Bottled Poes

[Axle the Beast]

Zelda has always had it's Empty Bottles, and with them came a lot of different items (usually potions and fairies) that you could store inside them.

Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask were no different. However, they introduced a new bottle item that had never before appeared: the bottled Poe.

What were your thoughts on this item?

I thought it was absolutely useless. I couldn't see the point in it at all. I can't believe they even had it in shops. What the hell? :huh:

[Kitsu]

The poe's uselessness has always made me wonder what their purpose was- if they had one, that is.
After "drinking" one, I quickly realised they weren't quite the item you wanted to use when low on hearts... I ended up dying as a result. The sort of hit-and-miss design of the poe's (whether healing or hurting, that is) only made me wonder more why--like you said--they were sold at stores.

I always thought of the whole thing as portraying taking chances, some ending up bad, some better- but I'm probably just reading too much into a simple item; which I tend to do.

[Zeanith]

I thought they were for to sell at the creepy cyclops shopkeeper.

And the tiny ones at the stores...they were just cool to have I guess.

"Hey, dude. I got a ghost in a bottle. Want it? Ten bucks. Ho." xD

[FalseDestiny]

I just thought that the bottled poes had to be sold to the cyclops guy as well. But the big poes proved more useful. If you got enough points in OoT you got another bottle and in MM you can get past a gibdo.

That is the only purposes I could find

[Kybyrian]

Why they were in the stores, I have no idea. They are a quick source of cash after you get the Master Sword, however. One of them rakes in 10 rupees and they are pretty easy to capture. :)

[Axle the Beast]

I suppose ultimately, that was their only purpose: quick cash if you sold them at the Ghost Shop.

I still think there were better sources of rupees... the bottled poes still seem useless... >_<

[bellum]

Yeah, I never even bothered to attack the poes. What they became of was worthless. It reveved about 2 hearts. Woop-dee-doo. ALso having them in shops is even more pointless. Even though if you needed money you could catch a poe and sell it to the owner of the poe shop. I never really did any of this. Maybe once or twice, but that's about all.

[Amelie]

Err... there purpose is to sell them to the poe man for money and card points yes? I always thought thats what it was for. And I thought catching poes was nice... it gave you something else to do in the game ^^

[Axle the Beast]

Err... there purpose is to sell them to the poe man for money and card points yes? I always thought thats what it was for. And I thought catching poes was nice... it gave you something else to do in the game ^^
You're thinking of Big Poes, the ones you find in Hyrule Field as an adult. Those you give to the Poe Salesman in exchange for points. Once you give him all of them, he gives you an empty bottle.

I'm referring to normal bottled poes. The only thing you could do was sell them for rupees, there was no other point.

I had a thought, though. The reason they were sold in potion shops even though they were so useless was probably to fill up the shop's eight item spots. Who knows, maybe that was the whole reason they included bottled poes to begin with?

(Technically, I think the official name of the item is Poe Spirit, but I prefer Bottled Poe.)

[FalseDestiny]

I agree. I haven't found any other reason for them. All that I liked doing was killing the big poes. But that has nothing to do with this tread.

[Mases]

Their use was pretty much the same as the Nasty Soup from Twilight Princess. I think some of the Chu Jelly in Twilight Princess worked like this as well.

I never really used them at all. Then again I was never a hardcore OOT player. Honestly, I don't think I ever really bothered with the Poe's at all. I didn't even remember being able to buy or sell them. The only Poe's I ever remember attempting to get, where the 10 in Hyrule Field to get the final bottle. I never did capture all 10 though.

In general it seems the importance of bottles and bottled items have dwindled over the recent Zelda games.

[basement24]

In general it seems the importance of bottles and bottled items have dwindled over the recent Zelda games.

This is, sadly, very true. I went through TP without using a bottle once I believe. I tried the Fairy's Tears in the Ganondorf battle just to see what they would do, and because this would be my last chance to try them.

I don't recall if I ever got all of the bottled poes, but I must have gone back and done so because I got all of the Golden Skulltulas. I thought the poes were pretty useless. The only game I remember really effectively using bottles on a frequent basis in was ALttP.

[Kaynil]

When I had a good amount of hearts, I'd drink them and they would damage me, but they actually filled my hearts a bit when I was in desperate times. I don't know if it is just random, but that is how it has happen to me.

I actually never thought in selling them, hahah! :xd:

[PureLocke]

Yeah, their only use it seems is for mixed drinks at Link's sweet bachelor pad.

[The Shadow]

I found with drinking the poes that they have never given me back any hearts, drinking it in the day did nothing at all, but drink it at night and I lost health, why Link would drink something like that without a care in the world makes me wonder just how smart is Link?

[Cowum]

The drinking part reminds me of purple chu jelly in TP. It can heal or hurt. Anyway I only ever once caught a poe. I sold it and after that I realized how pointless they were.

[bbevington90]

I think they were there to just trick people into buying them/using them. Like why have bugs in the shop? They're everywhere too.

[Deku Nutter]

Souls, spirits and the afterlife do play in an important part in OoT so it fits into the game to have ghosts in evidence, even if the normal poes have very little purpose. It also puts the other poes in the game into a kind of context too, it sets the Big Poes, Composer bros and the sisters in the Forest Temple apart from the 'standard' poes.

[The Shadow]

ok I slightly agree with this Nutter (hehehe) but the problems I have is why can't you bottle the composer brothers? why is it you don't bottle the fire left behind by the poe sisters and return them to the torchs in the main room instead of them teleporting and why are big poes such fraidy cats? all they do is run, they could at least attack in some way even if it was some long range attack. there is really no point to the bottling of poes' 'souls'

[OceanaOfTime]

They run because it makes them freaking annoying to catch, and that's all poes are anyways. Freaking annoying. x) Like, I'm a huge OoT fan and the 10 big poes are the only ones worth anything in the game plot. The others are pretty much all for an annoyance, or a show. So not a fan xD. Getting that fourth bottle kills me every time. I seriously just shoot arrow after arrow at it and hope.

Basically, i don't care about poes at all. ^.^

[MetaPwn]

well, big poes in OoT will get you the fourth bottle and the big poes in MM would get you 200 ruppies by selling them at the curiosity shop. but the REGULAR ONES ARE EVIL!!!! they sell for (i think 20?) and they just hurt you and you have to wait to sell them in the future if you want your bottle back without hurting yourself

[Seamus]

I never really cared to collect them. I never even killed them unless I had to, which I dont recall having too.

[IronKnukle22]

I think if you have one in your invintory iv noticed you dont seem to take as much damage form undead but im not sure. Its no substitte for a good ol' red "or blue" but I always thought of them as the oposite of a fiary. What I mean is a fairy seems seet, cute, and more of a companion now the poes there just bad luck.