Save One : do you have what it takes to save one Lemming ? (16 levels, medium)

[Guigui]

I am glad to present my level pack : Save One.

Each level in this pack has this gimmick where you have a bunch of lemmings but can only save one.
To this end, I had to resort to many tweaks in the level design : limited skillset, traps, locked release rate (gosh how powerful is this thing!), death awaiting around many corners.
Maybe this gimmick will have you think of the game in a different way than usual : play all for one, not one for all.

Of course I am sure many of you master solvers will try your best to break the gimmick, and succeed... Even though I put much care in ensuring this is not possible, I am impatient to see how you will backroute some levels and save many Lemmings!

This small pack consists of 16 levels split in 3 ranks of roughly increasing difficulty : Eon, Neo, One.
I consider the levels to be of moderate difficulty, and hope some of the later ones will require you to think more than a little to clear.

Pack is attached in this post, with the required style. Unzip in your main NeoLemmix folder.

In order to lighten the bad mood where all lemmings will die but one I attached famous, fun and catchy musics to the levels. Can you recognize them all ?
Accept download and unzip in your main NeoLemmix folder :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hFaCTmUTf6kiE7t9m8ph6prst8MkFL_Y/view?usp=sharing

Many thanks go to IchoTolot for playtesting the pack a lot and giving me advices to improve all.
Also to Strato Incendus for letting me use his handmade musics of the original OST. I used 3 of his songs in remixed original levels : I Am E.Z.T., Eroded Ark, Clappy Clapple.

Here are some screenshots of 3 levels, one in each rank.

One 4 : Clues Do  Three brothers and sisters try to reach the exit.


Eon 3 : I Am E.Z.T.  Time to get your revenge on the T.!


Neo 2 : S.M.S. (So Many Spikes) Easy when you know how ?


I thank your for reading and hope you have fun with the pack.

[IchoTolot]

Here are my updated solutions after the beta test. 

I can confirm that there are some really good levels in here! 

@Guigui: You might want to add the approximate difficulty of the pack in the topic's title like the other packs. I would suggest around Medium or Medium-Hard.

[Armani]

I just played through the pack and here're my replays. (two replays for One_3 and one replay for every other levels each.)
I managed to save multiple lemmings on only one level "Aquarium Deception". The talisman said save two but I managed to save most of the lemmings.
There are many good levels but my favorite was "So many Spikes", that was a brilliant level

[Guigui]

Hey there Armani,

Now this is a great moment for me when you solve my levels, as I remember I had a so tough time solving yours in Holiday Lemmings 2024!

Thank you for playing and for the kind words on the levels, I hope you enjoyed your time here. It is true that SMS took me a long time to set up properly. IchoTolot found a lot of backroutes that were not as cool as the intended solution you found.

You solved all of them levels brilliantly, and discovered some other backroutes/alternate solutions of course, details under spoiler :

Spoiler

Eon 2 Trust Your Lucky Star ? Nice trick to let them compress and clear 2 bars at once with a single miner. I'd rather player to bash through the last structure, then figure out how to save the climber. You can do this even with saving a skill for the talisman.
So I just moved the trap one bar to the right to prevent your solution.

Eon 5 Four Shruggers Real Backroute there, you're not supposed to reach exit using a single Lem ! Interaction is better so I worked on the chains again to prevent using the 4 bridges with the upmost lemming to exit on his own.

Neo 1 One Hot Minute Backroute again, not supposed to be able to bomb the way through the E by going the upper route. I put the star some pixels higher to prevent this.

One 2 Aquarium Deception Oh no ! Saving 70 Lems here ! My bad, going above the shredders was supposed to be a splat fall. Level is way too easy like this, I set the splat again.

One 3 Clappy Clapple First solution is intended. Second is very fine too though more tricky. It again shows how Release Rate and compressing lemmings can be powerful in this game, good job ! Level did not change.

One 5 Blues Nice solution too, you went through very little pixel and hard timing to get there I'd say ! Though I will consider it a backroute as you dont use most of the level and it looks like you got quite lucky at the end that the 2 survivors were close enough to reach exit like you did.
I made little change here again, can you find intended ? It is more straightforward and a bit easier to execute I think, you're not very far actually.

I changed the pack in the first post to block those backroutes in Eon 2, Eon 5, Neo 1, One 2, One 5, sorry if it breaks replays already given.

[IchoTolot]

My replay for Neo_1 broke so I had to find a new solution which fulfils the talisman + does not use 3 of the skills. Probably another backroute.  

[Guigui]

Oh yes nice. This Neo 1 is very open ended, lots of solutions indeed. It is a miracle no one managed to save more than one yet...

Building the gap between O and N is a great time saver for sure. This solution is not really a problem to me, except that it breaks the talisman which I thought was only accessible with a kind of counter intuitive solution.
It may happen that I prevent this build from O to N some days, lets see how things turn out.