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Videogames tend to give you awesome stuff to play with and immediately take it back, giving you little to no time for playing with it, be it awesome and flashy [[Infinity+1 Sword]] which you get to kill the final boss, an interesting and powerful character or a tank you get for only one mission.
Very common in [[Class and Level System]] [[RPG
If it happens at the beginning of the game, it's [[A Taste of Power]].
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* ''[[Jade Empire]]'': most truly awesome styles (e.g. Dual sabers and Iron Palm), but especially the Jade golem and the Red Minister, which you get when the game is almost done. Thankfully, there is a ridiculously difficult [[New Game+|Jade Master difficulty]], in which they become upgraded from cheap immunity-bearing [[Game Breaker|GameBreakers]] to essential life-savers.
** Also there are these little things called 'Harmonious combos' that can you can use as soon as you are through with the practice fights but which are unfortunately denied to the player later on. These godlike moves are mostly only useful in the first chapters of the game as the story progression introduces you to a number of enemy types that these combos will not work on (monsters, demons, ghosts) and from then on when you actually are fighting puny humans it is usually an important battle for the plot, and your devastating combos will not work in those either.
* Slashers love to do that. ''[[Devil May Cry]] 4'' gives us Lucifer (a very interesting and unique weapon) and Pandora (a suitcase full of awesome) when it's almost time to say "Good-bye, Dante!" And this is why you get [[New Game+]] and Bloody Palace.
* Some people find those missions in ''[[Red Faction]]: Guerilla'' when you crush random stuff on a [[Nigh Invulnerable]] mech best and painfully short.
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* ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' combines this with [[A Taste of Power]] immediately after tutorial.
** Da Vinci's flying machine in the sequel. We saw more footage of it in the trailers than was actually available for use in the game, sadly.
* The final weapon which requires near 100% completion in ''[[Gun (
* In the first ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'', Law-path players are granted three outrageously powerful seraph companions for a time in the final dungeon. However, they have to give them up in order to fuse a necessary [[MacGuffin]].
* Subverted in ''[[The Legend of Zelda]] Majora's Mask''. Sure you get the awesome Fierce Deity's mask at the end of the game, but the game's time reset gimmick let's you go back in time and redo any of the old dungeons of fight previous bosses as much as you want with your current equipment.
* In between the mach speed sections (and to a degree, snowboarding), the glitches, the loading screens, the amigo characters, cutscenes, and hub crap, ''actually playing a level'' in ''Sonic 06'' (almost? YMMV) feels like this.
* ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'' does this twice.
** First, they give you Jade Curtiss, who is less a mage and more a tactical nuclear weapon (since he's about 40 levels higher than you are). He helps you out during an unwinnable boss fight. His power is then promptly sealed and he's reverted to party level.
** Quite a bit later, they give you Asch, who is basically a better version of your main character with better equipment and a lot more skills. He's only available for a short time, as well. (Later on in the game, he comes back, but by then he sucks).
* While not exactly a weapon, a bicycle is available during a small section of ''[[
** This actually leads to one of the strangest secrets in the game: {{spoiler|a sound effect that can only be heard by riding the bike in the swamp. This is only possible by ''beating the final boss'', ditching all your partners in the extended epilogue, heading to the swamp, and, of course, remembering that you have an otherwise-useless bicycle in the first place.}}
* The first ''[[Onimusha]]'' game features the unlimited-magic-attack, superpowerful Bishamon Sword... immediately before the final boss. And only if you've collected all of the random hidden collectibles throughout the game. Thank god for [[New Game+]].
* ''[[Dark Forces Saga|Jedi Academy]]'' has the duel sabers/saber staff/3 [[Stance System|style]] single saber option only useable in the last set of missions. Mods exist to allow you to use them from the start of the game
** ''[[Dark Forces Saga|Jedi Academy]]'' also features a neat but mostly useless and forgettable little trick with Tauntauns in the first Hoth level. There are a few fallen rocks where you are intended to abandon your initial ride (and have an encounter with a Wampa), but it is possible to use the Tauntaun's momentary boost to clear the rocks with it.
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts:
* Samus' Power Bombs in ''[[Metroid: Other M]]''. In the beginning of the game, you're allowed to use it as a part of a tutorial. After Samus agrees to help Adam and his men on their mission, Adam forbids the use of Power Bombs due to how destructive they can be to humans. From there, you can't use Power Bombs for the entire game except at the very end when it is needed to beat {{spoiler|the Metroid Queen}} and even then, the game never tells you that you can use the Power Bombs [[Guide Dang It|but will say you can after you beat the game and start the]] [[Playable Epilogue]]!
* The first ''[[SaGa]]'' game has the King equipment in the first world. [[Plot Coupon That Does Something|It is some of the best equipment in the game, but you have to give it up to advance the plot]].
* In ''[[Super Robot Wars Original Generation]] 1'', the first time your units get to combine into [[Super Robot|SRX]], it only lasts 3 turns and you won't get this ability back until near the end of the game. You also only get 2 of the best characters on the last mission of the game.
* Some of the better [[Guest Star Party Member
* ''[[Burnout]] 3'' has "preview races" in which you and your opponents have much faster cars than you normally would for that point of the game.
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