Leaping across cavernous pits while trying to maintain steady balance aside a tall cliffside was text book Nathan Drake, but somehow felt unrefined. The questionable control scheme that has a unique auto-assist in aiming toward an object makes it somewhat jarring before you can even attack or cast a spell. Playing the title in third person, you gauge its fundamentals just after the carriage crash, with Fig guiding you through some basics. Now in Hogwarts Castle, the campaign follows our ambitious wizard in training and their adventure through Hogsmeade and Scotland, hoping to find the meaning behind the existence of the Portkey, and how it could potentially render magic and wizardry extinct. It should be noted that Hogwarts Legacy takes place in the 1800’s, a century before the events of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, but the similarities between story events and parallel characters are evident enough for any Potter fanatic to pick up. Fig and our protagonist narrowly escape the situation, and we’re suddenly taken to Hogwarts where we begin our story at the university. Using the Portkey, they enter an old vault which holds ancient magic, to which we learn our protagonist can see. Investigating what was inside the cylinder, Fig reveals the item to be a Portkey that allows those handling it to transport to Gringotts – a wizardry bank in Great Britain, founded by goblins in 1474. Upon primary consultations, the trio are escorted toward Hogwarts via carriage which manages to crash after an attack by a hostile dragon that rips the vehicle in two halves, not before they discover a key enclosed a locked cylinder which could only be opened by our protagonist after only they seeing a glow coming from its crest embedded on the side.Īfter Fig and our protagonist survive the dragon’s onslaught, they land safely to shore after jumping out of the opened carriage. While I can say most dialogue is well performed, some of it can drone on without anything imperative to the campaign’s matters.
That being said, with the beginning of the game introducing our nameless protagonist to Professor Fig and George Osric in cinematic fashion, akin to a fully fledged motion picture. Hogwarts Legacy falls into that category, with some aimless cutscenes that are purposed merely for fanservice, but then there’s useful and inquisitive conversation that can be quick and easy to listen to.
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