If you don't like the gameplay, you have to at least like the storyline.
Storyline:(the thing you should be somewhat interested in)Kite(you)is a new player in "The World", an innovative popular MMORPG that has 20 million players. Kite's friend who is meeting Kite in "The World" where we begin our story is a legendary player(shush, you don't know that yet) who's like lvl 50(you won't even get close in the 1st game). So they go to this newbie world and Orca(Kite's friend) gives you a somewhat boring tutorial. Then you see this girl in white getting chased around by a big stone monster carrying a red wand. Orca's like: "What the hell was that?". Kite's like: "Is something wrong?". And Orca's like: "Let's check it out.". So they do and they get teleported to this weird place and the girl talks in riddles and then the stone monster shows up and Orca trys to fight it but he gets his butt whooped and then the monster picks him up and uses his wand on him and causes him to go into a coma in the real world. Ya, pretty freaky. Then Kite is cowering in fear when the another girl who you find out to be a hacker named Helba saves you and you end up in darkness and the girl dressed in white gives you a book that is supposed to be real powerful, it turns into an invisible bracelet and you get the power to do what the stone monster did to Orca.
From there, I will let you discover the rest of the stroyline.