[2023-02-06] DO NOT BUY Hogwart's Legacy [tYfcdBbqbUI]

Hello and welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing the brand new

Hogwarts Legacy, and as an avid fan of

Harry Potter and fantasy games in general,

I knew I just had to play this game.

Unfortunately, so far it's been rather

bland, boring, and rather uninspired.

It's just kind of weird because even

though it looks and seems like a Harry

Potter game, there's something about it

that just doesn't quite feel like a Harry

Potter game. It just seems to be lacking a

certain kind of luster. The number one

thing I dislike about Hogwarts Legacy has

to be the fact that even though it's a

Harry Potter Harry Potter is not in this

game, obviously because this game takes

place in the 1890s, which is over 100

years before the movies took place. None

of the characters that you knew and loved

from Harry Potter are actually in this

game. Even though they've done a very good

job with the graphics and the visuals of

the game, it really does feel like you're

walking around Hogwarts. Unfortunately,

the characters and the story of the game

are very boring and bland. You can tell

that J.K. Rowling had no involvement at

all with the storyline of this game. The

reason why the original Harry Potter books

and movies were so popular was because

Because Harry Potter as a character and

his storyline and his friends Ron and

Hermione were great characters, very well

written, and Harry Potter's story of

trying to defeat Voldemort was a very

interesting and intriguing plotline.

Unfortunately, when you strip this away

from the Harry Potter universe, it's kind

of boring because what you're left with is

just a big school called Hogwarts and the

wizarding world full of people that you

don't really care that much about. I found

it very hard to care about any of the

stories or the characters in this game.

Everything just felt so bland and boring,

like they were trying to imitate Harry

Potter and doing a very bad job at it. So

the main storyline is that dark wizards

and goblins have gotten together and

they're having some kind of rebellion

against the Ministry of Magic. And for

some reason, you, who is supposed to be a

student, a teenager kid who's going to

Hogwarts, you're supposed to be the one

that takes them down. So these dark

wizards and goblins have these camps

dotted around out in the open nearby

Hogwarts, and you're supposed to go to

these camps and wipe them all out using

magic. I just think it's kind of weird

lore-wise that you as a teenager kid who

goes to Hogwarts are supposed to go to

these camps and take care of this

rebellion? Why doesn't the Ministry of

Magic send its own SWAT team or something

to take care of this? I thought you're

supposed to be a kid going to Hogwarts

learning how to become a wizard, not some

kind of deadly hitman assassin. So for

most of the game, you'll be spending it

either walking around Hogwarts and

exploring it and finding out secrets and

solving puzzles. The puzzles are really

dull and boring, and the mechanics of most

of the puzzles are not challenging in any

way at all. All you have to do is unlock a

spell, find out where to get the spell,

and then use the correct corresponding

spell with the corresponding puzzle and

then solve some kind of simple mechanic.

And then that's it really. The rest of the

game you'll be doing these magical fights

using your wand. And a lot of people have

been going on raving on about this amazing

combat system when really it's not that

amazing. Visually it looks kind of silly.

It's just a bunch of people flinging

colorful lights at each other. It doesn't

really feel like they're shooting deadly

magic at each other. Even though there's a

lot of spells to choose from, basically

the combat is just spamming all of the

spells and trying to do as much damage as

possible. Possible and trying to break

your enemy's shield. All of the spells are

color-coded, and different spells belong

to different categories of colors. So if

an enemy puts up a yellow shield, you have

to use a yellow kind of spell. I just

didn't really find the combat system to be

very fun or challenging or in-depth, and

it just got very repetitive. And I just

found myself spamming the most powerful

spells over and over again to defeat

enemies as quickly as possible. The combat

doesn't really reward you for being

creative or trying out different

variations or trying something new. It

just feels like there is one cookie-cutter

way of defeating most enemies, and most of

the time you'll just stick to that. The

experience of walking around Hogwarts is

very strange because even though visually

it's very striking and very beautiful—

they've done a great job at recreating

Hogwarts in the game— for some reason the

game just feels kind of bland and

lifeless. Even though there's NPCs and

students everywhere doing stuff, they try

to create this illusion of life, but

they've kind of failed. I don't know why,

there's just this very empty feeling to

the open world in this game. I don't think

I've ever seen a more lifeless iteration

of Hogwarts in a Harry Potter game. And

actually, it's kind of sad. There's a

weird feeling to it. It's almost like,

imagine you've accidentally time traveled

100 years into the past and you go back

home, and even though your home looks the

same and your neighborhood looks the same,

because your friends and family are not

there anymore, it just feels kind of empty

and hollow. The game tries really hard to

give off this illusion of freedom and

choice. So you can create your own

character, customize it to make it look

like you, and you can fly everywhere. You

can fly on top of Hogwarts, but you can't

land on top of Hogwarts. You can't just

jump off your broom and then stand on the

roof of Hogwarts and jump off. It doesn't

let you do a lot of things. It's a very

restrictive game even though it claims to

be open world. It feels like a very

restricted open world. I think one of the

biggest letdowns of the game has to be the

fact that there's no morality system, so

you can't really be good or evil. I think

it would have been great if you could have

different dialogue options and then you

can choose the good side or the evil side

and become like a dark wizard, because you

can use forbidden spells in the game.

There are these spells that are considered

to be dark wizard But if you use them,

there's no bad consequences for using

them. I really think it would have made

the game much more interesting if they had

a scale. So if you did good things and you

use good magic, you would get good points,

and then people would think of you as a

hero and love you and worship you. But if

you use the evil spells and did bad

dialogue choices or options, then you'd

start becoming evil. So if you walk around

Hogwarts and you've got a reputation of

being evil and using forbidden spells,

then the other students will be scared of

you, or they might insult you, and they

could even be very visual appearance

changes, such as maybe your eyes start

glowing red the more evil you become. If

you've ever played Fable, then I think you

know what kind of system I'm talking

about. I really think they missed a big

opportunity here because they try to give

you freedom and they let you customize

your own character, but they don't let you

choose your character's destiny or if it's

going to be a bad guy or a dark guy, a bad

guy. There's also no multiplayer, which is

extremely disappointing because it would

have been great to have been able to play

this as a co-op game. You should have been

able to add your friends into the game and

play together 2-player or maybe even

4-player. Can you imagine exploring

Hogwarts and flying around the world on

your brooms with your friends playing

co-op over the internet? That would have

been so amazing. Actually, I think the

game would have been better if they just

made it an MMO because you've already got

the character customization, which is very

MMO-y, and you've got this great hub which

is Hogwarts. Can you imagine hundreds of

players gathering in Hogwarts and then

going in and out doing quests? I think the

game could have been a great MMO. I know

that would have been a lot harder to make

an MMO compared to just a single-player

adventure game. There's also There's also

no Quidditch in this game, which is just

absolutely absurd. How can you have a

Harry Potter game without Quidditch? I

also think it's ridiculous that they don't

let you have some of the flying mounts

unless you preorder or unless you get the

more expensive editions of the game.

Also, why can't we fly the flying car

that's in the movie? The lockpicking

mechanic is really frustrating as well. I

hate the lockpicking minigame. Actually,

I hate lockpicking in most games because

for some reason game developers seem to

think that us players want to pick locks.

We don't want to play some stupid minigame

pick a lock? Can't it just be automatic?

So unfortunately, I don't know if I can

give this game a very high score because

of the bad story, the boring characters,

the bland combat, and also the lack of

true freedom and choice in the game. I'm

going to have to give the game a 4.2 out

of 10. If they added multiplayer and more

MMO elements, maybe some PvP, then maybe I

would think that this game's a lot better.

But as it is right now, I think the

experience that is on offer for the price

you have to pay is not really up to my