Last week, a game-breaking bug was discovered in Paper Mario: The Origami King, which had the ability to completely "destroy" a player's save and progress about 20-30 hours into their adventure.
As we previously explained, the bug is tied to the area where you visit four spas in the Shangri-Spa area in order to gain access to a secret fifth spa:
The issue is that once the NPC guarding the entrance asks to see the membership card required to enter, it is removed from your inventory entirely – so if you exit the area for whatever reason, you can no longer gain access because you don't have the membership card, nor does the NPC remember taking it from you; it's also not possible to obtain a replacement.
There's no need to worry, though - as Nintendo has heard about the issue and is working on an immediate fix. Polygon got confirmation of this from an official representative of the company:
"We are aware of reports about issues affecting some players of Paper Mario: The Origami King. We are working to resolve these issues and plan to address them in a software update. We apologize for any inconvenience."
There's no exact word on when this software update will arrive, but given Nintendo's recent response time to glitches in Animal Crossing: New Horizons and various other first-party titles, we shouldn't have to wait too long at all.
Have you encountered this game-breaking bug in Paper Mario yourself? Leave a comment down below.
[source polygon.com]
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Good to know. It seems like I won’t be getting to that area until the fix is out anyway.
If only if we complain about the battle system..than they be sure that they listen to the fans as well.
I don't want to hear anyone say that they should just get rid of this game and make a TTYD 2.
@danielchavarr456 the battle system isn't even that bad honestly, it's actually amazing compared to the last two games.
"Thank you for the public beta test, we will patch soon."
-Every modern game, ever.
Gotta love modern gaming. $60 bucks for essentially a test release with no manual or any cool stuff that came standard only 5 years ago. And forget trying to beat the game without downloading 2gb+ of essential DLC. Hahahahahaha
In the previous news everybody is praising Nintendo for the quality and how polished the games release day one 😂
The game has been remarkably glitch free up to that point. Nintendo is the gold standard when it comes to quality bug testing in video games. It's one oversight that they are fixing almost immediately, not Fallout 76. Older games had glitches and oversights like this as well. Hell, Stryder7x has an entire youtube channel dedicated to bugs in the original Paper Mario.
@HeroponRiki Agreed. Comparing a Nintendo (1st or 2nd party) game to the glitchy trash many companies routinely release is just delusional.
Remember when they found a game-breaking bug in Other M (pretty sure it was) and they asked players to physically mail them an SD card with their save file, and they said they'd fix the save file and mail it back?
Probably faster to replay the game, I'd guess.
Interestingly enough, are they aware of the buggery that is the remainder of their 2020 lineup...? Asking for a friend
What about the glitch where you only own one switch, and your child gets into your profile and plays for a long time on your save file that's already had about 10 hours put in...there's no way to go back to where you were!
Solutions?
1. Allow passwords to be set on profiles, so you can't play a game through that profile unless you input password.
2. Get rid of autosaves in paper mario through options menu?
3. Allow save states like in Breath of the Wild (why isn't this a thing??)
4. Do none of these things and make sorry dads like me everywhere suffer forever.
@Papichulo When they stopped offering paper manuals, that's when I realized that in order to keep the price at $60 and below, they need to keep offering less.
@HotGoomba that isn't saying much.
@TG16_IS_BAE well that and trees are kinda important lol
@ATaco But it's a huge improvement. I mean there was nowhere but up after that anyways, and the typical RPG format is miles better. But at least the gameplay is better than Super Paper Mario.
Yeah I said it.
Disclaimer: This is my opinion and my opinion only, and I still enjoy Super Paper Mario. I just don't feel like I'm playing Paper Mario when playing Super, although the story is probably the best one in the series.
@HotGoomba Yes, trees are important. My statement is an allusion to something else.
@TG16_IS_BAE yeah I know I was just being [un]funny
@Andymad Usually Nintendo and most of the first party companies released less 1st party titles on their fourth fiscal year in their console lifespan. For 2018, 2019, and 2020 we already got all the first party goods for Switch, it's gonna be quite slower for fiscal year 2021, 2022, and 2023 as they also had the Switch successor they plan to work on as well.
@danielchavarr456 ugh. Entitled.
I like the battle system. And I’ve played all the Mario RPG’s. It’s a fresh layer of paint, very likable and unique, and I applaud them for that. And don’t tell me I’m not a fan.
@MrAsild compared to any other release from any other company, this is nothing.
Oh, I noticed the pass was gone, but did not realise it's a bug as I have not needed it again so far. There is a bit more code in todays games compaired to the retro games... More that can go wrong and more to test. Still a fair amount of the old games did have game breaking bugs. Unpatchable. Both arcade and home market. Todays possibility to get patches is beautiful. Hope the patch comes soon.
A (hopefully) easily fixed bug like this does not ruin my beaty sleep.
Stay safe and be happy!
Lol, fools actually bought that game? Wow...thank god for yuzu.
I'm thinking about getting this game, I'm just curious how long is it?
@GX_64
I would say just playing through is about 25 - 30 hours. At the moment I finished the game with almost 100% and I'm clocking in at about 45 hours.
@Dethmunk I see what you did there and I agree
@MrBlacky Thank you for replying, I might consider getting it.
@GX_64
I don't think you would regret it. It's a really good game and the only slight negative, for me personally, is the battle system (and only because I suck at sliding puzzles).
Also this game has one of the biggest (optional) trolls I have ever encountered in a game.
Let us not forget that The Origami King has yet another problem:
The lack of button inputs to speed up text. It's 2020, and several Switch games have been released by NINTENDO with this very feature, and this still somehow slips past them?
Of course older games had problems, I'm old enough to remember!! There are more note, but let's face it, games are massive in both size and complexity compared with NES/SNES games so it is hardly surprising that even the best testing can miss some faults. At least we can now have them fixed easily unlike Wii generation backwards!
One of the main reason to not buy games on release anymore.
@TheCatCountry
I don't think, that many people would have encountered this glitch.
I found a few more glitches, one. After beating the game I went to the Toad Town shop to buy the Princess Peach collectible for 30k ish coins and I did, and it didn’t register me as collecting it and it just went poof, I’m down a trophy, a collectible and 30k coins. Also I can’t get the ally tambourine either, all the accessories merchants tell me they sold me everything when in reality they didn’t, can someone please help me bring this to light?
Relax folks, they released a large, complicated game in which a single confirmed glitch has been discovered, one that 99.9% of people would never hit anyway, and they've committed to fixing it. This is not a harbinger of the death of quality control.
@MrBlacky What's the troll? The sniffit "what face am I making" game?
@TheCatCountry
Still think, most people would either go BEFORE this section or AFTER it.
@DanElectrode
This was quite trollish to. But what I'm talking about is on the "Queen Peach".
When the power is still cut on the ship, there is this device where Olivia says something like "Wow, what a complicate looking machine." So I turned on the power again, went back to that machine full of anticipation, thinking " Man, I wonder what this does?" I activated it and then...
IT WAS JUST A FREAKING TEA-MAKING-MACHINE!!! 😆🤬
@MrBlacky ah yeah, that was pretty great. The reveal of the location of the key to Peach's castle was another good one.
@TheCatCountry
My only problem is that you can't skip through text the first time you read through it. It's such a tedious task to have to sit there, reading faster than the text appears.
In BotW and Splatoon 2, you could skip as much as you wanted to even if you were going through the text a first time. In The Origami King, you HAVE to read through it slowly the first time before being able to skim through it when you talk to that SPECIFIC person again.
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