If played on a console, this is probably a 3.5/5.
As a huge Harry Potter fan (fuck JKR), I wanted to like this game a lot more than I did but I struggled with it due to the bugginess of the PC port and the game's last 33% getting repetitive. The game is super fun for the first act due to you getting so many new things to do all at once, but as it goes on and you unlock pretty much all the spells, it does get dreary. This is not helped by the main dungeons being all really repetitive (which is odd given how extremely fleshed out some sidequests are). The bugs in the game were mostly annoying, but there was a bug I ran into twice where I'd just fall through the world that I was worried I'd have to restart my save to get over. Pretty unacceptable for 60$.
All that being said, the characters are alright, some pretty well-written, voice acting is nice, the immersion is fantastic, the graphics are pretty good and the core gameplay loop is actually really damn solid; no notes on the spell-slinging for me.
As a huge Harry Potter fan (fuck JKR), I wanted to like this game a lot more than I did but I struggled with it due to the bugginess of the PC port and the game's last 33% getting repetitive. The game is super fun for the first act due to you getting so many new things to do all at once, but as it goes on and you unlock pretty much all the spells, it does get dreary. This is not helped by the main dungeons being all really repetitive (which is odd given how extremely fleshed out some sidequests are). The bugs in the game were mostly annoying, but there was a bug I ran into twice where I'd just fall through the world that I was worried I'd have to restart my save to get over. Pretty unacceptable for 60$.
All that being said, the characters are alright, some pretty well-written, voice acting is nice, the immersion is fantastic, the graphics are pretty good and the core gameplay loop is actually really damn solid; no notes on the spell-slinging for me.