How to be Truly Evil in Hogwart's Legacy

As the release date of Hogwarts Legacy

draws closer and closer, I'm sure many of

you will be wondering, can I be evil in

Hogwarts Legacy? Can I become a dark

wizard? And as someone who likes to see

himself as somewhat of a dark wizard in

real life, I'm really glad that we seem to

be able to choose to become a dark wizard

in this new Harry Potter game. I think the

answer to this is yes, but how evil can we

actually become? So as we already know

from gameplay footage and trailers, we can

see that there are unforgivable spells in

this game. And it's also been confirmed

that we can indeed choose our own house in

Hogwarts Legacy. You can choose to be in

Gryffindor or Slytherin or any of the

other houses, and I'm sure this has some

kind of consequences on your character.

Maybe there's even specific items and

quests that you can unlock depending on

which house you decided to join. I am a

little bit worried that this might be a

purely cosmetic choice and won't have many

effects on the gameplay itself or the

story. I do think it's kind of strange

lore-wise that you get to choose your

house, because in Harry Potter Lore-wise,

you don't get to choose your house. You

get chosen a house for you by the Sorting

Hat. Unfortunately, it has been confirmed

by the official Hogwarts Legacy website

itself that there will be no morality

system, which is kind of confusing because

they also state that your choices in the

game will have an effect on your character

and how the game plays out. It says

Hogwarts Legacy does not have a morality

system, but players will encounter various

quests and storylines that will influence

the witch or wizard they choose to become.

Isn't that a morality system? It just

seems kind of contradictory. They're

saying, no, we don't have a morality

system, but we do have these things that

are basically a morality system. It's also

clear that we can establish relationships

with the other students in Hogwarts

depending on how we react to their

questlines. We can choose to help them or

be a dick to them, which would make them

either like us or dislike us. So there

must be a way to make people really hate

us by going down a dark path. And I really

hope that going down the dark path when it

comes to quest dialogue options actually

results in you getting some kind of

specific dark wizard item. It would be

kind of lame if by choosing the dark

option it just leads to a dead end in the

questline and you feel like you have to

choose the good option to further the

quest chain or to unlock some kind of

special reward. I don't really know what

the point of establishing a relationship

with other students in the game would lead

to. Maybe they'll join you on quests and

be like, an ally, NPC ally that helps you,

or maybe there's even romantic options

where you can date them. One really good

morality system in another game would be

Fable. So if you've ever played Fable,

you'll know that there would be multiple

choice in dialogues, and if you do the

evil choices and you do evil things, your

character becomes more evil, and there's a

scale between good and evil. The more evil

you become, the uglier your character

becomes, and the other NPCs and people in

the game get scared of you and run away

from you, or they start hurling insults at

you. On the opposite end of the spectrum,

if you're really good, then you get like

an angelic aura and a glow, and people

love you and think of you as a hero. I

think Hogwarts Legacy would have been

really cool if they copied that kind of

system. It also says this on the Hogwarts

Legacy website: Players will also

encounter quests and scenarios that will

pose difficult choices and determine what

they stand for. They're being very vague

about it, but it does seem like they are

heavily hinting towards the ability to be

able to choose if you're going to be a

dark wizard or a good wizard. Now we all

know that there are very deadly spells in

this game, and most of the combat footage

revolves around the main character

destroying and annihilating his enemies,

even turning them into stone and knocking

them off a cliff, which they're probably

not going to survive. Now if you're

wanting to be a good wizard, that's not

really going to be very good. I don't

remember seeing Harry Potter just

annihilating his enemies with really

destructive spells. Imagine Harry Potter

just turning his enemies into ashes and

casting like a massive fireball,

obliterating Draco Malfoy. That just

wouldn't happen and did not happen. So I'm

wondering if they're going to give good

wizards plenty of choices with spells that

don't actually kill or hurt their enemies

too much, maybe just stun them or knock

them out. In my opinion, if you keep

casting unforgivable spells, I think that

should turn your character more evil. How

cool would it be if the NPCs and your

allies helping you fight start to notice

that you're casting more unforgivable

spells and more destructive spells, and

then they start making comments about it,

saying stuff like, how come you're using

so many evil spells? Shouldn't you stop

doing that? I mean, it's not going to be

good for your mental health. It would just

make the game feel so interactive and

immersive if your actions in-game actually

have some kind of consequence and affects

how the other characters in the game react

to you. As you can see here in this

screenshot, there's definitely dialogue

choices where you can be confrontational.

You can either be very helpful, or you can

be curious and ask them why they're asking

you to do this, or you can just tell them

to go and shove it. Now, I don't know what

the result is if you're going to not be

very helpful to the quest giver. Is the

quest just not going to progress, or is it

going to progress anyway regardless of how

you react to their plea for help? I mean,

it would be kind of silly if you just

refused to do quests and you just tried to

be a dick to all of the quest givers and

they just said, okay, well, don't want

your help anyway. But it would also be

kind of lame if no matter what dialogue

choice you make, it doesn't really matter.

You'll still get the same quest and the

same outcome. There's also a character

called Sebastian who has a questline where

he wants to try and save his sister by

using forbidden spells and dark arts. And

it seems like you can either help him and

agree to learn dark arts with him, or you

can refuse and say you don't want to learn

any dark arts or forbidden spells. So I

don't know what kind of consequences this

will have on the game overall. It seems

like you'll have the choice to turn him

into an ally if you help him, Or you could

go against him and then maybe he'll become

like an enemy or an adversary later in the

game because you refused to help him. It

seems like this game could have huge

replayability potential if players get the

choice to play the game as either good

wizard or bad wizard. Imagine how many

playthroughs of the game you can have with

different experiences depending on the

choices you make in the game. I can

already see hardcore fans of the game

playing it 3 or 4 times so they unlock

every single potential options in the game

and reveal all the different paths in the

game. Now, since Hogwarts Legacy is going

to be an RPG game. Obviously there's

leveling up and there's going to be a

talent tree system where you can put

points into whatever you want. And it

seems like one of the trees you can put

points into seems to be like a dark arts

tree. So maybe you can spec into dark arts

and wizard spells to make your

unforgivable spells even more unforgivable

and destructive. I think it's really cool

that you can spec into different things

depending on how you like to play the

game. One of my favorite things to do in

RPG games has to be experimenting with

different builds and playstyles styles.

So I'm really glad that they've decided to

make this Harry Potter game like this and

not just like a linear action game, which

most of the previous Harry Potter games

have been. So the game is shaping up to be

looking very good and could even take on

Elden Ring as the game of the year for

this year. It could be one of the best

games of 2023. I'm very excited to try out

the game myself. It's coming out in almost

a week, and I think it's going to be very

interesting to see what all the hype is

about. And to see if it lives up to the

hype. But it seems like we don't have too

much to worry about. It does seem like

it's really going to live up to everyone's

expectations and it's going to be an

amazing game for 2023.