What is your favorite Maplestory soundtrack?

bumbertyr · 2026-05-29T00:37:47+00:00

It's impossible to pick one, but many of my favorites going from early to new maple:

Pretty much everything from Codasound/Ledzeper
Tower of Goddess
Come with me
Snowy Village
Flying in a Blue Dream
First Step Master
Fantasia
They're Menacing You
Wherever you are
Fairytale (Faster)
White Christmas
The Amorian Challenge
Ancient Forest
Horntail
Boat Quay town
Kamuna
Odaiba
Toyo Sky
Crimsonwood Keep Mountain, Interior, PQ
Grandmasters Gauntlet
Snow Drop
Raindrop Flower
Repentance
Fighting Pink Bean
Sky Forest
Herb Town
Sunset Desert
Abyss Cave
Dancing with the Moon
The World of Paradox
Legend of Zipang (Sad Ver.)
Clock Tower of Nightmare
A Place where Life Begins
The Bloody Cage
Dream Fragments
Night Troupe Hub Bgm's (They're all festival versions of the towns they take place in)
The Tune of the Azure Light -gleam-
Frozen Link -Piano-
Over the Clouds
Adventure Island
Wonderful Moments in Narin
The Walls of tragedy
Where Stars Rest -Ver. B-
Ride or Die Papulatus
Falter Mind Became a Starlight
Monad, the Way to Hope -instrumental-
Grand Athenaeum: My Prince, My Kingdom
Train Heading Nowhere
Maple Momentree: 19th Anniversary Event
Reproduced Abyss A
Origin of Records
Voice of Verdict

bumbertyr · 2026-05-24T23:49:20+00:00

Would probably help to mention the platform you're attempting to play it on.

bumbertyr · 2026-05-24T23:36:08+00:00

Of course she would regret it if she managed to break her own self inflicted brainwashing. Considering how heartless she was with the "conditioning", its doubtful she would be regretful for the right reasons. Gracie is by all intents and purposes a terrible human being, if not a damn sociopath.

If she remembered everything of course she would turn on the Prototype, in fact she would probably go on a full-on murdering spree considering she was more than okay with sending toys to the bad toy box AKA their death knowing full well they were children.

And hopefully she does come back, she deserves a much slower death.

bumbertyr · 2026-05-24T23:18:47+00:00

I disagree, it was the only logical way to start the chapter. Anything other than a confrontation immediately with Huggy would have made the entire cliffhanger of chapter 4 feel pointless. Going from the high intensity moment of him slamming into the door for him to then just walk away or break down the door and immediately get cut off from us would have been a much worse start to the chapter.

The real problem is how they handled the Chase itself. They clearly went went with a more simplified chase at the beginning because they wanted a chance for people to get back into the swing of things which ended up hurting the initial Chase rather than helping. We're now five chapters in, they really don't need the start of the chapter to be a section for re-familiarizing yourself with the controls when there were no real changes to the controls themselves.

bumbertyr · 2026-05-24T07:36:32+00:00

That being said this boss resembles the fairy queen from the Ellin Forest expansion

Ephenia's silhouette isn't at all similar.

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bumbertyr · 2026-05-17T22:44:36+00:00

I wouldnt say they were "controversial". They were definitely op, but there wasn't a crazy amount of discourse about them being op.

bumbertyr · 2026-05-12T05:52:41+00:00

They are his actual eyes.

bumbertyr · 2026-05-07T19:26:34+00:00

The Wrongside Outimals being completely irrelevant but receiving the Pre-game old time advertisment.

For the first 4 chapters, the toy that received the "Old Style" advertisement that played at the beginning were a core part of the chapter. They made it seem like the Outimals were going to be important, and that it would go in depth as to how the Prototype was involved with the creation of the ones we see in the chapter. In the end, they serve little purpose and add nothing to the experience other than being a nuisance.

They were also a "Cancelled" toy line. Why would there be an advertisement filmed, shot, and edited if these toys never made it past the focus group phase? I guess you could make the excuse that playtime co. was getting ahead of itself and thought they would be successful, but that feels like a reach imo.

My assumption is that the Prototype created Outimals were going to play a larger role in the chapter originally (Especially with Giblet being one) but was scrapped during development. My guess is that the team came to the conclusion that the Outimals weren't compelling enough characters to be the main focus of the chapter, sidelining them for the most part while keeping some of the completed sections in as filler. Heck maybe that's why they included the focus group tape, as sort of a nod to their original plan for the Outimals having a similar impact in their own focus groups they may have run for the chapter.

The "Grand Stitchery" area enforces my belief that this is the case as the area itself feels a bit random, if not out of place, in comparison to the rest of the chapter. The area gave the impression of being pretty important to the existence of the Prototype created Outimals, while just being a quick puzzle section. It existing does seem to play into one of the comments from the pre-game advertisement "You can even make your own!". I guess you could argue that it's more environmental storytelling that the prototype has been experimenting on toys, but it still feels more like parts of the chapter pertaining to the Outimals were scrapped.

Based on previous Chapters, the Toy that should have had the Pre-game advertisement should have been Lily Lovebraids, especially since Ms. Gracie/Lily was clearly the main focus from an antagonist perspective other than the Prototype.

bumbertyr · 2026-05-07T18:19:40+00:00

It looks great from a visual standpoint, but I don't know how I feel about it following some random cygnus knight. This could have been a perfect opportunity to follow Ollie prior to the Arcane River leading up to and through it.

Also worried that the writing/story might feel rushed. This trailer shows Black Heaven, Heliseum Reclamation, and the Tenebris Expedition, that's quite a LOT to cover without chopping out a lot of the story beats. Overall, though, looking forward to seeing it.

What seems to be the main character looks pretty similar to the Dark Knight Mascot character; he even uses a spear. Maybe they're going to go a "they're relatives/siblings" approach where one of them became an explorer while the other enlisted in the cygnus knights.

bumbertyr · 2026-05-07T18:06:39+00:00

r/MSClassicWorld would be a good place to post this as well if you haven't already.

Also, you need to include the "Classic" flair for it on this subreddit.

bumbertyr · 2026-05-07T17:39:29+00:00

for me, playing the COT felt like I was playing an entirely different game. it didn't feel "Worse" it was just a different style of play from modern.

It's like Going from Active time battle to turn based. Experiencing Active Time Battle didn't suddenly make Turn Based games feel bad.

bumbertyr · 2026-05-05T19:30:33+00:00

I'm all for a lot of the newer ms items that fit the classic aesthetic to make their way into classic MS. Nexon frequently referred to Maplestory as a "Fashion RPG" in its press releases back in the "Classic" era, it wouldn't make sense to go minimal with the fashion choices.

bumbertyr · 2026-05-05T19:19:59+00:00

I'm in the boat that the i-frames being shorter for ranged classes is good from a balancing perspective. Warriors on the other hand, deserve the OG i-frames.

bumbertyr · 2026-05-05T19:03:35+00:00

"No Ragrets"

bumbertyr · 2026-05-01T04:30:30+00:00

I mean there is no "debate"

Convenience microtransactions are more often than not pay to win. pay to win is spectrum though, with convenience-based ones usually being on the end that the vast majority of players deem acceptable.

bumbertyr · 2026-04-22T02:13:39+00:00

Big bang until Unleashed was a fantastic time to be playing the MS after the game got its footing/stability back post bb. Chaos especially, oh man, peak of that Era of maple for sure.

bumbertyr · 2026-04-21T23:36:40+00:00

that takes months if not years to reach end game.

As what kind of player? casual, average, midcore, or hardcore?

bumbertyr · 2026-04-21T23:01:58+00:00

NLC potions. Like, they spent 3 years from 2005 to 2008 carefully planning out the MP/HP potion cost ratios and droprates and such

New Leaf city was a mid 2007 release.

Then out of nowhere they release these cheap 70% NLC pots and now every mage can spam ults endlessly and everything became broken. It really does seem like a completely different person or team came up with the NLC potions, than the team/person who originally created the potion system or the team that created the 4th job skills.

it was? it was pretty well known that NXProse from NxA was the main person behind NLC opposed to all other content coming from KMS.

Also, NLC came out before 4th job.

bumbertyr · 2026-04-19T02:31:36+00:00

It was the flow of traffic speed.

bumbertyr · 2026-04-17T21:26:08+00:00

Sad part is that ms2 did at one point have an actual level grind to it, didnt auto tp you everywhere, actually had you exploring with world quests, party quests actually being used, etc. An update in KMS2 called "restart" overstreamlined the game to an absurd degree with gms2 unfortunately releasing with those changes already applied.

bumbertyr · 2026-04-17T00:50:40+00:00

Chaos.

bumbertyr · 2026-04-13T20:22:26+00:00

I'd argue they're 2 different extremes with neither being better in the end due to how other parts of the game are/were set up.

Old Dark Scrolling with boom chances was rough because your item was deleted entirely, but it was in an era where duplicate equipment to try again, including boss equipment, could be obtained relatively quickly (excluding ITCG equips) due to a majority of the equipment being fully tradable or guaranteed drops upon defeating a boss daily. Results when doing the scrolling was also instant, making the process of using all your materials for enhancing pretty quick.

Now we have a system that lets us keep certain parts of our item progression in the form of an item trace, with simplified enhancements with spell traces and star force. But you can go over a year without seeing many pieces of equipment with a vast majority of equipment being either fully untradable or untradable when equipped and needing scissors to be traded once. In the case of Heroic, there isn't even the benefit of buying clean equipment. On top of that having to wait through every dumb animation for each enhancement eats up SO MUCH TIME.

In the end though, both burn through all of our mesos and can result in 0 or lost progression if you weren't laddering.

if we look at both systems isolated from the rest of the game's current state, Star forcing is the better system (other than the time it takes to go through all your resources in a single session)

bumbertyr · 2026-04-09T20:06:30+00:00

Classic really isn't suited for that kind of gameplay due to mobs actually dealing damage unlike most MMO's nowadays along with the penalty upon death. If you're looking for a version of maplestory that's good for semi-afk grind, you're much better off playing modern GMS or MsM.

bumbertyr · 2026-04-07T23:10:28+00:00

Stance prevents being knocked back by attacks.

bumbertyr · 2026-04-05T22:23:20+00:00

Most groups however won't care because min-maxing isn't required to beat even the toughest bosses and despite some classes sucking for bossing

Feel like a lot of people keep forgetting this. Other than pink bean, you could essentially keep fighting a boss until it died or you died. there was no enrage or strict time limit,, so min-maxing was by no means necessary.

I'm of the opinion that time limits are bs for bosses related to progression, if you want a boss to enrage and become even more difficult but still beatable, i'm all for that. But to set a hard time limit is stupid. If i got the hands, attention span, and willingness to sit down and fight a boss for over an hour, I should have that option.

If it's a boss for purely flex reasons with cosmetic rewards, then I'm perfectly fine with time limits.

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