Completed Pokemon Nimbus

ErikF · Nov 9, 2021

Looks great from the showcase, however the mapping does lack a bit compared to some nice features you have gotten in the game. Looking forward to play anyways, and GL with your new game.

SelenaAlgor · Nov 9, 2021

King_Waluigi said:
Replace the J with an E, people have been able to fix it like that

It was saying the file RGSS102J is missing. There is a RGSS102E file there so I replace the E with the J

King_Waluigi · Nov 9, 2021

SelenaAlgor said:
It was saying the file RGSS102J is missing. There is a RGSS102E file there so I replace the E with the J

My apologies, that's what I meant lol

Abhijith · Nov 9, 2021

How to evole artrum?

King_Waluigi · Nov 9, 2021

Abhijith said:
How to evole artrum?

Play through the game and you'll receive an item eventually

DarkSayian · Nov 10, 2021

Is there speedup button?

chaosvoid123 · Nov 10, 2021

I got the RGSS102J.dll could not be found error how do I fix it?

Devinator · Nov 11, 2021

Ofc theres a level cap smh

Abhijith · Nov 11, 2021

Where do you get water stone?I want to evolve my lombre

Madrid Pawmot · Nov 11, 2021

Abhijith said:
Where do you get water stone?I want to evolve my lombre

Anguis Commercial District mall. All evolutionary stones can be found there, except for the Mist Stone introduced in 6.0.0 for evolving Retro Raichu into Gorochu.

Invincible Infernape 🔥 · Nov 13, 2021

Where can i find sun stone?, i m playing the 5.0.0 version

Ickle · Nov 13, 2021

Invincible Infernape 🔥 said:
Where can i find sun stone?, i m playing the 5.0.0 version

you can find one in the Anguis mall

DarkSavior1047 · Nov 14, 2021

King_Waluigi said:
Thank you! Empoleon has a mega evolution, but not Samurott... Yet

Does piplup have a very low chance to find on route 4?

Actbear · Nov 14, 2021

I just did the side quest to watch the three kids and now i have a timer perminatley at 000 on my screen. I tried restaring the game is there anyway to fix this bug?

Actbear · Nov 14, 2021

i just did the sidequest to watch the 3 children and now have a timer at 00;00 permanently on my screen. Is there anyway to fix this bug?

Zygoat · Nov 14, 2021

Alright, so I've completed the main story and what I think is the end of the postgame that's been completely finished by the developers (I know there's a postman that will transport you to another area but I think that's bugged and that area seems unfinished), so I wanted to give my thoughts on this game. I'll be getting into spoiler territory so I'm going to hide that part of the review behind a spoiler tag.

My non-spoiler and general view of the game is that it has some great ideas and has a lot of potential, but there are a few design choices that hold it back from being the best possible game it can be in my opinion. With some reworking of a few things, and some general polishing, it could be a truly fantastic game, but what's there now is still pretty good. I'd recommend playing the game to anyone who is interested in trying it out.

Pokemon Nimbus goes to great lengths to offer a unique and different experience than the mainline Pokemon games. In some of the ways it differentiates itself, it does so in a way that improves the game experience, but in others, it does not.

At the beginning of the game, there are some choices that immediately change up the formula. Rather than choosing between a three-stage Fire/Water/Grass starter, you're choosing between three two stagers. I like this change, as it makes the game more unique and doesn't hinder gameplay in any way. I also want to commend the devs for how clean the starter choice screen was, since it used the official art of the three Pokemon and looked quite good as a result. The starter you pick will be at level 10, which threw me off at first until I realized the first few Trainers were also higher leveled. A small oversight I want to point out is that there is nothing stopping the player from heading out onto Route 1 and interacting with the first Trainer despite having no Pokemon, so it could use some sort of event that prevents the player from going there until they have their starter.

The player has to first register for the league before they can take on any gyms and take a test at the Trainers' school. The Trainers' school is probably the most important place in the game because if anyone else's experience is like mine, you'll be here quite often to fight the Audino trainer. The level scaling is what I think would be the biggest weakness of Nimbus. Level caps are fine, and I've considered implementing them into my own game, but when the game asks you to jump 10 levels between every gym, it can be quite tedious. This is why the Audino trainer was implemented, but the level scaling could have been much more natural with no need for any Audino grinding to keep up with it. By the time you're at the end of the game, the Pokemon you're going up against are almost level 100, leaving little room for growth in the postgame. I hope Pokemon Guardians doesn't follow this structure, or can at least be changed to follow a more typical one if it currently does.

The music in this game is quite consistently good, and the trainer battle theme lives rent free in my head now, in addition to the Team Cyclone battle theme. There wasn't a moment in the game where I thought the music was bad or didn't fit the situation at hand. Music is important to the first gym's town, and this is a good time to talk about the gym system.

I greatly appreciate the difference here between theme gyms and the main series' monotype gyms. The first gym's theme is dance, and one of the coolest moments in the entire game is here in this first gym. You finally get to the leader of this disco gym, to find out that the gym leader is none other than Miror B! For Colosseum and/or XD players, this is such an amazing reference and I couldn't think of a better character to represent the theme. Most of the other gym leaders are pretty standard stuff, with notable exceptions being the last three gyms. Two of these leaders are a couple, which is pretty cute. The last gym leader is a surprising pick, Bugsy from Johto. He's a grown man now, complete with facial hair and his gym has no trainers, which is interesting and reminded me of the last trial in Sun and Moon, just straight and to the point.

I liked that HM items were used to replace HMs, it's pretty cool to ride around on a surfboard in the water instead of on a Pokemon, and any game without HMs is better for it.

Layla had a nice character arc similar to Hop's in Sword and Shield. Her confidence in her abilities was starting to fall apart as she kept losing to the player, but it was restored by talking to her sister and she did what Hop couldn't by becoming the new champion (dethroning the game's developer lol) before the player. When I saw King_Walugi's character sprite I thought I'd be battling him so that reveal that he just lost and Layla was the champion surprised me a bit.

Snap, Crackle and Pop were comical villains and I loved how self-referential their humor was. They knew their names were silly, and the game knew the player thought so. Their Rotom forms matched their motif pretty well and it was fun triple battling them.

It was interesting having the Team Cyclone plotline focus on more minor legendary Pokemon in the three genies (more specifically Thundurus, but the other two are in the postgame), they are rather underutilized in the main series and take a backseat to Unova's main trio. The leader of the group felt like a complete psychopath (which I think was intended) with his backstory of not caring that his family was killed by a storm and instead seeking that power for himself.

Artrum was an awesome new Pokemon and I loved its concept of being both the sad and happy masks that are iconic representations of theatre dramas evolving to embrace one side or the other. It also got me through a lot of the postgame fights by tanking many hits and setting up to sweep with its bulky stats and excellent typing (when evolved into the happy evolution).

Overall, I had fun playing and completing the game, and I can tell that genuine care and effort have been put into it. I'm not sure if I'd play through it again due to the level scaling issue I've mentioned, but it has enough positive qualities that I'm glad I at least played through it once and saw what the region of Adyne has to offer.

Invincible Infernape 🔥 · Nov 17, 2021

Man that fossil revival guy never revives the fossil, he just becomes invisible and keeps telling to come back later

Lovable Lucario · Nov 18, 2021

Please tell how to evolve seadra intona kingdra in this game

glizzychulo · Dec 9, 2021

Hi I downloaded the file, but I can't seem to find the actual game. I have a mac if that helps with anything

King_Waluigi · Dec 9, 2021

glizzychulo said:
Hi I downloaded the file, but I can't seem to find the actual game. I have a mac if that helps with anything

I'm sorry, this game doesn't run on macs, most fangames can't, but you can try this, tho I'm not sure if it will work:

Sorry I can't be of more help!

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