Project Nimbus: Complete Edition

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Project Nimbus: Complete Edition is a high flying and fast action mecha game that released September 26th of 2017. It's set in a post-apocalyptic near future where dozens of 'Battle Frame' mech suits take to the air to battle out a cold war tension to potentially world ending battle over twenty six story missions with gameplay heavily inspired by not only giant robot classics but the Ace Combat flight series. This was initially a kickstarter project that was successfully funded in 2014. Not to be confused with the Project Nimbus Israeli government cloud computing project by Google and Amazon, what we're talking about today is the videogame Project Nimbus and specifically the complete edition. Now, I'm not 100% sure exactly where the lines are drawn but this game seems to of initially released in different Project Nimbus parts subtitled 'Code Mirai' and 'Rise Mirai' while the 'Complete Edition' seems to be, as the name suggests, the fully complete version combined together, and I guess in some aspects remastered? There are some potential hiccups on the production side of this whole thing as different sections of this initially divided game content was created, and ported, between PC and PlayStation, by entirely different teams. That'd be the Japanese studio GameTomo, the Thai based GameCrafterTeam and the UK based publishers over at KISS Publishing. If you need even more Project Nimbus there was also a 2023 sequel named Nimbus INFINITY. The plot initially begins in the 2070's some 40 years after a WWIII has decimated the planet and humanity took to floating cities to survive. The story of this one tended to be a bit hard for me to follow as every other mission seemed to put your point of view from opposing factions. And those factions would be the CFN or Coalition of Free Nation's which is part of the remnants of the United States Air Force, along with their private military counter-terrorism contract with a group called MITHRIL that consists of some General Cybernetics Technology. Typically here you'll pilot the young cyborg Mirai Iwata. In opposition to the United States their classic enemy is the red state United Continental Nations or UCN with Spetsnaz, which after the WWIII nuclear event is the combined effort of mostly Russia and China but some other Asian countries as well. Typically when you are put into this perspective you get to play as the genetically engineered Lieutenant Colonel Yuliana Alexadrova. Furthermore, and perhaps to my confusion, the plot features a second faction that can be summed up underneath CFN initialism, and that would be the terrorist cell Children of Fallen Nations. These guys are the remnants of humanity that were unable to escape to the air and are pretty sour about having to live on the destroyed landscape. More than that there is also the European Independent State Alliance sitting somewhere in the background hoping to make bank being a merchant group for every side of the conflict. Okay so, as said before the plot bounces back and forth between sides. For the most part this exists as stereotypical military jargon. Hey, the evil reds are invading our great freedom space, go blast them. Hey the evil Americans are flying into our great lands, go blast them. At a certain point this escalates into the characters having personal grudges against eachother and becoming traditional arch enemies before devolving into a maybe more Evangelion like existential crisis after considering how stained with blood their hands have become. The climax of the story unveils the need for both sides of the conflict to join forces as the true deep state string pulling secret evil of everything turns out to be a sentient AI system gone rogue... whose name is Ronald Reagan. Gameplay itself persists mostly of looking at targeting squares as pretty much all the time everything is too far away and moving too fast to have focus. I think this is probably my main gripe. I just felt like I was shooting targeting squares the whole game. Shooting them with sometimes waaaay too many different weapon types at my disposal to feel comfortable. Blasting off everything and playing the reload cooldown waiting game. Okay so you get pretty standard stuff, machine guns, missiles, railguns that sort of thing. Some frames get more specified options like melee weapons or decoys. All your options do however get funnels, which are sorta like flares that distract missiles from hitting you. I really seemed to struggle to get the timing right for these things. Main campaign bounces around the character plot I described in the story section. There's a few difficulty settings and each of the 26 missions starts with your choice of BattleFrame which of course is limited to the character ya gotta play as in the mission. A LOT of the time your choice is down to a singular mech. Most of these missions have a standard set of objectives, defend this thing, blow up that thing, have a high intensity dogfight with a named enemy character, with all the appropriate radio chatter. I found the fight with Mirai to be the most difficult portion of the game. Biggest negative, direct as possible, I personally just didn't really like the gameplay. Come to find out I guess I don't really like 'plane games' as before I even knew the influences of Ace Combat going into this thing I wrote in my notes "I feel like I'm just shooting distant squares, I feel like a fighter jet, I wish this was more up close and personal." Combine this with how mediocre or average most of the game feels and... just how incredibly annoying it is that nearly every dogfight had me battling invisible walls that the enemy can fly out of made the whole thing an experience I'm not too keen on repeating. On top of just generally not liking the game I also encountered some technical problems. Occasionally, typically after mission completion this game would put my computer hardware into a high intensity workout. Mission complete screen while my fans are prepping my computer for orbital launch. Not too sure what that was about but I wasn't a fan. Sometimes during missions I'd get SEVERE moments of lag, too. To the point the game was unplayable. Not too sure what that was about either as this sort of thing seemed unprompted. Sometimes in games you can tell when its a certain particle effect or area of stage and whatnot but I couldn't pinpoint the issue here. On top of my personal issues I've poked around a bit and found various reviews pointing out other bugs as well as dev posts into 2025 working on fixing them. Things like the game refusing to work on certain intel cpus, game breaking bugs that prevent progress starting during the tutorial, various crashes, mouse control issues and more. It's definitely commendable that this stuff is still being fixed and worked on eight years after release, but also something I feel must be brought to the attention of prospective buyers of this as a product. All things considered I just didn't like this one. Maybe if I was a bigger fan of fighter jet games my opinion would be different but I can't help but shake the feeling that even then I'd still find it painfully average at best and painfully frustrating at worst. This combined with the technical problems myself and others have faced make this one really hard to recommend which is a shame because it seems to come from a hardworking dev team, was kickstarted by a passionate audience and has an EXTREMELY fair price point. At some point in the future I will be looking at it's sequel Nimbus INFINITY in hopes that a clean slate allowed for a stronger end product. full review in text here; https://backloggd.com/u/emptymecha/review/4199654/ full review available on video here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbWMH2GA5v8