Maple Story is a FREE 2D Side-Scrolling RPG game. Instead of immediately being turned down by the 2D part of the game, WAIT!! This isn't your traditional isometric top-down view, it's side-scrolling! This means that the game trades of 360 degree views for platforms, ladders, portals, lots of jumping and such skills as teleport that aid in your movement. The graphics of this game are crystal clear, even for a lower-end computer, and the massive world is continually evolving for more areas to explore all the time and the music changes from area to area. Instead of pounding music, though, this game has softer music that'll keep you calm.

If you're just coming into the gaming world, I can highly suggest this game to you. This is the game that I personally started out on and the simple controls, basic goals, and fun graphics kept me interested. Although I can say that I've "moved on" to other games, I still come back from time to time and play this game because of it's fun originality.

This game is quite similar to Wind Slayer, and although Maple Story doesn't have a PvP, it makes up for it in a plethora of quests, fun party games, and killer boss monsters to take down.

I can, personally, highly suggest this game to any gamer as a quality work of originality.