One of the things that really makes or breaks an action RPG for me is speed. It's what made Diablo and its various clones so successful. Phantasy Star Online has a significantly slower pace and it can be really to its detriment. The graphics and music are nice and unique, something that you don't see hardly any of in the sphere of Diablo like dungeon crawlers. If you're playing on consoles its fun to play in splitscreen. This is a "you had to be there" kind of game. I never got a chance to play this online back in the day and played a little of the PC version on a private server, but I can tell that it must have been mindblowing. There's a lot of early Monster Hunter DNA in here too. Worth checking out as a historical artifact if you've got no nostalgia attached to it.