Gameplay from Maplestory 2's Alpha Showcases Early Combat and Exploration

Michael Dunaway
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The North American release for Maplestory 2 may only be a twinkle in the eyes of expectant gamers, but over in South Korea, Nexon has already begun letting Alpha testers into the MMO's cube-based world. Despite being region-locked, foreign MMO reviewer Steparu managed to work their way into the Alpha and ended up recording gameplay from several of Maplestory 2's low level zones.

The video (shown above), of course, is entirely in Korean, but through the process of observation, we can gleam quite a few interesting facts. Questing, (at least at lower levels) appeared fairly straightforward, with the added benefit of being able to freely explore each of Maplestory 2's zones made up of floating cube islands. One surprising thing that stood out to us was Maplestory 2's facial emotes, which when juxtaposed with a character's simple body design, conveyed a rather wide range of emotions.

There's also quite a bit of combat featured in the video, but with Steparu only being level 7, there's little complexity seen at such an early stage. Still, Maplestory 2 will feature quite a number of Open World boss encounters for players to tackle cooperatively. Towards the end of the video, a group of players gathers around a menacing bear with a propensity to knock around unsuspecting players and even pieces of the environment itself. Indeed, it appears being placed atop a floating island miles above the ground can lead to dangerous situations, and as one might expect, falling off at such a height does result in an early demise.

What are some of your thoughts on Maplestory 2's early gameplay? Do you feel the gameplay style fits the game's aesthetic choices? Let us know!

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Michael Dunaway
Michael Dunaway, News Editor

Michael Dunaway has been part of the MMOBomb team for years and has covered practically every major Free-to-Play MMO title since 2009.

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Discussion (14)

SomeBody 9 years ago
your crazy this looks way better than the original maple story, this is a huge improvement dont like it? stick with the original 2d maple story

JayWolfie 9 years ago
Yeah, I'd go through the grind again with Maple2
Can't lie, playing with friends was a blast.

ruecian fate 9 years ago
when will it come out on asia?

thevick 9 years ago
Soo hype for this game! ^^

Mattmanrx99 9 years ago
I dont know how but this reminds me of the graphics style of like legend of edda.

THE ONE 9 years ago
To be honest i think the game is quite interesting, the new concept of making it a 3D world could be the on thing that makes maple story 2 even worth playing also the games new features look cool as ever and last i love the anime themed characters.

Bloom 9 years ago
it's so cute!

Blitzbulletz 9 years ago
Why would anyone more then 5 years old want to play this? Looks like Chibipocalypse came to minecraft.

Vanquish 9 years ago
This looks terrible. Combat and movement look so bad and non-intuitive.
Nexon made it look even more childish than Maplestory, which is something I thought was impossible, but they did make many mistakes lately (massive bans and such) so I think they are trying to destroy themselves.

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70calories 9 years ago
being one of the people who found Mable story to be pretty crappy this looks fairly interesting

mattmanrx99 9 years ago
I would say since maple-story is Nexon's most popular game I would suspect that a late 2015 Alpha or CB for an English release.


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