You are basically a suicide hotline for a phalanx of cute little critters
They're a bunch of little fellas with a one track mind....keep walking...until they're killed by jumping off a cliff, or drowning in water, or melting in lava, or getting decimated by some booby trap. They live to die. And it's your job to prevent them from doing it. If you have the heart for it....or brain for it.
The game is basically one big mind melter. Your job is to stop them from dying by telling them what to do, in such a way that they are not harmed. Each level is it's own puzzle, and has a different way of solving it. They start out easy enough...but get harder...and quickly.
The game tries to fool you by giving you certain tools that you may not even need. Or the game likes to present something that looks easy...and then you find out that solving the worlds energy crisis would be easier. So you sit down and try to figure out how to solve the energy crisis. You come up with everything from peanut oil, to methane gas, to simply killing off humanity. Nothing works. So after years of ridicule, stress, alcoholism, and disappointment, you decide to go back to lemmings. Only to learn that you have to go through the same experience.
I find the game hard. Because I'm stupid. This is a game for smart people. I don't belong in your club for smarty smarts. I belong in a club for dumby heads. For people whose brains have been fried by incredible amounts of illegal drugs and T.V. I try to play lemmings. I really do. it's fun. The graphics are cool. It's charming as hell. It is probably THE most perfect game for the PSP. It's really clever. And it's more addicting than crack....but I'm a moron. It gets to a point where it's too hard for me. I end up screaming at it. I let the lemmings die just to spite them. I laugh as they die. Because when they die it's really cute. So not only am I vindicated by watching them die..but I'm also entertained. Everything in the game is cute. Even sending them to hell is cute.
So if you're smart, buy this game and play it all day and then show stupid people how smart you are because you figured out how to beat all the levels because you use your brain. Then you will have no stupid friends. And then you will be bored most of the time.
And if you're stupid, buy this game too. Buy it and see how other people can do amazing things. And then realize that you are not one of those people who can do amazing things. And then feel great about it because now you know you will never amount to anything so you don't have to worry about trying anymore. Just play games, eat chee-toes, and drink beer. Let the smarty people who can win Lemmings do everything and take care of you....and don't vote.