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.
Amazed that I haven’t seen this here, but Dawn of Mana for the PS2. Amazing and heartbreaking story, but good lord was it awful having to start all over again every single level and lose all your upgrades.