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Quote from: Taz on March 29, 2015, 03:47:42 pm

Doesn't really look anything like Maple Story, imo.

My first thought was Rune Factory. (Which was a gigantic letdown, but anyway.)

I liked Rune Factory, or at least liked it by 3. 2 didn't do much for me. Haven't played 4 yet. It's not really Run Factory, but it is in that vein of "open-ish world, with a few gates of some sort led by story and/or time, in which you live your life as you see fit." Go do stuff. The world awaits. Fantasy Life adds 12 jobs or "Life's" varying from melee, to archer, to craftsperson, to fisher. You don't plant anything or marry anyone, so there's that. The world is your oyster if you're prepared for it. Crafting is a button mashing minigame, except when it's timed button mashing. Do well and you're rewarded with more stuff or better stuff. Craft enough and there's a "auto" feature to just skip the button mashing, but it's per item.

I have a level 20 Adept Mercenary after about 16 hours. I opened all the other jobs and did them for maybe half an hour each. Actually I hit adept in a bunch of jobs. You can level stuff even when you're not that job, just do those things and change lives and talk to your master.