Fun 12 "The Armageddon Machine" - None
Fun 13 "Resist The Temptation" - 4 Builders
Fun 14 "Pac-Lems" - 4 Turners 3 Turners, 3 Builders
Fun 15 "The Mansion" - 1 Blocker, 3 Builders
Fun 16 "Sea Of Sugar" - 2 Builders
Fun 17 "Quadcore" - 2 Builders
Fun 18 "Just Let It Bee" - 2 Turners, 5 Builders
Fun 19 "The Side Act" - None
Fun 20 "Arctic Mission" - 7 Builders

Nice 1 — Holding Out For A Hero

Perfectly fine early fun level to warm up the player and introduce the tree style. Simple and easy, but that's what it wants to be. I really like the talisman, becuase it's not immediately obvious how it's done. While the trick it uses wasn't exactly new to me, it's not one I readily think of. It makes me want to keep it in mind from now on. Also I wanted to mention that I like the continuously scrolling arrows for OWBs in this style, as opposed to the ones that jiggle back and forth.

Nice 2 — Acidic Lemming

I'll be honest, I find this style to be incredibly hard on the eyes. It's loud enough that it makes the layout harder to discern sometimes. The steel blocks don't stand out enough, and conversely the water draws my eye too much. Would prefer if the OWB arrows were easier to see as well. I won't harp on about it past this point unless it's prudent, but yeah, not my favourite. The puzzle itself is okay, though I'd argue even simpler than the last one while also lacking a talisman to spice it up. Nothing to write home about.

Nice 3 — The Downwards Mission

This style too has an issue with its steel blocks not standing out. I see them now, but it wasn't obvious at all until I checked via CPM. The puzzle itself is a step up from the first two. It looks simple, but when I realized lemmings can become trapped in the bottom corners, it became clear that this 'beginner puzzle' is surprisingly nuanced. You can't just blindly bomb through. I enjoyed the talisman and learnt that you can do a dolly dimple style one-way pit using bombers if the terrain is right. Great inclusion for an early rank. My favourite among the first 10 levels, actually.

Nice 4 — Now Figure This One Out...

This level is very Lemmings 1. Deceptive though, because it looks trivial until you try it and see you're required to use things like spiral staircases, bombing through ceilings and plugging 1 pixel gaps. The layout is inconvenient enough to add interest, but not to the extent that it's annoying. It's a decent first rank level. I actually think it's trickier than all of 5-10, so I'd have moved this after them.

Nice 5 — Get Your Lemmings' Worth

The purple style is very purple. Too purple for me. Could really use another colour to break it up, even if it was blue or gray. Some additional decorative pieces would also have helped. It's particularly noticeable when you have large sections of terrain. Aside from the shade, I get Half Life 1 Xen vibes from this style. Alien cave system. In terms of the puzzle, it's another Lemmings 1 design, though it's easier than I was expecting. Underwhelming.

Nice 6 — Capsule Run

Whoa, force fields! This is my first time seeing them in a finished pack. Not the best introduction to them, because I feel like their presence doesn't make a big impact on the solution. It makes you go around, sure, but I feel some people might have solved it that way even without the forcefields there. In fact, I could see some not realizing they're forcefields and just assuming they're decorations telling you where to go. I'll be curious to see if such objects will be strongly tied to particular styles, or if they'll show up in every style.

Nice 7 — Together We Sand

Cute title. A little too similar to Nice 1 maybe, but that level was decent for an early rank level and this level is also decent for an early rank level. Not a lot to say. I like that you naturally end up using all of permanent, constructive and destructive skills. I know this style has some decorative things like palms and cacti, so it would have been nice to see a couple tossed in here.

Nice 8 — Evolved Lemming

Oh snap! Bombers make the crowd fall through the floor. Aside from that twist, it's pretty boring. Probably should have been before some of the previous levels. Reminds me of "A Beast of a Level", but without the special music and style. Something I would have considered doing to jazz up these early levels would be to remove or limit certain skills. Only two or three bashers here, for instance, rather than 10, would have been a nice twist.

Nice 9 — No Need To Think Too Hard

Lasers appear! So I've caught on by this point that some of these levels are probably going to reappear in later ranks as actual puzzles with limited skills. With that in mind, this one makes me nervous, since it seems mildly elaborate. As it is though, it's very easy to shortcut with the two diggers alone, which is disappointing. Would be more fun if I was made to go around the long way. Having said that, the name seems to imply this was definitely intended, so... success? Going around the long way does seem difficult with no builders, anyway. This level, along with the two tree tileset levels, are the best looking levels so far, in my opinion.

Nice 10 — Lemming Snack

Cool traps! I wasn't expecting a completely unique animation and everything! Suitably alien too. Aesthetically, the fact there's three different shades makes this the best looking purple style level so far. Aside from that, the level is easy, but it can be forgiven since it seems to exist more to introduce the new traps. I appreciate that the requirement is 19/20 with a release rate just high enough that building straight over the traps without containing the crowd doesn't work.

Glimmer 1 — Holiday Island

An interesting start to the pack. The terrain seems positioned so that it's slightly inconvenient to get the lemmings up to the exit using only your builders. Being a couple of pixels short of something can sometimes feel bad, but I think it's alright here since the level is so small and focused; the inconvenience is the point. Really, the reason it works is because it forces you to use some of the new skills. I could be wrong, but it seems like this pack came out shortly after NL introduced new skills for the first time? Any excuse to make the player engage with them is a good thing then, in my opinion. The talisman was my favorite part of the level for sure. It taught me a couple of new things I hadn't considered before regarding stackers and stoners. Good inclusion. The fact the central pillar is off center is key component of the puzzle, but it does bother me when I focus on it. I also think this level is somewhat tougher than the next three levels, especially Glimmer 3. I probably would have swapped 1 and 3's position in the pack.

Glimmer 2 — The Northern Lights

This is a good intro to gliders and swimmers. I like that you have one obstacle and are shown two ways to overcome it. Plus, if you choose to solve the puzzle that way, you're forced to engage with both methods, because you only have enough skills for half and half. It also shows off the swimmers ability to negate long falls. Great tutorial, but... then there was old skills added which let you completely skip engaging with the new skills at all. Not sure how I feel about that. In these early X-of-a-bunch-of-skills levels, I like solution variety, but I think this one works better as a new skill showcase rather than a raw do-it-however-you-want level. Aside from that, the lemming and skill counts probably should have been halved to reduce the amount of clicking. Also, the texture on the block in the lower left is pretty ugly.

Glimmer 3 — Lemmingmallows

Very easy. It's certainly not a bad level, but there's nothing remarkable about it either. Doesn't make much of an impression. Even the talisman is fairly straightforward and didn't require me to change my original solution that much. So instead, I'll take the opportunity to mention that while the holiday tileset isn't amazing, the pack does a good job of making the levels decently festive. They're more visually appealing to me than a lot of the Holiday Lemmings levels. Probably because they're denser. Also, the music is a lot better than the original holiday level music. The music choice in packs means a lot to me, so this makes a big difference.

Glimmer 4 — Comin' Down For The Holidays

Maybe to some people it's corny and on-the-nose, but I actually really like the level name. It's festive, it paints a familiar scenario through a phrase most people have heard in casual conversation, it's inviting (appropriate for a Fun-rank-style level) and it ties into the level itself in an amusing, punny way. Although still a fun-style level and still pretty easy, I like this more than the previous three. There's more obstacles, slightly trickier obstacles and more room for some the new skills to shine. Especially stoners. Wow stoners are strong here. The lack of diggers and miners was smart, as it makes the last part more interesting. Terrain is aesthetically appealing to me as well. A contender for my favorite level in the rank and something I'd happily slip into the early levels of any beginner or intermediate pack.

Glimmer 5 — Snowflakes Enterprise

The preplaced lemmings were a surprise. They also feel a bit unnecessary, since even without them, the level is perfectly solvable and not difficult. If this was meant to showcase preplaced lemmings, I don't think it does a good job of that. I do admit it does help save time, because there's a lot of building and digging involved. I think slightly down scaling the level would have been good, keeping the same puzzle elements but reducing the lengths of the builds and digs. The puzzle itself isn't groundbreaking, but it works as an early navigation exercise. With no way to dig up, the exit's position added a nice extra element when it came to figuring out how to get the right-hand crowd up to it. Neat.

Glimmer 6 — A Package For Mr Lemming

The song is funny. Christmas hoedown. As for the level itself, this was a good way to end the rank. It borrows elements from puzzles earlier in the rank and puts them together in a sort of final test, which is something I really like to see. The option of using gliders or swimmers for the same obstacle returns, which is cool. The terrain either side of the water seems deliberately designed to make climbing up to the exits more difficult than it looks. The slope on the left eats up your builders, the island on the right is too low to bounce a builder off of and still reach the exit, and the platformers aren't very helpful for gaining height. Not to mention you need to catch the crowd somehow. So in the end, you're forced to really think about how you want to build, or often encouraged to engage with some of the new skills, like the walkers, to make it work. If I'm being nitpicky, I'd say the 38/75 requirement is overly generous. The talisman was a nice addition. When I first saw it, my reaction was "how the heck do you do that?", but then I discovered the trick. Sneaky. This is the other contender for my favorite level in the rank.