Here comes a new Lemmini levelpack review! I guess I’ve mentioned timfoxxy’s Fox Lemmings few times in the forums. Fox Lemmings was uploaded in Lemmings Heaven site years ago, but since the site is down now, I don’t know if the levelpack is available anywhere anymore. It can be downloaded now from this post.
Fox LemmingsCreator:
Tim aka timfoxxy
I attached this post the original levelpack zip file which I downloaded from Lemmings Heaven.
Tim’s YouTube channel, which contains videos of Lemmings music and few of his levels.
Fox Lemmings is a 40-level Lemmini levelpack published a few years ago. Levels are familiar from Tim’s huge Van Clan Lemmings levelpack, and Fox Lemmings is some kind of Tim’s “best levels” collection pack. Here’s a link to the
Van Clan Lemmings topic.
10-level packs, which belong to Van Clan Lemmings and use original Lemmings tilesets, are labeled Timpack1-Timpack11 in the
Lemmings Level Database. Tim’s levels created in 'Oh No! More Lemmings' tilesets are separately in 10-level packs labeled TimpackA-TimpackF in the database. The most of Fox Lemmings levels are from Timpack1-Timpack11 packs (and there are a couple more of other levels), and all of them use 5 graphics styles from the original Lemmings.
Fox Lemmings is divided into 4 different difficulty ratings, each having 10 levels: Mild, Cunning, Wacky and Psycho. This is one of the rare Lemmini levelpacks which include a levelpack.ini-file modified by the author, so you can play Fox Lemmings unlocking the levels in order without making an ini-file yourself.
The Mild rating consists mostly of levels with plenty of skills, but for example, in One For Everything (Mild2) and Valley Of Fire (Mild7) you can’t mess around aimlessly with the skills, though the solutions are easy of course. You need a lot more thinking in the beginning of the Cunning rating, and then comes first endurance type level, which are characteristic to Tim. The level is Einy Meenie Mieny Moe (Cunning4), a huge dirt map, where you also need to search for a hidden exit from one of those floating dirt hills. This is the level I like the least from this pack.
Tim himself gave some thoughts about his own levels in
this post, but the levels in this pack are chosen selectively from Van Clan Lemmings and are all certainly solvable. Fox Lemmings has eliminated the lengthiest ones of the enormous building stages. There are still some large maps, which also need a little thought for skill placements, like The Graveyard (Cunning7), City Ruins (Wacky1), The Weird Zone (Wacky7), The Neverending Staircase (Wacky10) and Wall of Nets (Psycho9).
Time management levels are typical to the Psycho rating, like Out Of Reach (Psycho1), Don’t Pop Til You Get Enough (Psycho4) and Gone Fishing (Psycho8), all having time limit of one minute. The last level of the whole pack, A Small Problem (Psycho10), surprises with 95 builders, though the play area is pretty cramped. In the end you will realize that you actually can waste too many builders in this level… and probably need to start the level from the beginning!
Some levels, which stayed well to my mind, are very simple layouts having A Slow Descent (Wacky8) and There’s Something About Lemmings (Psycho6). Levels, which left the most positive impression for me, are aforementioned Out of Reach and Blood Furnace (Psycho2). These four levels have some different, interesting elements compared to the other, usually rather mediocre levels in the pack.
So, for me Fox Lemmings wasn't too mindblowing experience, and the other Lemmings players, who have seen a lot of Lemmings, would possibly find it in the same way. I hope that possibly at least newcomer players would find fun playing it! I’d also suggest Fox Lemmings for those Lemmings players, who really want to try some of Tim’s levels, but can’t decide which packs he/she would pick at first of those many alternatives in the database, for instance.