LEGO® Harry Potter: Years 1-4 Reviews

Play the movie, but in Lego. Great game

It's fun and I love Harry Potter.

you can play as harry and ron dressed in drag which is unbelievably funny in retrospect

We have to fight — join us, the Second Salemers, in our fight! Hear my words and heed my warning and laugh if you dare: witches live among us! Hand out your leaflets! I'll know if you dump 'em. Tell me if you see anything suspicious. Chastity sits primly at the long table in the middle of the church. She formulaically arranges leaflets and places them in little bags. My momma, your momma, gonna catch a witch, My momma, your momma, flying on a switch, My momma, your momma, witches never cry, My momma, your momma, witches gonna die! Witch number one, drown in a river! Witch number two, got a noose to give her! Witch number three, gonna watch her burn, Witch number four, flogging take a turn.

No thanks to the author of HP but this is a good lego game and I still enjoy it, even though the menus in diagon alley are a bit annoying sometimes

If you like the Harry Potter universe you will like this. Really fun as a casual couch co-op game! Accesible to anyone, also people who never played any game ever. Only thing that's pretty annoying is that you can't quit mid level without losing your progress. 8/10

I had fun playing this with my sister years ago. I can only hope that since then they've finally patched the missing ice-melting animation in that would cause the game to crash in the one scene you needed to melt ice. If not, make sure to cast the spell then get far away so that the ice-melting won't appear on-screen so it won't cause a crash.

[h1]Rating: 8/10[/h1] Another one of the old school Lego classics, it ditches most of the traditional Lego character abilities for a selection of spells that grow as you progress in the game. Probably one of the buggier Lego games I've played so far, although nothing too extreme outside of a single crash. [h2]Puzzles:[/h2] Puzzles are the main focus of the game, with the game taking a massive step back from combat to accommodate it. Characters can use any one seven different spells that are learnt in classes throughout the main story, and some bonus abilities specific to each character (Harry's cloak, Hermione's timeturner, dark magic, etc). These spells are used creatively for the most part, although it's rare for any given puzzle to really use more than two or three of them at a time, and they don't really have any practical use outside of puzzles. Wingardium Leviosa is the most common skill in puzzles, it's used to interact with many different Lego objects similar to how the force works in the Star Wars games, and also to move around platforms to build staircases and bridges, although the controls for the latter are finicky in this game, and later in LSW3 as well. In addition to spells, you also make potions in cauldrons, having to collect three different ingredients in the immediate area to be able to brew the potion to solve a puzzle, the cauldrons are also used throughout the hub world as the only way to change character is via polymorph. Personally, I think puzzles are designed well and I like them in this game, with the exception of the Mandrakes. [h2]Level Design:[/h2] Levels are fairly short, generally hovering around the 15-20 minute range, and heavily thematic, although a few environments are reused, one of the bathrooms in particular being a set piece of three different levels. At first, I hated how slow it felt to break everything in a level with just the wand, but I got used to it quickly (and you can rapid-fire when standing still and spellcasting). Interactions with objects is a particular high note for this game, as everything being magic makes for some fun animations for stuff breaking or otherwise being effected by magic. The hub world is another selling point of the game, as you are able to traverse the campus of Hogwarts, which itself is pretty diverse in environment and large, but not overwhelming. Inside the hub there are also lessons that take place where you'll learn new spells and skills for the main trio, the lessons are all short, but are a nice way to break up gameplay and I rather enjoyed them. [h2]Story:[/h2] I've never watched or read Harry Potter, and I can say that after playing this game I know enough to generally know what happens, but not really how interactions between characters play out or anything like that (why does the school seem to hate Hagrid?). The final bonus level is a 1,000,000 stud level prologue where you play as Voldemort in his and Harry's first encounter, which I thought was cool. [h2]Side Content:[/h2] Levels have four parts of a crest to collect as opposed to Minikits, they don't give anything when completed asides from a gold brick. (Which are now back!) Levels also have three character unlocks since you don't unlock characters when playing though the main story for some reason, and a Student in Peril - which you can't track the location of with any extras. All side content puzzles in levels are laughably easy, most of them boiling down to using a single ability on an object and collecting something, or breaking x amount of something. The hub is where the twenty red bricks are, and they were a joy to collect, character unlocks were also scattered and fun to get since they were numerous, and not particularly challenging. The way the hub is weaved into the story makes it feel natural to explore and collect more as you unlock new abilities, which was enjoyable for me to do. Not enjoyable, however, was having to hunt the last of the 26 Students in Peril scattered about the campus since, once again, there is no extra to track their location if you need to, and you are given no idea where they are without a guide.

The Lego Harry Potter games are, in my opinion, the best of the Lego games. The animation allows you to know exactly what is being said without needing annoying voices. I've owned both years 1-4 and years 5-7 on multiple platforms and I have played through multiple times.

I 100% this game with my friend and I gotta say it was a very fun experience. The XBOX to STEAM port is piss poor so here is how my friend and I worked around our bugs. OBS I have poor writing skills, sorry. 1. Audio doesn't work for person joining remote play; Change your own audio settings to 16-bit. Sometimes I gotta switch between the different HZ to find exactly which one works for the different lego games. For this game I used 16-bit 48000hz. If your headphones don't allow 16-bit (like mine) use a voice-mixer app. I use Voicemeter Banana. 2. Maps without split screen lock a player. If a map doesn't allow split screen and you or your friend go outside of the bounds of the camera it can freeze/lock you in place, DON'T PRESS PAUSE this will confuse remote play and lock your keyboard/controller and might make you have to ALT F4 without saving. My friend and I would simply just keep playing and the other player would eventually come back OR you would be able to get to a save point. 3. Audio freaks out. At times the audio would just go psycho mode, turns static. Luckily this goes away with time and if it's annoying don't move your characters, it would freak out when we did an action. 4. Game REFUSED to boot The oddest thing, game would only boot if the audio was set to 48000hz. Game is fun and an awesome nostalgia trip, if you ignore the constant crashes :P lol