Which action game protagonists have the MOST weapons?

There's always a list you can find for "the most powerful" or the "coolest" weapons. But let's look at quantity over quality here. Games like DMC, Ratchet and Clank, God of War, Metal Gear, etc - What if the Bag of Spilling didn't exist and action game heroes kept all of their weapons?

• Who would have the most in a single game?
• Who would have the most over the course of a franchise?

Excluding:

• Games like Skyrim or Fallout where you can hoard a hundred Steel Swords.
• Final Fantasy and RPG's in general

Edited by Soble on Jan 6th 2019 at 6:15:14 AM

I would say Link in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has access to a ridiculous number of weapons.

Borderlands boasts that it has a bazillion guns, but I don't think they count because there are actually a few tens of guns that each come with a bunch of varying stats.

The Inklings and Octolings in Videogame/{{Splatoon}, surprisingly enough, have a huge range of weapons. Granted, there is the same caveat as Borderlands, though in the case of Splatoon the difference is in subweapons and special attacks, which do drastically change how each weapon is used.

Megaman 88 robot master weapons plus the standard buster plus other items like Rush

94, actually.

You only get 6 weapons in Mega Man 1, and there's 8 more weapons in Mega Man And Bass. You never have them all at once, though.