Sweet Sweet Side-Scrolling Action
So the next WoW this is not, but it’s still a fun and interesting diversion from time to time. What am I referring to? Maple Story. It’s an interesting game, 2D, side scrolling and, best of all, completely free to play. Head over to the site for the sign-up and download (make sure to use Internet Explorer only at the moment). The system is nothing to incredible, fight monsters, do some quests, level up and increase stats/abilities. Choose a job class (warrior, bowman, thief and magician) and get new skills based on that.
Your game of choice down for maintenance for a bit? Give Maple Story a try in the downtime, if nothing else you’ll watch an hour or so go by as you mess around in the game world.
The game looks really good as well. Obviously its 2D and you won’t see any eye-popping graphics, but the art is well done and the animations for the characters and others work. The music isn’t exactly Beethoven but it isn’t to horribly annoying if you aren’t listening to something else anyway.
The quests and such are pretty much standard RPG fare, kill this monster, gather this item, take this item to this person, etc. but it’s amusing enough that, though repetitive, it’s still fun.
If you’ve got some time to kill, go ahead and download it, it’s well worth the couple MB space it will take up.
October 17th, 2006 at 2:05 pm
I’ve played this game and it is pretty fun. I think it’s the biggest free MMO game right now. Good post
October 17th, 2006 at 2:52 pm
Probably is, they boast over a million accounts (active accounts may be another story) which is incredible considering there are plenty of other MMOs with a significant amount less than that.