Mashups are hard. Mixing two unlikely things together is often a failure because it takes a bit of wild magic for a combo to go wombo. This is especially true in video games, where established characters and the fandoms that love them depend on consistent world-building to provide proper context (looking at you, Yoda in SoulCalibur.) So if you took a beloved franchise, mixed it with a lesser-known spin-off and plopped it in a new genre it’d be a mess, right?
