I am playing Horizon Zero Dawn and haven’t gotten to the first main event, but it gives me this feeling like if I upgrade all my equipment now it might be for nothing. I know that is not the case, I looked it up, but what are some games that are the worst offenders? One I can think of is Aerith in the original FF7.
One of Westwood’s games, Kyrandia II had the player losing most of their inventory between chapters. Zanthia, the main character, actually lampshades this after one of the times it happens.