to see what you really had in mind. Speaking about difficulty, I have no problems at all with breathers here and there as long as the general progress is intact. And that's true in your pack basically. There are some exceptions as we already noted, but we shouldn't exaggerate. In the end we give just recommendations - it's your pack and you can do whatever you want. And I like it. I said on a different occasion that I prefer custom music over the original tunes in the meantime. But again, this is my personal taste and you even didn't know about custom music when you created the pack.

Personally, I only ever created single levels, but never an entire pack. I'm too lazy and I'm more of a puzzle-solver than a creator, so I'm always happy that there are so many people here that provide fresh content. Also I rarely participate in discussions for I am - just like you - not a native English speaker (I'm German) which makes it harder for me to understand everything in detail.

By for now, Swerdis.

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Hello David,

welcome to the forum back again. I really have fun playing your pack. It's visually great and there are lot of great-puzzles here. My favourite is still Marathon 10. I'm really looking forward to your feedback.

Regarding Morning Walk, 2 I think this one could well be swapped with Running 4 as I found the latter a very easy one which wouldn't be misplaced as the second level of the entire pack.

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I finished the 400-meter-race and decided to run a marathon. Progress will be slow, I'm afraid, though I try my best.

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Now that we crossed the finish line in what was the slowest 100 meters in my life, we just left the starting block of the 400-meter-race.

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Started the 4th rank today, so this will be completed over time.

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Thanks for your help. Still couldn't solve the level, but I skipped it for the moment. Next problem: I can't play Running 16 cause it seems like some pieces are missing. That's strange since I downloaded the "davidz styles" file before I started the pack. And I did it again, but it changed nothing. Some advice?

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