The items are found in dungeons or from boss enemies defeated. Consumable items with powerful attacks will eventually go obsolete, so there's an incentive to use them as you get them, but items which do things like revive your characters from death at 50% or 100% health or restore MP are always useful, but limited in number. The more powerful items are found more frequently later in the game (so you can't really screw yourself over for the late game by playing badly in the early game,) but they're also needed more often in the late game.
...eventually, we will reach a maximum entropy state where nobody has their own socks or underwear, or knows who to ask to get them back.
The items are found in dungeons or from boss enemies defeated. Consumable items with powerful attacks will eventually go obsolete, so there's an incentive to use them as you get them, but items which do things like revive your characters from death at 50% or 100% health or restore MP are always useful, but limited in number. The more powerful items are found more frequently later in the game (so you can't really screw yourself over for the late game by playing badly in the early game,) but they're also needed more often in the late game.
...eventually, we will reach a maximum entropy state where nobody has their own socks or underwear, or knows who to ask to get them back.