Everything Wrong (and right) with Hogwarts Legacy

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  @TitusFlavius11 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Honestly, I wanted this game to be about the Hogwarts experience: taking classes, living the life of a Hogwarts student, kind of like Rockstar’s “Bully” with maybe Sims elements. <br><br>Instead, they went for an RPG without any meaningful choices and with very limited replayability. <br><br>The students in Hogwarts don’t even have routines and the school is virtually empty at night: no one sleeps in their beds. Very immersion-breaking if you ask me.<br><br>Hogwarts Legacy is a solid game. They captured the aesthetics perfectly and the castle is marvelously crafted. You can see a lot of love went into it. Combat is also great. But the story and gameplay… meh. A lot of wasted potential, if you ask me.

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• JO

  @JohnathanMoses35 · 2 years ago (edited)

  My son just pointed out to me that Sebastian teaches you more spells than any of the professors😂 5 total! Weasley teaches you 4, Hecat 3. Ronen, Garlick, Sharp, Kogawa, Fig teach 2, Onai and Moon and Howen 1, and Shah doesn&apos;t teach any at all.😅

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• OF

  @ofox716 · 2 years ago

  The main thing I disliked was that they didn&apos;t include the morality meter.<br><br>Meaning no negative consequences to using the unforgivable curses.

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• NA

  @NawiTheCore · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeeF6ENrGeQ&amp;t=9420">2:37:00</a> Can we also talk about HOW RIDICULOUS is to give you gear spots in Harry Potter? Hermione had a tiny bag that could carry an unlimited amount of things. It shouldn&apos;t be too hard to cast that same spell for a 5th year student.

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• MY

  @mynameisreza1 · 2 years ago

  My biggest disappointment is how the open world approach diluted the whole experience which meant that exploring the castle (which i think is what most people were excited about) was not nearly as mysterious or rewarding. I was just spamming revelio instead of organically stumbling onto neat little secrets and puzzles that would have given the castle a greater presence. I would have preferred something akin to Arkham Asylum or City. A moderate open world instead of a massive one, with the tradeoff of being more dense and detailed with far less repetitive mundane xp farming tasks.

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• AS

  @ashleykhader1296 · 1 year ago

  “Waking up from your floor nap” had me laughing out loud! It is really strange.

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• IN

  @InMyVictory · 11 months ago

  The only time I got the feeling I was playing a Harry Potter game is when You, Sebastian and Ominis are searching the Corridors for Salazar Slytherin&apos;s hidden room. That part felt straight out of something in the &apos;Chamber Of Secrets&apos; I will never for the life of me understand why we didn&apos;t get more mission revolving around the school itself. Sneaking around past curfew, finding hidden rooms and secrets along the way.

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• RY

  @RyanGamin224 · 2 years ago

  What was Fig even mentoring you on? <br><br>You get to hogwarts as a 5th year and they review and teach you year 1-2 level spells. <br><br>You practice and then everyone tells you you’re amazing for doing a spell they’ve lore wise known for 4 years…

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• SA

  @sarahk685 · 2 years ago

  You didn’t talk about the quest where you get your own store and it forces you into the most terrifying horror quest ever

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• GE

  @Gergely90 · 1 year ago

  Unforgivable curses are bullshit in an action-game. You can set goblins on fire, transfigurate them into bombs and explode them, but a single one second killing curse is BAAAAAD. Come on…<br> <br>It’s also the same with poachers capturing and using beasts for their goods is BAAAAAD, but if you do the same it’s suddenly good. <br>Morality just doesn’t work in Hogwarts Legacy.

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• AL

  @AlexanderDimitrovASE · 1 year ago

  You are the first reviewer to 100%inline and formulate what i was feeling throughout the whole game. Especially that damned door

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• SH

  @shanew5012 · 2 years ago

  The open world felt so unnecessary. I would&apos;ve liked a larger castle and its grounds and then at most a smaller scale open world with the Haunted Forest and Hogsmede.

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