In this video, we're taking a look at the incredibly popular Hogwarts Legacy. Avalanche Software managed to deliver a dream come true for Harry Potter fans all over the world with this Open World adventure into the Wizarding World. Hogwarts Legacy was the best-selling game of 2023, and now that it's been one year since the game's release in February 2023, we're taking a deep dive retrospective look into the game. Was this game as good as the hype suggested, or was it hiding behind the facade of the beloved Harry Potter franchise? We get to the bottom of it in this Hogwarts Legacy Retrospective.
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Hogwarts Legacy (2023)
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:23 - Part 1 (Back to Hogwarts)
4:53 - Part 2 (World)
15:12 - Part 3 (Gameplay)
20:49 - Part 4 (Story and Characters)
25:02 - Summary
Open world game devs need to ditch the collectibles and add more secrets in their place
Oh but then they would have to actually pay some designers!
Exactly, the Ubisoft formula died to me After Assassin's Creed 2, I put up with it in Black Flag only because of pirates and the ship combat.
Like the witcher
How about: collectible secrets
We need some collectibles but I agree with like 5 different types of collectibles that all have 100 things you need to collect. It’s just ridiculis
It's a fairly linear game, but apart from that it hits all the right notes. A sequel should focus a lot more on the story and include other locations from the movies. I also hope the success of this game has made Warner Bros think about a Lord of the Rings RPG.
The sequel should focus more on the student life and give more to do for the teachers, and then the later half should be the open world
YES! This and the avatar made me think of what other movies could get a rpg. Lord of the rings needs one
I believe a massive lord of the rings is rpg is in the works but it’s expected to release in 2027
@@MyBitch925that's already what happens, you don't get the broom till the latter half, the open world should have been scaled down and given to more content in the castle so it didn't feel like most of the game was outside the castle
@@Nevouti.x i feel the opposite. there are too many spells to learn. too much time spent in this castle so far. the whole game feels like just a big fkin tutorial its boring. i bought the game because i wanted a good open world game. sounds like i'll get there eventually but man what a slow slow start this game is.
One thing I find weird is NPCs, you literally get in or break in their home and start stealing their stuff and they’re just like « ok, help yourself! ».
Same in the Witcher 3, always thought that was weird
They do that in Pokemon and most JRPGs as well. I think it's just one of those video games things you're not supposed to think too hard about.
It would just become annoying if you had to stealth the loot. It’s basically just somewhere for devs to stash stuff.
@@MGForums has a point. if youve played game like Fall out or Outer Worlds where if you "grab" stuff off a table in front of NPC they take it as stealing and become confrontational against you and it honestly annyoing because when you need items or trying to colllect things you have to be sneaky now just to get parts. i didnt enjoy it
Welcome to mainstream RPG gaming, my friend.
The story definitely needed to be more grounded and not so big and massive. Honestly if they fleshed the sabastien quest line out a little more to be the main story and make more school school based quested the game would have been a lot better.
So bully but at hogwarts
@@chrisscott3071 I mean that sounds lit lol
I definitely was looking forward to a more school based kinda game originally
@@chrisscott3071I’m ngl I would 100% play that
@@chrisscott3071L A M E
This game ended up being a Gateway for me into the Harry Potter Series in General. I went from Playing the Game to Watching The Movies and now Reading the Books.
The books are the best. Got me into reading as a kid. The only book thay could catch my adhd attention span.
The books are SO much better than the movies! Enjoy!
@@Celisar1 Also the Books have more going on with the characters then the Movies. A lot of scenes in the Books that aren’t in the Movies.
you went backwards, amazing xD i hope you're enjoying the novels as much as most of the rest of us did when they came out
@@Phyramar True!
My only gripe with Hogwarts is that, outside of spells, your choice doesn’t really matter. I wanted to be a dark wizard when I started and while I wasn’t expecting to be on the level of a BG3 level menace. The world doesn’t even react to you picking malicious text in important instances. For example, at the end of the game my wizard flat out says he plans to use the power of ancient magic himself and nobody says anything, not even a worried expression
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Oh no
Yeh that kinda sucks
I fully hear that. I didn’t pick that option at the end because even though I started out wanting to be a little sheisty, I found it really hard to do considering the dialog and even the tone of my character’s voice was so “nice”. It just wasn’t believable to try to make her even a bit evil. Otherwise, loved the game.
Yeah the story is super linear. It would have been cool if they actually gave you the option of joining forces with Ranwood and the dark wizards.
If there is a sequel, I think their focus should be excelling at their strengths: Hogwarts, the castle grounds, the forbidden forest, and Hogsmeade. A point system (as an honor/faction system), a routine for students and professors, curfews, sleeping, sitting, and eating, a studying system for learning and upgrading spells, the ability to be friendly or antagonize your fellow students and teachers would increase the RPG feel and immersion. Some feuds between students and some side missions to intervene in a bullying situation would go a long way. Also, more secret rooms, corridors, and dungeon basements because Hogwarts exploration is one of the most fun things to do in the game. I think Hogwarts has some leeway for some danger as well: fire-breathing gargoyles as a trap for protected rooms (like the devil's snare in the hidden herbology corridor), etc. I think competitions like crossed wands and summoner's court should have more rounds and be playable throughout the whole game. Adding a professor or two as bosses would be cool imho. Maybe even mini games like wizard's chess or gobstones. I understand why they didn't add quidditch, as it would be hard to make an entire sport's game within another game. But they could square this if they program it like a mini game where you are the seeker and the other NPCs just fly around playing the other positions. The mini game is essentially only to catch the snitch. A similar system to the older Harry Potter games. l also think there should be aurors and dementors deployed in the Highlands if they give you the option to use the unforgivable curses and you choose to use them, and add patronuses so MC can fend them off. Add consequences, make the combat a bit harder and exploration in the highlands a bit riskier if we choose to use the OP spells.
They should be doing that now and the next game work on doing more with the story and adding quidditch and make the world smaller and add more iconic places like knockturn alley
@@theoutsiderjess4869 I think creating the department of mysteries can make sense story-wise. Maybe there is a main mission where you have to travel with Hecat (since she was an unspeakable) to the DOM and discover more secrets about ancient magic. There you could also combat tentacled brains, like in the books!
@@veridicusmind3722 yes stuff like that would be dope
Exploring the chamber of secrets would be really cool and maybe a hidden basilisk boss where you could only fight if you go through a quest line where you learn parsel tongue
@@Jesus-uy5of That would be cool, but it would mess with the lore.
Totally agree with you on all points. Missing some huge things for me. Biggest are the lack of character development, lack of character reactions from NPCs, pointless dialogue choices that have no influence on the outcome… etc. I was totally thinking during the story section about TLOU and then you said it… ND is the king of narrative.
That opinion will get you harassed in some places. It's nice to see it getting more mainstream again though, because I absolutely agree.
Yeah this games flaws will be a bigger issue for some people than others. For me, the sore lack of character development and the lacking writing is such a dealbreaker that I ended up not getting the game because I just lost interest.
Except they fucked up the last of us 2 with the woke shit
TLOU was a fluke.
The dialogue options are a big one, besides a few they basically have no use, they change nothing it’s so dumb, I’d love for example in the Sebastian quest line to side against him and end in a duel with him rather than you just defending him to the ends of the earth
To all who haven’t finished the game there is a mayor spoiler @10:35
I should have checked the comment section a bit earlier
thanks man
Thank you
I was just about to say that
I'm already played 70 hours Hogwarts Legacy since bought it 1 month ago on my Switch Lite. No micro pause at all, it's so fun. It's well optimised for the Switch.❤ Currently not start 3rd trial yet
These retrospective 'one year later' or '.....in 2024' reviews are my favorite style of game reviews at the moment, probably ever. They're incredibly underrated. So many outlets are no doubt pressured to have their reviews out by release and most certainly don't take the time to actually soak in and enjoy the game due to deadlines and timing for uploads to squeeze the most out of views due to a game being hot at release. Your type of reviews have no type of pressure whatsoever and are thorough and informatively delivered with several months of experience to really flesh out the game to someone like me who likes to backlog games. Thank you for your hard work and will continue to support channels like yours, more especially those uploading in 4k!
10000% agree. When people who play a new game every week review games its so annoying. They spend no time in the world and have no patience
Valid points. My feelings precisely. I like taking my time playing video games. I try not to let reviews shape my decision to play a video game. If I want to play it, I play it regardless of opinions. It is why I have decided to start doing retrospective game reviews because apart from time passing to play a game, updates and additional content are sometimes given to video games; giving more time to fully experience the game whether it may change my opinion or not.
@ambientjules This is the reason I don't bother watching "controversial" movies until a few months after it's theatrical run so I can watch it with unbiased eyes.
What he said 😂
It's probably because after a year, recency bias no longer comes in effect and the waves of hype have disappeared.
The first 10-15 hours are absolutely game of the year material, if not more. But at some point it just falls off so immensely.. :/
yup, I think it's somewhat because of being game for old audience designed for 6 year olds and you realize it few hours in after being lured in by the amazing environment :D
@@milansvancara No, the story becomes really uninteresting as soon as you're in the middle mark. The only interesting thing is Sebastians story and that of Isidora, but her story if bloated with 4 rather similar trials and let's be honest, her whole story was predictable after the second-third cutscene. Sebastians story is rather short but locked to mainstory progression, so if you want to experience the most exiting piece of story you have to do a handful of long missions inbetween which you didn't want to do. And at that point in the story you're sent out into the map to areas far away from Hogwarts itself. And I can only visit oh so many similar wizard hamlets with the same NPC's and the same voice actors including damn Horizon from Apex legends before I'm getting bored. Like I said, the start of the game is amazing. But at least with the second main story trial.. the game falls off and becomes too repetetive/boring.
@@milansvancaraI don't think you've played the game at all if you think it's made for such a young audience 💀
@@metalpleasure "for old audience but designed for 6yo", read pls:) It means that the mechanics are on a complexity level for someone who hasn't played any video game before, but also the story (despite being somewhat for adults) is delivered in a children's manner, I mean not even books and movies are this childish in terms of "protecting audience from harsh adult stuff"
@@milansvancara I mean ok I guess I get what you mean, there's still pretty heavy topics in the game, some quests are pretty sad, like where Deeks friend Tob died. And Sebastian's quest gets pretty harsh towards the end. I don't think it's made for that young audiences, also the books were written for children as well so idk, did you want the game to be very dark? I do agree with the story lacking and not being very interesting, although I love the game and am planning on keep playing it, doing my third run.
Honestly the story was the biggest let down for me in the game. Which is surprising because I thought making the world and gameplay would’ve been the hardest to develop but they absolutely nailed those parts imo. I felt like we didn’t really need to be this “special” one in the story and they could’ve made it better by trying something different because it feels far to like the book story imo. Amazing game tho for me.
That's exactly it...the gameplay, graphics and combat were great they should of just had a bigger story with more side missions... hopefully since the game did so good they have a good foundation to build on
Did no one else find it incredibly boring once they had explored all of the castle?
100%
Yes. Definitely. Looks great but apart from that avalanche did an incredibly bad job here.
Not really, there was a whole massive map apart from the castle. I only got bored when I ran out of meaningful quests
Exactly how I feel rn
@@SamUHells yeah there was a massive map but everything looked the same and it was just so bland there wasn’t much exciting to discover in my opinion
definitely didn't have the replayability I wished it did, and I'm dying for a HP game of old where you actually GO TO SCHOOL (there was a little of that), but as a standalone it had a just complex enough combat system, plenty of side systems and puzzles to dig around with and most importantly it was fucking gorgeous. I loved every inch of that world. Love love loved it.
my next playthrough is definitely going to be modded
U want to go to school in a video game… the only game that does that well is persona 5 and bully.
@@CM-hi4dband that means this game can’t try to do that why ?
@@CM-hi4dbPersona 3, 4 and Fire Emblem Three Houses (as a teacher) send their regards
I loved the room of requirement. It basically became a factory and I’d have my plant army crush tons of enemies while I cracked a bunch of potions , and then after I got through a quest, I’d go reload.
Dude said the daedalian keys reward wasn't worth it... Man I look pimping in my glowing house robe 🤣!
And who focuses on that side quest alone? Okay probably quite a few people, but it's so chill to get it done while you're accomplishing other things and exploring around the castle and once in a while you hear the chime and go 'oh, there's a sneaky lil' key here somewhere' 😅
@@saturated3821 yeah in fact I found nothing wrong with the side quests in the castle, completing the collections was probably the biggest peeve. But everything is spaced out nicely and who doesn't love roaming the castle grounds?
Yeah, the keys were kinda fun, although the unlocking was a bit annoying. Also you can complete the field guide pages at the same time i think i hade like 5 left when i finished the keys.
I’m about 30 hours into my first play through. I only wish that rather than the pause and wait to move the day/night cycle you could just go to sleep in your room at the end of a day. Also if there was a way to sit at your table in the great hall and eat with your house that’d be awesome. Besides that the game is incredible 9/10 haha
100% agree with the room thing, I wish the game at least had a way to find your room ahah
9/10 for listening simulator is crazy
@@dippahh9064 LMFAO
9/10 even after the nostalgia’s gone? stop the cap
I have so much nostalgia for the old Harry Potter games, I loved them
Fliiipendo!
Man I don't even know how many times I played HP2 on PC ! Glad to see others that loved it !
I think it's kind of strange there has been no DLC yet. The game sold very well, and there are some obvious "hooks" left to build upon, as some very notable aspects of the franchise have been left untouched in the game. Namely, some iconic locations (Diagon Alley, the Minstry of Magic), enemies (Dementors, any dangerous creature that isn't a spider), spells (Expecto Patronum, tying into the aforementioned dementors) and magical creatures (take your pick among the pages of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them"). And of course, Quidditch. There is a lot left for a post-game stand-alone episode that adds a bit more content to the game in a new location, but for some reason there doesn't seem to be any news in that regard. I'd have expected them to strike while the iron was hot and announce it within months of the game's release, but here we are one year later and there's only silence.
They have confirmed updates coming, but likely not a DLC anytime soon imho.
Ea Sport ownes the rights to quidditch after a old Harry Potter game quidditch World Cup, so no they can’t put quidditch in the game , EA Sport ownes the righted to the year 2030 have quidditch to n the game and EA Sues you.
@@thetalker.7304 damn I hate how EA has a monopoly over so many different things
quidditch doesnt make a lot of sense as an actual physical game so while I understand that it feels like an omission, I think any implementation is going to be disappointing from a gameplay PoV
Great video. I wasn't even a Harry Potter fan but loved Hogwarts Legacy. It was a fantastic open world rpg on its own right. The combat was fun and exploring the world was fantastic. I also enjoyed characters like Sebastian. Though i do wish the rpg elements were more fleshed out. Hopefully the next game will do that. It did make me interested to go back and listen to the audiobooks for the Harry Potter books. May go watch the films eventually as well. But what i really want is a sequel, since i'm much more into gaming than movies.
I implore you to play Elden Ring, or The Witcher 3, or even Skyrim. All 3 are FAR more immersive and overall better RPGs.
Also I would have liked more interactions with some characters, for instance at the end I really wanted to invite Poppy over to my room of requirement to visit Highwing. Or play wizard chess with someone.
Hold up lol... the Poppy part
Basically, Hogwarts Legacy is Fable. If you've ever played fable 3 you'll notice that the map page is similar, the menu music is similar, quest layout is similar. If I didn't know any better, I'd say Portkey is the reanimated Lionhead studio.
No way, fable karma system is basically the most important bit , that can’t be replicated in a game so linear like Hogwarts
I want Backgrounds for your character, like can I be a pure blood slytherin. Or a muggle born hufflepuff. I think having most quest be done with your classmates from your house. My first playthrough was Ravenclaw and it felt awkward having a griffindor and hufflepuff be my main interactions. Like I you could easily switch natty and poppy with any other house member and most of the quests could make sense.
I love all of this especially being able to choose characters to go on quests with. I also think it would have been nice to be able to interact with house members in the common room throughout the game. And it would have been cool if there were more house specific quests and if they had done house competitions for house points.
My biggest hope for the summer update is we get some more of those missing dialogues. Their fleshed out companion system, better NPC interactions, all that good stuff that was missing on launch. The companion mods are nice for that, since you get to actually hear Sebastian/Natty and other characters comment on your riding your broom or the Graphorn or stuff like that. They thought of everything but sadly they couldn’t implement everything
It does suck they had to cut the morale and multiple ending system but in the end we did get a mostly fantastic game. Although it was funny how I told Fig at the end how I lusted for power, looked evil when I absorbed the ancient magic and then everyone thanked me for saving Hogwarts at the end cutscene haha
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yeah it would have been cool if they had atleast given you unlimited ancient magic use or some new ancient magic abilities if you choose to absorb it.
Im really thankful that you can pet the cats in the game but i kind of hoped for more interaction? Like actually taking care of your pet (owl,rat,rat) and the bedroom where kind if boring too. It wouldve been so cool if you actually received the important messages with an owl.
"Ashwinders, goblins, spiders, inferi, dugbogs, trolls, wolves, and the list goes on." Does it?? Where does it go on to? Because I'm pretty sure the list ends with the next enemy, the pensieve guardians - and that's a weak ending to a list. Oh, or maybe we're including both the cottongrass and stoneback dugbogs, as well as animagi on top of the regular wolves. Is the Lord of the Manor on this list which goes on? 😂
This guy was super disingenuous with all his points. He spent half the video trashing the game and then at the end he's like "This game is my game of the year" and "Its undeniably a fun and immersive world". Like is it bro? is it really?
this was exactly my thought lol.
I’m not a gamer, just a 66 year old Mom who read the Harry Potter series to her kids and fell in love with the story, and play Animal Crossing on her switch. Hogwarts Legacy is a fantasy come nearly true as it takes me to a place that’s always been in my imagination of where I’d like to be in real life. I’m on my second play through in a different house and can’t wait to play it nearly every day. I really enjoyed your views on the game.
I wish it was a smaller map, more quests and student interactions with the mysteries and puzzles being in the castle.
You just described 90% of RPGs. Hogwarts is a great game, but it suffers from the same thing that most RPGs suffer from, plain and simple. I think an 8/10 is where most ppl would put it and i think that's fair. Its a great game! Worth the playthrough.
I wanted the classes to be a little more involved. The only one that had some depth was the history of magic one. Missed opportunity tbh. The 10 second max montage just didn't cut it for me. I also really wanted to be able to dive into the lake and thought they'd give you the potion to do so. I feel like a lot of things like that will be held over for either a DLC or sequel.
My wish for a sequel would be to strip down on the open world aspect and make the school and castle ground more "lively" with more character interactions or school curricula. Data miners allready found fragments of moral and character reputation systems (as well as a more fleshed out house Point system) still left in the code wich seemed to be stripped due to time restraint. Also I'd like to visit other iconic locations like the ministry of magic or knockturn alley. I wouldn't even bother if they reuse most of the castle again to save development time.
Well, I think the sequel definitely deserves a moral system like red dead 2. Also I hope they make the npcs like rdr 2
Loved the shop mission that had an actual boss and dungeon. Game needed more of that. Every time I entered a treasure cave I expected a boss or some challenge but was disappointed when it was just a useless scarf.
I won't joke would LOVE to see you look at just how much they removed and react to it, not just how much was removed BUT how much was removed...but it still in the game code.... also they did more then just that opening area to brush off them not having quidditch, theres a letter in the nurses room that basically says A Pure Blood Student got hit with a bludger, barley got hurt but Headmaster Black is a Pure Blood Supremacist. Also I Agree with the keys, I think it would have been cool if that chest had a second purpose as like a Chest to keep extra gear
There could have easily been a tri wizard tournament dlc, whether hogwarts hosts it or you get to go to another school and explore their grounds.
I hated the fact you had to find the stuff to upgrade your room of requirement, I just wanted to build things once I got it not search the entire map for every peice
Most people I've talked to just wanted to be a student. Take that amazing Hogwarts exploration and actually 100x the discovery by allowing for more interaction. It's like Avalanche spent most of their time on graphics that the gameplay loops were not well thought out. Less Ubisoft-like events.
100 % agree with all your points. Merlin trials were no fun. It’s also worth pointing out that some side quest dialogs just did not cut it. I don’t remember the last time I skipped dialogs this agressively 😄
The sequel should focus much more on actually being in hogwarts, even if it’s not just a student life simulator have the mysteries and plot be driven forward within the castle and through the characters in the castle, and not just have 2 lessons for each class and have actual assignments and lessons that drive the plot forward (like the books)
What they should do is make more locations from the movies and slide in some quests. EX: Expand the map to include the ministry of magic and give that its own storyline with a bunch of quests. Then expand the map even more in the coming months and add more locations from the movies or books like the Weasleys house or the world cup final. Continue this process with other locations and other quests like the Blacks house being added to the map with its handful of quests. They could even sell all of these as a DLC, tons would buy it. Do this until the sequel is released, this way people are engaged and buy the sequel. It's a win win.
For me there's not enough going on in the castle, not enough castle related quests, collectibles, mysteries, I think it could benefit from HP 5 game in this regard, or from Lego games, for such an amazing location, there should be way more to discover
It’s a great game but I wish they had included other movie locations, such as Diagon Alley, Knockturn Alley, and Grimmauld Place (it’s probably where Phineas Nigellus Black’s family lives, so it would have made sense).
Dang, imagine another polyjuice mission where you have to visit Black's home (Grimmauld Place) to retrieve something.
Lol love the name of your guy bro 😂 videos awesome as well! You’re gonna be hitting 50-100k subs in no time. All love from Melbourne 🫡
I would have thought you had a million subscribers with how high quality this video is.
What I wish they would add more- make day and night cycles worth it: ie have people walking around who would catch you after hours. More interactions with the other students. Ie: conversations or building friendships. More interactions with mundane objects in the castle - grounds: ie, sitting down, laying down or emotes. As amazing as it is, it felt sort of empty? When not in story quests?
My biggest complaint was the missing feeling from moving stairs that whould force you to take new path around the castle.
really good video, hope you get more subs!
Also one thing I thought was funny. One of the last few bosses I think Rookwood. I didn’t actually fight him I just Avada him thinking it wouldn’t work and it totally did. I’m doing a replay now so I’ll actually do the entire fight but something about that tickled me! The one time the unforgivable curses actually mattered
HogLeg's main story has the same issue with its structure as Breath of the Wild as well as Tears of the Kingdom: "Something cool happened in the distant past! And were gonna tell you about it - but only a little nibble at a time! Keep biding your time doing main story quests so we can show you another cutscene of the cool thing that happened long ago! Don't you wish you were there, instead of doing this?" And then suddenly the cutscenes have run out, you've finally witnessed the events of the distant past - it wasn't really that interesting, but at least you've finally witnessed all the pieces - and the game quietly nods its head with wide eyes, patting itself on the back. Breath of the Wild at least had the decency to bury a COOL story in the distant past - sure, I would have loved to've been there, but at least I'm getting fed pieces of a worthwhile story. HogLeg's exposition ending with the professors being like, "And then San Bakar murdered her, and we sealed away the repository, the end. Don't you see, now, the lesson we needed you to learn? Make u think, huh?" is unintentionally hilarious. Thanks for the trials leading to this memory, appreciate you wasting my time with this artificially drawn-out process you needed me to undergo to understand how to avoid the corrupting influence of power, got it.
HogLeg 😂😂 So I’m not the only one
I wish this game and the elder scrolls oblivion melded together to make the sequel. I wish they treated the different class rooms more like the guild system with quest lines in oblivion. I wish there were real dungeons strewn across the map. And I wish the loot was of more significance. I still loved ‘this game to death and it was the first game in a long time that I played from start to finish and made me feel so much joy. But damnit if I didn’t need a sequel married with the dungeons and guild/faction quest lines of TES IV oblivion.
I've been thinking the same while playing Skyrim lately! Imagine having intractable books to learn magic or actually read from, making the library more than just set dressing. Imagine having the ability to find and wield the sword of Gryffindor at some point as a very rare item or something like that.
I was just thinking the same thing!! It would make HP feel more “complete”
Amazing video man! Can’t wait to see you go up up!
My second playthrough I went without the Unforgivables and started experimenting with plant/potion combos and the talents that accompany them. There’s nothing more powerful than tossing several cabbages and tentaculas out and equipping a thunderbrew and maxima simultaneously. You’ll clear a map in seconds. So satisfying.
Aside from a passing enjoyment of a couple movies, I have never been a Potter fan so I wasn't blinded by fandom when I went in - and I was still blown away. The game feels so magical, the setting is so well-realized for a first game and I never stopped having fun while playing it. I never felt the need to hit every Merlin trial or other side activity - those are just busy work and I was having enough fun exploring, doing missions, and getting in fights.
This is super niche but im actually replaying it in part to memorize the layout of the castle. For anyone into memory techniques, this is the ultimate memory palace
I like how they include the book moments are written works into it, especially the great staircase. Instead of the movie version, they use the version from the book; an appearing and disappearing spiral.
1:44 that’s hilarious, same list I had and constantly ranted about wanting lmao. Need that open world GoT game bad still.
3:45 Ok that made me crack up 😂
The quests with Sebastian and buying the shop in Hogsmeade are really all that I can remember about the quests in this game. It was forgettable as far as story, but exploring the Hogwarts grounds was incredible. Wish they'd have found a way to make the southern areas actually attractive to play.
Man what he said at 8:00 min is the exact reason I wish the game had multiplayer so wo could enjoy the game with friends and have duels and quidditch matches. This game had great potential and could have been so much more.
Loved the video and most of what you said fell in line with how I felt about the game However, I wish the enemies were harder and had more diverse attack patterns because after a while, it felt like I was fighting the same 3 enemy's. I mean, I finished by first playthrough on hard and beat the game fairly easily, apart from the spiders because I couldn't fight them without almost having an anxiety attack. Arachnophobia is a pain. 22:23 I'm sure the sequel will be amazing. Also, it's crazy how that professor just died, and it felt like no big deal, no emotional impact whatsoever.
Fantastic video mate!
As someone who’s played for about 45 hours, is 75% done with a 100% completion, the game desperately needed a morality system. They wanted the idea of you being able to pick your own path as a student at Hogwarts, yet there are no consequences for what you choose. This also makes the “you can only use your talents once, and after you choose, you’re stuck with those talents” seem very forced and out of place, because that’s literally one of the only things that has “consequences”
I haven’t even finished my first playthrough yet cause I still spend a lot of time just exploring. It’s such a beautiful game and I was hyped as f when it was announced.
About the inventory problem (Merlin's tasks), me as beginner, just played a few hours, find it really annoying finding chests and not being able to get what's inside because I have not enough space in my inventory, meaning that after solving ALL Merlin's tasks one day, i have to go back to refind all those hidden treasures and chests of side quests to get what's inside...if I remember the locations...,that's actually really bad. And I am not into the road of all the time going to sell my items in Hogsmeade to have more space in my inventory, because what if those items are gone forever after selling them?? No one explains it
I loved it. But one thing I absolutely despised was the menu UI. It was extremely slow. Going from the map to the inventory took like 5 seconds, and I open the inventory and map often, so I wasted like a total of 1 hour waiting for the transition to finish between menues.
Yea that was annoying
this was definitely my GOTY when it came out but some things of course I1 wish were different: -quidditch, obvi -massive differences in House choice and your playthrough -why can't I ride a unicorn???? seriously that's a horse let me ride it -having an animal sidekick would be cool, that you could pick i did not find the southern portion boring because it's all just beautiful, there's nothing more beautiful than riding a thestral or hippogriff as the sun rises over the sea . the story made me cry, and I do wish we could get more quests with Poppy bc I loved saving beasts with her and more into Sebastian's story which was so good. he's such a complex character. i hope we get more goodies in a second game
I've watched this many , many times and I giggle every time you say that you tickled a pear. Thanks for your work - you're doing a great job
I managed to get on my broom in the cave to transfer to the second part of the map, and so clipped through the ground. When I got back above ground, I was able to fly in the flight restricted areas, lol. I’m surprised there’s been no polish, no updates to fix bugs. (This is one of the many I encountered)
I’d be curious if the square footage of the inside of the castle equals the rest of the outdoor map
Still playing and still loving every second of it
Three things that would instantly make the game better: 1) have alohamora open locks beneath your current spell level automatically 2) conjuring auto feeder in vivariums means your beasts are auto fed as soon as cool down clock counts down 3) give us enough talent points to open the whole skill tree
I wish the findings of secret scrolls would unlock secret missions since every scroll discloses a short story about certain characters, events and location history. All in all, it was a satisfying open wizardry world 😊
One of the best place and super video I wish it could be longer !!
I love this game for the fan service. I agree that the fan service is amazing and the creators clearly a fan of the Potterverse. A few things I hope to get in expansion/sequel: > There should be an Auror's presence in villages and randomly across the map. Where you can either help the auror and get rewards or catch you and you have to try to escape yourself if you steal or destroy something. > House Points should play a more important mechanic in the game. Like helping people around then you get a meeting with the headmaster when you get back to Hogwarts. To have that satisfying feeling of hearing "50 points to Gryffidor!!" Or getting "50points will be taken from your house" if you get caught doing something like stealing. > If an NPC sees you doing any of the unforgivable curses, your character should be sent to Azkaban. >The caves should have more risk when entering. Like setting traps. I remember getting scared in destroying barrels in Diablo when I was young.
I want to am update where you join as a 1st year as in the book, and you pick your family upbringing, so when you return home you go to a magic or muggle family house, and what you do at school/story impacts your house/family
I was hoping there would be a system like bullys where you have class schedules and a grading system and you need to plan things out when you were up to no good. Plus sneaking around the castle after hours should be a more stealthy experience or its detention
Thought the room of requirement had so much potential. One of my favorite parts of the game, it felt like a whole separate world, much like the rest of the castle. I loved spending time in there. I just wish they fleshed out its importance a bit more and gave more use for the beasts.
Great character name by the way! I wasn’t that creative, except maybe for the Giant Purple Toads I named Warty Croak and Warty Crouch Jr.
I feel more or less the same, first I wondered when I’d get to leave the castle and then I just wanted to stay there.
I feel like so much time and money was put into the physical world, and I hope they can make the RPG / story elements much more finessed in any sequel now
I started it on my switch a couple days ago and it hurts to see how much better it looks on other mediums like pc or Playstation 😭
For me, I felt like we spent so much time in the castle during the books and movie, that i LOVED exploring outside and going to all of the villages. It expanded the magic of the world for me. Definitely too many Merlin Trials and tiny mini quests like that though
Agree with most part, you forget to mention revealio is needed to spam to get all the secret get annoying real quick!
I agree I still love this game - and I've played it all the way through for every house. I call it an action adventure rather than a RPG. On my second playthrough I did a Slytherin/dark wizard build and I won't do that again because it's too OP, so it's no fun. I never use Cruciatus or Avada Kedavra. While I agree about the Merlin Trials.. I think the caves are often overlooked and deserve a special mention for being very bland and boring. I think the Transmog system is a bit too good. It means that the only thing that matters about the things you find is their level, so finding treasure is less fun than it could be.
I just got into harry potter, just finished the series and just beat this game. I loved this game but i agree about the magic of the map with the castle and such. I'd love to see new locations like diagon alley or areas in London or other places. I think its very possible to do, I'm excited for the future of this series
In the sequel, they need less highlands with hogwarts and immediate area more fleshed out, with significantly better NPCs and more lessons and activities. Add in diagon alley and a little bit of london, a wizard town like ottery st catchpole and a questline that takes you to different parts of Britain and Ireland to catch rare magical creatures. More varied and more meaningful customisation is a must. More broom variety that actually impacts handling, speed etc. Wand woods and cores making a significant impact on gameplay. Houses have to be very different experiences with personal quests, house points and unique interactions with heads of houses/ghosts. Common rooms have to pull you in with games/homework activities and your bedroom needs to have a lot more. (I think some of the room of requirement stuff should actually be in the bedroom - e.g. the magical creatures should be in a Newt style briefcase or wardrobe) This would all make the hogwarts world feel more impactful, it’s already amazing but needs depth. If a sequel goes well, the third game can be set in Ilvermorney, with a linked story (a British inspired goblin/dark wizard rebellion?). This would give us all the wow factor of a new school and a new setting, with all the improved mechanics and features from game 2. It would be great to see incredible new creatures and a chance for Ilvermorny to establish itself!
Something tells me there was supposed to be a bunch more stuff for the southern part of the map, because it really feels like it's there for no reason.
I was laid off from my job of over 4 years RIGHT when this launched. I was extremely upset and most likely depressed. I loved that job and [I thought] everything was going great, just to find out at 10pm on a random tuesday I was being let go just because of finances. This game was all I did for weeks basically. Both me and my wife got a copy and we were obsessed. The funny thing is, I'm not even that hardcore of a fan. I've seen the movies and read a few of the books probably 20 years ago, and I've been to the wizarding world at universal, but I think the fact that this game managed to capture me like it did, someone who's not a die-hard harry potter fan, speaks to how well it was crafted. This game and Animal Crossing New Horizons are 2 extremely nostalgic games for me now, not because they remind me of playing them during my childhood or something, but because of how they both did such a great job of making me forget reality when reality sucked hard. (btw ive had a new job for a while now and im good)
Not the fact that I got that cars game not long after my hogwarts legacy obsession and had no idea that they were made by the same company
considering the small size of the studio, they did such a great job
Larian studio would like to have a word
Me and my brothers are in our 30's and are always getting games a year or two after they come out. We all just got it and I'm having fun. Shadow of mordor fighting, sick scenery and cool cut scenes. Fighting is pretty fun, even though I panic spam all three bars.
I didnt get far into the game, resently redownloaded it to finally continue. I do remember starting the game and exploring the castle for 4 hours before even starting the first quest
i absolutely loved this game and its massive the only thing i didn't like ab it was the lack of diversified enemies and animals also that they left a few things out and that the map appears like it could be expanded upon on the boarder's and i wished they would add more side missions and side quest for after you beat the game
i NEED a PSVR2 exploration mode, bonus if they let you hang out online with friends, 10,000,000 points if they make the game fully playable
A couple things that really bothered me: the looting, getting things never feels very special or important. It’s just piece of clothing after piece of clothing and constantly changing to upgrade. The exploration is really hindered by this bc with the lack of interaction with NPCs as well as the lackluster looting, the exploration is really mostly just to see and fight new things, rather than discovering interesting storylines or to earn interesting items that you’ll value.
Your analysis is god-like. I hope the devs watch your video and the comments. I could not say it better myself. After a couple of hours playing, any experienced PC player recognizes the shortcomings, but also the great potential the game has, in part because there are no more books, no more films, about this magical world. The game and sequels have such a great potential to develop a story. It is a pity that it fell short of expectations. At least it seems they will create a multiplayer world. Hopefully Co-op storylines will appear.
Biggest grope for me was lack of actual school. As much as I hated irl school, was definitely expecting more school shenanigans.
This a really good vid nice.
the best thing about this game is Sebastian's storyline. I love the character. Other than, that goblin thing is not a big deal
I think the game also benefited from being a big new game when at the time of release the gaming industry was a bit stale. I throughly enjoyed the game and put a ton of hours into it, but did feel like if it had another year or two of dev time it could have been one of the best games ever released. Especially the RPG mechanics. Compared to a game like Boulders Gate 3, this feels very elementary, however not in a particularly negative way; just wasn’t a ton there. I also agree that more investment in side characters would have been a great touch. I love the Harry Potter universe and often times love the secondary characters like Umbridge even more so was a bit disappointed when we didn’t really have anyone else other than Sebastian to really latch on to. I hope they add some more into the sequel and focus on building out more storylines and interesting side quests cause the combat and setting they nailed.