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You can't walk 10 feet without a part of Hogwarts castle coming alive: books reorganize themselves on shelves, suits of armor salute passersby, hedges trim themselves to perfection, ghosts float around telling jokes, textbooks flutter above passing students, and paintings animate or conversate as if the MOMA switched to the. Developers love to describe their games as "living, breathing worlds" but it's hard to think of a better way to characterize the titular castle. The single most impressive aspect of Hogwarts Legacy is Hogwarts itself. The Room of Requirement: A personalized living space for your wizard with an almost Animal Crossing-level of decoration options.Talking: You do a lot of it, often with two or three dialogue choices that express a chosen personality within bounds (but only rarely seem to influence the outcome of interactions).

Not enticing enough to seek out, but fun to grab on the way to bigger things. Collectibles: There's a seemingly endless list of things to find across Hogwarts, often concealed behind a micro-puzzle.Loot: Your clothes, cloaks, scarves, facewears, and hats have Destiny-like offensive/defensive stats, but you can just set your cosmetic look to whatever you want.Exploration: The world is surprisingly large, and gets bigger when you can simply fly anywhere you want, anytime.

Think Batman with cooldowns (and more murder).

Wizard duels: A unique take on ranged combat where no aiming is required but spacing, dodging, and countering is key.

Hogwarts Legacy is full of simple but harmonious systems that keep things fun and accessible: It will also benefit the talented folks at Avalanche Software, who have built a rich, almost annoyingly detailed world that routinely exceeds its source material in terms of quality and inclusivity. Its success is likely to benefit her both culturally and financially. Still, it's built upon the world that she created and inherits some of its problems, particularly its portrayal of goblins and "house elves". and Portkey Games (the game publishing arm of Harry Potter properties) go as far as to say that she was "not involved in the creation of the game" at all. Hogwarts Legacy isn't written by JK Rowling or directly adapted from her stories.