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I resemble that remark!It's a shame I always happen to start playing the game when I'm about to crash out and fall asleep.
So I've completed this, somewhere a bit under 40 hours played time, a fair bit of just messing about and exploring.
I've put my pros and cons into a spoiler tag below, as I don't want to spoil for anyone:
There are a lot more Cons than Pros listed, but on the whole I still really enjoyed Hogwarts Legacy and have no regrets, it's taken me a couple of weeks to get through this on and off, but I've had a lot of fun.
I'm not even going into Performance stuff here. For me after some tuning I got it to work pretty well in the end.
Pros:
Cons:
- Amazing atmosphere they've created with the environments, and it's a lot of fun exploring Hogwarts and Hogsmeade in particular.
- Attention to detail is great, I can tell the team put a lot of care into creating a world that doesn't just look great but reveals more the more you look around.
- Combat is fun, if a little easy.
- Using spells is quite a unique thing compared with a lot of games lately, and the fact a lot of them are nostaglic from the films and canon to the lore of Harry Potter is even better. Wingardium LeviosA!
- Great OST
- I wish there was more branching storylines to explore, or at least a few core paths that play differently to give you some replayability.
- You can't truly become a dark wizard like I wanted to. You can pick a darker ending but afterwards it's like nothing changes.
- Speaking of, I'm sat there casually casting dark magic in front of everyone who'll watch, and despite a few off-hand comments the NPC's make, there is no penalty to doing so.
- Relationships with side characters don't seem to matter much, I'd like a good RPG style thing where you can increase or decrease this depending on choices you make, perhaps with some possibilty to totally wreck a relationship if you try hard enough.
- Wish there was more characters to interact with on a regular basis for storyline elements or major quests.
- The classroom stuff seems very much a secondary thing to the off-campus exploring. Days don't matter, and neither do the classes you can take.
- The house you pick essentially doesn't matter.
- There is a concept of time of day (day and night) but there appears to be no in-game clock telling you what the actual time is.
- Learning spells gives you a tedious mini-game that isn't fun and you can't really ever fail it.
- Some of the repeating dialogue is annoying, for example using the room of requirements and Deek keeps telling me he's proud of me for brewing potions, even when I hadn't made any. I was wondering if he was being passive-aggressive.
- Personally I hated the Pokemon mini game where you have to collect beasts, and to care for them to upgrade gear. I ignored this as much as possible.
- Gear upgrades feel kind of minor and managing the inventory is annoying, running out of gear slots is very easy requiring you to constantly destroy or sell gear.
- Room of Requirements was a good concept but it was too easy to max out the benefit of it very quickly, and forcing you to go back every 10-15 mins to harvest stuff was a little much sometimes. Would be good if this was expanded upon somehow.
I’m just about to do a hardware upgrade so hopefully I wont be affected by this but would be pretty annoyed if I was.Another issue with Denuvo and this game - apparently locks you out for 24 hours if you make more than 5 hardware changes, not including GPU. (Though not unusual with Denuvo and other games/DRM have similar) but some people are seeing it triggered from mundane hardware changes even sometimes removable storage, etc.
I've not really been playing/buying games much lately but I think I'm going to go back to boycotting games which use DRM/copy protection like this - even though I understand the need to protect sales, etc. ultimately it is just ******** on the regular customers while sooner or later the pirates get around it.