So, i'm sure anyone that's wanted to play Tales of Phantasia's probably already done so by now via emulator or the crappy GBA version if they really wanted to. But if you haven't, you can play it for free on the iOS store!..
.. and deal with extraordinary bullshit Namco's pulled on the game to try and exploit anyone who plays it for extra cash. Instead of having a difficulty select, the difficulty's locked to something inbetween Hard and Maniac, and save points within dungeons (especially next to boss fights) have been disabled to encourage players to buy $2 resurrection items when they likely bite the dust. Shops had their prices doubled, although rarely there's occasions where enemies will drop double the money than normal, making it only temporarily on-par with the original economy, and there's a bunch of cash shop [parasitic bomb] lingering at all times.
Although it's based off of the PSP port, they used a supposedly fixed-up version of the GBA port's translation as their basis without localizing any of the voices (which is better than their idea of low-budget dub voices for the GBA version at least). But the game's still pretty damn old, and aside from controls being altered to accommodate combat better, it's still a bit behind the rest of the series. Combined with the attempts to bleed players of their wallets, I think it'd only really warrant curious plays of the beginning parts of the game and no further.