Yakuza and Souls are both extremely anime. One utilizes popular trends in shounen and the other wears its Berserk influence on its sleeve.
We need to get away from using "anime" as a pejorative because it doesn't tell you anything. It's like saying "this is too much like a TV show." Just say too much like a light novel since there's a more ubiquitous nature to them (with some exceptions).
I think from context it's not too much effort realize
which sort of anime we're inferring here. Stuff like the generic, harem, ecchi bullshit. I'm a huge anime fan, and I can't stand those kinds of anime. I have a wide variety of tastes from Psycho Pass to Madoka Magica to Card Captor Sakura to Yuri on Ice, but give me stuff like SAO and I'll mostly roll my eyes at it.
Also Berserk by no means 'owns' dark fantasy. Yes, it may be an influence, but even Berserk is not your 'typical' anime as anime is known today. It's like Jojo's in that it began in the 80's and it's no longer what springs to mind for your average person when you mention 'anime'. What 'Anime' is has changed in the public conciousness. In the 80's it would have been something like Akira. In the 90's, something like Sailor Moon. Most recently it'd be stuff like SAO.
That said, there's a huge reason why Soulsborne has a much larger female audience than Berserk. Berserk in some of its more infamous moments relies on the stupid sexist trope of fridging a woman to further the male's character development. It also relies way too heavily on rape and sexualized violence for most women to stomach. Say what you will to defend it, but the Eclipse scene is horribly misogynistic and fucked up in a multitude of ways.
Soulsborne games, in spit of their dark nature tend to avoid these 'easy' ways of conveying a dark hopeless world. Any possible sexualized violence in the games is only very vageuly alluded to, in such a way that there are alternate theories to explain why something happened that doesn't come out to just 'rape' in the end.
As a reply to your other stuff about Bravely series, Tales and Idea factory games....
I haven't played Bravely yet because I've never owned a 3DS. I might buy them though since my partner owns one.
The Idea factory games are a major NO to me because they're low quality titty games. In my most desperate moment of RPG craving back in the PS3 days I played a demo of one. GOD NO, NEVER AGAIN.
I actually really like the Tales games, I've been playing them since Destiny on PS1, though on and off. I enjoyed Xilia a lot (I really liked Millia and Jude's characters). I'm very much looking forward to finally playing Vesperia (I've never owned any Xbox consoles). In general like, the Tales games are anime as fuck, but that doesn't bother me because I AM a huge weeb. 1 or 2 sexy female designs don't bug me as long as those characters are well developed, human and in control of their agency/bodies in the game. Tales also has some good looking guys in it (that Yuri<3)
EDIT: Forgot about Radiant Historia. Holy fuck this game looks dope I'm so buying this. Looks like I'll be comandeering my partner's 3DS for awhile. She never plays it anyways lol