Warning: "Sharpest Tool in the Shed" is missable

[NathanielJohn 3,595]

This has been mentioned in a couple of scattered posts on this forum, but it deserves some proper visibility, since the main trophy guide for this game (PowerPyx) says that nothing is missable and everything can be obtained through chapter select. This is not true for tools. If you miss a tool then grabbing it in chapter select will *not* unlock the trophy. Instead, you have to play through the entire rest of the game, starting from whichever tool you missed.

 

Edit: I'm pretty sure NG+ cannot be used for this trophy if you miss it the first time around, or at least it's buggy. I missed the 3rd tool on my first playthrough. One NG+ I had Tool Level 4 as expected, but all tools (even the third one) were gone and thus could not be picked up. The only way I could get the trophy is by chapter-selecting to the 3rd tool and playing continuously from there (no more chapter select) all the way until the 5th tool.

Edited January 10 by NathanielJohn

[Fenners- 0]

Is this always true? Literally just finished the story and I missed the third tool fs.

[NathanielJohn 3,595]

1 hour ago, Fenners- said:

Is this always true?

 

I'm pretty sure. If you reload via chapter select, it forgets about upgrades etc that you got later in the story, so it won't know that you already found Tools 4 and 5 -- it doesn't track those like it tracks collectibles.