You’ll sneak into the basement of the Honeydukes sweet shop by taking the secret passage behind the one-eyed witch statue steal your way into what will one day be Dumbledore’s office, past the sleeping portraits of previous headteachers and even explore the house elf kitchen below the great hall, where the indentured servants load up tables of food to be magicked up to the waiting students above. The development team at Avalanche has done a clever job of taking all the world of the Harry Potter books and weaving its plot and quests through as many familiar sites as it can. (Image credit: Warner Bros) Tour of the wizarding worldįor all those unexpected moments of discovery, Hogwarts Legacy is at its best when it puts you on a scripted path. But then, when you’re in a world filled with collectibles and missions that push you to retread your steps, all you’re going to do is spot the loops. Built to make a great first impression, they don’t often reward revisiting. Many open-world games struggle with repetition in their environments. It has the appearance of life but becomes stale once it turns into repetition. I heard the same conversations around me, the same music playing, and the same interactions between the ghosts, the portraits, and the students. I’m going through the halls in circles, casting Revelio every few seconds, trying to spot the telltale glint of a hidden Field Guide page. It has the appearance of life but becomes stale once it turns into repetition The Gargoyle complains about its placement again. Again, one of them is humming, and the other, tired of its colleague’s noise, punches it on the arm. But then I pass the suits of armor in the corridor near the Gryffindor common room. I lost myself in those first hours of Hogwarts Legacy, submerged in the story of Rankrok’s growing rebellion, wandering the corridors of Hogwarts looking for Field Guide pages, helping out students with puzzles, and taking in the charming details added by designers. Others pages fly around the vaulted ceilings of the school like pigeons, and you can summon them to your hand by casting Accio. Some of them are ghostly outlines that you’ll spot in front of statues and landmarks, and casting Revelio nearby will manifest them into the world for you to collect. Hogwarts and the world around it are full of pages to discover. The only way to collect experience points in Hogwarts Legacy is to complete quests and challenges logged in your Field Guide. Pages fly around the vaulted ceilings of the school like trapped pigeons Your lessons in Potions, Defence Against the Dark Arts, and Herbology appear as missions to complete, a scripted set-piece that rewards you with a new spell to use around the world. Deputy headmistress Weasley gives you a journal called the Wizard’s Field Guide, which tracks your quests and contains a map of the school, Hogsmeade, the wider world, and all the challenges and collectibles you can cross off. (Because I’m a goodie-two-shoes, I ended up in Gryffindor, although my head wanted to land in Ravenclaw.)Īt this point, Hogwarts Legacy begins to open up. Answering questions from the headwear, you’re placed in a house that fits your sensibilities. Hogwarts Legacy’s story sees you exploring this ancient magic and why Ranrok is so intent on harnessing it for himself.Īfter a detour involving a dragon, a portkey, and a set of puzzles in the depths of Gringotts bank, you arrive at Hogwarts just in time to take part in the Sorting Hat ceremony. This is the first hint as to what makes you special you can see and interact with this magic that other wizards can’t even perceive. To the two older men, it looks like an ordinary cylinder, but you can see a strange glow upon it. The friend pulls out a package he received from someone who Ranrok was hunting. You overhear the two talking about a goblin called Ranrok, amassing an army of loyalists and harassing witches and wizards all over Britain. On your journey to the school, you are joined by a friend of Fig’s, a member of the Ministry of Magic. This is an entirely different set of heroes and villains they’re just inhabiting the same locations you're familiar with But, he soon sees why you may have had this rare dispensation to join the school. Something your mentor, Professor Fig, tells you in the introduction is practically unheard of. Another key difference between Harry Potter and Hogwarts Legacy is that you don’t start at the school with the other students you are a late arrival, entering as a fifth year.
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