I'm honestly surprised nobody ever felt even tempted to step up to the plate on that one. NIS, Atlus, Namco/Bandai, even Capcom have plenty of good JRPGs and experience under their belts. Nobody wants to polish out a genuine old school JRPG even though it may not sell millions it will be massively well received by rabid fans missing the old days. As long as they don't botch it, it's pretty much a shoe-in. But Square doesn't want to do it. Nobody wants to do it. Hell it's hard to think of any recent traditional JRPG. Lost Odyssey maybe. Though there were a few during that time. Infinite Undiscovery was also one. But those were like 6 or 7 years ago. And everything else has branched into even more niche paths. Tales games aren't traditional. Those Neptunia games look far from traditional. Probably same with Mugen Souls. Nobody wants to return to their JRPG roots