Revelio ! Here it is at last! The Hogwarts Legacy game based on the Harry Potter universe that has been talked about so much in good and bad ways. We find again Avalanche Software at the controls, the studio to whom we owe the increasingly bad Just cause. So yes, we started with an ultra negative opinion before even touching the title.
Fell the magic in the air…
We are far from the time of the young wizard, we are in 1890, almost 1000 years after the construction of Hogwarts. And we are going to take the control of our own wizard after having chosen his appearance.
The customization tools are advanced enough to let your imagination take control of your wildest ideas. Especially since in the title, there is no question of starting in first grade. You go directly to the 5th year without going through the starting box and without touching the basic spells. Everything will be taught to you in a flash through your first hours of play.
Wingardium Leviosaaaaaaaaaah…
Once the adventure starts, you will be attacked and sent to a strange place thanks to a door in the distance. From there you will discover an ancient magic and will have to investigate it all along your adventure. Knowing that on their side some Goblins have decided to join forces against the wizards. At their head : Ranrok.
If fans are happy to be able to type Revelio at all and learn that the spells forbid his present. It’s mostly the entire universe and its art direction that makes the magic happen. The title is certainly an open world. But it’s small enough to make everything look pretty. The title being very expected, nothing has been left to chance and with the Potter Heads, no kidding. Nothing will be spared.
The most amazing thing is Hogwarts itself. Nothing is left to chance. Each corridor offers a different architecture. Every room is full of life, every maze a secret. Basically, the castle is as fans have always imagined and wanted it to be.
If the story is rather boilerplate and seen and seen again, it is the amount of quests and possibilities that make the title its strength and not its writing. Because let’s be honest. From the beginning, through the goblins’ white, the room on demand… Everything is there to make the fans understand that we are there for them. And nothing more. We are not going to reinvent the history of the universe without creating huge inconsistencies with the current saga.
REVELIO!
The other part of the title will remain its gameplay. So on the back of a bug, broom or on foot. Everything is perfect and fortunately. The other part of the title remains the magic and the. It will please or not.
But in summary, you will have your basic spells as the adventure progresses. While their variants will be obtained at each level up. It will be possible, for example, that your basic attack spell will also curse the enemies. Moreover, you will only be able to have 4 quick spells on you with the possibility to have more via an increase.
But switching between spells in the middle of battle is often a horror. At the beginning of the game, it will often happen that you use a revelio instead of an attack. Later on, you will quickly classify your spells between utility and attack so that you don’t get mixed up and concentrate on the battle.
Confrontations are super dynamic and in the manner of a Soul, you will have to attack, dodge and heal at the right time. At the beginning, this may seem complex for some players. And yet everything is super well thought out to be intuitive.
Finally, Hogwarts Legacy is one of the titles that has everything to please even if the choice system is totally useless. But there is so much to do that you will have hours and hours of play. So much to do that it seems that the game has always to show us. Plus it’s beautiful, dynamic and magical. We can only validate the work done by the studio Avalanche.
