Clement Rage
Pro Adventurer
In terms of worldbuilding, I prefer individual isolated towns, in part because it makes the world feel different than ours, plus makes sense with all the monsters in the wild.
I do think there is more than we see, but if a world with vastly different physics doesn't also have different culture and societal mechanics, then it's questionable to me. I don't want to call it poor worldbuilding because there can be reasons for it, but I'm not that fond of that approach.
XV world never felt like a real place (this nation is both at war and in conditions where monsters grow out of the ground every night. Why is nothing fortified? Who is maintaining these roads? Why is everyone so chill about the violent annihilation of their capital city?)
I do think there is more than we see, but if a world with vastly different physics doesn't also have different culture and societal mechanics, then it's questionable to me. I don't want to call it poor worldbuilding because there can be reasons for it, but I'm not that fond of that approach.
XV world never felt like a real place (this nation is both at war and in conditions where monsters grow out of the ground every night. Why is nothing fortified? Who is maintaining these roads? Why is everyone so chill about the violent annihilation of their capital city?)