Maple Story review: An online virtual world populated with adorable monsters and interesting quests

Maple Story is an online game/virtual world developed by game makers like Sugar Rush, Combat Arms, and Audition. Maple Story is a two-dimensional side-scrolling online game based in a virtual world called the world of Maple. The game has been a huge commercial success and has attracted close to 50 million users to date.

At the beginning of the game, each player must choose a profession for himself. A player can be a warrior, thief, wizard, archer, or pirate. After choosing the profession and customizing the character, you can go on your quests, collect points, progress to higher levels, just like a normal role-playing game (RPG). The level of customization that Maple Story allows is quite high, and you can spend hours choosing from the endless options available to you.

The main goal of Maple Story, like any other RPG game, is to complete quests and collect points to reach higher character levels. To earn more points, each user has to kill different monsters. However, these monsters are so adorable that you might feel bad killing them. In fact, the entire game heavily plays into the cute quotient.

It’s quite ironic that Maple Story doesn’t really have a very strong story. It starts out good, but after a certain point of time, there isn’t a concrete sense of direction to the story. Initially, users get hooked on the game due to their curiosity to experience the higher levels. But once this anticipation wears off, the interest wears off as well, as the missions tend to get a bit repetitive.

As mentioned above, Maple Story has a huge cute factor working in its favor. This “cute factor” may, in fact, make up for the repetitive quests and lackluster story. On the other hand, this sometimes becomes the game’s weakness, as it gets annoyingly cute after a while, even more so with hardcore gamers, who expect more from a game than mere cuteness.

The Maple Story has characteristically different controls. Almost the entire game is played using the keyboard; the mouse has very limited use. The controls are very convenient and easy to use. The best part is that the game allows the users to customize the controls as per their comfort.

The Maple Story is underpinned by a strong sense of social community. User may be surprised to find maple world map complete with users. This community presence can create a sense of healthy competition or, on the other hand, it can also lead to hostility. Even within the game, users can create their own houses and have fun with friends.

No game is complete without a technically sound mechanism. Despite the repetitive quests and boring story, Maple Story shines brightly in the graphics department. From the cute monsters to the cute backgrounds, everything has a lively and luxurious attention to detail. Although this is primarily an action-based game, the environment still manages to present something eye-catching and relaxing for the players.

The sound is equally great. The game has a catchy background score, so much so that you might find yourself subconsciously humming the tune. The sound effects only add to the cute quotient. The sad screams of the monsters when they are killed and many of these effects make the game more fun and enjoyable.

The Maple Story is a web-based game and can be played online for free. However, many features, including customizations, must be paid for separately. The game does not require very advanced technical requirements on PC, so it is easy to play and download.

So despite the minor story and game plan issues, Maple Story comes highly recommended. Backed by excellent technical specifications, it has the potential to be highly addictive, interesting and extremely enjoyable!