For this reason not least, it’s often given short shrift by critics, who compare its baggy maximalism unfavorably with the first game’s elegant minimalism. And then they added many, many more of them: Lemmings 2: The Tribes wound up with no less than 52 skills in all. Yet when the time came to make the first full-fledged sequel, DMA resurrected some of their discarded skills. In the process of this ruthless culling, Lemmings became a classic study in doing more with less in game design: those eight skills, combined in all sorts of unexpected ways, were enough to take the player through 120 ever-more-challenging levels in the first Lemmings, then 100 more in the admittedly less satisfying pseudo-sequel/expansion pack Oh No! More Lemmings. They finally ended up with just eight skills, the perfect number to neatly line up as buttons along the bottom of the screen. But as they continued working on the game, they threw more and more of the skills out, both to make the programming task simpler and to make the final product more playable.
When the lads at DMA Design started making the original Lemmings, they envisioned that it would allow you to bestow about twenty different “skills” upon your charges.
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