There is no equipment gating in BOTW unless you're only counting the tutorial plateau?
You get your bread and butter abilities at the very start and then you get nothing else the entire rest of the game except completely optional sage abilities and elemental arrows in stores I guess? The only thing that gates story progression is the area quests.
Maybe I’m just thinking of TotK which definitely was, thought you gained upgrades to the skills and stuff as you went to the mechs but it’s been ages and TotK is fresher in my mind. So idk.
There is no equipment gating in BOTW unless you're only counting the tutorial plateau?
You get your bread and butter abilities at the very start and then you get nothing else the entire rest of the game except completely optional sage abilities and elemental arrows in stores I guess? The only thing that gates story progression is the area quests.
Maybe I’m just thinking of TotK which definitely was, thought you gained upgrades to the skills and stuff as you went to the mechs but it’s been ages and TotK is fresher in my mind. So idk.