Xenomata

Nuuuuu what have I done!

Is this the part where our heroes journey to the returned tyrants fortress of dank memes, being forced to do battle against his three horsemen of feels and himself, only to learn after finally vanquishing him "for good" that he was not the true villain, but rather our closest friend who we trusted with everything was behind the world crisis, bringing the tyrant back to life, AND Harambe, leading to a subplot where the heroes must decide whether they value bringing peace and harmony to the lands over their close friend, who they believe still has a shard of hope hidden behind their nefarious crimes against humanity?

At the same time, the game is straggling along, wheezing. It can't remain as it is. Maybe it doesn't have to be a year, six months, or even three, but a month sounds reasonable. It could be during one of those "slow" months with no holidays or anything really going on at the beginning of the year like on March or April.

That would be fine enough, but I'm more than certain that half the maple population is just waiting for the right excuse to jump ship for literally anything else.

Other games rank you based on how fast you do a thing and rewards you the better rank you get, Maple just tells you that you have 30 minutes with no incentive to kill the boss any faster, just that you can kill the boss at all.
I don't think removing the time limit is a good idea whatsoever, but replacing it with a ranking system that rewards you the faster you can take down a boss...
Would you rather be told that you took to long to kill the boss and get an F and, therefore, get worse rewards, or would you rather be pulled out of the room because you went one second over 30 minutes?
You'll still get all the time in the world, but I think receiving a reward because you did the boss good is a much more rewarding experience than receiving a reward because you spent all day poking Hard Lotus with a stick and finally killed him. I mean, this is still a game regardless of the direction it went in, the player does still deserve that "rewarding experience"