Nexus: The Jupiter Incident

Classic indie old school sci-fi game!

so after investing 6-7 hours into this game and getting relatively far into it here are my impressions, as I have come to both love and hate this game. PRO 1. good ascetic 2. gives you none combat task, makes you feel like your really there. 3. in-depth ship control CON 1. tutorial doesn't cover everything. 2. story is a little all over the place. 3. combat mechanics SUCK, it's difficult to know if your ships is doing what you want it to do or if it's even having an effect on the enemy. 4. ships are to durable, you can actually get into stalemates with the enemy were neither of you can penetrate each other's shields. (it's actually happened to me) 5. battle's take slightly more time then I would like. While I have come to love certain aspects of this game, like how it immerses you into the world, I have come to hate the combat mechanics of the game. This is because for the first 4-5 hours of the game you will destroy 1-2 ships this is mostly because it's literally impossible to pearse the enemies shields, yet they to will lack the ability to pears your shields which then make's the game feel almost like a cinematic since you spend 15-20 minutes trying to beat an enemy and not making any progress. In conclusion this game will seriously drive you to the brink of insanity, as you wonder if your doing something incorrectly or if in fact the enemy is using some sort of impenetrable shield technology given to them by Jesus himself.

The writing and voice acting are pretty bad but is still a Good Old Game for sure. It feels a little bit like if Eve-Online had a single-player campaign.

There's really little you can criticize about Nexus TJI. The voice acting is off at times, some of the missions have a minute or so of excessive downtime while flying, and the middle part of the story can be confusing. Beyond that, you get a game which gives you very deep tactical control in a well-done and well-presented (even by modern standards, you can change registry-values to get 1920x1080 for example) space environment, with a very engaging story and a really awesome main character (not Cromwell!). I loved this game back when it came out, and I'm still loving it now. I only hope the successor will be similar.

Reading the reviews to this made me happy, that I was not the only to hear of the game, and to play it. However I feel the optimism for this game needs to be tempered. This game is much like a diamond, intensely hard. The stealth missions are difficult, almost unreasonably so. It also has features that other games cringe at, because it is so easy to loose your captial ships. Also like a diamond, it is visually stunning, the backgrounds it take place feel desolate, yet you can't say you've seen better. There is a beauty in the realism of the ship design, things we might see built if we dare to dream. This exemplifies what fleet tactics is about, doing the best you can with delicate units, working to maximise their potential. The story itself is well told and surprised me, after completing it after a great many months, there was no point where I lost interest. The characters themselves are so very human, even those who aren't. For the fans of the genre, those who seek a challenge and perhaps for the visuals. Don't ever loose sight that it is described as a simulator, that way you can enjoy it. I am torn between three and four stars, but for the sheer unrivaled joy for seeing the campaign through it has to be four.