Hogwarts Legacy

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7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 1764 Ratings

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  1. vitorgaioso
    Sep 12, 2023
    7
    Provavelmente a nota aumentaria pelo menos uns 2 pontos se eu fosse fã do universo Harry Potter. Mas como sou apenas fã de souls-like, um 7 é mais que suficiente. História legalzinha, gameplay boa mas repetitiva depois de um certo ponto.
  2. Pipe8600
    Mar 6, 2023
    6
    Without ray tracing this game looks like a 2010 game, is slow, boring and bad optimize.
  3. TruthSeaker
    Aug 15, 2023
    7
    Very solid game. Much more enjoyable in every way than 90% of 2k23 titles.
    Major cons - game is extremely easy and story is really lacking in terms of depth and proper pacing.
  4. walkerz2
    Aug 14, 2023
    7
    Apesar de um ritimo repetitivo, e mecanicas manjadas a roupagem de harry potter agrada a criança interna e compensa a jogatina.
  5. Tacco1306
    Aug 13, 2023
    7
    This game is pure fan-service. i played it on release with some mayor bugs and had a little break... it did not catch me again.
  6. sideshownate
    Aug 13, 2023
    7
    The story is pretty average and boring. There is fun to be made especially for fans of the series but there could have been more.
  7. Hatsspace
    Aug 11, 2023
    7
    its fun for like the first 15 or so hours but gets stale and REPETITIVE their is like so many side activities that are completely useless BUT exploring Hogwarts is incredibly fun
  8. InMassiveDebt
    Aug 11, 2023
    7
    Hogwarts Legacy extends an immersive and enthralling journey into the enchanting realm of Harry Potter. With its captivating storyline, compelling side quests, and visually striking graphics, it initially grips players' attention. Nevertheless, the game falls short in justifying its price due to its brevity and lack of substantial content. Moreover, the limited impact of player choices onHogwarts Legacy extends an immersive and enthralling journey into the enchanting realm of Harry Potter. With its captivating storyline, compelling side quests, and visually striking graphics, it initially grips players' attention. Nevertheless, the game falls short in justifying its price due to its brevity and lack of substantial content. Moreover, the limited impact of player choices on the surrounding world contributes to a somewhat unsatisfying experience, leaving an impression of emptiness.… Expand
  9. Visitbr
    Aug 1, 2023
    7
    o jogo em sí é divertido, o mapa e a ambientação são os pontos fortes, hogwarts é muito bem feita nesse jogo, o combate é muito divertido, o mundo tem muito conteúdo e missões, mas a história principal é muito desinteressante, as missões secundarias do sebastian foram muito melhores que a historia principal, o jogo é lindo e tem cenários fenomenais, mas é extremamente mal otimizado, eleo jogo em sí é divertido, o mapa e a ambientação são os pontos fortes, hogwarts é muito bem feita nesse jogo, o combate é muito divertido, o mundo tem muito conteúdo e missões, mas a história principal é muito desinteressante, as missões secundarias do sebastian foram muito melhores que a historia principal, o jogo é lindo e tem cenários fenomenais, mas é extremamente mal otimizado, ele come memoria ram e vram de maneira absurda ele pesa a placa de vídeo sem ao menos ter gráficos ou um mapa que justificasse todo esse "peso" do game, algo que me decepcionou foi a floresta proibida, nos filmes e livros cita a existência de varias criaturas mas no game só tem aranhas(que por sinal nao faz sentindo existir diversas aranhas sendo que aragog vai aparecer quase 100 anos depois dos eventos desse jogo) e duendes.… Expand
  10. random-dude
    Jul 26, 2023
    7
    Almost excellent game. Gameplay-mechanics and the world design - superb. Music, atmosphere, immersion and exploring in this game is pure bliss. Lots and lots of little lore-accurate details, fun easter eggs and all-around unique charm that only the wizarding world has (and which the later movies lacked). The setting (year 1890) is interesting, and the acting is solid.

    Puzzles... some    Almost excellent game. Gameplay-mechanics and the world design - superb. Music, atmosphere, immersion and exploring in this game is pure bliss. Lots and lots of little lore-accurate details, fun easter eggs and all-around unique charm that only the wizarding world has (and which the later movies lacked). The setting (year 1890) is interesting, and the acting is solid.

    Puzzles... some work, and some are too easy. Most puzzles are repeated too many times. Would've wanter more variety in these, the mechanics and spell combinations would allow for more varied puzzles in difficulty and execution, and I hope this is something they add later on in a DLC.

    Bosses are underwhelming. First few were a copy/paste same fight, and the only good boss with fun and engaging mechanics was the very last one. Though the last boss was good, it didn't feel like the final boss of a game - more like a lead-up to it.

    Main villains weren't much of a fight, and were mostly relegated as mid-bosses with endless adds. The environments in these fights were uninspired, and lacked any opportunity to utilize the surroundings for different tactics, other than the repetitive crowd control you spend most of the game using.

    The story is is another weakness in this game. Its build-up is good, but the resolution comes suddenly bringing the main story to an abrupt end. After completing the main story, there's little to no reason to stick around doing side quests and explore more of the map. Which is a shame, since the world is Beautiful with a Capitol B, and immersive.

    I'll raise my score if they deliver a good DLC, but for now it's a very solid 7.
    Or if they give me quidditch, it's an automatic 10.    … Expand
  11. EKYR
    Jul 11, 2023
    7
    hogwarts legacy is the definitive game to get for a harry potter /fantastic beasts fan, it is great at what it does. I enjoyed my time with this game, the graphics are one of the best ive seen, the world ESPECIALLY hogwarts castle is marvellous, they got that really bang on, nailed it in every aspect. Walking around the castle and having a whimsical feel of magic and wonder around you ishogwarts legacy is the definitive game to get for a harry potter /fantastic beasts fan, it is great at what it does. I enjoyed my time with this game, the graphics are one of the best ive seen, the world ESPECIALLY hogwarts castle is marvellous, they got that really bang on, nailed it in every aspect. Walking around the castle and having a whimsical feel of magic and wonder around you is truly not replicable in other games because other games dont do harry potter like this game does. Walking to and from class, learning new spells, talking to your npc friends, it is super immersive while you are in the hogwarts castle. Hogsmeade is also a treat to explore, fans will recognise many familar places from the movies. The fan service is really done super super well, i must praise them alot for this. Thumbs up. You can even have a pet farm where you can rear animals and make spells, this is like so cool to do in the game, well done.

    However the game is far from perfect!
    as a video game fan, i could easily tell the game fails to really innovate or broaden our expectations of what a modern open world can do, it gets boring very quickly as you do endless fetch quests (while riding various mounts which are quite fun to do ngl, only thing keeping me from falling asleep while doing side quests), the combat is the most basic in a video game ever, every single enemy can be killed with the simple spell you get at the start. The illusion really breaks once you leave the castle and hogsmeade because the world doesnt have much to offer at all. The repeated dialogue is really annoying also. Towards the end, the game can start to feel quite repetitive and dry, with a run of the mill good vs evil storyline, which when considering the audience of the game might include younger klds, its fine i guess,, but story does not stand out and repetitive missions are unwelcome and distasteful.
    Hogwarts Legacy is great at what it does and it really shows, but the game could use some fine tuning such as stronger story and expanded open world concepts.    … Expand
  12. Gaming_Bear
    Jul 7, 2023
    7
    Game started out magical, but very quickly feel into the void of repetitive empty open worlds. They really should have taken not of the top tier open worlds like red dead redemption, Skyrim, witcher 3. This game could have been a classic instead it was just ok.

    Pro Combat is ok Graphics are decent Cons World feels repetitive and empty Need to work on making the world feel organic and    Game started out magical, but very quickly feel into the void of repetitive empty open worlds. They really should have taken not of the top tier open worlds like red dead redemption, Skyrim, witcher 3. This game could have been a classic instead it was just ok.

    Pro
    Combat is ok
    Graphics are decent

    Cons
    World feels repetitive and empty
    Need to work on making the world feel organic and interactions exist and occur organically and don't pull you from the world . Red dead 2 does this well.
    Music needs to be more effective. Flying mechanics need to be fully redone especially if there is going to be Quidditch. Should be able to do complex arial manuvers while still being able to look so around. Final con...no Quidditch... How dare they.    … Expand
  13. SkateWitches---
    Jun 29, 2023
    5
    We wanted bully with magic but we got cyberpunk fantasy edition, a graphically and visually impressive experience that fails miserably in the gameplay department, a total lack of any sort of interaction with the other students, the teachers or with the school itself other than a few lines of dialogue make the carefully designed world feel fake, all of this along with a plethora of fakeWe wanted bully with magic but we got cyberpunk fantasy edition, a graphically and visually impressive experience that fails miserably in the gameplay department, a total lack of any sort of interaction with the other students, the teachers or with the school itself other than a few lines of dialogue make the carefully designed world feel fake, all of this along with a plethora of fake choices and an underwhelming story make hogwarts legacy nothing more than a theme park ride, the potential of the combat system is overshadowed by a lack of enemy variety making the fights stale and boring and the narrative potential of finding yourself forced to use the unforgivable curses is broken by the fact they didn't bother to implement any sort of punishment, if you cast avada kedavra in front of a teacher, they will say "don't do it again" if you do it again, they will say a different line, and that's it, to me, that the recap of the entire experience, a game world that looks pretty and that doesn't give a s**t about the player. If you want to look at nice furniture for €50 I suggest you instead go to an ikea store, where you can do it for free.… Expand
  14. xgatto
    Jun 24, 2023
    7
    Great start, tons of potential, but you can tell it's a bit of an "amateurish" work. From distorted, badly mixed voices, to lag and glitches. Excited for a sequel if they ever make one. As far as this one goes, it's pretty average.
  15. MarsKramer
    Jun 24, 2023
    5
    5/10. Avoid if you hate Ubisoft style games. Message cannot include less than seventy-five letters, so I have to write it.
  16. co3676
    Jun 23, 2023
    6
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  17. Renaigse
    Jun 22, 2023
    7
    Пример игры, которая получила огромную популярность и завышенные оценки просто потому, что сама франшиза, по которой сделана игра, крайне популярна + давно не было по ней высокобюджетных проектов. Буквально люди, которые практически не играют в игры, зашли поностальгировать по Гаре Потнаму, отсюда и такие баллы. На деле же игра сделана по всем канонам ААА дрочилен: незапоминающийся главныйПример игры, которая получила огромную популярность и завышенные оценки просто потому, что сама франшиза, по которой сделана игра, крайне популярна + давно не было по ней высокобюджетных проектов. Буквально люди, которые практически не играют в игры, зашли поностальгировать по Гаре Потнаму, отсюда и такие баллы. На деле же игра сделана по всем канонам ААА дрочилен: незапоминающийся главный сюжет, второсортные допы, куча выпадающего разноцветного лутячего, отвратительные диалоги и оптимизация, но отличная графика, анимации и проработка самого мира.… Expand
  18. nuglord
    Jun 16, 2023
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. + Massive, beautiful world with great depth of development.
    + Simple, fun mechanics - flight controls feel especially good.
    + Large map to explore with tons of content.
    + Lore and storyline feel fun, lighthearted, and true to franchise.

    - Functionality gated behind the typical AAA collectible grind.
    - Disappointing ending after an otherwise compelling storyline.
    - Terribly optimized with lots of bugs, glitches, and lack of polish.
    - Narrative is fun, but lacks depth or significant character development.
    - Many key elements missing - quidditch being the primary among them.    … Expand
  19. mdk567
    Jun 10, 2023
    6
    추억을 되살려주는 훌륭한 ost와 호그와트 재현도. 호그스미드로의 여행, 빗자루 비행과 마법 사용
    그에 반해 흥미롭지 않은 중반부터의 스토리와 수치만 달라지는 장비 시스템, 텅 비어있는 오픈월드, 플레이타임을 늘리기 위한 빽빽한 수집품 품목. 끔찍한 최적화..
  20. Maquan97
    Jun 10, 2023
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Well. The jest part of the game is Hogwart but you spent to less time there. Instead you running like auror and kill enemies. The game have so good opinions because of Harry Potter universum. Without it its maybe 4. The story? Well only part With deathly halows and Sebastian were good. Just average game for me. Btw im fan of HP. In fact i have more nostalgia and having better fun playing one night siting Harry Potter 2 really...… Expand
  21. TinyMeatGang
    Jun 6, 2023
    6
    I really wanted to like this game, and I tried very hard to do so, but it just falls flat in most aspects outside of the representation of Hogwarts itself, which is easily the best one to have ever existed. I would highly recommend reading the mixed and negative reviews before buying this game, especially at full price. Not the ones by people who forgot that you're not supposed to iron theI really wanted to like this game, and I tried very hard to do so, but it just falls flat in most aspects outside of the representation of Hogwarts itself, which is easily the best one to have ever existed. I would highly recommend reading the mixed and negative reviews before buying this game, especially at full price. Not the ones by people who forgot that you're not supposed to iron the folds out of your brain and complain about wokeness and "AgeNDa", but the ones by people who actually break down the good and bad aspects of the game.

    If you stripped out the Harry Potter name and theming of the game, you're left with a mediocre product at best. Once you've played the first 4 or so hours of the game, you've already experienced everything the game has to offer; the remaining 16 or so are just the first part but copy/pasted with a bit of variation.

    If you just want to experience Hogwarts and have fun casting spells, this is a great game for that. If you want an immersive and interesting story, world, or characters, this falls way short. It's worth playing, but I would definitely wait until it goes on sale before picking it up.    … Expand
  22. ObsessedMeat
    Jun 6, 2023
    7
    I can't complete this game. The first 15/20 hours are amazing. Then, you are left with no more spells to learn, maybe a few new animals to catch, and the emptiness of a map loaded with those boring as hell Merlin's trials. Technically is good, mechanics are kinda interesting, but after 20 hours into the game, i just can't play for more than 5 minutes withouth getting bored.
  23. Razrback16
    Jun 1, 2023
    5
    Cons:

    * Denuvo, performance-impacting DRM is present, hurting framerates and game smoothness and making sure you don't ever really own your copy of the game * Game uses Epic Online Services - the presence of this means I will never purchase the game * Woke / alphabet agenda with trans / crossdressing / homo content present in a number of places in the game whereby they just have to    Cons:

    * Denuvo, performance-impacting DRM is present, hurting framerates and game smoothness and making sure you don't ever really own your copy of the game
    * Game uses Epic Online Services - the presence of this means I will never purchase the game
    * Woke / alphabet agenda with trans / crossdressing / homo content present in a number of places in the game whereby they just have to make a point of making sure you know they're gay, trans, etc. Heck, one of the side quests is seemingly designed to drum up sympathy for the crossdressing character...sigh. We need to stop enabling & encouraging so much mental illness in our culture; this is one of the key reasons so many people are on anti-depressants these days. The presence of this type of content likewise means I will never purchase a personal copy of the game
    * Awful game performance even on a high end rig with an RTX 3090 (poor optimization, effectively)
    * Even the deepest masculine voice for the character sounds like an effeminate boy
    * Once you get past the game's fantastic graphics, it's honestly kinda boring... the combat is mediocre and gets repetitive VERY quickly
    * No romance options in the game - and don't get me wrong, not saying there should be sexually explicit scenes or anything like The Witcher since this isn't an adult game, but you are playing the game as a teenager, and romantic relationships are a pretty big part of that part of a person's life - it can create dramatic situations and dynamics as well between other characters who may be competing for the same girl, etc. They could introduce this in a follow-up sequel when the main character sees some of his friends again that he developed good friendships with such as Poppy Sweeting, etc.
    * I'm admittedly baffled by the really high praise reviews; again not saying this is an awful game, but it's really nothing spectacular when you get past the graphics / animation quality and attention to the world itself. The actual game mechanics are not very impressive. It's just another open-world RPG style game like Witcher 3, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, etc. just in the Harry Potter universe.
    * The day / night cycle in the game is like a lot of open world games nowadays where the day cycle is way too short
    * Game feels a little dead in terms of the cast / environment and what I mean by that is while it's very pretty aesthetically, and there is a large cast of characters, they aren't really developed very well and so it feels somewhat empty. For example you might do a side quest for one character in the school, a fellow student...and you work with them on the quest and complete it. But then you never really interact with that student again despite going to school at Hogwarts every day with them. So it feels very sterile as far as the cast - you need to have fairly frequent contact with characters in order to generate a feeling for the player like they are there, and that the world really is alive. It's missing that feeling from Harry Potter movies where Harry, Ron, Hermione, etc. were frequently together working on things, and in this game you rarely see the main character with a similar group of people outside of some specific side quests.
    * Game has an exclusive quest locked down to Playstation - so chalk that up to anti-consumer behavior from the developer / publisher
    * Way too many cosmetics as the rewards for completing quests, challenges, etc. You'll complete certain challenges throughout the game, and worthless cosmetics seem to be overwhelmingly common - should have more narrative / dialogue as rewards, or something actually useful

    Pros:

    * Kudos for only giving (2) options during character creation for the Wizard / Witch and not trying to define the make-believe notion that there are more than two genders
    * Graphics are pretty darn good, they dedicated a lot of attention to detail when designing the world which is great to see. This is probably the highlight of the game
    * Lots of little events as you're walking around with things happening in the world - the animation work is fantastic by the development team. They really put monumental effort into constructing the world, and they deserve the absolute highest praise for that.
    * Relatively solid, yet nothing ground-breaking, main questline story. The end of the game sets up well for a sequel where, like the Harry Potter movies / books, the main character can return to Hogwarts for the 6th year and have more things to look forward to.

    Game Length: 59 Hours - I did probably ~95% of the game. I didn't pick up all of the treausre chests, but did basically everything else - every side quest that was available, all of the Merlin Trials (quite tedious as there are like 95 of them), all of the star constellation tasks, completed the field guide, etc.

    Final Rating: 5/10.    … Expand
  24. Wondux
    May 23, 2023
    7
    Currently, I am 21 years old. I spent my childhood watching Harry Potter movies over and over. (Yeah, I have never read the books... Sorry lol) I was at some points obsessed. I would find a twig and roleplay as a wizard in my room. I even knew almost all the names of the spells, and what they did. So you may imagine what a blessing this game would have been to me when I was at that age.Currently, I am 21 years old. I spent my childhood watching Harry Potter movies over and over. (Yeah, I have never read the books... Sorry lol) I was at some points obsessed. I would find a twig and roleplay as a wizard in my room. I even knew almost all the names of the spells, and what they did. So you may imagine what a blessing this game would have been to me when I was at that age. Even now, it was a beyond incredible experience. However, the developers have also made very bad decisions.

    Pros:
    -The combat feels amazing. Having so many different types of spells and being able to cast them is a blessing for someone like me. Making strong combinations from the different spells felt amazing. Combat animations were amazing. I could feel that I was actually damaging my opponent.
    -The castle is beyond incredible. Every second I spent there, I could feel the passion emitting from the developers. No words. It was perfect. The ambiance, the music, everything.
    -Room of requirement was a great addition. Very fun to make potions, and collect beasts.

    Cons:
    -The story was terrible. Except for one, the characters are not memorable. Any one of the random side events from Red Dead Redemption 2 has a better story than that of Hogwarts Legacy. The starting idea is good. The villains are not well-written. The characters are not well written. The dialogue is very bad-written. They are not realistic. The protagonist is just blank. Not as a silent protagonist though. For example, the Persona series have silent protagonists, but I find them to be likable, even only from their dialogue options. This protag's dialogue options also sucked.
    -The open-world experience was not likable. It's extremely repetitive.
    -The student experience is terrible. I hated how I had to collect ingredients to unlock spells. It made no sense story-wise and was not enjoyable gameplay-wise. I almost never felt like a student at Hogwarts.
    -I despised the political correctness. I fully support LGBT. Some of my best friends are a part of the community. I have friends from various ethnicities and colors. I am also brown. However, the story takes place in 1890 England. They should not be at a point where they know not to assume someone's gender. They should not have controversies about pronouns. Trans people should not be normal in that period. There shouldn't be so many different races at such a major number. Even though this is not ok with me, it's a harsh reality. This majorly kills off immersion. If you want to do this, make a game that takes place in 2023, and I would absolutely be OK with that.

    Even though I had so many negative comments, the atmosphere of the castle and the combat, never bored me. They were incredibly done. However, I am very biased. If I was not a Harry Potter fan, or if this was not a Harry Potter game, I would have rated it much lower. But, this was the dream of my childhood. It was very enjoyable and I religiously played it, getting 100% at 66 hours. Very nice job.    … Expand
  25. zNeverSleep
    May 14, 2023
    7
    Alright, I was caught by surprise with this game.

    When it was first announced, I didn't care much for it. Fantastic Beasts was a flop, and even though I'm a big fan of Harry Potter, I don't trust the games industry anymore. I thought the release date was much further away, so I only discovered it one month before release, and my interest started to grow slowly. After getting my hands on    Alright, I was caught by surprise with this game.

    When it was first announced, I didn't care much for it. Fantastic Beasts was a flop, and even though I'm a big fan of Harry Potter, I don't trust the games industry anymore. I thought the release date was much further away, so I only discovered it one month before release, and my interest started to grow slowly. After getting my hands on it, here are my thoughts:

    The beginning of the game is not its strong point, especially if you expect something like the movies. But the more you play, the better the game becomes.

    The main story was okay, but what really got me into the game were the relationship quests and how they were connected to the main storyline. Unfortunately, the influence of these quests - in the consequences factor - was literally irrelevant, but the atmosphere was there. The development of the characters could have been better, but following them on their journey was good enough. I also loved the way the developers approached the houses. In the movies, besides Gryffindor, most characters were one-dimensional and behaved according to the stereotypes of their houses. That's not the case here. As a critic, I must say that the conclusion of those side quests could be more unpredictable. Actually, I could say that about all of the main quest storylines.

    Is the game difficult? It depends. It can be, but it's up to you. I played on hard and chose to use the minimum amount of potions as possible, including life. That way, three hits and I was dead. After getting used to the spells and the enemies, it becomes okay. All I needed was to understand the weaknesses of my opponents and pay attention.

    Hogwarts is beautiful. Not as magical as in the movies, but pretty good. Exploring it is rewarding, and the way the developers placed chests and challenges was amazing. The open world surprised me a lot. I didn't expect such a huge place, with so many possibilities for exploration. Another thing that made me love this game was how much content is in it. A good example is the Room of Requirement. I lost count of how many times I thought it was over, but no, they just throw more and more content at you - and that happened even in the last stages of the game. Amazing. You know when you're playing a game that was made with love.

    But there's something I still haven't talked about, and it can be a game-breaker for a lot of people: the optimization.

    It's broken. I had to spend hours looking for mods to fix the game. After trying many of them, I found one: Ascendio 3.0. If it weren't for that, I wouldn't be writing this review, so a huge thanks to the modders. With the mod, I played the game with 45 fps locked at 1080p, with most settings on high. And it was beautiful - but obviously not as much as the requirements to play it suggest, since 16GB of RAM is not enough without a mod. Overall, I'm happy with the game. There's so much to talk about, but I'm getting tired of writing. I do recommend it, but be aware of its optimization problems. Maybe in a year, it will be playable without mods - but if you have a console, you can disregard this.

    First playthrough date: 03/2023    … Expand
  26. OmegaGiven
    May 11, 2023
    5
    The game has stunning visuals/graphics and a Decent combat system, so why am I rating it so low? Because the story and dialogue choices are poorly written/done. Everything else would be fine but no dialogue option made any difference making me actually not want to play the game and rather watch all cutscenes on YouTube aka I wouldn’t have bought this game for the story. I thought thereThe game has stunning visuals/graphics and a Decent combat system, so why am I rating it so low? Because the story and dialogue choices are poorly written/done. Everything else would be fine but no dialogue option made any difference making me actually not want to play the game and rather watch all cutscenes on YouTube aka I wouldn’t have bought this game for the story. I thought there would be branching choice trees and what you did would effect the outcome but nothing actually changes. The game starts out impressive I always wanted to explore hogwarts and I got to for a few hours until I realized that that’s all it offered in creativity. I think it’s a decent play if you go in knowing nothing matters else I wouldn’t buy it if you really want to know what happens and the process just go watch anyone’s play through nothing would be different.… Expand
  27. Govninjo
    May 4, 2023
    5
    Nice graphics and atmosphere but in terms of gameplay and story it's a bad Ubisoft-like game.
  28. Jcdusss
    Apr 30, 2023
    6
    The game is not bad, and Hogwart is just splendid and really fun to navigate in, but it has a lot of problems. The game mechanics don’t go well with each other, and everything starts to feel boring and pointless soon. Why would I explore that cave with another gloves in a chest at the end, gloves that I will never use anyway because there is way too much loot everywhere. Somme stories andThe game is not bad, and Hogwart is just splendid and really fun to navigate in, but it has a lot of problems. The game mechanics don’t go well with each other, and everything starts to feel boring and pointless soon. Why would I explore that cave with another gloves in a chest at the end, gloves that I will never use anyway because there is way too much loot everywhere. Somme stories and quests are good though, like these with Sebastian. Play it if you like the universe, but be prepared: it’s a game for fans, and not a game for people used to playing.… Expand
  29. ATLAUS
    Apr 28, 2023
    7
    Hogwarts legacy is okay for HP fans,it highly reproduces movies and novels,including types of magic and academic design,and its just so so for normal player,fighting is a bit boring / few things that can interact with each other.
  30. heavybadas
    Apr 28, 2023
    6
    The world feels magical at first, but the more you play, the more meaningless the world gets. for it's vastness it feels rather empty quite fast. There are really lame parts of the story, some of the characters are lame and feels out of place.

    The only story that was worth engaging in was a side quest, the game still has woke elements, there are too many empty repetitive "go kill x    The world feels magical at first, but the more you play, the more meaningless the world gets. for it's vastness it feels rather empty quite fast. There are really lame parts of the story, some of the characters are lame and feels out of place.

    The only story that was worth engaging in was a side quest, the game still has woke elements, there are too many empty repetitive "go kill x amount of Y" or "go fetch x" style side quests, inventory system is annoying, puzzles are repetitive and the merlin trials are necessary.

    There's no point to grind the repetitive tasks other than cosmetic rewards to grind repetitive tasks in game. I already do that in real life.

    I have read all the books, and I love the Harry Potter Franchise, but I was honestly disappointed with this game and was actually really looking forward to this.    … Expand
  31. Fallconex
    Apr 26, 2023
    7
    So basically it's a perfect example of a game with amazing atmosphere, art, and design but with no narrative whatsoever. The game feels kinda empty with that weird plot, lack of emotions, and underdeveloped characters... Like an attraction for wizarding world fans and nothing more (but no surprise here from a studio that never developed a good game so far).
    Overall, that's an OK    So basically it's a perfect example of a game with amazing atmosphere, art, and design but with no narrative whatsoever. The game feels kinda empty with that weird plot, lack of emotions, and underdeveloped characters... Like an attraction for wizarding world fans and nothing more (but no surprise here from a studio that never developed a good game so far).
    Overall, that's an OK experience, mostly for fans. Not recommended for others.    … Expand
  32. Piergio
    Apr 26, 2023
    7
    After finishing the game, i had to update my review. From a 10, i have brought it down to a 7, cause it's really repetitive.
  33. nomad1326
    Apr 23, 2023
    6
    Pleasant atmosphere, interesting mechanics and systems, good realization of Hogwarts. Nonetheless, the game has some issues with game design, but the biggest problem for me is left-wing agenda with diversity and feminism on every corner without any logic in Scotland 19th century.
  34. FireJach
    Apr 18, 2023
    6
    The is absurdly repetitive, it smells like an Ubisoft game which doesn't mean it's great. It's fine, above average. I think the first hours are made really nice and engaging but after there is nothing to do because all quests and activities are pointless and boring.
  35. linuquix
    Apr 5, 2023
    5
    It's "an ok game", but just that, all the NPCs are boring too.

    Idk, I think this game is made for fans of harry potter, if you want to play a nice game, play skyrim.

    This HL is a predictable game
  36. pizzalover2788
    Apr 3, 2023
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Lo bueno:
    El castillo de Hogwarts es una maravilla y he disfrutado mucho explorándolo. Eso lo mejor que tiene. El combate es entretenido en cierto modo. Me ha gustado bastante. Al igual que la Sala de los Menesteres.

    Lo malo:
    La historia es aburrida y a los personajes les falta algo. La progresión del personaje solo sirve para el combate, lo cual me ha decepcionado un poco. No tomas decisiones sobre nada y no hay diferentes caminos para la historia. No encarnas a tu propio personaje, es solo estético. Los desafíos no son nada interesantes. Se hace repetitivo.

    No he podido acabarlo al 100%.    … Expand
  37. karahangke267
    Apr 2, 2023
    6
    Overall it was a very enjoyable experience. It was a rather bland game for me. I wish the battles were a little more diverse. You get more pleasure after the middle of the game, but you continue to get the same pleasure until the end of the game.
  38. Daruse93
    Mar 30, 2023
    7
    Good atmosphere, amazing Hogwarts and villages, fight system is pretty nice. But the plot is boring, characters are also boring
  39. berkinio
    Mar 30, 2023
    6
    Although Hogwarts Legacy was pretty fun for me at first, I saw that it was a pretty shallow game from the 20th hour of the game. Positive: The only thing I liked about the game was the design of Hogwarts. It has really been worked on and it has been designed very well. Negatives: You can even finish the game by pressing all the keys randomly. Boring gameplay. Although it is fun to travelAlthough Hogwarts Legacy was pretty fun for me at first, I saw that it was a pretty shallow game from the 20th hour of the game. Positive: The only thing I liked about the game was the design of Hogwarts. It has really been worked on and it has been designed very well. Negatives: You can even finish the game by pressing all the keys randomly. Boring gameplay. Although it is fun to travel in the open world at first, doing the same activities all the time and being empty inside makes all exploration meaningless after a point. Mediocre in terms of story and characters. It has been a very fun game for Harry Potter fans, but as a game it is quite boring and empty.… Expand
  40. Dee-Jay_Deli
    Mar 24, 2023
    7
    Nice game with:
    +fantastic atmosphere
    +fantastic music +authentic realization of the Harry Potter World +decent combat that is bogged down by: -boring story -poor pacing (you spend way too much time on "filler" content) -too much open-world busy work -unfitting loot & progression mechanics -Low world interactivity It takes about 20 hours before your really realize that the    Nice game with:
    +fantastic atmosphere
    +fantastic music
    +authentic realization of the Harry Potter World
    +decent combat

    that is bogged down by:
    -boring story
    -poor pacing (you spend way too much time on "filler" content)
    -too much open-world busy work
    -unfitting loot & progression mechanics
    -Low world interactivity

    It takes about 20 hours before your really realize that the game is much more filler content than is appears at first. The depth of game-play is appropriate for roughly 30 hours, but it stretched to >40 by numerous collectables, generic and repetitious "challenges" (Merlin puzzles), pet collection etc.    … Expand
  41. Hyperfailure
    Mar 23, 2023
    5
    Works well as a Harry Potter walking sim, if you're a fan of the series. Sub-standard Ubisoft style gameplay, mostly stale characters and dead fish of a protagonist make this a slog, though. Didn't finish.
  42. nintihahuyb
    Mar 20, 2023
    5
    Fan service versus good service.
    The proposal of Hogwarts Legacy is to take the fan of the Harry Potter saga to the world he fell in love with. The game gives you all the references of the books and movies, besides touching on interesting points of the secret histories of the wizarding world. The fan of the famous saga will certainly feel pleased to pay 70 dollars to enter even more    Fan service versus good service.
    The proposal of Hogwarts Legacy is to take the fan of the Harry Potter saga to the world he fell in love with. The game gives you all the references of the books and movies, besides touching on interesting points of the secret histories of the wizarding world. The fan of the famous saga will certainly feel pleased to pay 70 dollars to enter even more prolonged into the universe of magic they have always loved. Mainly because the Harry Potter fan does not need to be a "gamer". He doesn't need to know what an "RPG" or an "action game" is, he just wants to enjoy his enchanted wand while casting an "Avada Kedavra" against an enemy. There is no problem with that. However, for the slightly more conscientious "gamer" who doesn't usually tear up money, the $70 was expensive. Anyone who has seriously played a good RPG will not be able to love Hogwarts Legacy, a work that is a kind of shoddy copy of The Witcher 3 (2015). Besides being dated in many ways (from the graphics, to the characters' expressions, to the gameplay itself), the game fails to reach the level of detail required for a AAA, even when compared to "Skyrim" (2011). It's not hard, for a "gamer" with some background, to realize how Skyrim's quest system is infinitely more consistent than that of Hogwarts Legacy. It would even be mean to compare it to Rockstar's titles. GTA V (2013) and Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018) are frighteningly more imposing, interesting and consistent than the Warner Bros. game. With several quests with puny, tiresome and/or repetitive objectives, our character almost never faces real challenges. Moreover, other premises of RPGs are neglected: the background of our character basically does not exist; our actions and choices serve no purpose, they do not make a significant impact on the world (it is not even possible to be a dark wizard!!!); our house has no influence on the story; and the most shocking of all is that the world simply does not respond to our actions. Skyrim, in 2011, introduced a "revenge" system that consisted of mercenaries trying to kill us under contract if we had murdered some loved one of some other character. And that's just one example! Hogwarts Legacy is a mediocre game that will mean little or almost nothing to gaming posterity, if not as an example of "fan service", and nothing more. It's a shame that consumers are so satisfied with so little.    … Expand
  43. Zuu_la
    Mar 19, 2023
    6
    its a fun game with an intriguing story, although it has its technical downsides:
    first of all, I've ran into way more bugs playing this game than when I played cyberpunk
    the game also feels poorly optimized for pc, with the menu screen needing both mouse and keyboard inputs to navigate, and to lock on to enemies, you need to youse your third arm so that you can have one on wasd one on    its a fun game with an intriguing story, although it has its technical downsides:
    first of all, I've ran into way more bugs playing this game than when I played cyberpunk
    the game also feels poorly optimized for pc, with the menu screen needing both mouse and keyboard inputs to navigate, and to lock on to enemies, you need to youse your third arm so that you can have one on wasd one on the arrow keys and one on your mouse
    lastly, it has some raytracing shadow problems, which makes the game unplayable with raytraced shadows activated.    … Expand
  44. curzon_dax
    Mar 18, 2023
    7
    It's practically a semi-replica of Zelda:Breath of the Wild with a harry potter theme and a main hero that can talk. It will probably impress you for the first few hours of gameplay; the artwork is impeccable inside Hogwarts (10/10 to mappers for that); the 'grinding' of the game is more or less addictive while the combat is pretty good as well as part of the story. However: if you do playIt's practically a semi-replica of Zelda:Breath of the Wild with a harry potter theme and a main hero that can talk. It will probably impress you for the first few hours of gameplay; the artwork is impeccable inside Hogwarts (10/10 to mappers for that); the 'grinding' of the game is more or less addictive while the combat is pretty good as well as part of the story. However: if you do play for more than a couple of days: you will probably find it repetitive and with serious flaws; the length of this review is not enough to express everything about but let's just say the game is relatively mediocre for most of its gameplay aspects though it never becomes too annoying; its best attributes is the art design of Hogwarts itself and the combat mechanics.… Expand
  45. DeeNinja
    Mar 17, 2023
    5
    Nostalgia tinted glasses for an otherwise middling game experience. It’s…fine.
  46. derek_
    Mar 12, 2023
    6
    Unfortunately, this game feels more like chore than fun. It's just run here, reload screen, run there, reload screen, back to Hogwarts, reload.. over and over and over again.. It's filled with repetitive MMORPG type quest like collect animals, gaze into stars from various locations, collect herbs, for hours run around Hogwarts and every hamlet collecting book pages, keys and flies for noUnfortunately, this game feels more like chore than fun. It's just run here, reload screen, run there, reload screen, back to Hogwarts, reload.. over and over and over again.. It's filled with repetitive MMORPG type quest like collect animals, gaze into stars from various locations, collect herbs, for hours run around Hogwarts and every hamlet collecting book pages, keys and flies for no real reason, cuddle your animals, collect rewards for cuddling, unnecessarily upgrade your gear from materials you get for cuddling... well, sorry, not my type of fun. I'm sure it has very special charm for everyone who loves Harry Potter world. For others.. well... combat is action paced, if you don't mind that you will be fighting with spider, humans, statues and trolls .. and that's about it ;( But combat is only 1/10 of the game time. Rest.. chooooore… Expand
  47. JDear
    Mar 12, 2023
    6
    I'm quite confused on the positive reception of this game.
    Obviously the HP fan have the best depiction of Hogwarts, but that's it. That's the only positive things about the game.
    RPG system is a joke. Gameplay is very repetitive. Very few enemies with very few attacks repeated. 3 Puzzle repeated ad nauseam. Story completely shallow and on top of that, all characters are lifeless and    I'm quite confused on the positive reception of this game.
    Obviously the HP fan have the best depiction of Hogwarts, but that's it. That's the only positive things about the game.
    RPG system is a joke. Gameplay is very repetitive. Very few enemies with very few attacks repeated. 3 Puzzle repeated ad nauseam. Story completely shallow and on top of that, all characters are lifeless and without any personalities. Optimization is quite bad and is quite buggy. And the world, outside of the aforementioned Hogwarts Castle, is very bland.
    Is one of those game were nostalgia won over proper value.    … Expand
  48. rezo_21
    Mar 12, 2023
    7
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  49. DreamCore90
    Mar 12, 2023
    7
    The game felt magical for the first few hours, but then the magic quickly faded. The reasons for this:

    1. Technical issues a plenty. Glitchy lighting, shadows and LoD with performance issues and stuttering (even after patches) on an RTX 4090. 2. The world is littered by Ubisoft-style side tasks. There are almost 100 Merlin trials, boat loads of balloon challenges etc. Who the heck    The game felt magical for the first few hours, but then the magic quickly faded. The reasons for this:

    1. Technical issues a plenty. Glitchy lighting, shadows and LoD with performance issues and stuttering (even after patches) on an RTX 4090.

    2. The world is littered by Ubisoft-style side tasks. There are almost 100 Merlin trials, boat loads of balloon challenges etc. Who the heck wants to do the same thing 100 times? All of this crap is also linked to expanding your inventory, ancient magic slots and higher level lockpicking which makes it practically mandatory.

    3. Enemy variaty is SEVERLY lacking. You will be fighting the same dark wizards and goblins for the majority of the game, alongside spiders, wolves and the occasional troll.

    4. The main story is very slow and not that interesting in general.

    Had I rated the game after the first 10 hours, I would have given it a 9, but as the hours kept ticking, all the flaws just became more apparent and in the end I even struggeled to keep playing and actually finish it.    … Expand
  50. TitaniumDragon
    Mar 12, 2023
    6
    Hogwarts Legacy is an open-world RPG set in the Wizarding Universe of Harry Potter, a century before the events of the book series. This is a game that is designed for fans of that universe – Hogwarts Castle, the centerpiece of the series, is marvelously detailed, and the game is full of the whimsy that the brand is known for. Visually, the game is a marvel, full of intricate details –Hogwarts Legacy is an open-world RPG set in the Wizarding Universe of Harry Potter, a century before the events of the book series. This is a game that is designed for fans of that universe – Hogwarts Castle, the centerpiece of the series, is marvelously detailed, and the game is full of the whimsy that the brand is known for. Visually, the game is a marvel, full of intricate details – Hogwarts Castle is the single best looking area in any video game, ever, and the world at large is quite nice.

    The game has you play as a fifth year student – a 16 year old – of the visual appearance and name of your choice. You get to get sorted into your house (though in reality, you can choose it), get a wand, and get to explore Hogwarts. You learn spells, and instead of fighting like a FPS or a standard action game, the game has a wholly original combat system based around matching shields and managing spell cooldowns and choosing your targets. It actually works well, and unlike most games which either abstract it a lot or feel like third person shooters, it actually feels like it is its own thing.

    But, while this game is a visual masterpiece, it falls a bit short on the actual experience. The game has a really good opening sequence, full of marvelous visuals and a lot of interesting set pieces, but after you get through the tutorial and start in on the game proper, you realize that there were some sacrifices made along the way to get this out the door, and this unfortunately makes the game world feel much less alive than it should.

    The other students are basically scenery – you barely interact with them, and the only times you really do is quests, of which there are an enormous number. Few of your fellow students or professors get much characterization – really, only four or so characters in the game really get explored all that much, and even then, one of them is terribly bland, and all but one of them have very bland designs.

    There are no companions here – there are some quests where you are accompanied by one of four fellow students, or by a professor – but they don’t last all that long, and they don’t do enough to characterize most of them. Ironically, the Slytherin companion is the most interesting one – and in fact, there are two interesting Slytherin characters, which works very well as they have a pre-existing friendship and you are sort of “intruding” on it, which creates an intersting dynamic. Moreover, one of them is very much into Dark Magic and is very emotional, while the other rejects it as dangerous. The one who is into it befriends you and influences you to try and find a cure for his sister, Anne, who has been cursed, at whatever cost – but even as he seduces you to the Dark Side, it kind of becomes clear that he is going too far and nothing he is doing is ultimately going to work out.

    Unfortunately, while this is a good tragedy, it is interspersed with a general plot that is nowhere near as good. One of the other students is okay – she has a bunch of beast-related sidequests – while the third is a fairly lame do-gooder whose characterization isn’t exactly exciting, and who is presented as some exotic figure – except the school is *extremely* international (much more than in the series) resulting in her not seeming so exotic at all. It just doesn’t work.

    There’s theoretically one more companion, but his existence is so fleeting that he shows up basically one and a half times. It is obvious he was meant to play a bigger role, but it seems like whatever subquest he was getting got cut – either because it wasn’t very interesting or because of a lack of time.

    Indeed, it is very obvious that the game was meant to have a companion system, where you brought people around with you; there’s remnants of dialogue from that, and unfortunately, without it, the world feels very sterile. You can’t interact with anyone but shopkeepers outside of quests, and so while the world is pretty, all there really is to do is to run around collecting stuff – which there is a plethora of, but it is mostly the same stuff, over and over again, outside of Hogwarts.

    The greater open world is honestly pretty weak – it looks good visually, but gameplay-wise, there’s just not enough enemy variety to sustain the game. The game could do some interesting puzzles, but there’s only a handful of them, mostly in Hogwarts, with most of the rest just being “use spell on object”. The actual combat is okay at first, but by the end you are just an overpowered wrecking ball and nothing can stand in your way, even without the use of Dark Magic, and the lack of enemy variety makes it increasingly repetitive the longer you go on.

    Overall, the game is a valiant effort, but the shortcomings hold it back from greatness, leaving it as a bit above par. If you play this, stick to the quests - they're quite solid - but the open world is not worth it.    … Expand
  51. petriAND
    Mar 10, 2023
    7
    gameplay - 8.5/10
    story - 6/10
    sound design - 6.5/10 visuals - 9/10 acting - 7/10 fun - 8/10 optimization - 4/10 ----------------------------------- 7/10 (effortlessly an 8/10 if it was well optimized) So the good parts are the gameplay and the visuals, the game is gorgeous and the gameplay is fun and it feels good. Maybe the combat felt a bit repetitive close to the end but    gameplay - 8.5/10
    story - 6/10
    sound design - 6.5/10
    visuals - 9/10
    acting - 7/10
    fun - 8/10
    optimization - 4/10
    -----------------------------------
    7/10 (effortlessly an 8/10 if it was well optimized)

    So the good parts are the gameplay and the visuals, the game is gorgeous and the gameplay is fun and it feels good. Maybe the combat felt a bit repetitive close to the end but overall it felt good. Now the worst parts of this game are the story, sound design, and optimization. The story might just be the most boring thing I've seen in recent times I know is for kids but is just awfully boring. You can sense where the story will go way before actually getting there. Is so very superficial and the characters are so flat written. By the end of the game I did not care not even a bit for any of the characters. And there is the optimization, from 90-100 fps it drops randomly to 20-30 in the same area doing literally nothing (on an rtx 3070ti btw). Unfortunately, this became the norm in gaming and is sad. The sound design is disappointing, on a home theater the voices so echoish even outside of Hogwarts, some sounds are very quiet and others are extremely loud.
    So, overall the game was a pretty good game if you close an eye on the optimization part. For the right fan of the Harry Potter universe, this might be one of the best games they've played. But again this should not be the norm in gaming and is sad to see developers becoming lazier and lazier in optimizing their games.    … Expand
  52. strongnc21
    Mar 7, 2023
    7
    The production value of this game is a solid 8.5. However, in terms of gameplay, Hogwarts Legacy does unfortunately fall a bit short. There is a lot here that is "ALMOST there!" but just doesn't quite make it. Combat, for example, devolves into spamming your available spell buttons and then switching to another spellbook page to spam the next set, rinse repeat. There are no tacticallyThe production value of this game is a solid 8.5. However, in terms of gameplay, Hogwarts Legacy does unfortunately fall a bit short. There is a lot here that is "ALMOST there!" but just doesn't quite make it. Combat, for example, devolves into spamming your available spell buttons and then switching to another spellbook page to spam the next set, rinse repeat. There are no tactically really needed - spam spells, defend if you see orange, and dodge if you see red. There are some interesting "combos" that cause a spell to occasionally hit a little harder, but there are really no BIG combos that could leave you awestruck.

    The open world puzzles are FAR too many. There is really no reason they needed to spam this many Merlin trials or small caves with one chest in it or fly through these balloons, etc. It is incredibly mind-numbing. They likely should have cut this stuff down to only 30% of what they actually put in.

    The crafting was also a bit pointless, as using consumables is typically a waste of time, outside of the very occasional health potion, which you will pick up plenty of along the way anyway. So all the potions and herbology etc, just wasted. As well, the capturing of beasts was also an interesting idea that got mired down in pointlessness as well as not being able to reach full potential until after the game was already basically over anyway. Like, why get an orange "legendary" item at level 10, if you can't ever upgrade it until the end of the game anyway? Going back to pet these animals for their feathers or something became an annoying chore. The Room of Requirements in generally felt clunky and restrictive and pointless.

    The story overall felt a solid C. Very stereotypical, lots of "why didn't they just do x in the first place" kinds of things. And of course, your house wins the House Cup at the end, which you can see coming from before you even start the game. This whole "50 points to here", and "taking away point here" thing is completely arbitrary and meaningless because there's no actual metric being tracked or risk of your house not winning.

    The menu system was a bit clunky as well, being fairly sluggish and slow. So many challenges and collections and crummy inventory items that are constantly putting a notification item on your menus that basically are just perpetually there because who is going to waste time diving into those slow menus just to find the right thing to mouse-over in order to make the icon go away?

    Finally, graphics. Overall, decent graphics, but nothing over-the-top amazing. The game seems poorly optimized, with bad framerate dips that are badly exacerbated if you try to use RayTracing. Even with a 3080Ti at 1440p, I just had to turn it off because the game would stutter so badly.

    If you love Harry Potter, then you will LIKE this game, I'm sure. But when you're done, I don't think you'll be coming back ever again. The lasting impression of this game is "phew... I'm glad that's finally over."    … Expand
  53. karligerkurt
    Mar 6, 2023
    5
    Basic Ubisoft-like Openworld, but people are polarized by the Setting and the WOW-effect.
    So if it wasnt Wizarding-Wolrd Universe it would propably be perceived more honest.
    Gets repetitive fast, your character feels lifeless and rewards for exploring stop after a short time. I mainly focused on the negatives here since few other reviews mention them. It's a visualy stunning game, but    Basic Ubisoft-like Openworld, but people are polarized by the Setting and the WOW-effect.
    So if it wasnt Wizarding-Wolrd Universe it would propably be perceived more honest.
    Gets repetitive fast, your character feels lifeless and rewards for exploring stop after a short time.
    I mainly focused on the negatives here since few other reviews mention them.
    It's a visualy stunning game, but gets bland after 20ish hours. Somehow its rated by a lower standard than e.g. Assassins creed games.    … Expand
  54. Paradov
    Mar 6, 2023
    7
    The world is pretty well made and full of little details, flying around with the broom is really magical. But there's not a lot of bosses, the side missions are kinda boring, and the fast travel does not works sometimes.
  55. yourstupidmon
    Mar 6, 2023
    5
    Honestly.. this game is nothing special. Just another boring open world game filled with repetitive side activities and fetch quest just with Harry Potter IP. And obviously terrible performance.
  56. eugenji
    Mar 5, 2023
    6
    Spiel durchgezockt. Spielzeit ~50 Stunden.

    Grafik: Der Zeit entsprechend Sound: war nicht weiter auffällig. Weder gut, noch schlecht Gameplay: mit Controller einwandfrei; gameplay an sich ist solide. Story: ist für so ein Spiel okay. Kein Wow Effekt oder Story Twists bzw. unerwartetes Nebenmissionen: bis auf ein paar längere Nebenmissionen von Mitschülern, welche recht brauchbar    Spiel durchgezockt. Spielzeit ~50 Stunden.

    Grafik: Der Zeit entsprechend
    Sound: war nicht weiter auffällig. Weder gut, noch schlecht
    Gameplay: mit Controller einwandfrei; gameplay an sich ist solide.
    Story: ist für so ein Spiel okay. Kein Wow Effekt oder Story Twists bzw. unerwartetes Nebenmissionen: bis auf ein paar längere
    Nebenmissionen von Mitschülern, welche recht brauchbar sind, ist der Rest nahezu 0815 Müll. Geh hin und hol das/kill das. Gäääääääähn
    Hab irgendwann angefangen zu skippen….

    Spielwelt: Hogwarts Schloss ist pure Liebe. Nahezu nie Schnellreise genutzt, sondern vieeeeeel umhergelaufen. Wunderschön.
    Absolutes Highlight die große Halle im Winter. Sind mir fast die Augen ausgefallen.
    Rest der Spielwelt ist leider nicht einmal solide. Generische Welt ohne Highlights oder Wow Effekt. Eine magische Welt mit verhältnismäßig wenig bzw. nahezu 0 Magie.
    Erkunden hat sich kaum gelohnt. Viele Dungeons bzw Höhlen bestehen aus einem Raum und sind 90% Copy und Paste.

    Raum der Wünsche verschenkt auch Potenzial.
    Grundidee ist richtig gut, aber wenn ich zB ein Haus platziere und da nicht mal rein kann, dann ist das eben doof

    Nachtrag:
    Technische Umsetzung ist auch leider nur okay. Gibt hier und da kurze Ruckler/Stotterer.
    Spiele auf 4K mit 4090 (DLSS an)

    Spiel für Potter Fans oder die gerne die Open Worlds „abarbeiten“ natürlich empfehlenswert.
    Ansonsten Zeit für bessere Spiele nutzen oder auf Sale warten :)    … Expand
  57. samstrummer90
    Mar 4, 2023
    7
    Las impresiones que causa este juego son que parece que en un principio se iba a llamar "videojuego genérico de escuela de magia para móvil con grinding infinito y micro pagos", pero alguien decidió aportar dinero al proyecto y licencias oficiales de Harry Potter para su desarrollo.

    Al final nos encontramos con un título entretenido pero mediocre, con una historia pobre y que no termina    Las impresiones que causa este juego son que parece que en un principio se iba a llamar "videojuego genérico de escuela de magia para móvil con grinding infinito y micro pagos", pero alguien decidió aportar dinero al proyecto y licencias oficiales de Harry Potter para su desarrollo.

    Al final nos encontramos con un título entretenido pero mediocre, con una historia pobre y que no termina de despuntar ni de destacar en ningún aspecto en concreto: plana, estúpida, genérica, absurda y poco interesante. A nivel técnico y de rendimiento es nefasto, sobre todo en PC.

    Si eres fan de Harry Potter tendrás algunas horas de asombro y disfrute con el mundo mágico y sobre todo con el mapa de Hogwarts, pero según avancen las horas veras como esta ilusión se desvanece para dejarnos en otro juego genérico de Ubisoft, con rasgos de juego freemium para móvil y con cientos de iconos en el mapa que no sirven más que para rellenar.    … Expand
  58. Antares8001
    Mar 2, 2023
    6
    An occasionally fun but extraordinarily shallow experience.

    The open world in this game is beautiful and detailed, with great graphics and decent enough performance. Although ray tracing is completely broken, at least on my PC. That being said apart from the visuals the world feels very empty and sterile. The characters barely deserve to be described as such, the dialogue and the a    An occasionally fun but extraordinarily shallow experience.

    The open world in this game is beautiful and detailed, with great graphics and decent enough performance. Although ray tracing is completely broken, at least on my PC.

    That being said apart from the visuals the world feels very empty and sterile. The characters barely deserve to be described as such, the dialogue and the a lot of the voice acting are unnatural at best and most of the side quests and even a lot of the main quests feel like chores. I get that some quests involve completing tasks for classes in the game, but if they feel about a enticing as doing literal homework back in school the developers went wrong somewhere.
    Occasionally the game seems to set up what could be interconnected, branching quests with intriguing premises, only for them to resolve after getting x thing from x place with two lines of placeholder dialogue never to be mentioned again. I think a pretty good early example is a student inviting you to an illegal dueling club after you beat him in a spell duel in class. Sounds rather intriguing right? Definitely some potential for an interesting narrative here right? Except all that happens is you go there, win 3 duels against random people, have an NPC tell you that you did well and that's literally it. It's a similar story with almost every single side quest I played in the game.

    The main story can best be described as straightforward and utterly unremarkable. Up to around the halfway mark you're still hoping for something to shake things up, surely some intricate plot twist is gonna unfold soon, I can't wait for the web of intrigue they're spinning to reveal itself. Unfortunately this is not the case and you eventually just resign and accept that that's simply the way the game is.
    The main character also has the charisma and personality of a wet paper bag. This is further emphasized by both the female and male character's voice acting which sounds beyond phoned in. It is almost as though they were intentionally trying their hardest to not give them any sort of personality. Now if this was branching CRPG with really far reaching choices where the main character is mostly an avatar for the player to project themselves unto, I could somewhat see why they did it. In a straightforward action RPG where choices are mostly window dressing there is no excuse for it, there are just too many games that have done it better.

    To some extend the game is saved by the beautiful open world and a solid combat system, but those can only get you so far and oh boy is it a slog otherwise. In a lot of ways it feels like the worst parts of the newer Assassin's Creed games with very little of the good things in them.
    Overall I enjoyed my time with the game somewhat, but it's definitely the kind of game where I'd recommend watching a show on a second screen or listening to a podcast in the background while you're playing it.    … Expand
  59. Choomber
    Mar 1, 2023
    7
    It's a difficult one.

    Technically and graphically the game is 9/10 except for the loot system which is simply annoying, exploring feels great, combat feels fulfilling. Storywise it's not so good. It's engaging for the first 10 hours then it's gets more and more tedious. Characters are pretty forgettable, their side missions aren't really engaging except for Sebastian's quests. There's an    It's a difficult one.

    Technically and graphically the game is 9/10 except for the loot system which is simply annoying, exploring feels great, combat feels fulfilling.

    Storywise it's not so good. It's engaging for the first 10 hours then it's gets more and more tedious. Characters are pretty forgettable, their side missions aren't really engaging except for Sebastian's quests. There's an illusion of choice, but your choices doesn't matter. There's no depth in characters, but the game redeems itself by the depth of the general world, environment and lore. 6/10 for main story, 4/10 for charactes, 10/10 for open world. In the end i rate it 7, it was good experience, but if you are a harry potter fan it might be much more better for you than it was for me.    … Expand
  60. kobravis
    Mar 1, 2023
    5
    Сама по себе задумка неплохая , ноооо....
    1- нет почти оптимизации
    2- очееееень длинные диалоги
    3- графика не тянет на те характеристики которые просит
  61. AcerolaOrion
    Mar 1, 2023
    5
    Insanely mediocre and incredibly poorly reviewed game.
    Make no mistake this is just another MMO quest design open world checklist game. The writing especially is ATROCIOUS! A 14 year old intern could have written better dialogue than this. How do you mess up the writing in a game based on an insanely successfull book series this badly? If anyone got paid for this garbage you got scammed!    Insanely mediocre and incredibly poorly reviewed game.
    Make no mistake this is just another MMO quest design open world checklist game. The writing especially is ATROCIOUS! A 14 year old intern could have written better dialogue than this. How do you mess up the writing in a game based on an insanely successfull book series this badly? If anyone got paid for this garbage you got scammed!

    Play every other open world game before buying this. its okay at being a boring MMO open world checklist game but literally dont expect any competence beyond that.    … Expand
  62. catmom1964
    Feb 28, 2023
    6
    I think this is a very, very average game--I'm not sure how it got such a high score. I suppose it might be really fun for those that love the world and the series, but I definitely went into it thinking of it more as a game and it's doing the same thing other games do, just not nearly as well.

    The combat is okay, there's a good flow to it and you've got lots of options, but many of the    I think this is a very, very average game--I'm not sure how it got such a high score. I suppose it might be really fun for those that love the world and the series, but I definitely went into it thinking of it more as a game and it's doing the same thing other games do, just not nearly as well.

    The combat is okay, there's a good flow to it and you've got lots of options, but many of the options do essentially the same thing. The spell combo system has some fun parts, but it can get VERY repetitive. There's not a huge variety of enemy types, and they all respond in pretty much the same way. Dial the difficulty up, because it gives you a LOT of time to dodge/counter otherwise and it really makes it less fun.

    The exploration is alright, but it's stuffed like a bad Ubisoft title with the collecting. Progression is pretty simple--XP gives you points in terms of HP bonuses and talents, but a few of the talents are INCREDIBLY overpowered and make everything else a bit too easy. Other than that, collecting things, finishing challenges, etc. mostly lead to cosmetic unlocks and nothing that changes gameplay.

    I found the music kind of dull--it didn't have the same brightness as the film soundtracks. Graphically it was okay, but I found most of the characters fairly dull looking. It had some FPS drops and a few glitches in the inexplicable underwater sections--not even sure why those were necessary. The flying was REALLY not fun for me, and the crafting was basic.

    This feels like a game that you'd buy a younger person to get them more interested in gaming, but the experience of it wasn't something I enjoyed too much.    … Expand
  63. Holydrago
    Feb 28, 2023
    5
    Graphics 9/10
    Quests 4.5/10
    Story 4.5/10
    Sounds 6/10 The game is a playable game for harry potter fans, but if you are unfamiliar with the universe, the only thing that will interest you is its open world and content, unfortunately, it is an incomplete production.
  64. Ratingss
    Feb 28, 2023
    5
    Really wanted to like this one because of the type of people it pisses off, but the gameplay is too casual and the world is just an errand boy checklist simulator with below average interaction
  65. 2random
    Feb 28, 2023
    7
    I have mixed feelings about this one. There are some things the game does extremely great, while at the same time it completely fails at other things.
    Let's start with good stuff:
    1. Sounds and music. It's awesome. It's gourgeous. It changes according to the situation- be it a quiet room, a lively field full of students, a classroom or a combat encounter, a magic door opening or a spell    I have mixed feelings about this one. There are some things the game does extremely great, while at the same time it completely fails at other things.
    Let's start with good stuff:
    1. Sounds and music. It's awesome. It's gourgeous. It changes according to the situation- be it a quiet room, a lively field full of students, a classroom or a combat encounter, a magic door opening or a spell hitting a training dummy- it just feels right and immersive.
    2. Visuals and level design. The game looks stunning! All these flying and moving magical things around create an unforgettable atmosphere of magic. Locations are filled with all sorts of puzzles and secrets. I can't remember when was the last time exploring was actually this fun. The game just keeps on giving!
    3. Spellcasting and combat. They actually managed to make you feel like you're casting a spell, not just pressing a button. There are all sorts of comboes you can perform, environments you can use to your advantage: it's not your usual button mash, there's a lot more to it, and it feels surprisingly intuitive. There are countless ways to combine spells and achieve what you want.
    4. Lessons and learning. Well, Hogwarts is a school after all, so you have to attend lessons to learn new spells and skills. It's always a fun experience.

    And now to the bad stuff:
    1. Performance. I'm not even talking RTX. There are some scenes where I'm getting 10-15fps in 4k, and no amount of DLSS helps. I guess my 3080 is not up to the task anymore.
    2. Progression. When you start, the game warns you that the only way to get EXP and level up is to complete challenges by exploring! This approach made me really excited- gone are the days of grinding thousands of enemies! But few hours into the game I've decided to hang out outside of Hogwarts and I've discovered... your generic RPG. Complete with bandits, campsites, ruins, caves, monsters, "points of interest" and "activities". And guess what? They lied! You still get EXP for exterminating everything that moves! As soon as you attack the next bandit, you're getting an "challenge" to "kill X bandits". And while the main game has some magic to it, the (mandatory) exploration part feels like a middle of the road Ubisoft game, where you run around unlocking the map from one outpost to another.
    3. Plot. Well, it's not really bad. I just expected way more than your generic "hey, you're a superhero... a super-magical-hero! and you got to fight super-ma... no, just your old plain generic evil". Your character has a skill nobody else has, and you have to find out how to use it, and more generic stuff.
    4. Missions. It feels like there are 2 types of these. A go-there-fetch-this secondary quests inside Hogwarts. It felt fun first few times, but it got boring rather fast. And there are main quests- where you go to the place X, watch a few cutscenes, do some combat and see the plot move. What I really didn't like, is the lesson to mission ratio. You're in school, but ultimately, you'd have like 1 lesson and 10 missions of a different kind. I wish they'd let you learn magic more.
    5. Guides and pointers. The game nurses you way too much. It explains puzzles. It tells you how to solve things. It just guides and nurses you way too much. I wish they'd let me explore and find a solution to a puzzle on my own more often.
    6. Woke. It's there. This time, it's not just looks, but voice acting as well. Instead of talking about magic, you'll be faced with... Ughandian? Ugandan? Well, some African countries political and social problems. Feels extremely weird, forced and out of touch. And some voice actors speek such a broken English I can't even understand it.
    7. A feeling of Emptiness. Once you've beaten the initial few quests, completed some puzzles here and there, Hogwarts becomes surprisingly empty. Yes, there are hundreds of NPCs running around, but you can't interract with them. There are cool classrooms, but you can't really do anything there either. It feels like the game is telling you: Hogwarts is just the first location, and you've already completed it. No more magical school experience. This is where the generic RPG begins. It's time to move on to the next location, kill mobs there and level up. Which is not what I've expected. Hogwarts is in the name. I didn't want to kill spiders, wolves, bandits. I didn't want to destroy outposts... But here we are.    … Expand
  66. KOMC
    Feb 26, 2023
    5
    the best quest is Playstation exclusive, we pc dog have to wait at least one year.....feel like a clown buying this on full price
  67. Grandeuz
    Feb 26, 2023
    7
    Очень ждал и максимально разочаровался. Всё скучное и криво. Игра максимально стерильная. Старые игры про Гарри были в разы атмосферное.
  68. hileger
    Feb 26, 2023
    5
    Без идейная хуйня ,ну визуал по гарри петру и , майн квест хуета хует . для детей подростков ок но не более, все остальное скучно . Дроч аля отсасин вариативности ноль, варить зелье дерьмовое qte где не ошибешься ну и нарушение собственного лора . оценка игра мечтыБез идейная хуйня ,ну визуал по гарри петру и , майн квест хуета хует . для детей подростков ок но не более, все остальное скучно . Дроч аля отсасин вариативности ноль, варить зелье дерьмовое qte где не ошибешься ну и нарушение собственного лора . оценка игра мечты
  69. vietho03
    Feb 25, 2023
    5
    Best experience. Feel like watching a new Harry Potter film again. Really recommend this game.
  70. Zquaranteneuf
    Feb 24, 2023
    5
    This game is certainly a product that exists. Great graphics and immersion in the world of Harry Potter... but that's pretty much it.

    The gameplay is soo formulaic - totally by the numbers, exactly like all the other similar AAA games out there. Plus, the usual hand-holding, non-stop cutscenes, overly long cringe dialogue, invisible walls, pointless fetch quests that ask you to run from    This game is certainly a product that exists. Great graphics and immersion in the world of Harry Potter... but that's pretty much it.

    The gameplay is soo formulaic - totally by the numbers, exactly like all the other similar AAA games out there. Plus, the usual hand-holding, non-stop cutscenes, overly long cringe dialogue, invisible walls, pointless fetch quests that ask you to run from point A to point B and then back to point A again, main character constantly narrating what you're supposed to do, etc.

    The NPCs literally tell you "check the to do list and get back to me to advance the quest".. like.. they don't even bother. The game tells the player to check the quest log, do the chores, and come back. It really feels like a rigid videogame, and a tedious one at that.

    The combat is okay, and so are the puzzles.

    As for the exploration, it's kinda fun if you can put aside the atrocious map you're obligated to deal with to understand where to go and/or warp. What were they thinking?! Baffingly bad.

    Finally, the controls aren't very intuitive, questionable even, and for people hooked on aCcEsSiBiLiTy there's no option to remap the buttons. WHY.

    All and all not the worst experience, but certainly nothing special. Constantly varies from cool little moments to extremely boring, clunky, or annoying parts.

    Aren't game developers tired of playing it safe and always doing the same goddamn game that caters to the lowest common denominator?    … Expand
  71. EpicPatrick
    Feb 24, 2023
    5
    This game encapsulates the magic from the world of Harry Potter. The spell casting animations and the combat is superb and fresh, I find myself addicted to it! The amount of freedom and exploration is satisfying. I love RPGs and have found myself feeling overwhelmed by some with everything that there is to do. But not with this one. The structure of how this game slowly introduces you toThis game encapsulates the magic from the world of Harry Potter. The spell casting animations and the combat is superb and fresh, I find myself addicted to it! The amount of freedom and exploration is satisfying. I love RPGs and have found myself feeling overwhelmed by some with everything that there is to do. But not with this one. The structure of how this game slowly introduces you to new things is impressive. The stories are intriguing and leave me wondering what happens next. Side quests do not feel forced or simply slapped in the game. Most of the voice acting is well done. After beating the game I went straight to finishing everything else. I have never wanted to 100% an RPG before.

    To conclude, I am very satisfied that the developers chose to not crutch the unforgivable curses. (Apart from some main story battles, but this is totally understandable)

    Portkey Games has given us a beautiful wizarding world that gives you a spoonful of what it may be like to be a wizard at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
    If you have been wondering whether it is worth your money or not and you enjoy RPGs and exploring, then I confidently answer your question by saying yes. You will have an unforgettable adventure when you dive into this.
    So happy exploring, and happy spellcasting!    … Expand
  72. itzshadic
    Feb 23, 2023
    5
    As someone who doesn't like harry potter, the game and its world is pretty fun. It's optimization is eh however and the game became stale pretty quickly to me. Possibly because of me never really getting into the harry potter series but this game is decent, not amazing like most say, but not as bad as most say.
  73. mambetskyoto
    Feb 23, 2023
    5
    Боевка и мир (визуально) просто прекрасны, сделано прям замечательно, но чем этот мир заполнен (за исключением хогвартса, его исследовать очень интересно ), сюжет, диалоги и тот болванчик на главном герое, это ужас, дерьмо дерьма просто.
    Надеюсь что эти разработчики сделают новую игры во вселенной гарри поттера с нормальным персонажем, которого не нужно создавать (худшая часть в игре это    Боевка и мир (визуально) просто прекрасны, сделано прям замечательно, но чем этот мир заполнен (за исключением хогвартса, его исследовать очень интересно ), сюжет, диалоги и тот болванчик на главном герое, это ужас, дерьмо дерьма просто.
    Надеюсь что эти разработчики сделают новую игры во вселенной гарри поттера с нормальным персонажем, которого не нужно создавать (худшая часть в игре это создание персонажа), с нормальным сюжетом и без этих тупейших заданий от учителей (собери 2 пиписьки тролля и сожги 100 человек).
    Надеюсь след. игра будет намного лучше    … Expand
  74. Pteromyin0
    Feb 23, 2023
    7
    Pretty average game that completely lives off its franchise.
    It has nice graphics and good sound design, even if the score is a bit arbitrary. The combat system can be fun but is held back by subpar controls. The story is mediocre, side quests are forgettable, the world is mostly lifeless and bland.
    The game lacks polish in many areas: from your character sleeping on the ground to    Pretty average game that completely lives off its franchise.
    It has nice graphics and good sound design, even if the score is a bit arbitrary. The combat system can be fun but is held back by subpar controls. The story is mediocre, side quests are forgettable, the world is mostly lifeless and bland.
    The game lacks polish in many areas: from your character sleeping on the ground to unintuitive and laggy menu navigation, bad flight controls, much backtracking. You have to change your appearance everytime you equip gear. German voice acting is atrocious.
    It runs well on my system, so no points taken off for performance. I'll add 1 point to the score because the game manages to provoke racists and transphobes.    … Expand
  75. TennoAndros
    Feb 23, 2023
    7
    The game is really good i definitely recommend it. Not perfect 10 cause of few missing or "bad" things. Equipment variety is so and so personally don't like most clothing definitely don't like hats at all. A lot of ridiculous glasses. Anyway wands length doesn't matter i mean you can choose length but doesn't edit the length really. Character creation: All look like good lookingThe game is really good i definitely recommend it. Not perfect 10 cause of few missing or "bad" things. Equipment variety is so and so personally don't like most clothing definitely don't like hats at all. A lot of ridiculous glasses. Anyway wands length doesn't matter i mean you can choose length but doesn't edit the length really. Character creation: All look like good looking genderless. Apparently cause all of the backlash they got. No patronus/dementors they could have but nope enemy variety falls short too. Wand handle variety mediocre but still better than none at all since you wouldn't hold a want but a wooden stick without them. Didn't really work at wands at all after so many years. No quidditch(bad excuse) or point system or good/dark wizard impact. Lastly not much replay-ability since not much will change and you have already a lot to do with challenges/side quests etc. i was thinking that i would play it immediately after i finish first playthrough but i just couldn't do all that all over again just to have a different house. HUGE disappointment are the freaking exclusives. I pay the same price for pc game as ps5 i don't get why i have less content than them? WHY do i have to wait 1 year? I can finish the game so many times or be done with it by then. WHY do we accept that and we "allow" that? Overall really good game(not perfect but solid) hoping for a much much better installments now that they saw its success. This all come from an honest fan.… Expand
  76. Funny7Cloud
    Feb 21, 2023
    7
    能够满足粉丝对霍格沃茨学校的幻想的一部粉丝向作品，游戏本身的游戏性相对一般，罐头游戏的特点就是能保证相对稳定的品质。其他的全靠魔咒之地的衬托了，同行成就同行。
  77. VG_Alex
    Feb 21, 2023
    7
    Hogwarts Legacy

    Graphic/Art: 7.5/7

    Music/Sounds: 9/8

    Narrative/Performance: 7/6

    Gameplay: 7

    Overall design:7

    Score: 6.8 (-0.5)
  78. chip1980
    Feb 21, 2023
    6
    A nearly perfect game if you are a HP fan, otherwise it's a polarized yet decent gaming experience. This game has a detailed world to enjoy, well designed, that feels alive, and a great music score and atmosphere. However, it has some of the worst characters I've ever seen in a video game. Poor story telling, repetitive missions, that almost ruin the experience. The game stops being funA nearly perfect game if you are a HP fan, otherwise it's a polarized yet decent gaming experience. This game has a detailed world to enjoy, well designed, that feels alive, and a great music score and atmosphere. However, it has some of the worst characters I've ever seen in a video game. Poor story telling, repetitive missions, that almost ruin the experience. The game stops being fun after 15h or so, so for 60$ it's a no-go. I only recommend it if you are a HP fan, otherwise wait for a price drop around 30-35$… Expand
  79. breadman123
    Feb 19, 2023
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I am about 19 hours in and maybe level 22 and while I have enjoyed some of the game, overall it is a major best part of the game is the initial roaming of Hogwarts and in the combat system. Otherwise everything seems either half baked or flat and hollow. I really think the open world aspect actually hurts this game for the most part. I’ll probably play through the main story some more and possibly to the end but mostly I’ll play because my kids enjoy it. Save your money for a deep discount one day or pass it by.… Expand
  80. gr0ode
    Feb 19, 2023
    6
    This is the epitome of Ubisoft's copy-paste open-world style, complete with meaningless side quests, uninteresting NPCs, and an overwhelming number of collectibles that serve no purpose. The constant barrage of notifications is akin to a national emergency alert on your phone. Unfortunately, a neutral rating is not an option on Steam, and sadly I must give this game a thumbs down.

    The    This is the epitome of Ubisoft's copy-paste open-world style, complete with meaningless side quests, uninteresting NPCs, and an overwhelming number of collectibles that serve no purpose. The constant barrage of notifications is akin to a national emergency alert on your phone. Unfortunately, a neutral rating is not an option on Steam, and sadly I must give this game a thumbs down.

    The poor dialogue and open-world design, leave much to be desired. Despite being somewhat enjoyable, this game is frustrating due to its missed potential.

    The incredible art style is overshadowed by the lack of good design direction, ultimately leading to disappointment. This game serves as a prime example of the shortcomings of the open-world style, and its issues are indicative of a wider problem in the gaming industry. If you can't do an Elden Ring or BoTW style open world type game, don't even try.

    It's clear that not every game can deliver an open world experience like Elden Ring, and those that can't should consider a different approach. Rather than filling their game with endless amounts of copy-pasted content, they should focus on delivering a simple, streamlined experience with engaging gameplay. In fact, in today's gaming landscape, the length of a game can often be more of a negative than a positive, as it serve as a proxy for the amount of copy-pasted trash content. Too often, open world games rely on the quantity of content rather than its quality, resulting in a bloated and underwhelming experience.

    Positives:

    The world-building in Hogwarts and Hogsmeade is well done.
    Combat is better than expected (after the initial tutorial)
    The game features good music, visuals, voice acting, and atmosphere in certain areas.
    Broad strokes of the story are interesting
    Open world looks amazing.

    Negatives:

    The open-world content is basic and identical, with numerous copy-pasted cairn dungeons that lack variety and offer little in the way of exploration or challenge.
    Combat becomes repetitive towards the latter half of the game, with few enemy types and limited customization. The stat system is flawed, with a level difference between a player and enemy making a significant difference in gameplay difficulty.
    Generic and unitersting npcs with forced and unnatural dialog and most quests are explained like you are mentally retarded.
    Very little enemy variety, with combat designed for boss battles, you still fight trash mobs 99% of the time.
    You play the map, not the game for the majority of the game as the game encourages quick travel and following the map blindly, with too little time spent in Hogwarts.
    The accessibility settings are not well designed, with a lack of options for players seeking to play without assistance.
    Hogsmeade is underwhelming, with only shops and repetitive puzzles.
    The player's choice of Hogwarts house has no significant impact on the game.
    The game's plot would have been better suited for a regular RPG focused on Hogwarts and immediate surroundings, with a regular character experiencing Hogwarts for the first time rather than a fifth-year student who excels at everything.
    The game does not offer the player any meaningful choices or the option to pursue a darker path.
    No humor, nothing memorable, it's just kinda meh and forgettable.

    Overall I give this a 6/10. About what you can expect from a western open world style game, with the added point for the nice harry potter atmosphere.    … Expand
  81. svonton
    Feb 18, 2023
    7
    One of the famous franchises got a modern look, and now let's discuss what is good and what is bad about this new game in Harry Potter world. The first thing you will notice is the very good level of graphics in the game - in my opinion, the faces of the characters could be much better and more attractive, but overall not bad. In all other respects, it is close to ideal: landscapes,One of the famous franchises got a modern look, and now let's discuss what is good and what is bad about this new game in Harry Potter world. The first thing you will notice is the very good level of graphics in the game - in my opinion, the faces of the characters could be much better and more attractive, but overall not bad. In all other respects, it is close to ideal: landscapes, clothes, magical effects and animations - all this is created at a high level. But this level of detail makes the game not run as well on some PC configurations (especially on machines with less than 16GB RAM). And it's interesting why this game didn't get as many 0's as Elden Ring with the same technical issues on some machines (and yes, Hogwarts also has some 21:9 aspect ratio issues). Let's move further, the combat system is excellent for me - all these different spells with different effects can be combined in different ways that make combat system so flexible and perfectly suitable for your play style. Various amount of activities scattered around the world also don't let you boring. But here we come to plot and minus that i met in my playthrough. To me, the main quest, as well as the 3 side quests, look and feel childish without any drama, everything is too slick as if bad endings are something that is not achievable. lso about main quest if planning to rush it on easy difficulty (probably on all others) you probably can't do this because LVL-gates game says to you some thing like "no way bro you need to get N lvl to continue storyline", and on low difficulty the only way to obtain more lvl is do all side quests that you can see. But if you don't wanna see credits in the end of the game and your target is get message that you complete the main quest you dont need to farm everything but still need farm a lot. So as conclusion it grate game with good graphic excellent, combat system and not bad puzzles, but at the same time the game suffers from poor optimization and lvl gates.… Expand
  82. mebamissle1
    Feb 18, 2023
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The Hogwarts Legacy ending has you become the only Keeper, either absorbing or hiding Isidora’s magic under Hogwarts. It doesn’t matter which choice you make.

    In the good ending, you hide Isidora’s magic away from the Wizarding World, hoping that no one will ever find and abuse the power for themselves. In the bad ending, you decide to use it for ‘good’, absorbing it yourself. Either way, Professor Fig meets his demise, and Ranrok is killed.

    Afterwards, both endings have the school hall packed with students, hearing Professor Weasley’s eulogy of Professor Fig. However, school isn’t over just yet, and you need to complete the Hogwarts Legacy side quests and fill in your field guide to complete your O.W.Ls.

    You get a secret third ending after completing reaching level 34, however, it’s just an announcement of the Hogwarts Legacy House Cup winner. Of course, the winner is whatever House you’re part of.

    You're welcome. I just saved you 60 dollars.    … Expand
  83. dsderf
    Feb 17, 2023
    6
    The game is based only on nostalgia for Harry Potter, but if you look at it from a different angle, the game is boring, side quests are not interesting, the main quests are so boring that you want to sleep, in addition, fps drops, I'm a big fan of Harry Potter, but this game is just boring.
  84. austinneitch
    Feb 17, 2023
    5
    I'm 30 hours in and while I do love the game, the performance issues can't be ignored. I'm running a 3080 10gb, 8700k, 16gb DDR4, m.2. I think I've spent as much time watching YouTube videos and reading Reddit posts searching for a solution as I have playing the game, but nothing seems to work. Frame drops and stuttering are constant and I've had to restart the game multiple times due toI'm 30 hours in and while I do love the game, the performance issues can't be ignored. I'm running a 3080 10gb, 8700k, 16gb DDR4, m.2. I think I've spent as much time watching YouTube videos and reading Reddit posts searching for a solution as I have playing the game, but nothing seems to work. Frame drops and stuttering are constant and I've had to restart the game multiple times due to the floor disappearing or just freezing altogether. This game would be a 9/10 for me, but I refuse to ignore poor optimization. I now understand why console players were so frustrated by the launch of Cyberpunk 2077.… Expand
  85. jbram56
    Feb 16, 2023
    5
    While Hogwarts Legacy certainly lives up to the world it is set in, it fails to create a game strong in its mechanics and open world structure. In fact, the downfall of this game is that its elements are serviceable to a larger audience, therefore exceeding at nothing in particular.

    Hogwarts Legacy brandishes itself as an "rpg". Technically, this is right considering the different    While Hogwarts Legacy certainly lives up to the world it is set in, it fails to create a game strong in its mechanics and open world structure. In fact, the downfall of this game is that its elements are serviceable to a larger audience, therefore exceeding at nothing in particular.

    Hogwarts Legacy brandishes itself as an "rpg". Technically, this is right considering the different dialogue choices and different endings. However, these "rpg" aspects are frankly disrespectful to the genre in their dullness. In most dialogue scenarios you have two options: Angel of God or complete **** Neither of which really affect anything in the game in particular. Furthermore, the dialogue in this game is actually painful to listen to, as if they found random kids on the street and held a knife at their throats while they voiced their characters. It feels so unnatural when compared to titles where good voice acting is one of the key components in their story (RDR2).

    Speaking of the story, I couldn't find myself to care about any of it due to mainly the open world design and of course the dialogue. I wanted to; however, many games fall victim to a lack of urgency, especially Ubisoft titles like Far Cry. Essentially, the world is obviously in place for you to explore, however, sometimes it serves as more of distraction to the detriment of the main story. Let's say that you have to deliver some urgent goods from point A to point B. Typically, you'd believe that you have to go to Point B right away, however, no one really cares what you do and how long it actually takes you to get to point B. It's times like these where I feel like these types of game just don't take their story serious enough. Like seriously, I could not tell you anything about any story of Far Cry, AC, Horizon Zero Dawn, etc bc they do not care about strong and coherent story telling where as RDR2 and the Witcher 3 (although not perfectly) nail this idea of creating urgency on the head.

    The open world itself is not good either. In fact, nothing is actually worth your time exploring the world. you will encounter all you need to see by exploring the first Region of the game and simply nothing more due to the copy and paste puzzles and areas of the map. Furthermore, the map in the game lists off all the boxes you need to check in order to complete a region, turning this fun game into a chore. This idea of copy and paste puzzles and areas of the map are downright lazy. Exploration is broken in this not only due to the repetitiveness of the map but because the loot system is awful as well.

    Well, if all these parts of the game are bad surely the side quests must be good? No. They are easily the worst part of the game. Every single one of them is either go here kill this or go here, kill this, then return me this. Other, better, rpg games like Fallout NV use their side quests to either add to the main story or add to the worldbuilding. Hogwarts Legacy instead decided to implement these dry and easily replaceable side quests that could easily be implemented into any other game with very minor tweaking. You are better off ignoring the side quests altogether.

    I understand I have pretty negative in my review so to clarify, what I value most in a video game is mostly strong story telling. I can overlook average gameplay/combat (Witcher 3) if the story is able to keep me engaged and wanting to play. However, this obviously wasn't the case for HL. I did, however, enjoy the combat in the game although it was stupidly easy. Being able to perform these cool combos never failed to make me feel like a badass.

    As an avid HP fan, I will not deny the joy I felt getting sorted into my house for the first time and exploring Hogwarts. This initial rush of nostalgia and dopamine is easily the best area of the game. Hogwarts is beautifully crafted so much so that I'd consider one of my favorite set pieces in any game I have ever played. It is filled with secrets to uncover and areas to see from the movies and books. the game is also visually gorgeous, sometimes I sat in awe when looking at the castle from a distance.

    However, when I turn around and face the rest of the map, I can't help but see a game filled with mediocrity and cut corners.    … Expand
  86. Herring
    Feb 16, 2023
    7
    This is a decent game but man, it has so many flaws.
    The story is basic - that can be a strength if there are some points that elevate it, but there's literally only one quest line with any depth to it, it makes the rest pale.
    The 'puzzles' are an atrocity. They're just timewasters more akin to just a collection item than anything else. You need zero brain activity to complete them,    This is a decent game but man, it has so many flaws.
    The story is basic - that can be a strength if there are some points that elevate it, but there's literally only one quest line with any depth to it, it makes the rest pale.
    The 'puzzles' are an atrocity. They're just timewasters more akin to just a collection item than anything else. You need zero brain activity to complete them, they're not ANY kind of challenge. Might as well not be there. The only reason they're in is so there can be a spot on the map filled in. That's it.
    I really struggle to call this an RPG - your choices don't really mean jack. The dialogue is.... let's just sum it up as writing not being very good in general.

    What this game is good at however is the castle and world design - they're just beautiful and a joy to walk thru and explore, even if the result of the exploration is somewhat underwhelming.

    Don't get me wrong, I'm still enjoying the game, but it's a bit sad to see what it could have been.

    Also, the UI is just annoying and on nvidia (I'm on 3080) it runs not well enough.    … Expand
  87. Sicusino
    Feb 15, 2023
    6
    It isn't that good. I never read the books but I liked the movies a lot. I ain't a Harry Potter hater and I don't care about the J.K Rowling Trans thing. The game has the same Ubisoft action/skill wheel that most Rpgs have and it makes the gameplay feel samey. The graphics are nice with a few hiccups but the game feels boring. The amount of cutscenes is nuts and the gameplay is not very fun.
  88. pepejuan
    Feb 15, 2023
    6
    The game is amazing. The only problem is the pro-diversity message and all of those stupid stuff about inclusion that makes no favor to the game so it wouldn't be fair to put a Zero or One, its a shame we need to take this nowadays. Just a quick reminder for game developers and publishers, yes, the people who don't like the inclusion, diversity, woke stuff still exist and if you are goingThe game is amazing. The only problem is the pro-diversity message and all of those stupid stuff about inclusion that makes no favor to the game so it wouldn't be fair to put a Zero or One, its a shame we need to take this nowadays. Just a quick reminder for game developers and publishers, yes, the people who don't like the inclusion, diversity, woke stuff still exist and if you are going to follow this way, we may follow the way of pirating your games or even don't play them.… Expand
  89. Sylsurfer
    Feb 13, 2023
    7
    I love this Game, the Storyline,the Quests all of it and i would give it a 10 but the Framerate Problems on PC are a serius Problem. Can´t even Stream this with a 3070Ti it has no Driver yet and no Update which helps the PC Community. I play DLSS Performance mostly on High with some settings on middle and the Framerate capped to 60, no Vsync and no Raytracing of Course. This should workI love this Game, the Storyline,the Quests all of it and i would give it a 10 but the Framerate Problems on PC are a serius Problem. Can´t even Stream this with a 3070Ti it has no Driver yet and no Update which helps the PC Community. I play DLSS Performance mostly on High with some settings on middle and the Framerate capped to 60, no Vsync and no Raytracing of Course. This should work better with 32 GB, it fills up the VRAM from the GPU.… Expand
  90. ARMDAL80
    Feb 13, 2023
    6
    Nothing outstanding, quite a commercial game with good graphic and a game-play with a lot of "already seen mechanics".
    Dialogs and missions are quite bad and the whole game look like a museum where you are just taking a tour, doesn't really feel like a true rpg.
    Totally a "fan boy game".
  91. Dubtricksgaming
    Feb 10, 2023
    7
    Although there are a few performances issues and clear pop in graphics why this isn't a 10 rating this game is beyond stunning best game last 5 years enjoying my adventure very much rich story vast open world 15 hours in still not seen everything yet dialogue is great controls nicely an amazing beautiful stunning vast world would recommend
  92. Barny
    Feb 13, 2023
    7
    The positives are: the game is adequately entertaining, the voice acting is okay, the close up characters are good, graphics are usually okay. Music is great, have not felt it to be annoying at all. Reproduces the JKR's universe for us to move around freely.

    The meh: random graphic problems on PC (stuttering, lagging, loading times on a Gen 4 NVME drive). Quite a bit of repetition. I    The positives are: the game is adequately entertaining, the voice acting is okay, the close up characters are good, graphics are usually okay. Music is great, have not felt it to be annoying at all. Reproduces the JKR's universe for us to move around freely.

    The meh: random graphic problems on PC (stuttering, lagging, loading times on a Gen 4 NVME drive). Quite a bit of repetition. I don't know if the game is meant to be played exclusively on controller or mouse/keyboard. The character can only carry limited items: no storage afaik. It's open world, but open world in a small world (about 5 square miles, compare to habitual 11+ square miles for far cry. Zelda 23 sqm, Oblivion 24 sqm). The character designing phase is lacking. Some collision bugs here and there but not too bad. I don't know if there is a karma system, because clearly there are positive and negative actions/decisions/communications, is it something finished or not?

    The bad: in a pre-industrial revolution time there would not have been as much diversity or alphabet nonsense (regardless of your character being male or female: you are a they/them and you can choose to be in the male/female dorm or be called a witch/wizard the last two choices have no incidence afaik). Clearly the devs couldn't navigate the alphabet nonsense and it feels unfinished business there as the issues are peppered through the game. NPCs are just droning around with very limited interactions.

    It's an okay game with many hours of playtime but it also feels unfinished and overly political in nature.    … Expand
  93. Keis17
    Feb 13, 2023
    6
    Hogwarts legacy disappointed me a lot. The story is extremely banal and full of clichés, the classic story of the chosen one who is the strongest of all. (Basically the plot of the movie, but dumber). The combat is fun at first but after 10-15h of play it starts to get repetitive. The setting is beautiful but it is ruined by the bad optimization for PC.
    The game gives a pretend freedom of    Hogwarts legacy disappointed me a lot. The story is extremely banal and full of clichés, the classic story of the chosen one who is the strongest of all. (Basically the plot of the movie, but dumber). The combat is fun at first but after 10-15h of play it starts to get repetitive. The setting is beautiful but it is ruined by the bad optimization for PC.
    The game gives a pretend freedom of decision through the dialogues, but in reality 99% of our answers do not affect the story. The chosen House does not affect the story, nor the personality of your character and his classmates. The game is filled with boring side quests that are made mandatory to continue with the main story. Simply put, this game should cost half what it costs now.    … Expand
  94. Jhurley125
    Feb 12, 2023
    5
    6 hours into the game so far and i WAS enjoyig myself.. until i came back today to not be able to load into the game. it crashes my PC every time i try and boot it up. (RTX3080, ryzen 3900x, 64gb ram).... framerate is horrific and stutters and crashes all the time. its a shame, the guts of the game are pretty fun.

    also, its not really an rpg. the environemts dont react to you at all,    6 hours into the game so far and i WAS enjoyig myself.. until i came back today to not be able to load into the game. it crashes my PC every time i try and boot it up. (RTX3080, ryzen 3900x, 64gb ram).... framerate is horrific and stutters and crashes all the time. its a shame, the guts of the game are pretty fun.

    also, its not really an rpg. the environemts dont react to you at all, the npcs are bland and boring filler that dont react when you walk by them or shoot them. You can break into houses and loot everything with no consequence etc.

    fix the game devs. please    … Expand
  95. love2watchp
    Feb 12, 2023
    6
    Good sides:
    1) Good music and sound effects
    2) World is stuffed with living things 3) Colors of the game are amazing 4) Combat is well paced and fun Cons: 1) FPS drops, stutters, bad optimization. 2) Despite Hogwarts is full of NPCs, they are dummies that just have couple of actions. You better move along or it cringes you, how soulless world seems around. 3) Collision of items    Good sides:
    1) Good music and sound effects
    2) World is stuffed with living things
    3) Colors of the game are amazing
    4) Combat is well paced and fun

    Cons:

    1) FPS drops, stutters, bad optimization.
    2) Despite Hogwarts is full of NPCs, they are dummies that just have couple of actions. You better move along or it cringes you, how soulless world seems around.
    3) Collision of items
    4) Forced cultural representation
    5) Radical fans, that are haters of everything that criticizes the franchise, won't allow to improve the game by downvoting and hating constructive feedback.
    6) Story is "average" and there is no "oh wow" moments. Just... okay    … Expand
  96. hereforthechaTz
    Feb 12, 2023
    5
    I am liking the game and graphics are good but one issue... it doesn't have the mystery, magic and warm of Hogwarts. You don't have the magical experience of 9 and 3 quarters and the train ride into Hogwarts, everything feels to easy to get into and visit, no need for a cloak, no real feeling of welcomed into ur house and class mates, feels less exciting. the colors feel like Skyrim, sameI am liking the game and graphics are good but one issue... it doesn't have the mystery, magic and warm of Hogwarts. You don't have the magical experience of 9 and 3 quarters and the train ride into Hogwarts, everything feels to easy to get into and visit, no need for a cloak, no real feeling of welcomed into ur house and class mates, feels less exciting. the colors feel like Skyrim, same with the buildings, feels empty of texture color and less of an experience with narrative and lack of detail, it just feels empty and the magic is gone, no moaning mertal the bathrooms look different like a Disney bathroom, I just don't feel like I'm in Hogwarts and that really disappoints me and makes me want to not play, I was hoping for patches to fix it. Also a town for a pvp meet up between things would of been amazing, like guildwars.… Expand
  97. oleksey
    Feb 11, 2023
    7
    Cutscenes and animations are so silly it looks like they have been taken directly from the game of ‘00. You will be going through black screen transition even to pet a cat, ffs.

    I have finished playing a Red Dead Redemption 2 recently, and the dialogues in Hogwarts Legacy seem so unnatural, so “factitious” compared to RDR2. Voice actors were either rookies or didn’t know how the cut    Cutscenes and animations are so silly it looks like they have been taken directly from the game of ‘00. You will be going through black screen transition even to pet a cat, ffs.

    I have finished playing a Red Dead Redemption 2 recently, and the dialogues in Hogwarts Legacy seem so unnatural, so “factitious” compared to RDR2. Voice actors were either rookies or didn’t know how the cut scene will look like while telling the recorded lines. Voices sound just like they do not belong to the characters, the voice does not reflect the emotions on the character faces. The dialogues are the weakest part of the game, when it should have been the strongest.

    The world does not feel like it is in the same universe as the Harry Potter movies. I don’t know why, but it just doesn’t.

    The quests are made by a Ubisoft book - in order to get “A” go get/do/speak to “B”, “C” and “D”. There is a better way to build quests and tell the story. Just look at CDPR or Rockstar... I am 8 hours into the game and it is still boring, still going strong with tutorials…

    It’s 2023 outside, but the game world and textures looks like 2010, honestly.

    I bought it for 40 euros and I don’t think it is worth more.    … Expand
  98. Xemnuz
    Feb 11, 2023
    7
    Pretty good game about 5 hours in. The start is horrible though, I cannot understand how one could make it that bad. And I do think the performance is pretty bad on most average systems as the world and things in it are many and big, but cant complain on a 3070x13600k.
    The combat was atually better than I thought but nothing special so far.
    The graphics can be nice but it does not really    Pretty good game about 5 hours in. The start is horrible though, I cannot understand how one could make it that bad. And I do think the performance is pretty bad on most average systems as the world and things in it are many and big, but cant complain on a 3070x13600k.
    The combat was atually better than I thought but nothing special so far.
    The graphics can be nice but it does not really feel like the game came out in 2023, especially the menu etc is quite slowish, though it seems more suited for a console than PC.

    The most critically bad thing so far is the amount of diversity. In 1800s England (200 years back from Harry Potter as far as I understand) and your teachers are Arabic/indian, East-Asian, vendors are women with male voices, the first character I met outside Hogwarts was a 60 year old woman talking about her wife Priya, many African Vendors and students from Uganda (this could actually work but if they were born in UK they wouldn't be talking like they are from the most distant tribes in said countries/continents. it really is a shame as this experience is supposed to be british, not Asian, African or a same-gender-love accepting soceity, sadly as was the reality(and yes this is fiction but based in the real world). Which makes me sad to see the game go so hard in that direction just because JK Rowlings happens to think that those who can give birth are women, which should be acceptable to agree with.

    Also weird that there is no "bad person" on school yet with a gang walking around and most people you ever talk to there are people who experience bullying, which do happen to be fair, but every single student being bullied? Also when you get sorted the one talking is not the headmaster but a random professor, and the headmaster shows me a random student to the dorm? Odd.
    Something is off with the FOV (still after changing it) and movement, it doesn't feel natural.

    The headmaster seems to have suprisingly little authority as well which is important for this world to work. Also think its fair to say that the character creation is pretty subpar, you have about 10 faces to choose from which cannot be changed, the haircuts are awful in graphics and style, the voices are the worst because there is just 2 and then you have 4 versions of that voice tweaked, the tweaked once are so poorly made it cannot be used.

    Its a pretty solid 7 so far but I can see it fall to a 6.5 or bounce up to a 7.5 depending on how it unfolds. Hopefully the diversity is enough by now, if only it was a truly british only 1800s experience, that would have been incredible to experience.    … Expand
  99. kuehnau
    Feb 11, 2023
    7
    Technically and visually amazing, even on medium settings on my aging rig, the visuals are outstanding. Some of the scenes looked like it was right out of a movie with real actors.

    There is a high amount of polish to the game. What they have done here, they have done (mostly) well. Some of the quests are far too similar to N64 collect-a-thon era style gameplay than I care for. I    Technically and visually amazing, even on medium settings on my aging rig, the visuals are outstanding. Some of the scenes looked like it was right out of a movie with real actors.

    There is a high amount of polish to the game. What they have done here, they have done (mostly) well.

    Some of the quests are far too similar to N64 collect-a-thon era style gameplay than I care for. I doubt I am going to go and find all of those fricking gobstones for example.

    Many of the quests are mundane and boring.

    While advertised as an "open-world" action RPG, it doesn't "feel" open world. I can't just wander off on my own or sequence break anything like you'd expect from a game from Fallout.

    There doesn't appear to be any sort of alignment system at play, I was really hoping to be able to play the game as a jerk-ass Slytherin.

    There doesn't appear to be any sort of like bonding or friendship system in the game for NPCs, this means that relationships don't feel like they really exist.

    Putting in a emotion system like Fable, where you could learn different means of interaction would have been a very welcome game mechanic. I want to be able to flip-off my fellow students.

    Dialog choices largely feel superficial and have no meaningful effect on the game at large.    … Expand
  100. GrimJesus
    Feb 10, 2023
    7
    The game is beautiful, the characters are intriguing and the story is interesting, but the performance is lackluster and leaves a lot to be desired. overall 7/10, will change to 8 if they end up fixing the performance issues but it really spoils an otherwise fantastic game.
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  1. Game World Navigator Magazine
    May 4, 2023
    85
    Beautiful, cozy and incredibly detailed, Hogwarts Legacy suffers from overabundance of side activities that offer no story, substance or good gameplay. [page 42]
  2. GameSpace
    Apr 4, 2023
    80
    The success of Hogwarts Legacy clearly shows that good sales and warm feedback from players are ensured not so much by the gameplay thought out to the smallest detail but by carefully reproducing the right atmosphere. But this is already a subtle moment, akin to real magic, and here the nameless developers of Avalanche Software succeeded.
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  3. Ragequit.gr
    Feb 24, 2023
    81
    Hogwarts Legacy is an altogether excellent port of Wizarding World to PC screens. It proudly belongs to the Young Adult fiction genre, which may make immersion difficult for older gamers.
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