I love playing games where you use specific weapons/armor or skills to level them up and make them stronger. It provides another progression loop beyond XP based level up, encourages switching weapons and skills to try different playstyle and builds, and of course the dopamine hit of numbers going up all the time.
Some games I enjoyed with similar systems: Ratchet and Clank, FF9, FFX-2, Nioh1/2, Strangers of Paradise [Nioh but FF], Code Vein, Dragons Dogma 1/2 [level up classes to unlock skills]. Skyrim won't count coz leveling skills/classes is the leveling up and have played it plenty already.
Looking for more games in similar vein. Prefer non-soulslike as I recently finished Bloodborne and with skills fading with age need a break from soulslike. But open to soulslike recommendations too for future backlog.
And bonus for games where you can reach game breaking levels of OPness. It allows my young kids to play with OP builds once am done with game.
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