>>41454568You don't even need to go full open world, just make each route between cities the size of SwoShi's Wild Area.
Lazy corridors need to go.
Oh, and said routes should have caves, landmarks, side quests, mobiles NPCs (like Skyrim's radiant events)....etc. If it's just an empty glorified Safari Zone like the Galar one it'll still be shit.
And DQXI-tier graphics too. None of that N64 shit.