Attack Pieces are multicolored jigsaw puzzle pieces which appear throughout Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story and its 3DS remake, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey and reappear in Mario and Luigi: Dream Team. They are rendered obsolete by the Nabbit chases in Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam and Technikki in Mario & Luigi: Brothership.
Description[]
Attack Pieces have different designs between Bowser's Inside Story and Dream Team, but in both games, they have four quadrants: red, blue, green, and yellow, with red in the top left. Originally, Attack Pieces were 4-by-4 squares with two "bumps" in each of their corners, and their dividing lines were straight and cut through them cleanly, and the blue quadrant is in the upper right, the green quadrant in the bottom right, and the yellow quadrant in the lower left. Their Dream Team redesign gives them a shape more akin to an actual puzzle piece, makes their dividing lines not as straight, and switches their blue, green, and yellow quadrants around (blue in the lower left, green in the upper right, and yellow in the lower right), but they are still divided into four quarters. Attack Pieces revert back to their original design in the 3DS version of Bowser's Inside Story. The blocks that store them have similar designs to the Attack Pieces themselves mapped to a cuboid shape and the letter A printed on the south side; in Dream Team, the blocks their colours switched with the A on a black square panel.
In Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story[]
When Mario and Luigi obtain ten Attack Pieces linked to a Special Attack, they that special attack. Mario and Luigi have a total of 10 Special Attacks. They are Green Shell, Fire Flower, Jump Helmet, Yoo Who Cannon, Super Bouncer, Mighty Meteor, Spin Pipe, Snack Basket, Magic Window, and Falling Star. Bowser only has 6 Special Attacks in the game: Goomba Storm, Shy Guy Squad, Koopa Corps, Bob-omb Blitz, Magikoopa Mob, and Broggy Bonker.
Location[]
- Green Shell: Found on a looping path in the Trash Pit where Mario and Luigi must find a way to open a crate with Hammers in it. The first one opens up the path, with the next eight being required to get rid of another blockage, where the last one appears. Upon grabbing the last one, the Bros. get ambushed by Elite Goombule duo, who are fought as a tutorial boss for Special Attacks and whose defeat unblocks the path ahead.
- Fire Flower: Scattered throughout the Pump Works. Some are found in blocks that have to be hit in a certain pattern.
- Jump Helmet: Scattered throughout the Flab Zone. Two are found in individual blocks, while two more blocks each have four stuffed into them and have to be struck multiple times with each Bro. alternating.
- Yoo Who Cannon: Given after three blue shelled Koopa Paratroopas wearing sunglasses teach the Shell Mario technique in an area with cloud platforms at the west of Toad Town.
- Super Bouncer: Scattered throughout the Energy Hold's second segment. The second block is crammed with four, four Attack Pieces have to manually be scooped up upon striking a third block, and the last block is a puzzle where the Bros. have to strike the block in a certain pattern.
- Spin Pipe: Solving the first puzzle that Kuzzle gives at his house on Plack Beach yields this move.
- Snack Basket: The first six are scattered throughout the east side of Dimble Wood, with the last four contained in the Sockop den to the south. Obtaining the last one requires defeating Kuribo, the Sockop Boss, and two other unidentified Sockops who act as a boss in the area. This one is mandatory to obtain, being the weakness of Chakron, who shrugs off all other attacks and must be defeated to get one of the three Star Cures.
- Mighty Meteor: Automatically obtained when Doctor Toadley merges the three Star Cures to form the Miracle Cure at his clinic; his intern gives the pieces.
- Magic Window: Automatically obtained when the Bros. defeat the Shroob survivors whom Bowser preserved in a fridge at his castle.
- Falling Star: The first seven are stuffed into the same block in the southeasternmost area of the gardens of Princess Peach's Castle. The last three are in invisible blocks, with one appearing at the southwest, another in the central area, and the last to the west.
In Mario & Luigi: Dream Team[]
Attack Pieces return in Mario & Luigi: Dream Team where they can be scattered throughout places on Pi'illo Island and in the Dream World or given by certain characters. The theme for their obtainment has been changed, and now can play in other contexts. On the island, the player gets Bros. Attacks upon finding the Attack Pieces, and in the Dream World, finding them begets Luiginary Attacks. You must find all 10 in the respective location in order to get them.
- 3D Red Shell: The first is given by a Mushroom Retainer after the Bros. save him from a pair of Thorbs that act as a tutorial boss for Hammer use in combat in Mushrise Park. The next four are scattered throughout the area to the south, with another four appearing in the area to the south of that. In the scene to the east of that, the Bros. get the last attack piece automatically if they have nine already, although a battle versus some Capnaps that act as the tutorial boss for Bros. Attack usage occurs immediately afterward. Mandatory to progress.
- 3D Green Shell: Automatically given by Brickle after the Bros. free him from a fountain in Mushrise Park.
- Luiginary Ball: Eight are found throughout the area, with two being given by Brickle.
- Fire Flower: Scattered throughout Dozing Sands' dig site.
- Luiginary Stack: Scattered throughout the Dream World visited from the Dreampoint located at the Dream Stone's resting place.
- Bye-Bye Cannon: Scattered throughout southern Wakeport.
- Dropchopper: Scattered throughout the west side of Mount Pajamaja.
- Luiginary Hammer: Scattered throughout the Dream World visited from the Dreampoint near the summit of Mount Pajamaja.
- Bomb Derby: Scattered throughout Driftwood Shore.
- Luiginary Flame: Scattered throughout the Dream World visited from Seadric's Dreampoint in Driftwood Shore.
- Slingsniper: Gained by solving the Ball Hop puzzle that blocks the door to the Ultibed's Pajamaja Rock Frame.
- Luiginary Wall: Gained from the Dream World that can be accessed from Pi'illoper's basement. To prevent locking out players who did not get the attack from getting it, the area becomes a Dreampoint when Bedsmith breaks free from his petrification.
- Jet-Board Bash: Scattered throughout Somnom Woods.
- Luiginary Typhoon: Scattered throughout the Dream World accessed from the Dreampoint in Somnom Woods' temple where the Pi'illodium was fought.
- Zee Egg: Eldream gives these upon being spoken to in the Maintenance Hut in Mushrise Park after you save every Pi'illo citizen.
- Star Rocket: Scattered throughout Neo Bowser Castle's first two floors.
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