Hello!
Equipment in this game works as a buff/debuff with some charges (+2, +5, etc...) that are lost for each hit you receive. It´s not the traditional permanent equipment of most RPGs for sure! It can even ruin your game (for example, if you find a chest in a hole, and it dampens your jump ability, your only way is a poison pill), or improve it ( i´ve found something that morphs your shoots in a 2-way flavour!).
You ocassionally find a chest which has a text telling you what the equipment affects your body. We, as living beings, want to survive, SO, if you understand english very well it´s only a matter of finding a single "harmful" word for not touching it (Shameful boots of... errr see ya!)
Do you think equipment is exciting in this game? if not, what kind of rework needs? Vote!