SolSerkonos

I’d argue ‘abandoned and inactive’ is different than ‘fake’ and you’re kinda moving the goalposts.

A bit of both? You can run into cryptic errors and weird issues even modding Bethesda games with Vortex, but there’s definitely games that are dramatically more complicated and finicky to mod whether you’re using Vortex or just doing it manually.

The holy trinity of PS2 platformers is, in my order of preference: Jak and Daxter, Sly Cooper, and Ratchet and Clank.

For Jak and Daxter and Sly Cooper in the first game in the series is pretty different from the rest so if you bounce consider giving the sequel a go.