Piecemeal serves as the final boss of Twisted Metal: Small Brawl. It appears on the final map, Now Slaying.
Unlike other final bosses prior to Small Brawl, Piecemeal has very different behavior. Whenever a vehicle is destroyed, the remainder of them would float toward the stage in the theater's viewing room and amalgamate into Piecemeal. When Piecemeal appears, the player can only damage it to a certain extent before it retreats, leaving other enemy vehicles to attack the player. The player must destroy any one of these vehicles to summon Piecemeal back into the arena, and repeat the step until Piecemeal is destroyed.
Special Weapon[]
Piecemeal has access to almost all Special weapons in the game, though in battle, it is situational. Piecemeal will only use the Specials that are used by the other enemies in the current match. For example, if in the boss battle, the player fought Darkside, Axel, Crimson Fury, and Spectre, it would only use those four Specials. This also applies to when you play as him, but it will always have Darkside's, Hammerhead's and Outlaw's Specials, regardless of whether they are on the battlefield or not.
How to Unlock[]
To unlock Piecemeal, players must complete Tournament Mode using Trapper on Hard.
Behind the Scenes[]
The final boss battle against Piecemeal players get to experience at the end of the game is actually not what the developers originally planned, and could otherwise be deemed as "unfinished" or "incomplete".
The original design pitched Piecemeal appearing on his own in Now Slaying, as is. However, after taking a certain amount of damage, parts of his vehicle would start falling off (those that make up his entire frame, like Outlaw, Slam, etc.) in a manner similar to the character Devastator from Transformers. Afterwards, the player would have to destroy these cars before they reformed into Piecemeal. Said boss could only be damaged by destroying these aforementioned individual cars, and sustained damage to Piecemeal just counted towards defeating him. The damaged state would show missing/very damaged cars that were destroyed when he reforms. Mime was originally supposed to be the reward for destroying Piecemeal, as it was the vehicle's core component.
Piecemeal would also only use specials from the cars that he was composed of, and for every car that formed part of him that is destroyed by the player, he would lose access to that particular vehicle's special.
Trivia[]
- Piecemeal and Mime are the first vehicles in the Twisted Metal series to truly have access to every other vehicle's Special Weapons. Minion from Twisted Metal (1995) and Primeval from Twisted Metal III were said to do so, but they only used certain specials and not all of them.
- However, due to a coding error, Piecemeal cannot access Sweet Tooth's Special, even if Sweet Tooth is in battle, unlike Mime.
- Piecemeal was also originally to have his own unique special weapon, but due to time constraints in the game's development, he was instead given the ability to access the other vehicles' specials.
- Piecemeal is another "built-from-scratch" vehicle, much like Roadkill, Trash Man, and Cousin Eddy.
- Befitting its name and how its driver is a collector and scavenger, Piecemeal is built with parts from other vehicles in the game, in which case being;
- Axel's wheels (used as rear wheels).
- Darkside's front wheels and bumper.
- Hammerhead's rollbar.
- Mime's front.
- Slam's lower body.
- Outlaw's police lights.
- Sweet Tooth's rear.
- Thumper's roof.
- Twister's spoiler.
- Warthog's back engine and exhaust pipes.
- Added to the above, the only vehicles whose parts were not implemented in Piecemeal's construction are Crimson Fury, Mr. Grimm, Shadow, Spectre, and Trapper.
- In the character select screen image, Piecemeal has Mime's flag. In-game, however, the flag is rainbow-colored.
- The term "piecemeal" means partial measures taken over a period of time, e.g. piece by piece or in stages. Thus, its namesake is appropriate with regard to how the player must defeat it: attacking it in stages and lowering its health over time, rather than fighting it in a single battle.
- Piecemeal replaced Minion as the final boss in the game, due to it being aimed at a younger audience. Moreover, Piecemeal was added into the game very late in its development. This may also explain why the boss battle was not as the developers originally planned.
- The original idea for Piecemeal was that he was a secret character and each part of his vehicle was hidden in a different level, and collecting all of them would unlock him,[1] but since Minion was cut as the final boss, this idea was scrapped and Piecemeal was made into the final boss instead.[2]
Gallery[]
| Twisted Metal: Small Brawl Vehicles | |
|---|---|
| Default | Crimson Fury • Hammerhead • Mr. Grimm • Slam • Outlaw • Shadow • Spectre • Sweet Tooth • Thumper • Twister • Warthog |
| Unlockable | Axel • Darkside • Mime • Trapper • Piecemeal |