An Unbiased Review of Hogwarts Legacy

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Hogwarts Legacy has finally been released on PS5, Xbox Series X & S and PC. After much controversy in the weeks leading up to launch regarding JK Rowling's attachment to the series, we've seen many people swayed by their emotions whhen talking about this game. Wired recently did a review and gave it a 1/10 scores, streamers were harassed by their audiences and told them not to play the game. On the other hand, this has caused others to feel even more inclined to support the game and Metacritic user scores are higher than those of critics. In this video, I give my final verdict as someone trying to stay as objective about the game as I possibly can. I dive into the story, gameplay, broom flying, combat, and much more. Thanks for watching!

[AdamIsInTheGulag]

I completed it last night. It’s definitely a good game but not without flaws. Enemy variety, Generic open world activities, lacklustre side quests, performance issues, audio issues, voice acting, irritating gear capacity & bugs were my biggest gripes.

Despite these issues I had, you can tell when a game is made with love. For their first crack at the whip, they delivered the best HP game to date.

[Ahmenthi]

It's a shallow RPG but it's still a fun game. I'm not saying it's shallow as a negative, it's just very accessible gameplay most people can easily get into. The game is even better if you're a fan of the books and movies because there are so many familiar locations and references.
I hope they do a sequel, perhaps at another of the magical schools or in another time period.

[badastronaut]

I really appreciate you and other YouTubers standing their ground to both enjoy and critique this game. Thankfully some of us still have integrity.

[Charliestrife]

It’s definitely a good game but it’s suffers from a bland story\side quests (except for a small few quests which are pretty good), cliche and outdated world activities, and the fact that the desperately wanted hog warts student experience many of us crave isn’t really given to us in this game. There are more problems but these are, to me, the most problematic.

[MukiMuki]

Don't they realize they'd have to impede every product, movie, toy, etc that uses the Harry Potter IP to achieve their goals of stopping JK Rowlings

[jamesonm.]

Review starts at 4:42 Just get on with it man, jeez.

[connorsimpson]

Great review Robin. I think it's a very solid 8/10 game. Hogwarts and Hogsmead are the best parts of the world by far, but the wider world is a pretty safe open world. Combat is super fun and some side quests are great, especially one with the unforgivable curses, but some are very by the numbers fetch quests. It's definitely enhanced a lot if you're a fan of HP. I think it's a damn good effort for Avalanche's first foray into a game of this scope, but lots of room for improvement.

[chengong]

I bought the game expecting nothing more than just being able to walk around Hogwartz in modern graphics, but I found the story, combat and puzzles surprisingly great, even just dressing up my character with the gear system was enjoyable thanks to good looking clothing designs.

[PhoenixBlade]

My biggest problem with the game is the killing. It doesn't fit the world.

[TJTRIZZ]

I have never read or watched Harry Potter but thought this game looks like my type of game and I'm glad I played it I miss it whenever I'm not playing it

[pjsurratt]

I still play RPG's from over 10 years ago because the story and relationships feel deep and satisfying. Everything is beautiful and I love flying around and figuring out puzzles, but this is no Dragon Age, Mass Effect or Elder Scrolls.

[DylanAlexander]

Stealth would be so much better if you could interact with objects from afar to distract enemies, like trim the hedges randomly or knock stuff over.

[cookie]

I really loved the game, I think for me personally just wish there were more social sim aspects to the game. We are a student in the school yet we never really have to actually go to classes, hang out with friends etc.

[unusedTV]

The somewhat bland open world and side activities were a big let down. Same with the "extra assignments from professors". The story is fun, but total play time is much shorter than I hoped for €60.

[Dev-Austin]

Is she truly a transphobe, or did she just state that trans women and women aren't the same (which is so obviously true).

[mkbijnaam]

The game is very pretty and super fun to play, But compared to older games it doesnt feel super complex . The fighting is very easy and feels like a good made mobile game . Also i didnt get alot of ''Student'' feeling . First of all because they start us off as a fifth year . I get that they do that since they cant make a first year go out and cast the cursed spells . But they could atleast give us the "Magical'' feeling by making us take the whole trip and then just forward 5 Years in a cut scene . Also i would have expected to have taken more classes . And not just super easy 1 minute lessons and then do the most easy ever movement with my mouse to learn a spell ? and thats it i never ever go to class anymore . So yes the game is pretty and it is fun but not the ultimate game . Since its kinds boring at some point if you dont care about exploring and seeing how pretty the castel look . I dont get why alot of those ''people'' that are boycotting this game are doing so ? the game is made for sugar cubes . No challenges . If i look at other big franchise RPG games like the Witcher or Elder scroll games this game doesnt come close to it sadly

[cora]

Pros: Gorgeous graphics.

I enjoyed the combat dynamics.

I liked the customization for the main character.

In general, I really liked the main story quest. And the companion quests with Sebastian, Natty, and Poppy. Wish there was a second male npc here. Maybe one that was the opposite of Sebastian.

I feel like they left it open to have multiple sequels. I’m really eager to learn more about the story and to close off some loose ends. My imagination on the story has been set a light and that hasn’t happened since I read the original HP books. So great job on that part.

I loved the flying but do have some gripes on the controls.

Some of the NPCs were really good (Fig, Sebastian, Natty, Poppy, Prof Weasley, headmaster black) but most were flat, obnoxious, or uninteresting.

Definitely wish that there was a more dynamic system where our decisions had a greater affect on how the story played out. They really oversimplified that system in an effort to make players feel free to use the unforgivable curses. A lot of what I’ve seen, even among people who are enjoying using curses in combat are feeling the lack a satisfaction in going dark because of the lack of consequences. I really do hope they’ll find a way to fix that in any sequels.

Cons:
I really hate the inventory system and having to do merlin trials to up that.

The room of requirement is kinda cool, but is also a giant time suck to customize. Though I imagine some people enjoy that sort of thing.

Really do wish our decisions could have greater influence on the way the story plays out. That might have helped avoid the quests from feeling so shallow.

Wish there was some kind of school house point system. There could have used some of the mini side-quests to influence that.

Some of the game play gets a tad repetitive, like alohamora mini game.

Overall, I absolutely adore this game. Not being a big gamer or RPG player, I found it super easy to get sucked into. I truly feel there is so much potential here for sone really great stuff. I only fear they won’t be able to deliver what we want in a reasonable timeline.

[onlyred]

Much agreed with this. It was a joke that AngryJoe gave it a 10. Not even close

[YourDearEnemy]

My Unbiased Opinion

"I have my biases"

[rolfieboy]

It’s definitely room for improvement to certain things like the audio on some characters just felt dull and not as alive as the rest of the game.
But still I think For a studio that never had any experience with open World games this is phenomenal.
Just think about what other open world games you would draw comparisons with and look at how long their studios has been in the open world genre.