Few days late with this but oh well
First bit is character creator, so far so Skyrim really though a fair few sliders to play with. 9:18 for the gameplay and tour of the grounds, 30:50 for combat against a dummy, 34:26 for combat against AI characters.
I don't much care about Harry Potter, saw some films just to say I did and the early ones at least did some interesting things and never read the books. Skewed a bit hard away from hard magic into soft magic for my taste but that is nothing unusual. The previous games I saw when visiting people but they mostly seemed like middle of the road tie in games for a kids film (though middle of the road for such things during the PS2 era is not bad at all) rather than anything too interesting.
That trailer and discussion however intrigues me, which for something set in a school is shocking (by and large any fictional thing set in a school immediately has a barrier to overcome for me). Someone put some real thought into the mechanics, world and engine there which is something I have sought for years in games and would love to see in other things. Looks like it will not be true sim (guess I will replay https://academagia.com/ again) or open world and instead story driven with open world elements as it were but that might also work to keep focus on things rather than playing another ubisoft take on the matter.
Following has a bit more in a more condensed form
https://gamerant.com/hogwarts-legacy-combat-wand-duel-spells-enemies/
Nice overview of the games up to now
First bit is character creator, so far so Skyrim really though a fair few sliders to play with. 9:18 for the gameplay and tour of the grounds, 30:50 for combat against a dummy, 34:26 for combat against AI characters.
I don't much care about Harry Potter, saw some films just to say I did and the early ones at least did some interesting things and never read the books. Skewed a bit hard away from hard magic into soft magic for my taste but that is nothing unusual. The previous games I saw when visiting people but they mostly seemed like middle of the road tie in games for a kids film (though middle of the road for such things during the PS2 era is not bad at all) rather than anything too interesting.
That trailer and discussion however intrigues me, which for something set in a school is shocking (by and large any fictional thing set in a school immediately has a barrier to overcome for me). Someone put some real thought into the mechanics, world and engine there which is something I have sought for years in games and would love to see in other things. Looks like it will not be true sim (guess I will replay https://academagia.com/ again) or open world and instead story driven with open world elements as it were but that might also work to keep focus on things rather than playing another ubisoft take on the matter.
Following has a bit more in a more condensed form
https://gamerant.com/hogwarts-legacy-combat-wand-duel-spells-enemies/
Nice overview of the games up to now
