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Hogwarts Legacy is an open-world action RPG set in the world first introduced in the Harry Potter books. Embark on a journey through familiar and new locations as you explore and discover magical beasts, customize your character and craft potions, master spell casting, upgrade talents and become the wizard you want to be.
Experience Hogwarts in the 1800s. Your character is a student who holds the key to an ancient secret that threatens to tear the wizarding world apart. Make allies, battle Dark wizards, and ultimately decide the fate of the wizarding world. Your legacy is what you make of it. Live the Unwritten.
Steam User 212
I enjoyed the game, but definitely wouldn't say it has a re-playable quality. After a while the combat is repetitive, the "treasures" that you find around the map quickly become boring and useless to your leveled character, and the story was a bit flat for me. It has an absolutely beautiful map, and you can tell the creators spent most of their time on that aspect. Anyone who is a Harry Potter fan will enjoy playing this if not solely for the feel of being a part of the Wizarding World. And for those of us still begrudgingly waiting for our letter, this is a nice bandaid to console us for the present.
Steam User 142
Hogwarts Legacy
”Without a doubt the best wizarding world game to date”
Not a super in depth review and no spoilers. This is now the gold standard of Wizarding world games going forward.
Sure there are things that could have been better but this is an incredible starting point for things going forward.
Fantastic graphics, gameplay, story and characters.
The devs were clearly fans of the source material, the world and especially the castle is so well made and brimming with easter eggs and fan service. The amount of Lore in this game is huge, long term fans are in for a treat.
All 4 houses have massively fleshed out common rooms and each house has it's own twist on the main story line too.
The combat is meaty and satisfying, very similar to Arkham in a way which would make sense due to it being a WB game. All the famous spells including dark arts.
Lots of side missions and collectables
As a Harry Potter fan I loved this game, but it could totally be an entry point to non or new fans.
I am really looking forward to whatever comes next from Avalanche & Portkey games
Trail-Dave
”Revelio, Revelio, Revelio, Revelio, Revelio“
Steam User 624
After playing Hogwarts Legacy for over 30 hours, I think I can do a solid review now.
---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS
---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't
---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf
---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma
---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☑ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer
---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☑ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data
---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls
---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding
---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life
---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond
---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money
---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs
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Steam User 111
Not a perfect game, but I really enjoyed my time with it. 8/10: Highly Recommended.
A quick preface: I haven't thought about Harry Potter since like... 2008? It's been a while!
Pros
- Excellent Visuals
- Hogwarts and Hogsmeade are an absolute joy to explore. I spent WAY longer than the game expected me to JUST exploring and finding all the collectible field guide pages I could.
- Transmog is available right away and at no cost. You don't have to go into battle looking like a clown just because the stats are good. You can change them on the fly anytime you want!
- The combat system is great! Took me a minute to get into the groove, but once it clicked it absolutely clicked!
- The spells are fun to play around with. Experimenting to see what spells combo well against a given enemy was really enjoyable.
- Respectable difficulty. It's not too hard to push me to frustration, and not so easy it puts me to sleep. In the opening hours I found myself healing a lot... later on I barely took damage. I'd say it veers on the "easier" difficulty side but fine none the less. No harm in rewarding player skill.
- Some of the bosses were visually impressive and fun to fight.
- Story was fine. There were moments it felt needlessly dragged out. However, I was distracted with other things.
- Flying around on a broom felt good! The controls were odd... but I got used to them quickly.
- I encountered very few glitches and bugs. Far less than I was expecting.
- Minus the occasional hiccup towards the end of the game Hogwarts Legacy ran smoothly. Minimal performance issues.
- This game doesn't require you to know anything about Harry Potter to enjoy it. There are loads of easter eggs for fans of the series to enjoy. However, not recognizing the easter egg doesn't take away from the experience. I had forgotten SO much over this last decade and even then... a lot came rushing back. Was never punished for forgetting stuff though.
- Some great characters and side quests representing 3 of the 4 houses. Natsi and Sebastian are clear standouts.
- I was giggling silly during the Polyjuice potion section. That was exactly what I wanted from Hogwarts school mischief.
- Taking place a good hundred years before the events of the Harry Potter series was a good idea. Helps keep the stories out of each-others way.
Cons
- Enemy variety is low, lot of quantity over quality in the later battles.
- Puzzles variety is good, but not quite good enough. It reminded me of the Korok puzzles in Zelda.. There's just SO MANY of them... so despite a decent lineup on paper it feels like they are repeated over and over again. Same issue here.
-GEAR LIMITS! Why? Why does there NEED to be a limit on gear like that? Do you have any idea how SICK I am of dropping everything, fast traveling to a shop, and dumping my entire inventory every 5-10 minutes!? I can shove a monster 3 times my size into a handbag... I THINK i can carry one more hat!!!! Even with the Merlin Trials, this was ANNOYING!!!
- I did not enjoy the Stealth mechanics in this game. Total snooze fest.
- House points didn't really matter like they did in the books/movies. That was disappointing and makes some of my actions feel like they had no consequence.
- No house specific quests... total missed opportunity there.
- No Quidditch. There is an In-universe reason for this... but every time a characters mentions it, (and they do often) that feeling that there's something missing wells up in me again.
- The Magical Beasts were cute! Yet, I barely even touched the upgrade system... simply because I didn't have to! Every few minutes I'd find better gear than I was wearing and just swapped it out. As a result, I feel like I wasted my time in the vivariums.
- The Room of Requirement was neat... but I mostly ignored it. I never got to invite anybody into the room so it was just there to grow plants and brew potions really...
- The hamlets scattered around the world are... uninteresting. Could've used a bit more love to make them memorable.
- Where's the Whomping Willow? I wanted to get punched by a tree!
In conclusion, I think I can say this is the best Harry Potter game ever made. The world is a joy to explore, the combat system is engaging, and the story has good presentation. The game is mostly held back by its own RPG systems and those couple of things it's missing.
Steam User 249
I’m not a Harry Potter fan, but Hogwarts Legacy is hands down one of the best games I’ve played in a long time. The open-world design is incredible, reminding me of the sense of wonder and freedom I felt when Skyrim first came out. Every corner of the world is filled with detail, and the game offers a rich, immersive experience that kept me hooked for hours.
One thing I kept thinking while playing is how amazing this game would be with a co-op or multiplayer mode. Imagine exploring Hogwarts with friends, tackling challenges together, breeding beasts, grinding or just roaming the world side by side. It would take an already great game and elevate it to a whole new level.
If you’re on the fence because you’re not into Harry Potter, don’t let that stop you. Hogwarts Legacy is a mustplay for any fan of openworld games. It captures that same thrill and excitement that made Skyrim a legend, and I can’t recommend it enough.
Steam User 321
Hogwarts Legacy is a pretty decent open world action game of sorts, and an absolutely marvellous Harry Potter game. I've played older HP titles, watched the movies and, while I've never been a diehard fan of the franchise, I do like it in general. Therefore, although I enjoy certain musical cues and references, I mainly judge the game on its own merit.
Graphically, it's incredible with some caveats. The game has stunning breath-taking scenery, and spell effects are sharp and satisfying. However, the models and animations can be a bit stiff, and I constantly dropped FPS for some reason. I played on medium even though my PC should be able to handle ultra according to the specs; the game itself set everything to ultra after an auto-detect.
The game also features a day-night cycle, which changes the appearance of the location. For instance the Forbidden Forest at night looks as haunting as it rightfully should.
Moreover, there is also a season cycle with the entire map changing depending on the time of the year. Not only that, but the Hogwarts itself has different decorations for different seasons. Really cool attention to detail.
In terms of sound, it's OK. I enjoyed the female VA for the MC quite a bit, and the rest of the cast are also pretty good. I don't think it reaches the heights of, say, RDR 2, but it's definitely good enough and even excellent at certain points.
The OST is charming, though it might be my nostalgia talking since it utilises certain themes from the movies or older games.
Moving on to the gameplay and the world in general, as I mentioned, it's an open-world game, which means there are hundreds of collectibles, optional secrets, quests, etc. I found them pretty fun, but the sheer number can be a bit too much if you're a completionist. One pet peeve of mine is the level scaling: as you level up, the enemies level up with you. There is a per-area cap, so you will eventually outscale them, but I'm not a fan of this mechanic in general. It did not ruin the game, but I don't think it's particularly necessary either.
The gameplay itself is pretty fun. It mainly consists of attacking the enemies with your basic attacks while weaving in additional spells. Higher level enemies have shields around them which you have to break with a specific "type" of spell and cannot break with regular AAs. The enemies, in their turn, also attack you with basic AAs, which you can block with your shield, or with spells, which you cannot block and have to dodge.
To help you out, there are usable plants and potions, which, in my experience, can completely trivialise an encounter even on the highest difficulty. I actually think it's a plus since paying just a bit of attention to potion-brewing and herbology gives you a huge advantage.
I would not say it's the deepest or most challenging gameplay loop ever, but it's flashy, aesthetically pleasing, and does provide some challenge, at least on the hardest difficulty.
When it comes to the narrative, it's passable. As usual for me, I guess, I did not enjoy the main story as much as the side quests, specifically Sebastian's questline. It was not terrible and had its moment, but it also had some pretty dumb plot points at times.
Before summarising, I'd like to mention certain neat features the game has, which are not crucial, but are very welcome and show stellar work from the devs:
1. You can choose your house (a given, really) and there is actually house-specific dialogue, such as a character bad-mouthing Slytherin and apologising if your MC is in said house. It comes often enough to feel as if your house choice is acknowledged by the game and isn't just a checkbox in a save file.
2. Characters react to you with specific dialogue after their side-quest completion, although it can get a bit repetitive after a while.
3. There is an entire system to decorate your "base" with hundreds of cosmetic items to place, such as chairs, banners, statues, etc. I went for a more utilitarian approach and simply conjured things required to brew potions, but it's still a welcome feature.
4. You can capture beasts to care about them and periodically harvest magical ingredients. In addition, you can breed said beasts and sell the offsprings to get a bit of money.
5. The ingredients from the beasts can be used to upgrade your equipment and weave in special traits, such as "more damage with spell X".
6. An amazing feature: the way your clothes look is decoupled from what you're actually wearing, meaning you don't have to choose between min-maxing the stats or fashion, you can have both.
7. There are hundreds of snippets with HP lore about certain items, locations, people to be found in game.
To conclude, I think Hogwarts Legacy is a wonderful game. It can stand on its own without the franchise appeal, even though it does lose to titles like God of War in that regard. Taking the franchise into account, it's a must-play for any HP fan. For a non-HP fan, it can also be fun, albeit to a lesser extent.
Steam User 87
I'm still enjoying finding the hidden secrets of this game. There are so many. You get to play it mostly your way as a character. The graphics are nice and flying gives it a little extra touch.