Kratoscar2008 wrote on 04/26/19 at 07:50:10:
Primeval.
His special makes your cars flip and thats deadly as hell in 3. The TM1 Minion since if you use a car other than the big ones you will likely get one shotted.
I didn't think much of Primeval until I played as him (thanks to Gameshark).
I gotta say, his special is probably one of the craziest in the entire series in concept alone. It's basically a homing version of Mr. Grimm's special. Primeval also has juiced up stats, so he is indeed a formidable foe.
The idea of Calypso having a demon bodyguard on his blimp was interesting too, almost similar to how Calypso had the demon Black hanging around his garage in TM1. I'd say it's too bad Primeval didn't have an ending, but TM3 had terrible endings, so it's probably better he did not.
His vehicle design is like some off-road buggy, almost like a big evil version of Pit Viper, with a design almost inspired by the Mad Max movies.
I used to think Primeval was stupid based off the name (why not just Primevil?), the lack of a clear image of the driver, and because he felt like a step down from TM2's Dark Tooth.
It's really because of TM2 that most gamers familiar with TM would expect a big giant boss fight, which happens again in TMB with Warhawk, TMHO with Tower Tooth, Small Brawl with Piecemeal, Rogue Trip with Big Daddy, and TMX where you fight a Sweet Tooth themed caravan the size of a mountain along with a giant dollface themed aircraft, and 2 oversized monster trucks (Hammerhead & Slayer). 989 Studios tried to be more like TM1 in their approach to the final boss where the boss was big but not that big, more normal sized, instead of exaggerated like Dark Tooth and it kind of back fired on them because Dark Tooth made people think bigger was better with bosses. all of 989's bosses were normal sized so clearly 989 didn't care for over-sized vehicles.
Minion was actually hurt in the sense that his size wasn't exaggerated more-so in the original.
Minion went from being a TM champion in TM1 to being a mid-boss in TM2, TM3, TM4, and Black. To add insult to injury, TM Lost did not even bother to include Minion. Poor Minion never got to be a final boss again.