Hogwarts Legacy

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  • Summary: LIVE THE UNWRITTEN - Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive, open-world action RPG set in the world first introduced in the Harry Potter books. Now you can take control of the action and be at the center of your own adventure in the wizarding world. Embark on a journey through familiar and newLIVE THE UNWRITTEN - Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive, open-world action RPG set in the world first introduced in the Harry Potter books. Now you can take control of the action and be at the center of your own adventure in the wizarding world. Embark on a journey through familiar and new locations as you explore and discover fantastic 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. You have received a late acceptance to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and soon discover that you are no ordinary student: you possess an unusual ability to perceive and master Ancient Magic. Only you can decide if you will protect this secret for the good of all, or yield to the temptation of more sinister magic.

    Discover the feeling of living at Hogwarts as you make allies, battle Dark wizards, and ultimately decide the fate of the wizarding world. Your legacy is what you make of it.    … Expand
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 52 out of 56
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 56
  3. Negative: 0 out of 56
  1. Gaming Age
    Feb 8, 2023
    100
    If you’ve ever wished you could get that acceptance letter to Hogwarts – or even if you want a fun fantasy game you can sink yourself into for hours and hours and hours – this is what you’ve always dreamed of. It’s hard to imagine another game topping this one in 2023.
  2. GamersRD
    Feb 7, 2023
    95
    Hogwarts Legacy is an extremely beautiful game that features a not-so-open world, full of life and places to explore. The fighting system is very original. The fighting system is very original and it is extremely deep, it allows you to perform some great combos, defend yourself in multiple ways and it is also quite fluid. It has a beautiful soundtrack and very good performances. Sometimes I feel that the game guides us too much and that it lacks a bit of challenge in its activities. Hogwarts Legacy is definitely the game we were promised and expected.
  3. WellPlayed
    Feb 6, 2023
    90
    Hogwarts Legacy is the most definitively accurate and exciting wizarding world adventure people could hope to experience, short of getting a real-life invitation to Hogwarts. With hours of content and a wealth of wizarding wonderment, you’d be hard pressed not to enjoy yourself to an impressive capacity.
  4. GRYOnline.pl
    Feb 6, 2023
    90
    Hogwarts Legacy's wonderful world makes it one of those games that you'd just love to keep experiencing for the first time - forever - and we envy anyone who's yet to step into it. Even if it's just a regular, open-world game underneath all the magic, it truly is an excellent one.
  5. Multiplayer.it
    Feb 6, 2023
    85
    Hogwarts Legacy is the best Harry Potter inspired video game ever made. Avalanche Software managed to capture the magic of the Wizarding World and built a relaxing and satisfying safe haven for every potterhead. It’s not all roses, many flaws from the open world formula are still present and it remains a cross-gen video game, but it manages to keep its core promise: to give life to Hogwarts itself. And this, in our book, it’s already a big win.
  6. PC Games
    Feb 6, 2023
    80
    Hogwarts Legacy is definitely worth it for fans. The gaming experience mainly suffers from minor technical flaws as well as a certain tonal incoherence. However, if you can overlook this, you can expect a magical adventure with lots of attention to detail. The developers' enthusiasm for the magical world of Hogwarts shines through at every nook and cranny.
  7. Guardian
    Feb 6, 2023
    60
    Hogwarts Legacy starts to feel like countless open-world games of the past decade once you’ve been playing it for more than 15 hours. However, you get to ride a Hippogriff. It’s those magical moments and the setting that rescue it from mediocrity, but only if the Wizarding World still has you under its spell.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 191 out of 212
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 212
  3. Negative: 17 out of 212
  1. ZingersBaobab
    Feb 9, 2023
    10
    An astonishing accomplishment. The game manages to embody the feeling of the world of Harry Potter and do it in a way that feels distinctAn astonishing accomplishment. The game manages to embody the feeling of the world of Harry Potter and do it in a way that feels distinct from the world we have already seen. The story is interesting and has enough to it that it keeps you engaged and there is enough to do that you can never claim to be bored and best of all, very little repetition of activities.… Expand
  2. Rooseweld
    Feb 8, 2023
    10
    Amazing game that i have always dreamed of playing growing up, and now it's finally here.
  4. Nyy22592
    Feb 9, 2023
    10
    It's even better than the hype.

    Careful because the boycotters are mad that this game isn't a bust so they're review bombing and posting    It's even better than the hype.

    Careful because the boycotters are mad that this game isn't a bust so they're review bombing and posting spoilers in their reviews.    … Expand
  5. NeotheRipper
    Feb 9, 2023
    10
    40 hours of exzellent gemeplay. Good Story and i love the Style. Thx for this amazing Game!
    For me the best game in the Harry Potter Universe.
  6. Riverhawk
    Feb 9, 2023
    10
    Beautiful game. Very addicting and easy to get lost in. Ingore the haters and the politics.
  7. Malakhov
    Feb 8, 2023
    9
    This is an amazing game for all HP fans! Hogwarts has been recreated with love, overall the open world feels very detailed and magical.This is an amazing game for all HP fans! Hogwarts has been recreated with love, overall the open world feels very detailed and magical. Different game mechanics and activities are just what you always wanted to do reading books/watching films. Music is amazing and helps immerse in Hogwarts, voice acting is very good, too. PS5 graphics (fidelity + ray tracing) are really nice, especially global lighting and changing of seasons.
    Work with DualSense is really impressive, casting spells and riding a broom are my favorites
    I rated this 9, because obviously there are some problems in release version, but which can be easily fixed by developers (I guess for similar reasons NON-Wizarding World fan would rate this game 3,5/7,5): -impossibility to sleep and very weird skip time mechanics (not immersive)
    - empty dormitories during nighttime, like all the students are gone (this is really cringe). Overall “sleep” problem in this game - outdated dialogue mechanics, lack of dialogue choices. It’s really strange to see characters entering dialogues in same way as in Mass Effect or Skyrim (this can’t be fixed I’m afraid and we’ll have to live with this)
    - different glitches with animals / npc, but that’s ok really, it happens everywhere, fixable with patches
    - most of the side quests are really weak, it’s a shame :( BUT, it’s fixable with additional content at some point and of course in amazing sequel we await. Lore is amazing and there are such amazing quests you could come up with, stories to be brought to life, but somehow maybe it was a time / budget issue for developers
    - why can’t you sit on a chair/bench in Hogwarts, just listen to music and look around, just watching students do their stuff. In stead you can even create multiple chairs you can’t sit on. Instead there are like 100500 geographical globes around the game which you can interact and “roll”.    … Expand
  8. jacobjimmy
    Feb 9, 2023
    0
    the game in general is just bad the story is boring and predictable i mean from the very start i could tell that my teacher would die at thethe game in general is just bad the story is boring and predictable i mean from the very start i could tell that my teacher would die at the end and that rookwood is the one who cursed anne and the whole goblin rebelion being a set up was predictable. The combat is also no better then the story, there is multiple bugs and the performance is near unacceptable the only way i can see anyone giving this game higher then a 6 is if they are a massive harry potter fan and are able to over look all the issues… Expand

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