>Final Fantasy is practically dead
>Pokémon is just braindead
>Fire Emblem and Persona have all been heavily dumbed down, stuffed with waifushit, and stripped of any possible challenge for the casual player and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
>Gatchashit is self-explanatory
>Neptunia is also self-explanatory
>Tales has shown very recent signs of gachafication with Asteria, Link, Rays, and Crestoria
>Mother is dead
>Chrono Trigger/Cross are dead
>Monster Hunter's getting the Hollywood treatment
>Atelier has completely ♥♥♥♥♥♥ itself and its sales over with Gust and moeshit since Khemia
>Speaking of Gust, Ar Tonelico is dead
>Drakengard has been abandoned in favor of Nier
>The SaGa series has started ripping off Last Remnant
>Star Ocean is dead
>Xenogears and Xenosaga are dead and not getting remakes while Blade still lives
>Suikoden is dead
>Grandia is dead (and that remaster sadly won't save it)
>Same goes for Langrisser
>Growlanser is dead
>Vagrant Story is dead and the Ivalice universe sucked into FFXIV
>Breath of Fire is dead
>Alundra is dead
>Valkyrie Profile is dead
>Wild Arms is dead
>Panzer Dragoon is dead
>Shining Force is dead
>Phantasy Star is dead and already gachafied
>Phantasy Star Online is dead
>Ragnarok Online is dead
>Maplestory is dead
>Skies of Arcadia is dead
>Tactics Ogre is dead
>Lufia is dead
>Lunar is dead
>Dark Cloud is dead
>Jade Cocoon is dead
>The ActRaiser/Soul Blazer series are dead
>TWEWY is dead and sucked into the void that is Kingdom Hearts
>Trails has been turned into bloated harem waifufaggotry with LN-tier chuuni protagonists and Calvard's still a long way off to save or completely destroy it thanks to Cold Steel

>Ys is older than ANY of these series or games and is still producing highly underrated quality-over-quantity action RPGs that are fun, challenging, and engaging with god-tier music for everyone to this day