Not gonna lie, I had my doubts, I thought they were hyping it up way too much and it was gonna flop hard.

but goddamn if this ain't pretty fuckin good.


If you love Harry Potter, you will love this game, guaranteed.

Being able to do nearly everything they do in the books and movies is honestly a magical af feeling.



let's start with the story:

it's mid. The story is probably the weakest part of the game, which in any other game would make it a lot lower for me, however thanks to everything else being like, 8/10+ i can excuse it.
It's definitely not a bad story, it just never feels like much happens, there are some genuinely really good moments (I loved the storybook sequence during the third trial) but overall felt a little lackluster.


Howeverrrrr, the side stories? yes please. The side stories were always my go to before any main quest. Getting to spend time with each of the three main side characters and helping them all against different threats was easily the highlights of questing in the game. Also a lot of the mini side quests were fun too, ranging from helping a town, finding a beast or playing mini-games, there was never a quest that felt too long or too tedious.


The Gameplay? it's pretty fun. Even at the end of the game i was still having fun mixing together all the different spells you can get (especially the unforgivable curses hehe) for different combos. Also being able to fly on brooms and on the back of a goddamn Hippogriff never gets old, especially on the Hippogriff when that sweeping orchestra that sounds suspiciously close to the How To Train Your Dragon theme starts playing. It's great.


The world? goddamn, after being plagued recently by big empty open worlds, I am so glad this game was different. Hogwarts itself is fully recreated and HUGE, I roughly know my way around by now but still get lost sometimes and then you have the world outside of Hogwarts which is so much bigger than I thought it was gonna be. It's brimming with life whether it be little hamlets that offer stores or side quests or landmarks or beasts wandering around or bad guy strongholds. No matter what direction you go in, you will find something to do. It's also all just beautiful to look at, especially with the changing seasons.


The character customisation is pretty in-depth too. Because the game is set in the 1800's a lot of the fashion styles weren't really my thing but it wasn't long before i found some stuff that worked well for me. Also the ability to change the appearance of any gear piece is what every game involving cosmetic gear needs to have.


I don't really have much else to say, I really enjoyed this game, apart from the slightly lackluster main story but even then I never found it bad, just not as interesting as everything else.


I will happily go back and play through this again as different houses, probably even try and 100% it.


highly recommend.



also I'm Genderfluid and bi-sexual so it's fine lmao.

Reviewed on Feb 28, 2023


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