They're absolutely required in order to get the A endings, but won't be used any time before the final scenario.
A single item in Scenario 1: an oil can for Jennifer, a flashlight for Helen. This point was left out of the localization of the games. In fact, this actually explains part of Jennifer's Ending C, where Kay's pedophilic feelings for Edward leads to her being seduced by him into murdering Jennifer. It's part of the ruse that he's actually one of the demon children and the second Scissorman, even using his unearthly beauty to seduce and corrupt other people. Beauty Is Bad: Less shown in the games, but the novelization shows Edward in this light as most scenes of him go in depth over his beautiful, angelic boy appearance. Helen dies in Endings B and C, Ending D concludes ambiguously with the mystery incomplete and an uncertain fate, and her Ending E is a continuation of Jennifer's where Jennifer is killed with scissors to the back of the head while Scissorman is hiding behind the door for Helen. Jennifer dies in Endings B-D, and is likely killed following Ending E. Only Ending A has them survive and achieve a happy ending. This even applies to the lead characters Helen and Jennifer as well, as is typical of this series, though it mostly depends on the endings. In the last scenario, if the player takes too long to find the survivors, they'll come across their bodies. Because Edward is Scissorman, Kay is always murdered, and either Harris or Prof. The game features a counter for how many people survive the game out of ten. 
This allows the player to use the panic button to fend off Scissorman and escape, preventing them from becoming trapped with no way out. Anti-Frustration Feature: Actually mentioned in the manual, but if the player is killed while at 0 stamina, they can continue from the same room they died in with their stamina raised by a point.Scissorman: His blue outfit becomes black.
Barton: His blue suit becomes brown ◊ during the prologue scenario.The combination of characters used, 寿丹御津津, has no intrinsic meaning, but when the individual characters are sounded out in Japanese, they produce "sutan gottsu," an approximation of the Japanese rendition of Gotts' name. Gotts: His brown suit becomes a dark outfit with white Japanese symbols on the back in the second scenario.Nolan: His blue jacket becomes brown ◊ during the second scenario.Helen: In the first scenario (and second scenario if you have her go to the library) her pink blazer is grey, while in the third her turquoise blazer is orange.
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