First and foremost, I want to get one thing out of the way: I'm not a Harry Potter fan. I haven't even watched the movies, and it's been a long time since I read any of J.K. Rowling's novels. However, when I watched the trailer for Hogwarts Legacy, I was captivated by what I saw. I decided to give Avalanche Software's game a chance with a fresh pair of eyes, and I'm glad I did. Set in the 1800s, the game puts you in the role of a fifth-year student at Hogwarts, where sinister events are unfolding. The story is pretty good, and Professor Fig serves as an important ally throughout the journey.

One of the game's biggest strengths is its world design. Avalanche Software has done a phenomenal job recreating Hogwarts Castle, Hogsmeade, and the surrounding Scottish Highlands. From talking portraits and wandering poltergeists to students practicing magic and magical creatures roaming the countryside, there's always something happening around you. Attending classes such as Potions, Charms, and Defense Against the Dark Arts also helps bring the experience to life. There's a tremendous amount of content, including side quests, challenges, magical beasts, puzzles, and activities to discover. The customization options are pretty good, too, although the limited voice choices are disappointing. It's unfortunate that Quidditch isn't included, considering how important it is to the Wizarding World.

Combat is another major highlight. Having played some of the older Harry Potter games on PS2 and the original Xbox, I found the combat in Hogwarts Legacy much more satisfying. There are numerous spells to learn, and combining them with combat plants, potions, and different abilities makes encounters enjoyable. The talent system and equipment upgrades give you additional ways to improve your character, while broomstick flying makes exploring the world a lot of fun. The game also looks gorgeous, with detailed character models, impressive lighting, magical effects, and vibrant environments. The voice acting is solid, and the soundtrack is absolutely beautiful. The main campaign takes around 40 hours, with plenty of additional content if you want to spend more time exploring.

Unfortunately, Hogwarts Legacy isn't without its problems. I encountered some strange animations, occasionally got stuck in objects, and had one instance where I couldn't access the menu and had to restart the game. Loading indicators when opening certain doors also became noticeable later on. My biggest frustration, however, was inventory management. Early in the game, inventory space is limited, forcing you to sell or destroy unwanted equipment. Completing Merlin Trials eventually helps expand your capacity, but I would have preferred a storage system for gear. I also found the mission boundaries frustrating on occasion, since leaving an area for too long can cause you to fail the mission. These issues are irritating, but they never overshadowed the overall experience.

Ultimately, I thoroughly enjoyed my time with Hogwarts Legacy. The story is good, the world is beautifully crafted, the combat is fun, and there's a satisfying amount of content without everything feeling unnecessarily padded. The ability to attend classes, learn spells, explore Hogwarts, and discover the surrounding countryside makes this feel like a genuine Wizarding World adventure. Despite its flaws, I think Avalanche Software has created an outstanding Harry Potter game that deserves recognition. I'd recommend it to both fans of the franchise and people like me who aren't particularly interested in Harry Potter.

Here's a link to the full review:

https://karthbil.wordpress.com/2024/03/08/hogwarts-legacy-review-a-magical-adventure/

This MC must think theyre so special and rules dont apply to them. Like imagine you have permission to leave the school, skip lessons, and break into peoples homes and take their stuff. Plus they get special magic, are allowed to fight random people in the woods, and are never in trouble for using unforgivables. Honestly would be kinda fun to live as the main character

She is more annoying than Zenobia, and no one talks about her.

"I'll give you the book if you humor me by answering some questions"

"You can give me the book or I can tell prof. Weasley I didn't complete her task because you didn't give me the book."

Or

"You can give me the book now or the crosswands champion can take it from you."

Don't bug me, annoying girl.

But I still have so much to do! I was kind of shocked when I defeated Ranrok on my second try (oh my gosh it was exhausting) then was told I'm done with the main game. I'm at level 30. I basically didn't do any Merlin trials until a week ago after about 6 months of playing off and on. I haven't yet earned AK but it's the last spell I need to have them all. So will I still enjoy the game if I just have side quests and exploration to do? I kinda can't believe I managed the main quests first. Has anyone else done it this way, and did you still enjoy the rest of the game? 🧙🏼‍♀️

I font have arachnophobia but i dont really like spiders so i turned or arachnophobia mode, to see thes beady-eyed creatures on roller skated bearing down on me. I think after seeing them it gave me little-mean-creatures-on-roller-skates-phobia. Like those ARE SCARIER.

As a teenager in the game I committed many crimes, including but not limited to:
1: mass murder. I often go places murdering a lot of beings. Be it my fellow wizard kind, poaching muggles, innocent wild wolves, and oh I did genocide on goblin kind and I blame their leader on their deaths so I feel less guilty. Oh I kill a lot of spiders.
Edit to add: I don’t only kill to self defense. I kill so I can fulfill some killing challenges…
2: grand theft. I loot boxes in front of the owners. I took everything I could. I pick locks going into people’s houses looting their belongings in front of their kids.
3: I poach beasts. As Deek once described his previous evil owners, I poach beasts for their feathers, their horns. Poacher put them into cages. Well I put them in a sack, lots of them in a single sack actually. And yah I sell them for money.
4: not exactly a crime but I keep collecting others’ private notes, diaries etc don’t care for their privacy and stuff.
5: I use dark magic shamelessly. Well I do use good magic too. I use incendio to burn others to death but somehow it’s less frowned upon. But yeah I use dark magic constantly.
The list goes on and on…

I think the symbol is for the field page but when I do the Revelio spell nothing shows up :( Any help much appreciated

Unsure if this is unique to me. Playing on Steam via PC.

Game ran find for 40+ hours until yesterday. Now when I load into a game, the game freezes after 2-3 min and a black screen pops up with the Steam bar at the bottom that shows two button options to abort the game or continue, but nothing happens when clicking those.

Usually it does it when I try to travel to a Foo Flame location, but now its even doing it in just the menus before even loading in.

Already tried verifying the files in Steam and re-installing the game, but no luck.

My set-up is:

AMD Ryzen 5 3400G with Radeon Vega graphics - Processor

16GB of RAM

NVIDA GeForce GTX 1660 Super (8GB)

AMD Radeon(TM) RX Vega 11 Graphics (2GB)

HP N246v monitor

I tried every trick in the book from Youtube videos and the stuttering is getting annoying, along with the long loading time and door delay. (Hogwarts legacy) I mostly get 30-40 FPS which is ok but the stuttering is annoying.

Says there is a infamous foe here and i can't get to it. Its the last thing im missing in this region. I have no clue if it was a quest done or if there is a way to do it🥺 any help would be appreciated

Hi, all. I've been playing Hogwarts Legacy for just over a month and I'm at a bit of a crossroads. I did my first play through as a Hufflepuff (Pottermore quiz from way back) and 100%ed every collection, got all other achievements besides the Map Chamber trophies of the other houses. I have now reached the Map Chamber as my second character, a Ravenclaw, and am not sure what to do next. I love this game and an ultimate goal of mine would be 100% on all four houses but do you guys think I should go for the trophies and play two more characters until I get to the Map Chamber with them first, or stick with my Ravenclaw character until he's 100% as well before starting Gryffindor or Slytherin?

I know I gotta reload but anyone got the same issue? Do you guys have any idea what causes this?

As a big fan of the Football Manager series and Harry Potter, I wanted to combine those worlds into a game mostly to play myself: Quidditch Manager. The idea: You take over a professional quidditch team and lead it to success by building their squad, developing players and facilities, coaching them in matches and managing their finances. What started as a super simple game a couple of months ago now has 2D match animation, various leagues and teams (some cannon, some made up), a lot of easter eggs here and there and in general a lot of depth. I really made an effort to build a balanced game that is “realistic” and fun over a longer time. I enjoy playing it myself a lot and keep adding features all the time. Also, got some first feedback from players around the world which makes me kind of proud. Disclaimer: This was realized with a lot of help from AI. I am not a developer, so I couldn’t have done this any other way.

Try it here: https://quidditch-manager.com/

Looking forward to some feedback!

This is my first post on Reddit and I didn’t think it’d be on r/HarryPotterGame BUT this is just so terrifying that I had to post it to see if anyone related.

I have extreme arachnophobia and trypophobia to where holes and spiders give me extreme panic attacks. Like if I eat pancakes and there’s holes in it I can’t even eat it(and I LOVE pancakes so it’s unfortunate that it’s a frequent issue). Playing Hogwarts Legacy, I was NOT expecting this many SPIDERS IN THE GAME. I mean, ofc I’ll still play it bc I’m a huge Harry Potter nerd but it’s just one negative in the game if I had to point it out… But I’m also not going to say “they shouldn’t put that in a game, what if people also have panic attacks from seeing digital spiders?!” Bc that would take the game experience and some magical-ness out of the game lol

I am just wondering if anyone experiences anxieties while playing this game too? Asking for a friend (´°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ω°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥｀)

They're just that nice. We didn't break a sweat

Hi all,

My switch version of Legacy keeps crashing. I don’t know how or why as it does it randomly. There is nothing to replicate. Has anyone else experienced this and have tips?

ive played multiple paythroughs, and in combat i never think to use stupefy. I might have used it when prompted against the statues but other than than no. Do yall redditors use it

I’m new to this game, is this a safe place to say I don’t like the alohamora spell? I mean I might as well be a sneak thief bc if I gotta do it manually why even have the spell 🫩

I have annoying issue with hands/gloves. Gloves only appear in menu but do not appear in open world.

I've tried w/o mods same result.

Did someone encounter that before ?

I will not make lengthy or detailed reviews or opinions- it's all personal really.

All over- the game is 5.5 to a 6 out of 10 for me.

The Good:-
1. The Hogwarts Setting itself- the castel and everything around it is amazing, I really did get immersed in it.
2. Surprisingly- I liked my character's male VA, which was strange, I didn't really think I would like that but I did- and they way he says 'Crucio', like damn!
3. I liked the combat, the hard difficulty, it was fun, switching between spells and managing them- placing them in a way to time it, the dodging and perfect blocking, it actually felt good- and casting of spells actually felt like it had weight to them.
4. The broom, the mounts and the Graphorn are actually fun to use.
5. To a certain extent I liked solving puzzles as well.
6. Hot take- I enjoyed the alohomora mini game as well as the beast capture mini game.
7. This is another hot take- but I like the fact that quest givers are like to tell it to an adult, they treat us like students and children- which we are! Especially- Nora Treadwell, that old woman- was ready to throw hands for a student she just met.
8. Hogwarts and Hogsmead feels alive- sort of- like students and adults are doing their own thing, someone is getting cussed at by their mother- and I am pretty sure I saw a student with an adult very close sitting on a bench, so, you do you I guess.
9. The Side quests- especially relationship quests, were good, I liked that.
10. The plants, and brewing of potions and Vivariums are great- and making potions here- felt useful, and plants too- I used them actually, and I had to constantly make new- which I liked!

The Bad and the mid:-
1. Apart from Hogwarts, the rest of the world looks good, that's it- it looks good, there is nothing- nothing it's empty and just bloated.
2. I do not know how to note it, but doing everything feels like a chore at the start- for the first 4-5 hours, it almost feels like we can't do anything.
3. Illusion of choice, there is none, like literally- there is no choice, no matter what we do- most if not all, turns out the same or mostly the same really- with different dialogue choices.
4. The main quest is boring and mid, it is- I was more invested in Sebastian, Natsai and Poppy' story line, and even they could have used more work. It was half done, we know little to nothing about Isidora, also, I get we are children- but why didn't no one explain to Isidora what she was doing was wrong, like you guys are adults right? Explain it to her, I know, I know these days we can't expect much from adults, but even then- at least a proper explanation would have been nice. What should I feel for Isidora? I don't know, I really don't.
Most quests are fetch quests really.
5. The classes did not feel like classes, I felt like I had to do this, just to do this and it bothered me that I could not attend the classes.
6. I didn't really care for any of the teachers, even Fig, like to an extent I did, but I just had no attachment to them- I had more attachment to Deek and Penny, and I knew Penny for one quest! That quest also sucked balls- kinda- like it was mid.
7. Illusion of choice, part-2, since it has no morality system or anything, nobody cares- if I use forbidden curse, but good lord if a cutscene uses it and then makes a big deal out of it.
8. For collection- I am indifferent at it really- mid at best.
9. Same goes for outfits- mid at best- apart from some.
10. We did not have Quidditch, at least we could have perhaps a Broom race against others? That would have been fun, but you know, Headmaster Black dislikes fun.
11. Bugs, good lord the bugs, the lighting bugs in the cave- I had to go there at night, loadings bugs, freezing bugs, stutter, things not showing, etc, etc.

tldr- Final Verdict- should you buy? If you are a fan of Harry Potter, go for it on sale. It’s at best an okay game.
What could have been better?
Instead of we- our character being the MC- it should have been- Sebastian, Natsai and Poppy, they could have been the trio of this story- just like the Harry Potter books, if if you want 4, Sebastian, Natsai and Poppy and Amit- each House, and Amit could have been added for better quest.
4 of them fight in a different manner and their personal quest would align with each other- that would have been great- that could have been 'Hogwarts Legacy'- of four Houses coming together and working to achieve something- helping each other, you know?

If we get an RPG- I hope it picks up more from Bully the game by Rockstar- the class system and the Prefect system is goated and each class we learn something- that helps us in some way, even outfits- please, make me attend classes, make teachers question where am I if I don't go to class- make it so I have to sneak out of the school at night, dodging prefects, make my choices have consequences- it cannot be Role playing, if the only role I play is already set for me.
That's all folks.
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I’ve never played it but I want to play it around Halloween. but if it takes several hours/days I need to know for when to start there mission.

So I’m working on the mission where you retrieve the goblin helmet and I’m at the part where I go to the ashwinders camp. I’ve run into what is either a bug or the best spawn placement of all time. There’s a troll on the edge of camp, and one of the ashwinders says something about trespassing, zaps the troll, who immediately kills him in one hit. There’s other ashwinder notices the troll, zaps him, also dies in one hit. Meanwhile I’m just sitting behind a rock with my disillusionment, waiting to get close enough for petrificus totalis, and this troll just did my job for me.

I heard a rumor that they are going to set the new game in a new era, new characters, new story.

Sounds fun but I know a lot of fans really want a sequel with our mc from the first legacy.