Awesome Music: See AwesomeMusic.Paper Mario.There's no indication that their plans for world conquest weren't conducted of their own choosing.
While you could maybe make the case that Beldam was brainwashed to do the Shadow Queen's bidding to justify her sudden Heel≯ace Turn, the X-Nauts have no such justification as they had no mentioned prior contact with the Shadow Queen.
While getting permission for Goldbob is not as much of a big deal, General White makes you go on a wild goose chase around almost every area of the game (Petalburg, Keelahul Key, Glitzville, the Great Tree, and Twilight Town all in that order), only to find out that he went to Fahr Outpost on his own while you were looking for him, fell asleep, and you have to hit him a couple of times in order for him to wake up and continue the story. Chapter 7 has you get permission from Goldbob, who lives in Poshley Heights, and bringing General White, first seen in Petalburg near the beginning of the game, to Fahr Outpost in order to use the Big bomb cannon than can launch Mario and his friends to the Moon.You do get Vivian once you do get back to Twilight Town, but this only makes things slightly more bearable. What makes this worse is that your partners are taken away before the first trip back to Twilight Town and you only get them back once the chapter is over. Chapter 4 requires you to go back and forth between Twilight Town and the Creepy Steeple multiple times on a narrow route filled with dangerous enemies.Chapter 2 is a tedious escort mission through the Boggly Tree with a confusing layout and lots of backtracking, which is sometimes cited as a roadblock for players replaying the game.Worse is that if you try to beat him at his own game by turning back the GameCube clock for another shot at a matching number, he guilt-trips you into confessing and when you do, he accuses you of being the cheater, and forces you to pay 500 coins to "help restart the lottery". some players characterize him as a two-faced scam artist who sells tickets for a rigged lottery to trick people into spending 100 more coins for a new ticket, where he'll reset the win timer so that it takes you another year for a shot at the grand prize. Buying a new ticket will reset your day counter to zero, so you have to wait all over again until you have another shot at any of these prizes. You cannot win fourth prize until at least 4 to 10 days have passed, third prize until 25 to 35 days have passed, second prize until 85 to 115 days have passed, and the grand prize until 335 to 395 days have passed. Given that his lottery is rigged internally, Explanation How the lottery works is that when you buy a ticket, you are guaranteed not to win any prize from the lottery until a certain amount of realtime days have passed since the day you purchased the ticket. Alternative Character Interpretation: Lucky, the Bob-omb who runs the Happy Lucky Lottery.The ensuing fan backlash actually prompted two letters of apology. 8.8: Game Informer originally gave the game a 6.5, with the reviewer's primary complaint being that the writing was bad.