The origin of the Minish

[DeactivatedUser2]

This purple rupee in BOTW shouldn't be from the Minish as it wasn't in grass but in the ruins, It may just be a rupee some people had before all of this became ruins.

They don't just hide rupees in grass; they hide them under rocks as well, and considering it was found in a portion of the ruins where a lot of stones are left over, I don't doubt a Minish purposely left it in that area.

 

[Tibari]

Yes but you can't disagree that the people who lived here probably had money and stored them in their buildings. There is a possibility in the real world to find money in a destroyed house (If you're shameless enough to do that, though...)

 

[DeactivatedUser2]

It's entirely possible, yes, but that could be said for basically all the money in the series."That rupee in Hyrule Field wasn't because of the Minish, a traveling explorer just dropped it there by mistake" Not to mention the fact that there were no houses extremely close to the Temple of Time in Ocarina of Time. It had its own small section of untouched land with a forest nearby it.

 

[Tibari]

Maybe some rupees are dropped by travelers by mistake, but there are a lot of rupees in grass in older games, too many for being all "mistakes"
But by watching the video I saw that the man who found the rupee was searching near from the Guardian, maybe the guardian has a rupee in its body? Indeed there was no house near from the Temple of Time in OOT, but maybe the city grew between OOT and the destruction? I don't know x)
But if the Minish were still here, they would put rupees everywhere in the world and not only under/in guardians.

 

[DeactivatedUser2]

It's important to mention that the people running the demo were stunned when the rupee was found; all of the rupees in the demo were removed. The purple rupee being found was a mistake, as it was the one out of many findable rupees that were supposed to be removed. We haven't seen the full extent of all of the rupees and their locations in BotW, we just know of the 50 that we've seen.

 

[Tibari]

Do you have a source for this statement?
If that's true okay then the Minish may be still in BOTW, but I thought we can't find rupees in grass anymore, as for the hearts, and the principal income was by selling ores and materials, which was a good and logic idea

 

[DeactivatedUser2]

Do you have a source for this statement?
If that's true okay then the Minish may be still in BOTW, but I thought we can't find rupees in grass anymore, as for the hearts, and the principal income was by selling ores and materials, which was a good and logic idea

It was pretty clear from the fact that the rupee meter - by default - wasn't on the screen, even after Aonuma said that rupees would be in the game, as they were supposed to be removed from the demo like many other game elements like NPCs and villages.

 

[Tibari]

No rupee meter on the screen?

I know Aonuma said that NPCs and villages would be in the game, but while I remember he said that NPCs and villages were removed from the demo, I don't remember the fact rupees was said to be removed too.

EDIT:
“Rupees do exist,” Aonuma said, “but the reason for their existence is a little different this time around. As you saw it's not about going to cut down grass and collect rupees or find them in treasure chests but it's about collecting things and going to sell them and then using the rupees you get to buy new things. The rupees are there but they serve a different purpose.”
Source : http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/06...ned-about-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-at-e3-2016

 

[DeactivatedUser2]

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No rupee meter on the screen?

I know Aonuma said that NPCs and villages would be in the game, but while I remember he said that NPCs and villages were removed from the demo, I don't remember the fact rupees was said to be removed too.

EDIT:
“Rupees do exist,” Aonuma said, “but the reason for their existence is a little different this time around. As you saw it's not about going to cut down grass and collect rupees or find them in treasure chests but it's about collecting things and going to sell them and then using the rupees you get to buy new things. The rupees are there but they serve a different purpose.”
Source : http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/06...ned-about-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-at-e3-2016

If you take a closer look at my comment I said no rupee meter on the screen by default -
I get Breath of the Wild is convention breaking, but every 3D Zelda game has always displayed the Rupee meter on the screen alongside the hearts. It'd be incredibly odd (if not completely stupid)

Also, if I recall, I never said that Aonuma himself said that the rupees were removed, I said that the people running the demo who noticed the rupee being found acted like that wasn't supposed to be possible in this demo and started getting nervous.

Anyways, while it's not directly grass or rock related, this could be another sign of the Minish being active; the Minish didn't just leave hearts or rupees, they also left items like arrows and bombs, which the former can be found by slashing a pot in the Temple of Time. Possibly the Town Minish are responsible for doing this.

 

[Tibari]

The Rupee meter is not on the screen because you don't get rupees all the time so it's useless to have a constant display of your rupees.

Maybe the Town Minish, indeed. But then they are the only Minish population left alive?

By the way, we're totally off-topic

(.. And it's my 100th message in the month \o/)

 

[DeactivatedUser2]

You don't get rupees all the time in any game; it's just less common here.

No, I highly doubt they're the only ones left; if anything, they'd be the least common, considering settlements were probably the primary targets of the Guardians.

We are.

Congratulations.

 

[Tibari]

You can get rupees by cutting grass, defeating ennemies, playing minigames, opening chests, breaking pots, sometimes selling items,
so yes I can say you get rupees very often x)

However there aren't any rupees, hearts, arrows, bombs, etc in grass, so the Minish other than those who can put something in pots are not anymore

 

[DeactivatedUser2]

You can get rupees by cutting grass, defeating ennemies, playing minigames, opening chests, breaking pots, sometimes selling items,
so yes I can say you get rupees very often x)

However there aren't any rupees, hearts, arrows, bombs, etc in grass, so the Minish other than those who can put something in pots are not anymore

But you're not getting rupees every second of the time, no matter how often you can come across them; plus, they'll probably be more common than most of the treasures or ores found in the game anyways. It's not like they're treasures in SS or something; they're the CURRENCY. They need to be prominently placed in a location in the screen you can see.

Hearts are just nonexistent due to gameplay features. Also, in Deepwood Shrine, there are still items that can be found in pots, meaning the Forest Picori still have the ability to place items in pots to help travelers. It could be either the Town Picori or the Forest Picori, especially considering the Forest of Spirits is incredibly close to the Temple of Time. The only thing we have no confirmation on are the Mountain Picori; however, like the Town Picori and Forest Picori, it's easy to presume they still exist if we go off the evidence existing from the previous two types of Picori.

 

[Tibari]

I never said you get rupees every second of the time, but what I wanted to say is that you will not find rupees as easily as in older zelda games, because while you can get some rupees by selling ores or with luck like the guy who played the demo, you will not see rupees very often in the overworld. You will get rupees mostly by selling items and I'm not speculating here because Aonuma said it, so the rupee meter in the inventory is extremely logic, since it will be in the inventory that you will go to select which item you want to sell. And it may be shown on the shop screen if you're gonna buy something.

Okay so I agree with you, Picora might still exist in BOTW, but they are allergic to grass... Don't forget that, you say "There is items in pots so they exist" but if they truly exist, then why the grass is empty?
While finding objects in containers seems rational, everyone can put objects in pots, the Minish were the only explanation for finding as many item in grass...

 

[DeactivatedUser2]

I never said you get rupees every second of the time, but what I wanted to say is that you will not find rupees as easily as in older zelda games, because while you can get some rupees by selling ores or with luck like the guy who played the demo, you will not see rupees very often in the overworld. You will get rupees mostly by selling items and I'm not speculating here because Aonuma said it, so the rupee meter in the inventory is extremely logic, since it will be in the inventory that you will go to select which item you want to sell. And it may be shown on the shop screen if you're gonna buy something.

Okay so I agree with you, Picora might still exist in BOTW, but they are allergic to grass... Don't forget that, you say "There is items in pots so they exist" but if they truly exist, then why the grass is empty?
While finding objects in containers seems rational, everyone can put objects in pots, the Minish were the only explanation for finding as many item in grass...

This can honestly be easily explained away by the fact this game is just in general breaking gameplay boundaries. The lack of hearts are clear of this, and the lack of items being found in grass is to make the game more realistic and open world as opposed to OoT or MM.