Hogwarts Legacy

It feels like I stepped into the world of Harry Potter. The music is great. The story is great from what I've played, and the gameplay kept me entertained. The reason why I haven't progressed the story is because I'm always busy exploring the many areas of Hogwarts. I recommend this game to any Harry Potter fan. Even if you've never read the books or watched the movies, I'm sure you'll like this game. 10/10

One of my favourite new gaming experiences of the last decade. HW:Legacy has ticked all the boxes, it respected the source material but gave us enough new lore to make it feel real. I wish I could go back and play it for the first time again.

I liked the game, its pretty and some of the story tie ins were neat. But as far as big budget games go it really lacked depth. The charters were in-distinguishable from each other most of the time. The whole game is one big railroad, there is no dialogue or side character work that feels really immersive or choose your own adventure-ish. It felt directed towards younger audiences, both with the one dimensional charters and the ease of the logic problems.

There aren't many clickable elements in comparison to other games. There isn't really any differentiation to the loot... like you just defeated 10 big boss creatures... have a scarf worth 60 bucks.... you walked into a house on the side of the road have a scarf worth 60 bucks. None of the loot really matters, or adds to the story. The quests don't increase your friendliness with characters, or really change anything. Sometimes if you do a bunch of side quests characters will reference some task you did 20 game days ago as if it was this afternoon, and super relevant.

The puzzles are repetitive, and if you don't solve it the first time they just tell you the answer.

There is no real day cycle-that makes you feel like you are at a school, or on a schedule. You kind just run around on your own time, don't ever sleep, or eat or socialise outside of quests.

Hogwarts Legacy manages to re-create some of the vibe / atmosphere from the books and movies, but the meaningless tasks that fill the open world do little to captivate. And NO QUIDDITCH (!)
Average. 5/10
Total size on ssd: 71 GB

++ Hogwarts is a maze of hidden rooms and puzzles. Prowling the castle just to see what was around the next corner was easily the best part of the game.
+ Level of environmental detail is impressive.
+ Some great character writing among the students. Sebastian, Natty and Poppy all have good arcs. I enjoyed their quests more than I enjoyed the main story tbh.
+ Some good side-quests. Finding a certain chest in the back of a shop in Hogsmeade was easily one of my favorites.
+ Music is good.
+ Can continue playing after the story is complete.

+/- Story is meh. Stakes are high, but Ranrok just can’t compare to Voldemort.
+/- combat is fun for the most part. Bosses are annoyingly spongy.
+/- Role-playing / The Room of Requirement. The Room of Requirement is the answer to all your wizarding needs! Want to pretend to be Newt Scamander with a menagerie of Fantastic Beasts? The Room of Requirement has what you need! How about your own greenhouse for growing plants? Room of Requirement. Potion making? Room of Requirement. Playing house & decorating? Room of Requirement. Would much rather have had to go to Biology class to grow plants, or potions class to brew potions. You know, like a Hogwarts student might do? Once the tutorials are completed, there’s little reason to go to any of the classrooms. Was hoping my House’s common room would be a centerpiece of my time at Hogwarts – as it would be for a student at Hogwarts – but not only was I barely there, I had almost zero reason to ever go there.

- - NO QUIDDITCH?! The headmaster has canceled quidditch for the current school year. Why? Someone was injured or something idk. Point is, there is NO QUIDDITCH in the game.
- terrible optimization, more than a year after release. Frequent stutters and frame-drops. Ray-tracing makes it worse, and activating upscaling doesn’t fix it. (Ryzen 5950X + RTX 4070TiS)
- high system ram usage. Regularly spiked past 20GB total (Windows + the game)
- relies on switching between “spell sets” to access the plethora of possible spells. There are four possible spell sets, and each set can have four possible spells and no more. You can put whatever spell you want into a spell-set, but you only have four available at any one time without switching between them. Switching sets relies on the F-keys (F1, F2, F3 and F4) and is cumbersome as heck. Console-itis at its worst.
- flying on the broom feels slow
- no penalty for being out and about after hours. Curfew is meaningless.
- no penalty for being evil (like using Unforgivable Curses)
- after the first mission, no penalty for entering the Restricted Section of the library
- since when are students allowed to roam the countryside around Hogwarts killing bandits and goblins?
- most side quests are meaningless busy-work
- frequent copy-pasting of parts of dungeons
- lock-picking is a mini-game. Alohomora is supposed to be an instantaneous spell. And you will be picking a LOT of locks in Hogwarts Legacy.
- best way to fight poachers is… to become a poacher. BUT we’re doing it to save the creatures, not exploit them, so it’s okay, you see. Except we are exploiting them for fur, hair, feathers, etc. which we can use via crafting, or sell for money. We can even breed them.

If you’re a Harry Potter fan, or have seen the movies without reading the books, Hogwarts Legacy is a decent nostalgia trip, though the lack of true role-playing will irritate and annoy. If you know nothing about Harry Potter and are just looking for a fun magic game, Hogwarts Legacy checks some of the boxes, but the Ubisoft-style open world will be a burden to complete.

This is the game I've been waiting for since I was a kid and the first few movies came out. I honestly just love being able to explore Hogwarts and Hogsmeade. The story and characters aren't the best but it's a good start for what I hope will be more games in the future. I give it a 7/10, decent but definitely not exceptional. Graphics optimization could use some improvement as well.

This is the most beautiful pile of garbage ever created. The game is visually stunning but the gameplay is atrocious. It's a very obvious console port and the game mechanics are bad. I haven't finished it yet, although I intend to, just to see if the story is any good, but it is a painful slog.

The architecture of Hogwarts is amazing, but sadly it simply doesn't matter because you can just fast travel everywhere anyways, with a map that is harder to navigate than the terrain. The whole castle is what I want to call "false seamless", that is you are supposed to be able to just walk through any door in the castle at least, but very often, even with my state of the art PC with an M2 SSD, the second fastest processor on the market, enough RAM to store the whole game on it, the other area isn't loaded yet, and you collide with a door that doesn't open (how about increasing the loading trigger area or something?). So the initial impression is that there are doors that go nowhere. Literal loading screens would be better than what they ended up producing. Interspersed with this unfinished experiment you still have loads of loading zones here and there, so it all feels really messy and disappointing. The game could very well feature something like having to memorize certain aspects of the layout of Hogwarts to get around, maybe asking the paintings where to go or sneaking around at night, attending classes and being penalized for missing them, a time turner that has a limited amount of charges, an actual need to sleep or eat (and maybe a spell to alleviate that need), just about anything that meets a single expectation of realism (or in this case, magic) like that after navigating the castle for the first time. Sadly the whole castle is nothing but a very large prop and it might as well not even be there. The magic is there for a split second when you start the game and then it gets gnawed away in huge chunks as you realize that this is just the same bad game you probably already played many times before with a different skin. The game could be forgiven if it had other redeeming qualities. Sadly it does not.

Flying, while sometimes pretty, is mechanically very boring. It's very obviously made for consoles. Jumping on your broom requires pressing Tab+3. Sometimes you accidentally just press Tab and waste a potion or worse. If you collide with a wall, you stop and keep floating in the air, and it clearly isn't due to some protection magic, it's just immersion breaking bad physics. So there is no danger to flying, except for accidentally wasting resources when jumping on your broom. You can't always jump on your broom or land and it is infuriating (like if you're standing on a rock or on a hill that's too steep or something). Let me land and die if I do it wrong, just don't force arbitrary flying zones and tell me I can't jump off a broom that's right above the ground. Also many things you wish you could do in regards to flying is simply impossible. See a nice tower you want to go stand on for a bit? Not acceptable, you can't land here. Want to fly over the highest tower of Hogwarts? Also impossible, there's an invisible sky wall there. God forbid something like flying upside-down or using the mouse to look straight down or something (which you want to do surprisingly often to check what type of enemy you just flew over). Not to mention flying indoors or in Hogsmeade. The game is full of these little details that let you know that you lack the freedom the game promises, the freedom you might have experienced and have come to expect in basically any other game with any decent quality. There is something very wrong with how the game handles consequences by lacking them. If you cast spells on people nothing really happens. Fire doesn't spread. People don't react to an explosion right next to them. Casting Avada Kedavra in the middle of school doesn't result in anything. Nothing matters, and so the game feels empty.

You keep leveling up, but so do the enemies, and the equipment you find follows the exact same curve. The first troll you fight is just as difficult as the last one, and the equipment you use is exactly the same with different numbers. This is a complete disaster from a gameplay perspective. Nothing changes and nothing matters. The mouse you fight at level one should be easy to kill when you're level 10, but here it just keeps leveling up with you, so there is no sense of progression whatsoever. The numbers go up, but that's it. There are special tricks to dealing faster with enemies (like Dugbogs, which you can kill with just two different spells in the correct order), but it remains unclear if those exist for all enemies or just some of them. The variety of enemies is also atrociously low. There are spiders, animals, goblins, dark wizards and animated knights and that's it. 5 different enemies that are always at your level. 6 different types of gear that are basically just numbers that follow your level (sometimes they have an effect on certain spells or protect against a certain enemy type, but the exact numbers are never revealed and as a player I haven't cared about them at all). Cosmetic wand handles, cosmetic brooms, cosmetic everything. You keep playing the same boring game through every level and nothing fundamentally really changes.

The game bombards you with quest after quest and you completely lose any sense of what you're supposed to do for who and why. Non-linearity is great when it works, but in this game it simply does not. There is no real purpose to the side-quests, except maybe for learning spells in the first place or acquiring more cosmetic items. Quest dialogue gets cut off by something like NPC chatter, the main character casting a spell, or even another quest starting. Every quest is basically a fetch-quest, sometimes in disguise, but mostly just the same old thing you've already done a hundred times.

The game contains 26 spells/things you put in your spell slots, but just 16 slots. You can almost instantly unlock all 16 slots, so unlocking them doesn't really feel like a thing. So there are 10 spells (or similar things) that you might randomly need that you can't equip at all times, but that you can manually re-equip. I can't even describe how dumb this feels. You have access to every spell, no limit to how often you can switch them around, you just have to pause the game to access them, which makes no sense. Why not give people two more "Spell Sets"/rows of spells? It is perhaps the most atrocious UI design decision I have ever seen in a game.

There are two things you can do to defend in a fight, and they are casting protego to defend against spells or weak melee hits or dodging away if the spell or hit can't be shielded against. These two are indicated by a warning circle which is either yellow or red. That's not very helpful if somebody is color blind, and my reflexes seem to be just that. Certain other games with similar systems with shapes instead of colors are easier. Anyways, there are basically two different ways to protect yourself, however dodging works against everything. So you end up just rolling in a circle around the enemies, casting a spell every now and then. Combat isn't very interesting when you end up doing that all the time. It's cool that you have to pair up the right spell color to break the right enemy shield, but sadly it isn't that interesting after a while and only works with dark wizards. Even a tiny bit more of that with other enemies might have been great.

The game takes absolutely no risks in regards to any system whatsoever and you end up with porridge when you wanted a fine meal. I would have loved an unfinished, half-baked, crazy-ideas-filled mess over this latest mass-produced goo from the game mines. A bad game that took even a single risk would have been better than this. The writing isn't bad, the graphics are better than perfect, the ambiance is great, but the game itself stinks.

i LOVE this game!
few games have done a better job making you FEEL like you are in the world of a previously established non-game based franchise as this game does. the other that immediately comes to mind is the Mad Max game, and i guess cp77 deserves this praise as well. the point being tho that this game feel just so perfectly potterverse (you even get shades of the fantastic beasts movies). yes its a bummer that quiddich is missing, as it is another defining aspect of the wizarding world, esp when it comes to hogwarts, but im sure it was for technical reasons more than anything else. and, if im being perfectly honest, i dont miss it THAT much. as an open world game it does a great job, with many things to do around the map, even if they are mostly very simple puzzles or basic fetch based encounters. the quests so far feel appropriate to the world, and you get to play another "special" wizard/witch, pursued by the current big bad of the time period, and pulled into a deep mystery that puts your formal education on the back seat. the game does a great job pacing itself, introducing new features and abilities once youve had time to learn the previous ones, and so far the mix of story and side quests works for an openworld game. it has decent character customization and a robust transmog system so you can look just as you want to. in fact one of my only complaints is that you cant set presets for your transmogs, so anytime you change gear, or want to swap to a new look you have manually go through each item and set the look you want. it would be great if you could save a loadout into a wardrobe or something (like in diablo 4). my only other real complaint is the lack of any kind of consequences, or rather the mismatch between the stated flavor of the world and the reality of said world. for example, there is a strict curfew for students, meaning you are not allowed to go out at night (this is talked about several times), but this is NEVER enforced unless you are actively on a quests that has you out at night, at which point there are guards looking for you and if they find you you fail the quest. yet if you are not on a quest you can be out as late as you want and no one cares. there are no guards looking, and even other npcs are all at their posts, waiting for you to talk to them as tho it were daytime. i get this from a design standpoint, but there is a wait feature already in the game, so it would make going out at night much more interesting if you could get caught and sent back to your room, so youd have to sneak out again, or just wait for morning to do your business. there are a few other minor things too, like the mention of the classic shifting staircases, but nothing like this exists in the game, and the map is fully fixed. again, i get this from a design standpoint, but there is a feature to guide you to where you want to go, so even if the map could change to a few different configurations, its not like you couldnt still find your way. and speaking of maps, my other biggest complaint is that the map suuuuuucks. or to be clear the map for the school sucks (the worldmap and hogsmead map are ok). it doesnt show room/floor layouts, just waypoints floating in space, and its clumped in odd ways so you have to toggle to the right location based menu to see the waypoints where you want to go, but even these can be very hard to actually know which is right because what LOOKS closest might actually be quite far from where you want to go as it could be on a different floor with a winding rout to get where you want. it is unclear and confusing. still all these detractors dont make it a bad game. i still love it, and i look forward to seeing where it all goes. lets hope they dont completely ruin the sequel by filling it with live action slop and microtransactions like it sounds like they are planing to do...

tldr: great game so far. minor issues, but they dont ruin the rest. the FEEL of the game is spot on!

I couldn't finish it! IT WAS SO BORING.

I'm been a massive fan of Harry Potter since 1999 and IDK if that negatively or positively impacted my experience, but my experience was that this game f'n stinks. The game is visually stunning, but everything else about it is insanely dull.

Gameplay is too repetitive. I hate that in modern big-budget AAA gaming, we still have open world games that fill the map with a thousand little icons of meaningless crap to do. Not only that, but you cannot mark all these little areas off the map unless you've learned the correct spell first. Exploration is frustrating because most of the things you discover, you'll have to return to later in the game. This is like... fake gameplay. It's bad, it's stinky, it's no good, and this is not the correct way to extend a player's play time. Same goes for: boring and meaningless sidequests. Of which there are plenty. This is most of the game, in fact.

My biggest problem with the game, however, is this: it lacks heart and soul. It's so lifeless and uninspired. A boring and underwhelming main story is one thing, but this is excusable as long as the side stories and characters are good. But, they're not! All sidequests are BLAND, the supporting cast is BLAND, the main character is BLAND. Part of the magic of Harry Potter is friendship and seeing all of the bonds forming between the colorful cast of characters. In fact, I would consider friendship (and love and family) to be the most important theme of the series -- so why, then, are your classmates so dull and forgettable? I don't care about ANY of these people. They could all die and I wouldn't care. How are you going to make a story set in the Wizarding World and completely miss what makes it so great? Even Fantastic Beasts succeeded in representing the themes of friendship/family/love, even if it failed on every other front.

There's just no motivation to keep playing, for me.

Well, I finished the game and it was a chore.

The beginning is good, discovering Hogwarts, mastering your first spells, your first visit to Hogsmead...
And you expect something great but it never happens, it even becomes worst and worst the more your progress.

The main story could have been good, a classic but solid plot who could have lead to some good twists, secrets, side paths... But it just fall flat, like almost every side quests. As if a complex plot would have deterred the public, so they made a game for idiots.
Not a single choice have a consequence on the world or even yourself.

Most of the quests are just fillers, fetching is the main and only idea, think about the most basic Skyrim's level quests: "I was wandering in the forest and I lost my favorite book, could you retrieve it for me ? Oh, there's giants spiders around be careful..."

95% of the "dungeons" are just a straight line with an absolutely worthless loot at the end. Sometimes you have to solve a "riddle" to get it, be assured you won't have to use a single brain cell to solve it.
Same with all the Merlin's trial, you'll have to activate a few brain cells for a few of them but the developers decided to fill the map with it so again, that's an useless and repetitive chore.

The fun part, if you want to level up (apart from the quests of course), you'll have to complete a lot of these chores: collect, nurture, brush, breed animals for crafting, pop up some balloons with your broom, find hundreds of your field guide's pages and many more of the same kind. Think of Ubisoft's levels of useless grinding for the only purpose of filing a way too big map.
Of course I read reviews but I thought it was overexaggerated as often, it isn't !

But the worst part of the game are the dialogues, it belongs somewhere between uninteresting and pathetic. Everything is manichean and/or a stereotype, there's no depth to any character and the general tone is even more childish and moralizing than the first Harry Potter book.

Their also a more latent issue, I try to not pay attention to all these "woke/DEI" arguments but damn it, they really went overboard with it !

That's 1890 Scotland and yet at least 40% of the students, professors, general population are from all over the world to stay polite. Having a couple of Indians teachers or student is not an issue, it fits the late 1800s and even makes sense.
But when you get subsaharian africans everywhere, a Korean caretaker with a perfect english accent, a Japanese broom teacher... you get the idea.

When you hear about a married couple you can bet they're gay or at least interracial. They even put a trans character, of course you have to take pity on him because of his backstory. But i'd like to know why in a world where you can change your apparance that character have a male voice with a female body. It's not even logical.

To end that review (maybe more of a rant now...) on a slightly positive note there's a few good thing.

The game looks really good and apart from a few infamous UE4 engine stutters it runs well.
The combats are good but don't upgrade your clothes because it'll make you so ridiculously overpowered it'll take out all the fun.

Hogwarts is really great to explore, it's huge and full of thing to discover, see, listen, read...
Hogsmead really have that unique Harry Potter atmosphere.

Overall it's not worth the money nor the time I spent on it, I always try to avoid spoilers as much as I can so I didn't read enough review to have a realistic opinion on the game. It backfired...

Well if your expecting harry potter characters and lore I recommend you don't buy this game technically speaking no relation what so ever to the Harry Potter world other then the world itself.

Visually its stunning and that's all it's got going for it for me personally.

The battle system is far to easy even on harder difficulty and the amount of spells is little to say the least just click what the screen prompt you constantly.

For exploration you have a spell called revelio and this will give you a migrain without spoiler alerts.

The exploration is to copy and paste not much to do and the things you can do is little around the world just rinse and repeat gets very repetitive.

The communication feels very boring and sluggish even worst then any other game seen better talk dialogues in Skyrim, Dragon age and Mass Effect.

Overall waste of my time and utter dissapointment wasted hours for a platinum and was one of the worst open world games I've played.

I like this game, but it feels like every update adds more and more glitches and bugs to the already mediocre gameplay experience.
The gameplay elements such as ancient magic feel like there was supposed to be a choice to be good or evil, but this doesn't exist at ALL. Even if you choose the "evil" choices, the game does not care, and forces you to be good, and the storyline doesn't change, no matter what you do.
I'd say it's telling, that i have 3 finished playthroughs but only 97h on record, with most of it just spent re-exploring.

I like the graphics and RPing as a hogwarts student but thats about it, the story and gameplay honestly leave a LOT to wish for.

An Amazing Experience

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☑ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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Great, immersive, fun and disappointing game.

Graphics are beautiful, the characters are really well done, the environments are very detailed and gorgeous, the creatures look fantastic, there are plenty of places to stand and just enjoy the beautiful views. The different spells look amazing and unique, and the casting animations are great.

Sound effects are amazing, the same can be said about the music and voice acting. Sounds in general are really well done. From exploring the castle, to flying on your broom, to caring your beasts, to fighting dark wizards and spiders, everything sounds great. The music also follows you on the different activities you do, sometimes a bit repetitive (for example in combat) but for the most part is really immersive too. The similarities to the original HP soundtrack are a nice addition. Finally, the voice acting is great, they give a lot of personality to the different characters, and it's a lot of fun interacting with some of them.

On the gameplay side, there are really cool things, and some disappointing things too.
To start with the cool things, the world. If you played any of the old HP games where you could explore Hogwarts, this game is the best iteration yet. It delivers that same magic that those old games did, but with a more realistic and lore accurate view. You can fully explore the castle and it's grounds, the forbidden forest, Hogsmeade, and even a lot of places around the school.
To continue with great things, combat and spells interactions. Combat is really fluid and fun, you have different type of spells which you can combine in different ways to make combos on your enemies and break their defenses.  Later, when you unlock your talents, you can further enhance your spells to have additional effects that drastically change the combat. Spell interactions also work outside of combat, with a lot of puzzles, in which you can use different spell combinations to solve them.
Speaking of puzzles, that's another great thing in this game, there are lots of them, some harder than others, but for the most part, if you stop for a minute to think and observe your surroundings, you can solve them easily, also try every spell you know, some puzzles have some interesting results with some spell interactions. The only thing that is a bit annoying is that many of them are just copy-paste, it's cool to do a puzzle once or twice, but coming across the same puzzle 10 times, it's just annoying and also without any reward for doing them.
Another awesome feature, is your very own room/player housing, which surprisingly is not your dormitory in the common room, but the room of requirement. This place is truly awesome, the more you advance in the story, more features and things unlock in this place. You can fully customize this room, add decorations you unlock all over the world, build different things, etc. But the most amazing feature, is the vivarium which is the place where you take the magical beasts you rescue. You can catch many magical creatures in the world, there are even shiny ones (like in pokemon) that are very rare, and you can take them to these different vivariums, each with a different biome.
There are many other things that are really cool, but they are a bit disappointing because of the wasted potential. To name a few, flying. Flying in this game is truly awesome, but for some strange reason, the only thing you can do is only 3 time trial races, where you have to fly from ring to ring and beat a timer. I mean, you could have done so much more with flying, not even talking about quidditch, which even the first HP game had quidditch in it.
Another thing is the school life, the classes are a joke, there's no way of failing a class, it's just press a couple of buttons, and you made the most difficult potion, or cast the most difficult spell. I mean, come on! Even the old first HP game have more interesting lessons with actual puzzles you could fail, and even get points for your house if you succeeded. There's not even exams, which are the perfect excuse for a challenging puzzle combining all the spells you learned, and the professors even reference the OWLs in the game like it IS a thing you will have to do at the end, but nothing. Also, there's not even competition with the different houses, no matter what you do, you always win the house cup.
This game had the potential to make a full 7 year school cycle, I mean even the mobile game has the seven years, come on!!
Furthermore, tied to the classes, only ONE class per teacher? The game tells you all the time you have to catch up with all your classmates that had 4 years ahead of you to master a lot of things, and you get only a single class with each professor, and the amount of spells you learn is just underwhelming. Brewing potions, if there is something that could be really cool from a gameplay perspective, has to be brewing potions, but here is just: press button, move the mouse, press button, move the mouse, there you have it, brewed the most difficult potion in the game perfectly, without a single mistake.
Another very disappointing thing is the character's gear progression, you have different rarities, that are meaningless, because you can easily get access to the legendary pieces, and you will never use any of the others, and that's ok if the legendary pieces were hard to get, but no, you can just buy them from the vendor with perfect stats in no time. Also, further in the game, you unlock the ability to customize your gear with different traits that you can find in enemy camps, which is cool, until you realize there's no real choice, you just put the max damage for the type of spell (or plants) you use in all slots, I mean, you can put other things, but you will be making your game time and fights harder for no reason. This issue could be easily fixed by limiting the type of trait you can put in different pieces of gear, that would make the trait selection a little more interesting and also giving the player a more interesting choice of gearing.
There are many more things like these, that are cool things, but they only scratched the surface and wasted a lot of potential.
The only bad thing I can say about the game, it's the unskippable wall of text and the unending loading shader bar EVERY SINGLE TIME you start the game.

The story is really cool, very engaging. Full of interesting characters and great moments. The only disappointing thing is that you have no agency at all in it, no matter the dialog choices or the things you do, there are no consequences and also nothing changes (except for one little thing in a side quest). You are just watching a movie, in which you can select a few dialogues, but with no impact. Don't get me wrong, the story is really cool, but it's sad that there are no choices, because the story certainly leaves a lot of room for choices and player agency. Not even the house choice, which it's supposed to be the most interesting choice you can make has any consequence, just a cosmetic difference in the attire and common room, and a little variation in one quest. They could have done different side quests for different houses, different relationships with different characters, even the professors could also have acted differently depending on your house, but no, all the same for everyone. Also, there are no character relationships, you can't romance any of the characters, or become rivals, or anything. You just do side quests for some of them, and that's it.

In short, is a really cool game, with amazing things, but with a lot of wasted potential in most of them. If you are a fan of the HP universe, you will definitely have fun with it, but also probably will be the most disappointed in the wasted potential of most of the things the game has to offer. I recommend getting it only on sale, because it's not worth the full price.

- Horrible traversal stuttering on PC, regardless of hardware or settings.
- Game itself is somewhat boring and repetitive after the initial allure wears off. A lot of busywork/checklist quests. Story is not interesting.
+ Hogwarts is visually striking to explore.

I'm really liking this game for the world building and attention to detail, especially in Hogwarts and some of the environments. It has some obvious shortcomings but is still pretty fun. The main reason I'm giving a bad review is because the writing is absolutely terrible. It's just the most basic derivative "chosen one" story. It makes no sense, there are no choices, there is no nuance whatsoever. It is crazy to me that hundreds of people probably worked on this game, perfecting tiny little details in professor's offices and whatever for years, and and no one thought about or put any effort into the writing.

Hogwarts legacy brings the magic of Harry Potter while also allowing for an immersive open world experience into the Wizarding world. Developers did a great job immersing you into the game early through tutorial missions and a guided experience to show off all the features and quests you will be embarking on. That said the main quest does a great job as well of providing a rewarding experience as you play as your witch or wizard.

The combat system has a small leaning curve but once you practice through repetition and gained abilities it becomes a lot more seamless, smooth and powerful. They are complex and dynamic enough so that battles never seem to become stale or repetitive.

The game does a great job bringing the harry potter franchise forward in many ways. It does however fall short in several areas including the trap for open world games to feel empty or redundant. The complexities of the game do a great job masking this but ultimately more time could have been spent on the outside world or keeping you more inside of Hogwarts itself.

I would highly recommend this game to anyone who is a fan of Harry Potter. Even with its pitfalls Harry Potter Legacy brings the game leaps and bounds forward. There are plenty of things to enjoy about the game including the story, combat or hidden pages that include mentions of many different aspects of the history of wizards as well as references to things portrayed in the movies.

F*cking Trash
★☆☆☆☆

This game is boring as hell—empty world, basic-ass story, and a main character with zero personality. The game hasn’t been updated, ray tracing is still broken as hell, and even mods can’t save this dumpster fire. It’s just a lazy cash grab banking on Harry Potter fans. Don’t waste your time or money on this shit.

I DON'T recommend buying this game

It feels like the developers rushed it out without finishing it properly.

The game world is big, with lots of collectibles, chests, and caves. But the character development is too basic for such a large open-world. You don’t feel motivated to collect much because you don’t need it to upgrade your character.

After ~30 hours, your character becomes overpowered, and upgrades feel pointless.

The story and dialogues are disappointing—too childish. I expected something darker and more detailed. Surprisingly, some side quests are better than the main story. After 30-40 hours, I started skipping dialogues and just watched the scenes, but I still understood the main points of the story.

Choices don’t matter much and barely affect anything.

Summary:

Bad: Weak story/dialogues, poor balance, terrible optimization, and bad enemy AI.
Good: Fun combat system and a big open-world (even if it’s not used well).

charming in the first few hours, visually beautiful with a somewhat captivating plot. however, the longer you play the more flaws you see in the game, some of which are notoriously unfun
+the dialogues in main story are fine. it starts a bit weird but the plot is actually decently written

-the side quests however are absolutely horrendous. almost all of them are just lazy fetch-quests asking you to bring X thing or talk to X person. every single character just repeats roughly the same line, and you get two choices in conversations - either be nice, or be a jerk, no other way.
also, the choices you pick are absolutely meaningless, plus the side quests are often required for you to progress, giving you extra spells, forcing you to take a longer detour from the story.

+the combat is simple, but works well enough. easy to pick up controls, lots of possibilities in comboing spells

-...but lacks a bit of realism with the potions being instant heal without consuming animation, and swapping spells mid-fight is really annoying if you didnt invest in extra slots for quick access...

+the castle is presented beautifully, its lively, people around talking to each other, moving, talking paintings, lots of collectibles inside, beautiful rooms with highly detailed animations. it is a great representation to the castle presented in books/movies.

-...which i cannot say about the world *outside* of the castle. it is huge and mostly empty, with a pack of goblins here and there, some random puzzle challenge and nothing going on. no NPC characters outside of quests, no wildlife, just some enemies and pure emptiness

-no quidditch. cmon. there literally is a quidditch pitch near the school, the game has broom flying but no quidditch? really?

-tons of absolutely meaningless copy-pasted collectibles and challenges that get boring after a few times. gotta spam that filler content.

in summary, i would say it is a very mediocre game. if you're going to buy it, get it on sale

The game had a very good gameplay and the game environment was really great and similar to the Harry Potter movies, as if you were really walking inside it, but the story of the game itself was weak and did not have a good characterization, but instead the side quests of the game were great and from the story The original was better. It is recommended that you try it

So the start of this game and the initial cut scene draws you in, but then after 10 hours of playing its clear this is pretty much a mission simulator where you do tasks for people around the map endlessly with little to no reward. The story is slow and disappears quickly behind the routine of talking to people and having to complete mundane tasks to proceed, even in the main missions which frankly have no impact on the story at all for the most part. The open world aspect of this isn't brilliant and there are definitely better open world RPGs out there. The combat is incredibly basic and there is a slight aspect of stealth that has tried to be implemented but all the missions are incredibly linear and frankly not enjoyable.
Not to mention the map where you can't actually see where you are as it's a 3D image where you can't actually see which area or level you're on, so if you try to fast travel close to something you're just guessing that it's the nearest place to where you want to go. Gave it 10 hours but i'm not going to continue playing this.

The game started out with a major bang. I was hooked instantly. But after about 10-15 hours it died spectacularly. At about the 15 hour mark you have experienced everything the game has to offer. It's a 50-60 hour game so another 40ish hours of the same thing over and over and over.

The map is massive and I thought that was awesome at first until I realized there was no point to it at all. There are places to visit dotted all over the map but they are all just copy and pasted and uninteresting. The Merlin Trials are a chore to do and cycle through only about 6 different trials and there is about a hundred of them. Bandit Camps award you with traits but in my experience traits are completely worthless. I just found myself bored with all of it and repetitive nature off all the locations. Even the Hamlets are copy and pasted. Everything feels exactly the same no matter where you are on the map.

I've found many bugs and soft locks just running around, looting and inventory management is a chore, you only have 4 hotkeys for magic per set for some reason, I can't stand the alohamora unlock mini-game after the hundredth time, combat got old and repetitive pretty fast....

I don't know how they did it but every item, quest, battle, location, and reward felt no different then the one before it. I've never played a 50-60 hour game before where all the content is in just the first 10 hours of gameplay. Just disappointing.

I would like to start off by saying - has anyone every played the classic Harry Potter games on PC? I'm talking about the old school games, like when you used to be able to collect as many Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans before the clock runs out, or when they used to give you SOME simple freedom as a young Harry Potter to be able to explore the castle before moving on to your next puzzle.
This game has scratched an itch I've had for probably 20+ years since playing those games as a child. Hogwarts Legacy gives you freedom to explore as MUCH of Hogwarts as probably physically possible. We have all seen scenes in the movies we may or may not have dreamed of exploring like the common rooms, hogsmeade, the forbidden forest, and even the kitchens underneath the great hall that were only mentioned in the books. I have waited so long to be able to finally explore as much of the castle as possible and could easily see myself putting hours into just the castle which is breathing with new life.

I know there have been a lot of talk in the past about Hogwarts and the like, but being a fan for a very long time, and having fond memories of playing the retro games my parent's extinct "computer room", and remembering my dad standing outside of Walmart for every book release, I can proudly say that I am a fan and always will be of games like Hogwarts Legacy that literally bring magic to life.

Really fun and immersive game! I enjoyed the Main story line quests so much and I can't wait to complete the side quests and other things. It's even a really nice game to just pick a spot and chill for a while, while enjoying some good views!

Really enjoyed the first few hours. But the game became quickly repetitive where you either have to blast spiders/wolfs/humans or resolve "puzzles" that a 3 yo child could handle.

There is also leveled gear, which is really pointless in this game and just make it annoying to swap your gear every 5 min. Also the said gear literally has only one stat, there is no theory crafting or stuff that makes a good RPG. Just a useless unpolished mechanic that we could really ignore.

The sneaking parts are just bad. Gameplay wise, NPCs are either the most idiots IA ever created, or they spot you a mile away. Lore wise, why on earth is there so many students in a single hallway, which is forbidden in the first place ? Makes to sense.

The combat is ok, easy to pick-up and a pretty high skill ceiling if you're using multiple hotbars ; all around the classic combat system found in recent batman or middle-earth games but ranged.

Finally, the map. I have never fast traveled in a game this much. Simply because the game forces you to travel so much just to fill gaps for no reason. There are a lot of side content to discover "along the road", but since the game literally points you every POI in the game, there is no point in exploring this weird looking rock since you already know if it's worth looking in the first place (and it's usually not since all you get is another useless piece of gear).


TLDR; This game really should not have unfinished RPG aspects (like the equipment gear or level-ups through xp gain). And the game would really be more enjoyable if it wasn't an open world. Okay it's great to discover the world around Hogwarts, but it also does not benifits anything and just makes the game a boring walking simulator most of the time. If this game was a simple linear game that mainly focuses on the story, I would have probably stuck to the end and gladly give a positive rating.

Be gentle with me for this is my first in-debt review for Hogwarts Legacy. Hope this will help you to make a choice id you should buy this game or not. Spoiler alert, must buy of you ask me!

Pros:

1. Immersive Open-World Design

The game truly brings the Wizarding World to life, with a beautifully crafted Hogwarts castle and surrounding areas. Exploring the Forbidden Forest, Hogsmeade, and the castle itself feels magical and incredibly detailed. Fans of the Harry Potter universe will feel right at home.

2. Captivating Storyline

Set in the 1800s, the game introduces a fresh, engaging narrative that feels unique but still deeply rooted in the Harry Potter lore. The story unfolds with plenty of twists, mysteries, and moral choices that keep players invested.

3.Rich Customization

Players have complete control over their character’s appearance, house selection, and even their combat style. This personalization makes the game feel truly tailored to the player’s preferences.

4. Engaging Combat System

The spellcasting mechanics are intuitive and satisfying, with a variety of spells that can be used creatively in combat. The mix of strategic dueling and fast-paced action makes every battle exciting.

5. Attention to Detail

From the moving staircases to the talking portraits, the game is packed with charming details that fans of the books and movies will adore. Every corner of Hogwarts feels alive and full of secrets.

6. Expansive Content

The game offers a wealth of side quests, puzzles, and collectibles, ensuring dozens of hours of gameplay beyond the main story. The Room of Requirement, for example, is a customizable haven that adds another layer of fun.

7. Stunning Visuals and Soundtrack

The graphics are breathtaking, with dynamic lighting and intricate textures that make the world feel real. The orchestral soundtrack perfectly captures the wonder and mystery of the Wizarding World.

Cons:

1. Repetitive Side Quests

While there’s plenty to do, some side quests can feel formulaic or lack meaningful rewards. A bit more variety would have added to the game’s depth.

2. Limited Social Interaction

Despite being surrounded by classmates and teachers, the game’s dialogue and relationship-building with other characters can feel shallow. More dynamic interactions could have enhanced the RPG elements.

3. Performance Issues

On certain platforms, players have reported occasional frame rate drops and minor bugs. While not game-breaking, these technical hiccups can be distracting.

4. Lack of Quidditch

Fans hoping for a full Quidditch experience may be disappointed, as this iconic aspect of Hogwarts life is notably absent. It feels like a missed opportunity to add an extra layer of gameplay. But there is a new game that can fullfill this need.

5. Moral Choices Have Limited Impact

While the game offers moral decision-making, the consequences often feel superficial, lacking the depth that would make choices more meaningful.

Conclusion:

Hogwarts Legacy is a dream come true for Harry Potter fans, delivering a magical, immersive experience that captures the essence of the Wizarding World. While it has minor flaws, they don’t overshadow the game’s charm, engaging gameplay, and stunning world-building. Whether you’re a lifelong Potterhead or simply looking for an exciting action-RPG, Hogwarts Legacy is an enchanting journey that’s well worth your time.

wonderful story line but there are some disappiontments
1st its a cpu heavy game
some glitches and bugs are there its already 2 years of launch but the bugs are not properly fixed yet
but the story line and the graphics were truly impressive if you are a harry potter fan you must try it and also if you are not you are going to fall in love with the game.

Hogwarts Legacy was pretty cool. Exploring the castle and the open world was amazing, it felt so beautiful! The game play was very easy, also some of the missions felt repetitive to me. Still, it was a fun game, especially if you love Harry Potter.

The good news is that Cursed Child is no longer the worst thing to happen to the Harry Potter series. There was a lot of pre-release controversy around this game; in hindsight, none of it was warranted for such puerile garbage. It doesn't function well as either an RPG or a new Harry Potter story.

The plot is downright embarrassing; the writing and characterization would bore a child. Every side character came out of the same limited character creator you did; all of them are overly saccharine and more often than not will force personal information on you in the game's none-too-subtle way of communicating how diverse and representative it is. There is no agency given to you as a player. Here is a typical conversation in Hogwarts Legacy:

"Hello, I am Nice Person. You seem like a nice person."
"Thank you, you are a nice person too."
"Will you do my chores, nice person?"
"Yes, because I am a nice person."

Over and over and OVER again. Christ. Remember the PS1 Harry Potter game where Draco said, "Nice earmuffs, Potter. Did your mum make them for you?" Now THAT is characterization, I tell you.

Despite being an ostensibly huge game and a detailed recreation of the wIZaRdInG wOrLD as they call it now so the franchise can get raped as hard as Star Wars, Hogwarts Legacy has a dead, artificial world. It's so limited in its interactivity that it's depressing. NPCs and objects don't respond to your actions at all; you are less than a ghost. Grand Theft Auto 3 had a better living world in 2001. Hell, the Harry Potter games on PS1 felt more alive.

I played this game to the halfway point before finding it intolerable, and during that time I was still waiting for it to start. It is slow, heavy and poorly organized. Everything that is exciting in theory - riding brooms, taking magic lessons, exploring Hogsmeade - is badly realized. There are constant musical cues and NPC lines to suggest a sense of magic and wonder. Several conversations you'll have are just, "This is amazing!" "Yes, this is so cool!" There is no magic, there is no wonder. It feels like the developers congratulating themselves more than anything.

I was a Potterhead during the Bush administration, and the original seven books are still near and dear to my heart. This game does nothing to evoke that childhood nostalgia. Whether you're transgender or transphobic, Hogwarts Legacy unites us all in a singular experience: type 2 diabetes as a video game.

This Game was extremely fun. I'm not a Die Hard Harry Potter Fan, but know the movies, and getting to dive into that world was satisfying, fun, and a hell of a ride.

The game runs out of memory on DDR4 16GB, I will upgrade my RAM to 32GB but I am disappointed as it says Minimum and recommended is 16GB. So I am unable to give a proper review as of now.

The game is interesting at the beginning, although, after 16 hours, I can fairly say that I have no motivation to continue playing, this might be due to the fact that I'm not a Harry Potter fan, but to be honest, the game got hella boring and I cannot find the motivation to finish it.

The story is not that interesting to me, the gameplay/combat was fun at first, but also gets very repetitive.


Other than that, roaming, and the world around feels nice.

Terrible game optimization. It's been almost a year since Hogwarts Legacy was released on PC. The release itself was plagued with constant bugs, glitches, low fps, and more, so I didn't buy the game at the time.

I was hoping that the situation would improve over time, and my expectations took a year. And no, the situation hasn't improved.

On my PC, which, although not the most high-end possible, is included in it, the game worked fine at 100-120 frames on Ultra preset... until I got to Howards itself. Regular FPS drops of up to 30 frames when using Revelio are unbearable. Constant FPS drops when visiting new locations are the same.

"Thank you" to the developers of this game for the “wonderful” optimisation of the game, which completely spoils the experience.

- DIFFICULTY -

🔲 My 90 year old grandma could play it
🔲 Easy
☑️ Normal
🔲 Hard
🔲 "Dark Souls"

- GRAPHICS -

🔲 "MS Paint"
🔲 Bad
🔲 Meh
🔲 Graphics don't matter in this game
🔲 Good
🔲 Beautiful
☑️ Masterpiece

- MUSIC -

🔲 Bad
🔲 Not special
🔲 Good
☑️ Beautiful

- STORY -

🔲 This game has no story
🔲 Like playing "Temple Runners" for the story
🔲 It's there for the people who want it
🔲 Well written
☑️ Epic story

- PRICE -

🔲 Underpriced
☑️ Perfect price
🔲 Could be cheaper
🔲 Overpriced
🔲 Complete waste of money

- REQUIREMENTS -

🔲 You can run it on a microwave
☑️ Average
☑️ High end
🔲 "NASA" computer

- LENGTH -

🔲 Very short (0 - 3 hours)
🔲 Short (3 - 15 hours)
☑️ Average (15 - 50 hours)
🔲 Long (50 - 90 hours)
🔲 Extremely long (90 - 110 hours)
🔲 No ending

- FUN -

🔲 I'd rather watch paint dry
🔲 Hard to enjoy
🔲 Repetitive
🔲 Actually pretty amusing
☑️ Ride of your life

- REPLAYABILITY -

🔲 It's a one - time experience
🔲 Only for achievements
☑️ If you wait a few months / years
🔲 Definitely
🔲 Infinitely replayable

- WORTH BUYING -

🔲 No
🔲 Wait for sale
☑️ Yes

As much as I wanted to enjoy this game, I found it massively disappointing. The "mystery" of exploring the open world is really quickly gone when you can just hop on a broomstick and fly in a straight line to whichever POI you want. The puzzles are tedious and lack creativity, I was often shocked by how puzzles were simply "brute forced" and required no tact.

The immersion is mediocre, especially once you learn the Unforgiveable curses - kinda hard to LARP when you (a teenage Hogwarts student) can just sling Crucio around on a whim. It feels like there are no real consequences for any of your actions, which makes the game much less enjoyable.

The combat itself can be fun and entertaining, and there's a solid (but unspectacular) array of spells for you to play around with - OR you could just smack everyone with a killing curse and call it a day.

I rarely find an RPG this disappointing, I'm usually very easily satisfied by games. Some of the disappointment probably comes from a love for the books/movies, but definitely not all. Overall it's an okay game to get on sale - if there's nothing else you're remotely interested in playing.

I wish there was an option to give a neutral review. I'd give this about a 6/10, but I can't recommend it.

Zero depth in the story, combat is repetitive and frustrating, characters are bland. It feels like you're playing the game equivalent of a rollercoaster.

If you're a massive Harry Potter fan and not much of a gamer, you'll probably love it.

Great breadth, not much depth. I think this is the best way to describe this game.

Game mechanics are good and the world is big and I personally found fun to explore (especially the castle itself). My main criticism is that they should have made the world a little smaller and focused that time on more characters and interesting quests. That's not to say there aren't good quests in the game - there are - it's just that there aren't enough of them.

Basically, I wouldn't get the game at full price - at the time of my review it's on a 75% sale which I absolutely think is worth it, and at 50% sale I still think it's worth getting, but not at full price. I do hope they make another one of these and will have the time and resources to focus on some depth - I personally think the actual layout and design of the world is already perfect, it just needs to be populated a little more.

It's a shallow movieset, not a game. Visually stunning, but no depth. Open world is dull and monotonous. Hogwarts is lifeless and empty. No NPC interactions, no heat for casting unforgiveable curses, no classes, no immersion, you're a visitor in a movie set of Hogwarts. A disneyland tour of sorts. Nothing particularly innovative gameplay-wise either. Without the Harry Potter label, this is just another generic open world RPG.

Only reason this game is this successful is because there are no other modern Harry Potter games. If EA or Ubisoft released this, it would be the subject of 100s of videos on Youtube about everything wrong with the modern gaming industry.

I see I have a lot of time in this game. I don't know how it happened, it's super boring. There's a very nice environment to find some neat stuff for you to look at (well, mostly the castle), but eventually you realize that is the only thing of value here. In defense of my playtime, for a long time it feels like a great tutorial section that keeps unlocking new shiny stuff that you don't yet realize will not add to complexity, it's a decent trick. It kept me going, and going, and when I realized it would add up into being an actual game, I did some sunk cost thinking and finished it anyway.

I guess I'm just too old for this one. Go figure, the Harry Potter game is literally made for children. Nothing wrong with that. I just don't get what other (adult) people see in it.

I decided to 100% this game, which was a brutal mistake. Not because it was hard, but because it was repetitive, underwhelming, and lazily constructed. The first third of the game was at least somewhat interesting due to still finding new things to do and learn. After that though it was just a constant regurgitation of activities you've already completed. If you are wondering if you should finally give this game a chance, and for some reason see my review.. I say go ahead, buy it on sale, enjoy the magic for about 25 hours and then never look back. Knowing that you are missing nothing

It's just boring. Could have been great but a few hours in and you're basically bored. Mundane fetch quests, more fetch quests, and same stuff over and over. Don't buy it. Save your money.

i loved the graphics, loved all the spells, loved the mounts, loved the exploring. the combat was okay, but the STORY... as someone who likes a good story i cannot recommend this game. but if you are just a fan of the hp universe and just wanna explore then i can recommend this game!

Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive open-world RPG that brings the Wizarding World to life. Set in the 1800s, it lets players craft their own magical story within the halls of Hogwarts and beyond.

Highlights:

Stunning world-building with detailed locations like Hogwarts, Hogsmeade, and the Forbidden Forest.
Intuitive combat system featuring spells, potions, and duels.
Extensive customization options and engaging side quests.
Drawbacks:

Occasional technical glitches and frame rate drops.
Some repetitive tasks.
Verdict: A dream come true for Harry Potter fans, Hogwarts Legacy delivers an enchanting experience, blending exploration, combat, and storytelling. Despite minor flaws, it’s a must-play for fans and RPG lovers.

Not very far in the game right now, but I have to say, Fuck this game. I start the game, ready to play, and an ad for Lego pops up. I don't care about your harry potter Lego. It's a 20+ year old franchise. I know you have Lego somewhere, if I care I'll buy some. The most offensive thing is that I paid for the game, and you're advertising to me as if it's a free-to-play jam. Stop it. Treat your paying customers like paying customers.

full screen ads upon loading a paid game are kinda a bit too much

Game is amazing but now it started to display ads before the game and in menu. This is f ridiculus. You pay 70e to watch ads?

If you're just starting to play, I recommend using a female character because the animations throughout the gameplay and the speaking style all make sense.

If you create a male character, no matter how scary you make him, his movements, his sounding and animation will look like a female's.

This is just my opinion, no offense.

The game hasn't properly run since June of this year. A small update, adding a few tiny cosmetic improvements to the game, was the beginning of the end. The game, DOESN'T WORK. It's unplayable. It crashes immediately upon launch, attempting to use massive amounts of RAM until it is manually stopped with Task Manager, or the whole system freezes up, and a manual reset becomes necessary.

LET ME BE VERY CLEAR!!! DO NOT BUY THIS!!!

The problems have been reported over and over by numerous owners of this title, and the Devs are ignoring the reports. Do not allow yourself to be ripped off like the rest of us.

For anyone who’s ever dreamed of being a Hogwarts student, Hogwarts Legacy is everything you could hope for. It’s a beautifully crafted, immersive game that lets you live out your wizarding fantasy. I’d highly recommend it to fans and newcomers alike—it’s been one of the best gaming experiences I’ve had in a long time.