A new bug that has the potential to "softlock" your copy of Paper Mario: The Origami King has reportedly been discovered. Yes, we'll admit the timing of this news is a tad awkward considering Nintendo only patched multiple other glitches yesterday, but it might at least stop a few people from having to replay a certain section of the game.
In phase two of the Boss Sumo Bro rematch located in the Battle Lab, defeating this enemy with a POW Block - before defeating the Sumo Bro - will freeze the game. You'll lose a significant chunk of progress and be forced to redo the entire battle.
As explained by Gaming Reinvented, once this happens, all you can do is watch the background animations play over and over while the boss music continues to loop until you close the game and restart it. Hopefully, Nintendo can patch this out ASAP.
In the game's first update, Nintendo fixed an issue in which players were unable to enter the Spring of Rainbows in Shangri-Spa and resolved a problem where the Black Shy Guy would not be registered in the Gallery of the Musée Champignon—even if you had previously defeated one. Have you encountered the above bug? How about any others? Leave a comment down below.
[source gamingreinvented.com]
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This game has more bugs in it than Hollow Knight.
I am not going to play this for awhile until it seems like all these bugs are under control.
That’s Karma doing its job.
I find softlocks way more annoying than hard freezes. You end up wasting 10 minutes pressing every button in vain hoping that it’ll sort itself instead of being able to do nothing and usually resetting.
Dude like what the hell was this game done at all?
I'm glad i haven't bought the game yet. 😥
I will keep my eyes peeled on updated information.
@Ralizah more like more bugs than bug fables lol
@Ralizah Hollow Knight? Try Bug Fables. lol
@StephenYap3 @boxyguy ...have you two played Hollow Knight?
What happened to the usual Nintendo quality? Was this produced by the same people who gave us Other M?
Luckily they fix these bugs quite fast.
@nessisonett I have and it's amazing to me. Not my favorite Metroidvania, but it's quite a ton of fun on many fronts.
Goodness gracious, they keep coming.
Looks like we're experiencing a side effect of COVID-19. I suspect it's impacted Nintendo's ability to get playtesters to look for bugs and thus the end user has become the playtester. With millions of people playing the game there's bound to be previously unknown bugs found. Thankfully Nintendo have been fairly rapid in sorting out the bugs so I'm not too worried about coming across any.
It gets a bit silly now.
@polterpupp
Not an abnormally large amount of glitches, no. Honestly this game I have seen less than 4 glitches total? I personally did not encounter any glitches during my playthrough and the only ones I know about are the ones specifically fixed by Nintendo already and this one pow block sumo bro glitch.
The only reason you hear about these glitches so severely is that one caused a hard-lock game breaking bug, and this one causes a soft lock requiring reset. The only other glitches were a bug in the training mode which just failed to count your turns correctly and another that allowed your party member to defeat enemies but failing to upload that enemies data into your museum. 1 is just a minor mistake and the other is only relevant for 100% completion.
Played the whole thing 100% without a glitch. Before patches.
Damn, did Bethesda help develop this game?
These kind of glitches are commonplace in other games, the Lego series springs to mind.
There's also this weird glitch that caused lots of people who hadn't played the game to write it of as crap.
Just finished the game yesterday, didn't find any glitches in my play through at all.
Honestly, these are so specific (pow blocks are rare, and I'm sure most people wouldn't think of using one in this specific battle), I'm nor sure it's worth an article every time someone finds one. Does this happen to every game?
@nessisonett no but its on my wishlist, why do you ask? i just thought bug fables would be funnier to bring up since that's the paper mario-inspired game haha
@boxyguy The enemies in the game are bug creatures.
This game has more bugs in it than National Park.
The bugs for this game seem to be getting a lot of press, and maybe rightly so being a first-party Nintendo title. But I've not seen any of the bugs while I've been playing. Granted they shouldn't have been there in release, but it's not likely to affect your enjoyment of the game, especially considering they just patched out most of them.
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