Why I cannot really see Pac-Man, Bomberman nor many other old school gaming mascots outside of their original context?

[Ikagura Ikagura]

For some reasons when I see 3D platformers or any other genres featuring those characters I always feel like they don't fit, as if they were a different game where we put them in place of the actual protagonist.

Compared to Mario who is a very versatile character I always prefer the others in their original series with their intended gameplay. I hardly see a Pac Man RPG being a thing because he's a simplistic character. I think games like the SNES point n click also made me convinced even further that he should stick to ghost chasing in mazes.

 

[Graw]

Bomberman's been in a ton of different kinds of games puzzle games, rpgs, fighting games, party games, 3d action-adventure games