![]() ![]() ![]() The charm of this game comes partly from its aesthetics and partly from its level design. Pretty quickly you start to develop this technique of dodging side to side while shooting, which works well in most situations. Of course, you’re also armed with such a gun and can squirt paint at them first.Īctually, those red lemmings are heinously good shots if you’re standing still, they will nail you in a hurry. ![]() And roving through most of the level are evil lemmings (as in all good games, people on the other team are simply evil) that will attack you with their eponymous paintball guns as you approach. He’s pretty short, though, and in typical lemming fasion can’t climb much. You click somewhere, and your lemming attempts to walk there. In every level you’re dropped unceremoniously out of a random box that appears in the sky and have to make your way through the level and grab up to four flags. You control up to four lemmings in a squad. Is it a good game? Well, yeah, I kind of think it is. Actually, that’s a pretty good description of it, I guess. At a glance, it looks like a 3/4 top-down isometric action platformer shooter thingy. So what is the paintball variety of Lemmings? We just don’t know. Just, lemmings are kind of dumb, at least in video games.) Unlike the wildly popular original Lemmings and many of its spinoffs that preserved the core gameplay mechanic, Lemmings Paintball was actually a totally different game in every way imaginable… except the characters. Well, that’s basically the same game as Lemmings, right? ![]() I picked Lemmings, a game which is so strange and badly designed that - wait, what? You’ve heard of Lemmings? I thought I was the only one who’d played - OH. Well, I narrowed down the list to just a few games, then picked one. The problem was picking one that A) my inadequate, blurry memory can remember, and B) I could get working on my current computer so I could show it in all its glory. My childhood is riddled with strange, obscure PC games. ![]()
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