hello beautiful people I am here (hi!! sorry it’s been a while!!) with a question and I need opinions - for a 1940s ish Indiana Jones-esque adventure story about what is essentially a high stakes multi continental scavenger hunt thing, would it be better to be real-world based (like all the checkpoints are set in real countries) or fictional realistic world??
cuz like on one hand real world settings kind of fits the genre more closely and saves some time on worldbuilding, but fictional world means cool invented settings with more wild details and the audience is less likely to question if the challenges/traps are unrealistic because it's already a little fake (at the expense of having to worldbuild quite a bit more)…..many thoughts and I would love any input