>>44499121because I've played open world games by devs 1000x more competent than GF that all fell into the meme of having big flat open expanses with nothing to do except get some collectibles with zero level design, boring writing and sidequests, horribly easy to cheese and actually just brain dead easy regardless, zero balance, etc
SwSh shows that GF already is putting all those issues into a game thats not even open world (the one saving grace admittedly that you can't catch a level 60 tyranitar before the 1st gym or whatever), we don't need an actual open world game, a strong mostly linear game structure with maybe a few branching paths in terms of gyms/things to do and actual levels to explore is far, far better
