Recent reviews by ShortGhost

It's a short and beautifully told story. Easily one of my favorite games and would recommend it to anyone. The graphics are very stunning throughout every moment of the game. Cinematics are amazing and the art style chosen during them really puts the mood of each act that you are in, and the gameplay is just as beautiful. Controls of the platformer is very simple and the game-play flows very well, I wish more games were like this one.

This game can take up a few hours to complete if you are trying hard enough, but i would say it's totally worth it. Pick it up and you will not be disapointed!

Love the story, love the gameplay, its good to kill a day.

This game tells a beautiful story.
easily go through it in like an hour.

Short Funny Story, good to kill a day. Jumping mechanics are awesome and the plot is quiet amusing. Total game time is about 2-3 hours if you take your time lol.

I got PlayClaw when it was on sale just because I thought it would be decent since i'm paying for it, but when I used it, I ran into a lot of bugs and seemed to lag me alot more, I now use a FREE software that runs better and EASIER to use lol, called OBS.

I would not recommend buying this and getting OBS instead.

TL;DR
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Late game is insanely Pay-to-Win
Most Aspects involve a gamling like system to give you a "CHANCE" for stat boosts, for IRL-$
Lacking of Character Uniqueness

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MapleStory! The game I used to be addicted to a long time ago til it has gone way down hill. This 2D MMORPG has a chibi like art-style which I found to be pleasing, but the gameplay relies heavily on a "Pay-To-Win" style to be able to even take on bigger bosses. I would suggest people only play this game for fun and socialize, dont invest heavily into the game or you'll find yourself spending hundreds of dollars, let me explain why:

1. "Potential System" Sucks!
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Maplestory's weapons & armors consists of having a system on gear called "potential" in which each item can have a special stats added onto it which give imense stat boosts (Example: +30% damage) which is a crazy boost. The stats are awsome, it's just getting it which is insane. To gain these stats you have to use cash-shop items called "Potential Cubes" which randomize the "potential" stats (i.e. gambling for good stats with real-cash).

Not only do you have to get good stats on those, but potential stats have a tiers from: Rare > Epic > Unique > Legendary. (Legendary being the best you want to aim for) Those teirs are also have a small percentage of going up per-"potential-cube" used. So not only do you have to roll for stats, but you want to get the tier up to maximum level first!

Did i mention that cubes are 1$ each for the lowest rated cube, but of course if you want to have better chance of upgrading your items you can go for those 3$ cubes, also did I mention you gotta do that for each of your items that you can equip? There's easily over 20+ items you can equip from helm, armor, shoes, belt, gloves, eye-acceorries, rings, etc.... what i'm trying to get across here is this is a cash-draining process. Just youtube people cubing their gear and watch how much money they put into their acc, it's ridiculous amounts, easily 500$ goes into cubing for dedicated players for a round of cubing.



2. Bonus "Potential System"...!?
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The company Nexon saw how much people got obessed with getting their gear strong using the original "potential" stats, so nexon though "Hey, we can make even more money by adding even more potential!" and that's what they did.

Pretty much you are doing another round of rolling the dice in hopes of getting good stats in exchange for cash but for more stats! Also the cost for randomly changing the stats of your bonus potential item is more then regular-potential.


3. "Nebulite"?
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Oh, we arn't done with item stats yet! There is yet another thing that boosts your stats of each one of your items, slightly different, but still costs a ♥♥♥♥ ton of money to get and add to your items for stat boosts. They are pretty much like a "Item sockets & gem system", but in this case the gem is called nebulites. Of course each nebulite has a rarity system all the way to legendary.


4. Nexon's gets money from "Random" or gambling for items
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Not only do players invest hundreds of dollars into gear to even have a chance to fight some of the lower bosses, their are other things such as making your character look different. There is the basic set of hair/face/eyes etc, but if you want to have a certain look, hair coupons go for 3-4$ per coupon, also it's chosen at random out of a pool of like 10 different styles for their month. They take advantage of the "limited time offer" they state and it makes users want to get it and stand out. I've known of people who spend easily 100$ on just getting the look they want PER character. It's insane, and i'm only mentioning the beauty-salon aspect of this game...


5. Uniqueness of each character is gone
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Literally every class can teleport or double-jump across the map. What happened to the Maple Story where only theifs had the swiftness to move like ninjas, and mages could only teleport, where warriors are the heavy slow damage dealers, and archers are the turret like DPS fighters. This game has gone so downhill since the addition of potential system.


6. I Could probably go on but....
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I started playing from almost the beginning of GMS version of Maple Story and i've seen a giant decline of what the game could of been. It's literally just a cash-dump, Please don't play this game. Most Nexon games tend to have the same pattern to, so I woudl try avoing them in my opinion. The game is just way too different and I dont want people spending their time on something like that. I hope this helps someone... anyone lol. Good luck.