Light location spoilers for Paper Mario: The Origami King follow.On Mario and Olivia’s journey to the last streamer in The Origami King, players must collect four stamps for their Spring of Rainbows VIP card in the Shangri-Spa area.
After collecting the four seals from four different hot springs, you gain access to a fifth secret hot spring. However, once you enter the fifth hot spring, Rainbow Spring, you lose your VIP pass.
And, the other four hot springs will not give Mario a second seal, which means that it is impossible to retrieve the VIP pass after he has already used it. If you try to re-enter Spring of Rainbows, Mario will again be asked to show his VIP pass.
So if you leave Spring of Rainbows before achieving your goal, you have no way to progress through the story again. Also, leaving the fifth spring automatically saves the game, effectively ruining your progress.
In a statement to Polygon, a Nintendo representative said: “We are aware of reports of issues affecting some Paper Mario: The Origami King players. We are working to resolve these issues and plan to address them in a software update. We apologize. for any inconvenience. “
Nintendo did not say exactly when this problem will be fixed. So for now, be sure to stay in Spring of Rainbows until you reach your goal. If you want more details on this innovative topic, you can see the Nintendo Unity video that explains the process.For more information on Paper Mario, you can read our review of Paper Mario: The Origami King, where we said, “The latest game in the Paper Mario series offers in some ways, but falls (unintentionally) in others.”
Or, you can read about how the developers of Paper Mario can no longer create new characters that “touch the Mario universe.”
Logan Plant is a news editor for IGN and a production assistant for Nintendo Voice Chat, IGN’s weekly Nintendo show. You can find him on Twitter at @LoganJPlant.
