Purchasing more than one tool for Edgar

[anbaksai]

In the previous versions of the game they wouldn´t let you purchase more than one of Edgar's tools of the same type. A message would appear saying that one is enough (with reason, because you ONLY need one)

But to my surprise, on the PR version you can repurchase the same tool over and over

[Super]

Uh, yes they did in the original.

[jkcaissie]

anbaksai is correct you could not purchase more then one of the same tool in the original. Doesn't really make sense to change this for the PR.

[Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏]

Originally posted by jkcaissie:

anbaksai is correct you could not purchase more then one of the same tool in the original. Doesn't really make sense to change this for the PR.

They remastered the pixels, not the game logic. :^)

[Desertskunk]

You could buy more than one of a tool in the original, there was no limit to it. Also no point, but nothing stopped you. There was never an error, or a message that one was enough, just let you buy it if you wanted to waste your gil.

[Kiddiec͕̤̱͋̿͑͠at 🃏]

Originally posted by Desertskunk:

... There was never an error, or a message that one was enough, ...

There absolutely was - at least when buying them from the merchant in Figaro Castle - not sure about other areas of the world.

Not sure if this was still present in any of the remakes but in the SNES version, there was. I encountered this just recently, so I know for sure.


It's an interesting design philosophy that leads to a code like that. The idea is that the player might not keep track of their inventory well or consider that Edgar is the only one who can even equip these items, so may as well stop the player from screwing themselves over by buying things that they don't need anyways.
...not sure if they actually don't need it, though, since you can wager items in The Coliseum later in the game, which might actually give a reason to have more than 1 of these.

[Vambran]

some monsters drop tools or you can steal them. You can then sell them for extra gil.