Welcome to Portal: Revolution! This guide covers the game's intro, basic concepts, and how to play. Learn about Lemming functions and strategies to escape the weasels' traps.
Hello there! Welcome to my 41st FAQ/walkthrough, for Lemmings Revolution, the successor to the PC throne held by the puzzle classics Lemmings and Oh No! More Lemmings. Being the Lemmings god that I am (and not choosing to put on any airs of modesty, as you can see), I've decided that this game shall be the target of my next FAQ, and it's been a blast to write for. Hopefully you'll have half as much fun reading as I did writing it.
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Everybody should by now be familiar with the basic gist of Lemmings; if you're not, then I strongly urge you to stay away from this game since it will overwhelm non-fans of the series greatly. Lemmings is so familiar to the gaming world that it doesn't need a story, but Lemmings Revolution provides with one anyway. Pop a bag of popcorn and sit back for the opening cinema.
After arriving in their promised land, the Lemmings colonize every corner of it and start mining the stones peppered on the walls like polka dots. However, they learn that their exploits have become famous among the weasels, a group of sly, evil folks who like wearing mustard yellow turtlenecks. As we learn, the weasels have been watching films of the Lemmings in action, and we even get to see clips from two classic stages ("Just dig!" and "Steel Works") where the Lemmings both succeed and fail during their courageous adventures. Because they're a bunch of frumpy meanie-heads, the weasels decide to invade the Lemming utopia and trap them in boxes.
To further complicate matters, the weasels wish to see if the Lemmings are as brave and resourceful as the movies have shown, and so they situate the boxes that the Lemmings are trapped in around dangerous traps and harrowing land arrangements to make them earn their freedom. Can the Lemmings escape the traps the weasels have laid out for them? Will they ever get home? Won't everyone just leave them alone? Only you, as the constant savior of the Lemmings, can provide an answer these questions.
If you're not sure how to play but are interested, well then, there's always the section below to get you started.
How to Play
I hate to be spouting clichés this early in, but Lemmings Revolution is an easy game to get the hang of, but a very difficult one to truly master. People who have spent a lot of time immersed in Lemming lore will get the hang of it much faster and probably figure out some of the more obtuse solutions without so much as a single flex of the gray matter (experience helps immensely when dealing with this game). On the other hand, if this is your first experience with any part of the Lemmings saga ...... well, let me just add a disclaimer right now, that being that I'm not liable for your Lemmings Revolution CD if you decide to snap it violently in half.
As with all other games in the Lemmings tradition, the object is to direct all the blue rodents (and white and green, as you'll see in this game) to a common destination. Most previous installments had it as a door that you had to get them to, but here you'll find that it's a hot air balloon that your Lemmings must repair to. In every level you are given a set number of each type of task that your Lemmings can perform (more on them below). With the materials given, you must get the number of Lemmings commanded of you to the hot air balloon in the amount of time provided. Sound easy? Well of course it doesn't, I already told you it wasn't.
And of course, what with the weasels and traps and such, life only gets harder from there. Perhaps I should reveal a purpose behind all this rigmarole.
Controls
Rarely will you use the keyboard in this game. Most movement is restricted to the mouse, but there are a couple of functions you can perform with the keyboard as well.
LEFT MOUSE BUTTON:
- Click menu buttons.
- Choose a level to begin playing.
- Click task icons to choose a task for a Lemming to perform (climber, floater, and so on).
- Hold
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