Hogwarts Legacy Review Thread

[bongowongo]

9/10


OpenCritic: 85/100

IGN 9/10

VGC 4/5

Metro 8/10

Screen Rant 4.5/5

XboxEra 9/10

GameRant 4.5/5

PS Universe 9.5/10

Stevivor 8/10

Jeuxvideo 9/10

XboxEra 9/10

PressStart 9/10

PowerUp! 9/10





Well fuk, gonna be checking out a few reviews from the publications I like and this might be a day one for me. Gonna preorder after I'm done reading/watching through the rest lol.

[kr1kit]

10/10 game

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can't wait to play it on my next set of days off.

[bongowongo]

And preordered the deluxe edition hehe, 72 early hours early access, so I'm gonna hop on at 12am tonight and play it for a bit. thots will come.

[ScramFranklin]

Opencritic up to 86, which is in the top 4% of all games released. https://opencritic.com/game/13898/hogwarts-legacy

Wow! What a pleasant surprise!! Can’t say I was expecting it to review this well. Game seems like it is actually excellent

This year has already had some fantastic releases, and it’s still so early

[bongowongo]

Opencritic up to 86, which is in the top 4% of all games released. https://opencritic.com/game/13898/hogwarts-legacy

Wow! What a pleasant surprise!! Can’t say I was expecting it to review this well. Game seems like it is actually excellent

This year has already had some fantastic releases, and it’s still so early

Yep, I wasnt too interested in this, but after watching acg's vid and a couple other stuff, it seems like this is indeed a big pleasant surprise and apparently makes open world relatively fun to explore. I havnt had that feeling in a long ass time.


I wonder if this game will be this gens Mad Max.


The only thing I havnt been too impressed so far is the visuals ... ACG's review says that the opening section of this game is one of the best looking graphics/presentations he's seen in an open world gen, but youtube compression isnt really selling it ... That and from the videos it doesnt look as good as Horizon FW. Very excited to see it on my tv in person though and hopefully what ACG said holds true.

[BigBallsMcgee]

Opencritic up to 86, which is in the top 4% of all games released. https://opencritic.com/game/13898/hogwarts-legacy

Wow! What a pleasant surprise!! Can’t say I was expecting it to review this well. Game seems like it is actually excellent

This year has already had some fantastic releases, and it’s still so early

Why is this surprising. All of the footage looked awesome since last year.


I have no idea why so many people decided to ignore what was in front of their face

[ScramFranklin]

Why is this surprising. All of the footage looked awesome since last year.


I have no idea why so many people decided to ignore what was in front of their face

Because I haven’t watched much footage, and you can make a poor game look good in a trailer.

[BigBallsMcgee]

Because I haven’t watched much footage, and you can make a poor game look good in a trailer.

These weren't trailers. They did gameplay deep dives even almost a year ago.

If you barely saw anything, on what basis did you have any expectation? You just decided it wouldn't be that good based on nothing?

[ScramFranklin]

These weren't trailers. They did gameplay deep dives even almost a year ago.

If you barely saw anything, on what basis did you have any expectation? You just decided it wouldn't be that good based on nothing?

The developer and the fact most licensed IP’s aren’t that great outside of stuff like insomniac doing Spider-Man. Better than just calling good games garbage that have good rating and you haven’t played.

And just because I didn’t expect a 86, doesn’t mean i was expecting something shiety……. Like a 70

[bongowongo]

The developer and the fact most licensed IP’s aren’t that great outside of stuff like insomniac doing Spider-Man. Better than just calling good games garbage that have good rating and you haven’t played.

And just because I didn’t expect a 86, doesn’t mean i was expecting something shiety……. Like a 70

Wait wtf ....


I feel like I've been lied to for the past couple years .... This is a difference Avalanche? Not the ones that did Mad Max? I just wikied the game to see what else avalanche studios worked on and turns out there's two of them lmao.

[ScramFranklin]

Wait wtf ....


I feel like I've been lied to for the past couple years .... This is a difference Avalanche? Not the ones that did Mad Max? I just wikied the game to see what else avalanche studios worked on and turns out there's two of them lmao.

There are two different avalanche devs lol

[BigBallsMcgee]

The developer and the fact most licensed IP’s aren’t that great outside of stuff like insomniac doing Spider-Man. Better than just calling good games garbage that have good rating and you haven’t played.

And just because I didn’t expect a 86, doesn’t mean i was expecting something shiety……. Like a 70

Well thats why they do the marketing video's to address those doubts. Anyone paying any attention knew this would hit

[Lastro]

polygon, which is probably the wokest popular video game website out there, still hasnt released the review. probably changing the score last minute to fall in line with other reviewers so that they dont come off as the giant ph@ggots they actually are

[TugOfPeace]

Imagine being dumb enough to preorder any game, period. As if they're actually going to run out

[MikeLowrrrey]

If you buy this game you're fighting against transwomen. Can you all please think about what you're doing before buying this game?

[phaginator]

If you buy this game you're fighting against transwomen. Can you all please think about what you're doing before buying this game?

Somebody pls think about the trans children!!! PLEASE!!!

[MrBourbon]

Imagine being dumb enough to preorder any game, period. As if they're actually going to run out

Plenty of 0s but the market price for 1s is nuts. There may very well be a shortage soon.

[jimmybobjim]

polygon, which is probably the wokest popular video game website out there, still hasnt released the review. probably changing the score last minute to fall in line with other reviewers so that they dont come off as the giant ph@ggots they actually are

dude can we stfu about the woke agenda. If that's your purpose for propping up a fuking harry potter game then you're genuinely retarded and beyond all help.

on topic: i've maintained from day 1 that this game is azz and am moderately impressed by the scores so far. Will watch the IGN review later.

[ScramFranklin]

Well thats why they do the marketing video's to address those doubts. Anyone paying any attention knew this would hit

I disagree. You can market a bad game to make it appear that it may be good.

[Lastro]

dude can we stfu about the woke agenda. If that's your purpose for propping up a fuking harry potter game then you're genuinely retarded and beyond all help.

no need to have a full blown emotional meltdown over my post

brought up the game plenty of times without mentioning any wokeness. havent mentioned wokeness in a while in this section (since the release of the last of us 2, i think). itt im at least somewhat on topic since we are talking about reviews.

take a chill pill dude. seriously

[TugOfPeace]

Plenty of 0s but the market price for 1s is nuts. There may very well be a shortage soon.

wat.

[OptimusTrajan]

wat.

It's a joke. Everything runs on either on/off states or 1s and 0s at it's most basic level. It's called binary. In your computer either a transistor is on or off.

[Coal Man]

Some of yall use the word joke really loosely

[bongowongo]

Played about an hour, finished off until I chose my house. Went with Ravenclaw .


Initial impressions -

Graphics look way better on my tv than it does watching youtube. I wouldnt go as far as to say that this is the best open looking world game (paraphrasing what ACG said about the initial level), but the graphics are very nice and some faces are detailed and emote quite well. Wouldnt call it next gen graphics, but it's very very nice looking so far imo. I'm playing on fidelity mode right now, so the 30fps seems a bit hard for a game like this, I'll probably try out performance or balanced next ... Not sure which is the VRR option. Console has rtx settings as well, but I doubt i'll go down that route because console rtx sucks ass unless it's from an extremely talented dev or a first party studio. But basically this game looks a lot better than the recently released Forspoken, or AC valhalla/Dying light 2 so far.

Presentation is top notch, from the start screen you instantly know that this game was made was made by Harry Potter fans, lot of love and work was done into making it feel like you're in the world of Hogwarts. It's a love letter to the fans of the world and so far it play's extremely well and seems like it'll be fun, but more on that later when I get to play some more.

Voice acting for the MC is kinda meh so far, but everyone else is pretty damn good.



Can't wait to dive in deeper later tomorow, but so far I'm really enjoying what I'm seeing so far.

[BigBallsMcgee]

Played about an hour, finished off until I chose my house. Went with Ravenclaw .


Can't wait to dive in deeper later tomorow, but so far I'm really enjoying what I'm seeing so far.

I want to be randomly sorted is that possible

[MikeLowrrrey]

As I say with every open world game, if this doesn't have an interactive world that draws you away from the main quest, it ain't a good game. So we shall see.

[bongowongo]

I want to be randomly sorted is that possible

Yep, they give you like a couple questions, but it's pretty obvious what the houses represent. Apparently you can link some hogwarts account with your wb account and get sorted that way if you want some more deeper/randomized sorting.




Oh yeah forgot to mention one thing I didnt like .. The Fov is pretty bad. If people hated GOW (which I didnt mind and actually liked) this game is far worse lol .. With the way enemies move around and attack you from behind, it didnt nearly feel as responsive as god war was to me. Though I I only had like one encounter and I'm only limited to basic attacks at first, so maybe it gets better, but the fov could really be loosened up a little ... Wonder if PC has a slider though.

[phaginator]

Played about an hour, finished off until I chose my house. Went with Ravenclaw .


Initial impressions -

Graphics look way better on my tv than it does watching youtube. I wouldnt go as far as to say that this is the best open looking world game (paraphrasing what ACG said about the initial level), but the graphics are very nice and some faces are detailed and emote quite well. Wouldnt call it next gen graphics, but it's very very nice looking so far imo. I'm playing on fidelity mode right now, so the 30fps seems a bit hard for a game like this, I'll probably try out performance or balanced next ... Not sure which is the VRR option. Console has rtx settings as well, but I doubt i'll go down that route because console rtx sucks ass unless it's from an extremely talented dev or a first party studio. But basically this game looks a lot better than the recently released Forspoken, or AC valhalla/Dying light 2 so far.

Presentation is top notch, from the start screen you instantly know that this game was made was made by Harry Potter fans, lot of love and work was done into making it feel like you're in the world of Hogwarts. It's a love letter to the fans of the world and so far it play's extremely well and seems like it'll be fun, but more on that later when I get to play some more.

Voice acting for the MC is kinda meh so far, but everyone else is pretty damn good.



Can't wait to dive in deeper later tomorow, but so far I'm really enjoying what I'm seeing so far.

How's the combat?

[ChristmasFnatic]

Does it let you choose what to say, and does it change the story/quests? I hate the Fallout/Skyrim style when whatever dialogue you choose, the replies of the NPCs are almost always the same.

[bongowongo]

How's the combat?

Well only legit had like 2-3 encounters which were just super basic tutorials and you're armed with just a basic spell, so the initial combat was just spamming r2 to hit your basic spell until they die lol. The blocking is kinda fun though, but again basic. You press triangle before the enemy attacks and it blocks. If you hold down the button then he auto counterattacks, very simple and a generous window.

But ACG and other reviewers say the combat gets a lot deeper and a lot more challenging with multiple spells to juggle and enemy weaknesses etc.

Does it let you choose what to say, and does it change the story/quests? I hate the Fallout/Skyrim style when whatever dialogue you choose, the replies of the NPCs are almost always the same.

Nothing so far and no idea about any of that. I saw a gameplay video where I saw dialogue choices, but not sure if it does anything or if its just something to get more lore out of everyone. I havnt been following the game much, so legit dont know if there's any choice/consequence to the game.

I sure hope there is and that choosing the house matters too and it's not just some throwaway choice to give you a different aesthetic in common room lol.