It reminds me of Phantasy Star Online. That is one good thing...
Phantasy Star Universe was a game that I was originally excited for on the 360, but once I played it for a little while I realized that the charm and the addictive properties of PSO were dead and gone.
I tried playing PSU online, but without set classes that actually worked, I gave up on that quest very, very quickly. Therefore, basically all you get is a review of single player's story mode.
The story in PSU is pretty pathetic, all things considered. The SEED are evil aliens or something and they need to die and stuff. Yeah, that is about it. The computer controlled allies of yours barely actually fight too. So if you want to do anything other than get in there with a sword, tough luck. If you keep your distance from the enemies and shoot at them, your team will just stand next to you and pick their noses. This stupid AI means you cannot play as a Ranger or a Force class character through story mode.
The game is moderately long, but I think its main setback is that they really thought you wanted to play it longer. Throughout the game you collect materials to craft items with. I never got enough mats to make anything that was nearly better than what I had or what I could buy in the store. I hated collecting tons of stuff I was not going to use.
Aside from the fact that the loot was pointless, the levels were also pretty pointless as well. Every single chapter or stage is exactly the same. You walk into some room, kill a bunch of enemies, look for a key, loot some boxes, and then progress to the next room and do it again. It gets very boring very quickly and I just had to walk away from the game at some points due to the extreme monotony of it all. The combat in the game is not intuitive enough to make me enjoy doing that the whole time. It is like Dynasty Warriors, except it is slightly more boring and there isn't that excitement of knowing you killed 497 guys in that battle.
Basically, yes, Phantasy Star is a game. It has no ridiculous flaws to it, but it is extremely frustrating. It is barely in my power not to knock it down to 1 star, but I think that the nostalgia of what PSO was is keeping it at 2 stars.
Maybe if PSU had a four player split screen, then I could give it 3 or so stars. Alas, that is not the case.