Like many other recent massively-multiplayer role-playing games coming from Asia like Blade and Soul or Twin Saga, MapleStory 2 has amazing graphics, an overwrought storyline about saving the world from evil, and different classes to perform with Maplestory Mesos. The sequel also takes away the first game's gender-locked courses and limited choice of looks from the character development page. (If you opted to play a demon slayer at the first, you'd have to spend real money or forage for a beauty voucher if you wanted to take out the character's natural gray skin and reddish eyes.) I opted to make a warrior-type Berserker, a dude with a fairly angry and competitive backstory, but that I was able to customize his look to be female and wear pink curls and multi-colored eyes.
The game emphasizes individuality and customization over conventional defaults. It's an obsession with asking if you want to screenshot any component of the game, and it automatically saves screenshots in a specified folder in your computer. Perhaps the biggest sign of this game's ambitions is you get your house. I never noticed this while playing the first game, but old Maplers are basically nomads. MapleStory 2 fixes this issue by giving you a large old house so that you can craft your very own little corner of the game.
Regardless of the change to 3D, MapleStory 2 smartly keeps key elements of this match and storytelling that made the first so distinctive. The storyline has evolved and included dozens of new characters, but the core of the tale is still the same: it is the wicked Dark Mage versus the gorgeous goddess. Some less-welcome elements of the first are nevertheless invisibly, such as the famously glitchy Nexon sport launcher.
Still, as soon as you're in the game, a lot can be forgiven, given how it is the community that really makes the experience enjoyable. At its core Maplestory items is an online destination for friends to gather, much like Club Penguin or Neopets. I unexpectedly met my current boyfriend of nearly three years during MapleStory when an idle summer drew us both back to the game, and have met several Maple buddies in real life from across the nation. We keep in contact, even though none of us play with the older game. The folks of MapleStory 2 look nice enough for today. When I died and got pinned by a tombstone, I typed in conversation for assistance, and someone really walked over and revived me, before telling me he had not helped me sooner because he thought I was an non-playable character as a result of my own suspiciously easy username.
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