I LOVE getting Naked. It's the best feeling in the world. My body feels chills the moment I get Naked and pop the top off. Such a liberating feeling.
Also, my old school switched from Naked to Odwalla the year after I started. They also switched from Pepsi to Coke. I missed muh Mountain Dew gamer fuelz. I usually like coke better, but damn was Mtn Dew bomb.
• What are your favorite parts of MapleStory’s last few content updates (For example: QoL changes, class rebalancing, Haunted Mansion, Secret Stories, Afterlands or MMF)? I absolutely adored Secret Stories and the MMF Limbo Rhythm minigame (sorta misleading name for it though...) I'd love for there to be an actual bullet hell/shmup minigame in Maple. What I didn't really like about the MMF minigame was that it was too reliant on complete memorization of the stage rather than actually dodging/avoiding hazards. I admittedly never played a Touhou game, but the other bullet hell games I played (QP Shooting/Dangerous, Suguri/Sora, Bullet Heaven 1/2, Enter the Gungeon, etc.) had enough variation that you couldn't just use the exact same movement pattern for every run.
• Do you enjoy story-driven content like Heroes of Maple and Secret Stories? If so, what are your thoughts on our newest story content? Hell yes. Heroes of Maple, IMO, should be how all main story content should be. That is, focusing on a set of characters rather than playing as your own character. I didn't really mind it for Secret Stories, since outside of Phantom, there weren't really any references to your character's identity (no combat, either, so I just stayed untransformed the whole time and also it's been over a year since I finished the last AB quest) which made it easier to pretend I was just a random explorer. I also really enjoyed the dialogue and personalities crafted (or built upon, for pre-existing characters like the Heroes and Chief Stan) for the characters, in both Heroes of Maple and Secret Stories. Seriously, awesome job.
• To you as a player, what is MapleStory’s biggest draw? Cute graphics.
• What are your expectations for the quality of MapleStory’s localization? Wish there were fewer grammatical errors and oversights (i.e. lines not getting translated).
• Does the localization of recent content fall short of, meet, or exceed those expectations? Ehhhh, it was fine for the most part. Quite a few grammatical errors in Secret Stories that sorta broke immersion for a second, but nothing major.
• In recent updates, what do you feel we have handled well? .................................uh..........Secret Stories didn't ever bug out on me? (though it did for other people). It was all great content, I just don't really think the release was handled very well lol.
• What could we have handled better? Not serving a side of major bugs with your content...
This happened to me a few weeks ago. I don't remember how I fixed it, or if I even did anything to fix it instead of it just going away on its own lol.
This reddit link suggests a graphics driver reinstall might work? Doesn't sound like something I did, though.
Ahaha, doing quests for your skills was a huge pain in the ass, but looking back on it, it seemed pretty fun. I remember my dream in high school was to become a Marksman, learn Snipe, and then just show off 190-200k lines all day at HHG1 lol. I remember one part required you to team up with another archer (don't remember if it had to necessarily be a marksman as well). Think I was stuck on that part for a few days cuz there weren't any easily accessible 4th job archers at the time (this was when Galicia was just released - since it was released with Aran, 90% of the population was Arans lol).
Another thing I liked was that glitch where you could ride a chair on your mount (don't think you could move, though). I would summon Golden Eagle, my pet Robo, my Puppet, my piggie mount, and my Ryko chair. And I'd be like the Pokemon master lol. I don't think the glitch works anymore? I just tried it, and the game crashed .
Oooh, and I remember the day I won a Ryko chair from gach. I got spammed so hard with offers. One of them was from the top marksman in the server, too, who was like my role model lol. It was like a month after Galicia came out. Musta been only one of like five in the server at the time. I quit for a few years, then when I came back, my account was cleaned out somehow... bye-bye Ryko chair. Also lost my glowing whip, guess that was worth enough for the hackers to take? All my other stuff was left alone.
Ohhhh and the first Cake vs. Pie event. I saved up for the Lotus Leaf Chair, fighting off the temptation of buying a White Scroll to sell. I honestly didn't like the chair at first, but I'd still use it and people would compliment me on it, offer me tons of mesos, eternal gratitude, etc. and I'd blush and notify them that it wasn't tradeable. Then a few years later, they re-released it as a common Gachapon item... buh bye popularity lol.
Dangit, when the I saw "Confirmed" in the title I read it as "Confirmed to be coming to GMS"... Was too lazy to do Reboot event, so those Re:Zero medals woulda been super helpful. Still using that Maple Saint medal. Don't watch the anime, but kawaii anime girls and OP medals are always good in my book.
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