Games like Mario, Pokemon, etc. succeed because they have large teams of people making a large world, most individual game devs try to re-make these games and are very overwhelmed trying to create large worlds that hundreds of people worked on together
Since so many people are talking about Godot, I’ll take a look at it. Thanks a lot for the comment! Also, I know it’s hard for a small group to build a big world, but I don’t think it’s impossible. I’m going to give it a shot