{"id":117414,"date":"2020-09-01T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/09\/paper_mario_the_origami_king_almost_had_exp_after_all"},"modified":"2020-09-01T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T10:30:00","slug":"paper-mario-the-origami-king-almost-had-exp-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/01\/paper-mario-the-origami-king-almost-had-exp-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper Mario: The Origami King Almost Had EXP After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/45e586f8f7570\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/45e586f8f7570\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Paper Mario\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/45e586f8f7570\/paper-mario.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/45e586f8f7570\/paper-mario.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Paper Mario\"><\/a><span class=\"image-credit\" title=\"Image Credit\">\u00a9 Nintendo<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/paper_mario_the_origami_king\">Paper Mario: The Origami King<\/a><\/strong> is a good time, as you&#8217;ll know from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/paper_mario_the_origami_king\">our review<\/a>. However, there are fans of the series who aren&#8217;t pleased by the fact that it lacks any kind of experience or levelling system \u2013 especially as it&#8217;s pitched as a proper RPG experience, as several other entries in the franchise have been.<\/p>\n<p>However, it would seem that EXP was considered for the game at one point. A variable called &#8220;battle_win_exP\u2019&#8221; is actually mentioned in the save file data, which you can open using a text program on your computer \u2013 it&#8217;s not even hidden or concealed.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, having that value in the save data doesn&#8217;t mean Paper Mario: The Origami King was necessarily going to have a <em>traditional<\/em> EXP system \u2013 it could have been handled in a wide range of ways. However, the existence of the variable does at least hint that the game underwent some gameplay changes close to release.<\/p>\n<p>Would you have liked to have seen a more old-school EXP system in the game? Tell us with a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 Nintendo Paper Mario: The Origami King is a good time, as you&#8217;ll know from our review. However, there are fans of the series who aren&#8217;t pleased by the fact that it lacks any kind of experience or levelling system \u2013 especially as it&#8217;s pitched as a proper RPG experience, as several other entries in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}