This LEGO Harry Potter Platinum Really Surprised Me! (Years 5-7)

I played LEGO Harry Potter Years 5-7 for the first time and decided to go for the platinum trophy!

Today we’re going after the platinum trophy for LEGO Harry Potter Years 5-7. And when I say this one surprised me…that wasn’t always in a good way.

Don’t get me wrong, the game is really fun and better than the first game in many ways.

There are awesome new mechanics and improvements to the gameplay, plus you get to travel to so many different iconic wizarding world locations that you don’t get to see at all in Years 1-4.

I’m just a dad who loves platinum trophies and right now…I have 60 of them. By the end of this video, I’m gonna have 61.

Before any great trophy hunt, you need to go in with a strategy.

This LEGO Harry Potter Platinum Really Surprised Me! (Years 5-7)

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The LEGO® Harry Potter™ Collection brings LEGO® Harry Potter™: Years 1-4 and LEGO® Harry Potter™: Years 5-7 remastered! This compilation unites the creative prowess of LEGO and the expansive world of Harry Potter, with an exciting journey full of spell-casting, potion-making, puzzle-solving, lessons, dueling and much more for players of all ages to enjoy.

The LEGO Harry Potter: Collection unites the signature humor of LEGO games and the expansive world of Harry Potter with a thrilling journey full of spell-casting, potion-making, puzzle-solving, lessons, dueling and much more for players to enjoy. Fans can experience the entire LEGO Harry Potter adventure featuring content from seven books and eight films with enhanced graphics, environments, lighting and visual effects, along with two downloadable content (DLC) packs.

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[RetroRaconteur]

Which game should I try to platinum next?

[Rebateman]

All of that, defeating Voldemort... opening a box multiple times... just for 10 points to Griffindor.

[dvdh]

These videos make me want to go back and finally platinum my lego HP games as well! I don’t have your level of patience and dedication though lol. Sigh.. I’ll get there one day 😅

[yahoojojo]

From a casual player who just enjoys Harry Potter games: I preferred 1-4 by far, for a few reasons, which I'm going to write down just because I feel so passionately about it 😂
- The duelling was so tedious and so frequent!
- The amount of character-specific abilities in 5-7 was overwhelming, honestly. Arthur's blue wrench, Ron's Deluminator, Hermione's bag.
- The levels seemed longer (more rooms/scenes/locations) and more tedious to do, more teeny puzzles everywhere that stopped you in your tracks. I want to average the number of scenes in each level and compare the two to see if that's actually accurate. The puzzles were more focused on one tiny area than using the whole area, and the puzzles that did use the whole area were simple fetch-and-finds.
- So many explorable locations were cut down or removed completely. Dumbledore's office being gone was a real disappointment, and Diagon Alley even more.
- Starting in year 6? there are Death Eaters everywhere in free roam areas and are just plain annoying, because they attack and respawn almost immediately. Discovering Avada Kedavra removed them permanently was a HUGE relief.
- Some scenes in levels, some of the tasks, really came from out of left field. Needing to wash clothes at the Weasleys'. Having to extract Moody from the fountain. Mrs. Cole's grand adventure through the orphanage. Combined with the feeling of tediousness and increase in minipuzzles, I just didn't enjoy these levels and actively did not look forward to doing them.

That kind of puts it on the nose, when I realized I did not like 5-7 as much: I dreaded having to go back to do levels over, whereas in 1-4, for the most part, I was delighted to revisit levels. 1-4, I would pop on just to play a quick level and have some fun, but 5-7, I had to carve out time and expect to spend at least 20min on the shortest level (my fun comes from collecting everything, I will not walk past a banner without hitting it).

Even though 5-7 is a shorter play time than 1-4, it felt slow as molasses because of the endless puzzles and duelling. I have too many thoughts on the subject. But 100%ing 5-7 was more of a dry, dragging effort, compared to the excited grind of 1-4.

[TheYodelingViking]

I personally prefer 1-4 with one of the main reasons being that many areas (most notably all 4 common rooms) that were explorable before are no longer explorable in this game and although I liked some locations added I felt disappointed by some that weren't (like Hogsmeade, Ministry and Godrics Hollow only being a level). Spell wise they were both equal imo. Character wise again pretty equal. Level wise I enjoyed both, but just 1-4 slightly more. Graphics wise is the only place I preferred 5-7. I still love and enjoy both, but it just felt like they took away things they didn't need to and when adding new things they had a lot of missed potential. But it also goes to show how much potential a Skywalker Saga type of remake of Harry Potter has. Especially if they hopefully decide to follow more closely to the book story wise (which might be too much to hope for so I'll hope it happens, but won't add it to expectations).

[moviehermit]

I only had years 5-7 on console, and this brings back so many memories

[JEA-vvyw]

I got 100% in this game yesterday, good work.

[lillianwanke]

Are the VODS of your Lego playthroughs available anywhere? I'd love to watch them!

[MrsRetroRaconteur]

That must have been a really good cookie 😆

[bmill]

I'm currently working on this trophy, did the Sirus Black one was I was going through the story because of you. I have missed the tent ones, I'll see if can go back.

[Mary_Studios]

So glad you didn't have to retry the 1 mill stud level because you didn't get a key character.

[hobbybugs]

1-4 you can enter all the common rooms and dormitories

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Got to 99.9% bought everything and did everything, checked twice
Someone help