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All the Disney mascots in one Role-Playing Game.

A Mascot RPG is a Role-Playing Game that brings together pre-established characters or mascots in a spin-off of a video game franchise, typically of another genre (such as a Platform Game or First-Person Shooter). When it involves characters or mascots from multiple franchises or properties, it doubles as a Massive Multiplayer Crossover. It's essentially the level-grinding, stats-oriented, and often turn-based Sister Trope to the Mascot Fighter and Mascot Racer genres. These games often provide unique opportunities for game developers to give depth to their characters or worlds that cannot be as easily conveyed in mediums or genres that have more visual storytelling. A spin-off Mascot RPG will usually take a few gameplay elements from its parent franchise; for example, Super Mario RPG and other Mario roleplaying games feature Action Commands that are similar to the platforming elements in the Mario main series, while Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars is an RPG that makes having cover and elevation key gameplay mechanics like its First-Person Shooter parent series.

Regardless if it is a crossover or a spin-off, a Mascot RPG will almost always have their own casts of Original Generation characters and storytelling elements created exclusively for the game, usually within a Crossover Alternate Universe. Many Mascot RPGs are also tactical roleplaying games, following the example set by Super Robot Wars, a Trope Codifier of this genre. The makers of Super Robot Wars, Bandai Namco Entertainment, not coincidentally loves the Mascot RPG genre, with a lot of the games below being published by them. This type of game has a tendency to be exclusive to Japan, with some examples falling into No Export for You due to international licensing problems that have plagued the Mascot RPG for about as long as they've existed.


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