Hogwarts Legacy Reviews

This game is very poorly optimized. Unless you are running very recent hardware expect to: 1) Spend hours implementing workarounds to get the game to even start 2) Struggle through extremely choppy game play that will actively make you nauseous and 3) Expect to do this repeatedly, as no fix works for long.

I can't believe two years out the game actually runs and looks worse than when it did when it first came out. This is just bad.

Okay, at first I wasn’t sure if I should even bother writing a review, but here I am anyway. I’m writing this after finishing the main story (the main quests), though I haven’t all the side quests yet there are a lot of them. At first I was worried the game might be boring because of what my friends told me. But in the end, I couldn’t resist and bought it. And yeah, I’d say it was worth the price from the moment I stepped into the castle. Maybe that’s partly because I’m a Harry Potter fan too. Anyway, back to the review the game is so much fun for me, though the story feels a bit long… kinda made me sleepy at times. Still, I was impressed by almost everything the storyline, the quests, all the in-game content, riding magical creatures, flying on a broom… it all just felt amazing. If I had to nitpick, I’d say the graphics aren’t as great as I expected. But overall? Totally worth buying it’s genuinely fun.

I cannot play the game without allowing WB to sell my personal data or giving away my information on their site, which was not linked by them and I found the link to it in the discussion forum for the game. When I try to opt-out in-game it takes me to a WB page that does not allow me to access it as I live in Europe. This change was made well after after I bought the game (pre-ordered), and the game was updated to this sometime in this January and the opt-out thing has not been fixed since then. I would send screenshots here if I could. So if you're not in the US, I'd skip buying this; I cannot play the game I bought without agreeing to something I would never agree to, and though I enjoyed the game I'd rather buy something else that does not suddenly make the game unavailable to me.

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” “After all this time?” “Always.” “We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on.”

Adorable, beautiful game with very cute animals, an awesome atmosphere, and wonderful graphics<3

If it is the true Hogwarts you seek, I fear you may not find it in pixels and code. Yet magic, as you know, has a curious habit of appearing where one least expects it. Tread carefully, dear traveler — for within these shadows and spells, you may just uncover a part of yourself long forgotten.

Hogwarts Legacy absolutely nails the atmosphere. The open world is seriously gorgeous! I've spent hours just exploring and still keep stumbling across new beautiful areas. The gameplay mechanics and spell system are a lot of fun. If you figure out the right spell combos, you can do high damages and have a smooth combat. But even if you just go with whatever spells you like the game doesn't make it hard for you and you can still enjoy the combat. There’s a ton of cool lore callbacks too! like Nearly Headless Nick, the Fat Lady, Peeves, etc. It crashed a few times but nothing too frequent. also sometimes it got stuck on the main loading screen for like 5–10 minutes before launching but once I was in, the game ran smoothly with no issues.

Amazing game! You really feel like a fifteen year-old student murdering people in Scottish Highlands. Only complaints I have are those map chamber achievements with the different houses and the fact that you barely spend time at Hogwarts itself~

Liked at first. Came back after recent update. The "official" mod support is extremely anti-consumer and unfriendly to outside mods. Could not get it to work the way I'd like. Realized 10 hours into it that even using a cosmetic only mod disables ALL achievements.. and setting up alternatives is not made easy by them. Game STILL stutters badly after all this time. My system is no slouch. This I could deal with using some basic editing, but the anti-consumer **** not gonna fly with me. Oh, also apparently they added into the UELA that they can and will sell your data. In conclusion: Piracy is making a comeback.