Dialogue
Fawful has received significant praise for his dialogue. Nintendo Power included the quote "I have fury!" among their collection of classic quotes in Nintendo games. Editors for GamesRadar named him the Runner Up for the "Most Quotable Character" award in 2009; he lost to the character Ellis from Left 4 Dead 2. Game Informer's Joe Juba wrote that Fawful's appearance in Bowser's Inside Story "ensures plenty of hilariously nonsensical one-liners". GameSpy's Phil Theobald called him "hilarious" and "endlessly quotable". GamePro's Alicia Ashby also called him "endlessly quotable" and wrote that "everything Fawful does and says is awesome". G4TV's Tim Stevens compared Fawful's dialogue to singer Björk's. Giant Bomb's Brad Shoemaker called him a "hilarious verbal contortionist". Video Gamer's Wesley Yin-Poole wrote that his "incorrect syntax" was humorous, and cited such quotes as "Beef? I am lacking in beef. Fawful is beefless", and "A WINNER IS YOU!" as examples. RPGamer's Mike Moehnke commented that Fawful was "amusing" and a "most captivating villain to watch" due to his speech patterns. Nevertheless, he criticized the plot when it became about a "great power that Fawful is seeking to unearth" even though the game does not take the plot very seriously.
Kotaku's Michael McWhertor wrote that Fawful will be "delivering ace dialogue" in Bowser's Inside Story. Editor Stephen Totilo called the line "I am the mustard of your doom!" one of the most famous lines in video games of recent years; he added that while it did not compare to famous film quotes such as "I'll be back" from Terminator 2: Judgment Day, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" from Gone with the Wind, or "Bond — James Bond" from the James Bond series, it was "quoted with uncommon frequency". Eurogamer's John Walker called Fawful "so brilliantly spoke in badly translated Japanese game-speak" and wrote that his dialogue was the "ultimate in-joke". The New York Times' Charles Herold called him the best character in Superstar Saga, and cited the quote mentioned by Totilo above for this. He added that "it's the only Game Boy game I've played that made me laugh out loud". The Globe and Mail's Chad Sapieha called Fawful the "true villain" of the Mario & Luigi series and called his dialogue "memorable". GameSpot's Ricardo Torres called him a "chatty, ungrammatical nightmare". Bitmob's Brian Shirk called Fawful's "nerd-speak" "unique".
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