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.
If we’re talking about LISA the Painful, going along the same sort of vibe, I think Fear and Hunger is also worth a mention here. Some of the best gear you can get can become suddenly unusable because you lose a literal cointoss, and then your arm is gone. Some endings can get blocked off because of some bad luck, making you lose a character permanently, not to mention the insane lethality and hard choices you’ll be peppered with constantly.
Great game, it’s up there with LISA the Painful for games that I think actively hate you.