Attack Piece Block
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| Attack Piece Block | |
|---|---|
 Sprite of an Attack Piece Block inMario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey. | |
| First appearance | Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (2009) |
| Latest appearance | Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey (2018) |
| Effect | Gives the player anAttack Piece when struck. |
Attack Piece Blocks are multi-coloredblocks with the letter "A" on their faces that exclusively appear in theMario & Luigi series ofrole-playingSuper Mario games. They resemble differently-colored pieces of a puzzle joined together to make a block, and once they are hit, they give the player a single or multipleAttack Pieces at the same time. Before being hit, the locations of every Attack Piece are shown on the mini-map located on the Touch Screen, giving the player an idea of where they are.
History[edit]
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story /Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey[edit]
InMario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Attack Piece Blocks are scattered throughoutBowser's body and in places outsideBowser such asDimble Wood andPeach's Castle. Blocks insideBowser's body look two-dimensional, while blocks in the outside world look three-dimensional. There are ten Attack Piece Blocks in almost every location; they will giveMario andLuigi anAttack Piece if struck, which will grant a newSpecial Attack to the brothers when all ten are collected. SometimesMario andLuigi can find several of these blocks all at once in the same area, and some Attack Piece Blocks give the brothers more than one Attack Piece, such as in theFlab Zone. One Attack Piece block in theEnergy Hold spits out four Attack Pieces that land in different spots in the same room and must be picked up manually. There are also three invisible Attack Piece Blocks found in the south half of the garden ofPrincess Peach'scastle, whose locations are inside areas that are within cyan circles on the map as provided by theKoopa Paratroopa Trio.
Attack Piece Blocks return in the game'sNintendo 3DS remake,Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey, found in the same locations as in the original game.
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team[edit]
Attack Piece Blocks return inMario & Luigi: Dream Team, still giving Attack Pieces to the Mario Bros. when hit. These Attack Pieces, instead of producing Special Attacks, produceBros. Attacks when all ten are collected, exclusive to Mario or Luigi in theReal World. They also produceLuiginary Attacks for Mario andDreamy Luigi in theDream World when all ten Attack Pieces are acquired there from Attack Piece Blocks. They also sport a new design; the bottom-left portion of the block being blue instead of green, the back-left portion being cyan instead of green, the back-right portion being orange instead of yellow, and the top-right portion being green instead of blue. The "A" located at the face of the block now has a small gold gradient, and the face itself is completely black instead of being magenta, resembling the faces of the blocks found inMario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. Their design in this game is reused for the 3DS remake ofBowser's Inside Story.
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Sprites[edit]
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (carried by twoBlue Paratroopas)
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team
Screenshots[edit]
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey
