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.
That’s more of a big plot surprise than anything else. You don’t lose any of his gear or experience, other than the muscle memory you may have built up learning his attack chains lol.