| LordTheNightKnight said: "but the fact still remains that you are not seeing Ryu or Iori outside of the fighting genre" Ryu: Namco X Capcom, a strategy RPG, and Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, genre stated in the title. Again, you aren't doing your research. You are just making assumptions about Mario being a special case, which is wrong, and that there is some rule about sticking in your own genre, which Mario is supposedly breaking. |
Forgot about Super Puzzle Fighter II.
It's not that I'm not doing my research, it's just that Mario has been in more various games than any game character out there; even Mario has a pinball game on the DS. Yes, Namco X Capcom and that list with Chocobo games that you provided show characters outside their realm, but they stayed in Japan, unlike for Mario.
And I'll mention another game with cross-game appeal, Ehrgeiz.







