Yes. Sans spoilers (not that Paper Marior really has any spoilers worth caring about), you're basically forced to do a minigame where you jump and hit a block over and over for a few minutes to earn money. Then you go find an NPC who gives you a password for that money so you can go to a hamster wheel room and make more money. After about 10 minutes of running on the hamster wheel (ugh), you earn enough money to pay for another password that lets you advance to the next part. It's even mentioned in the Zero Punctuation review of it, lol.
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