“A Final Fantasy for Fans and First-Timers.”Those are the words brandished on screen every time you load up Final Fantasy XV, a bold mission statement for an RPG series that’s often felt near impenetrable for anyone that didn’t play FFVII back on PS1 when it was still cool.But that sentence is more than just a slice of hollow PR speak – its emblematic of the series’ biggest transformation since FFX, one that’s unified its numbered main line of games with the countless spin-offs into something genuinely exciting and different.Chocobo-holicSo, let’s address the chocobo in the room, does it feel and play like a proper, classic Final Fantasy? Yes… and no. The turn-based combat that the series steadfastly stood by right into 2013’s spin-off Lightning Returns has been laid to rest, traded instead for a real-time hack and slash setup that’ll feel instantly familiar to anyone that’s played a Witcher or Kingdom Hearts game of late.Okay, the whole battle system is pretty much lifted wholesale from Kingdom Hearts, but that shouldn’t come as much of surprise considering KH overlord Tetsuya Nomura was originally in charge of the project before leaving to helm Kingdom Hearts III.Everything from the impact the magical weapons…