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This is not as good as nostalgic fans call it. The Story is the same as the movie, but they tone parts of it away to make room for gameplay, and although the story is hurt by that, it does give off more quality towards the gameplay, but I do question why Harry didn't tell anyone about the masked figure in the dungeons during Potions class. The Characters are the same as the movies, and Peeves from the books is in it too, although without big moments that defined them as characters for gameplay which I mentioned before, although the dialogue is generic, and the voice acting doesn't feel like it has any heart in their performances to increase the whimsical atmosphere this game needs. The Graphics are awful, models are too pixelated to make appealing figures, and some don't even look finished with their little details, backgrounds look alright. The Gameplay has you go around Hogwarts sometimes to explore, while mostly following 1 path to the next event, which would be good if Hogwarts was fun to traverse around, but this is the least interesting Hogwarts I can traverse in, places look too similar, you can cast spells from your wand, but learning them comes at a simple press the correct buttons minigame, and the spell doesn't come out the moment you cast it, causing you to miss moving targets from it, jumps are too slippery in this game to land carefully where you want to normally, collectables beans are nice to give to Fred and George for passages, but wizard cards are not interesting when you can't collect all 101 cards that exist, and feel random, why can you get house points for doing things that no one saw you do?
there was a chase section with Peeves, yet he can fly into walls along with the item he took from you,
there was also a jump across tiles over lava section that is pointless when players with enough health can run through the lava on the other side without dying, why is the Gringotts floor slippery? it doesn't even have a point to gameplay either, I know this is a kids game, but why couldn't they explain how each chess piece works, instead of changing the rules so anyone could understand? and why is the invisibility cloak only work for a certain amount of time after you touch 1 in your path? The Music is great, fits whimsical atmosphere of Harry Potter extraordinary, but the music barely ever comes up, making traversing through parts of the castle even more boring.

Reviewed on Nov 06, 2023


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