Thanks for watching my review of Hogwarts Legacy. Yes, I was made aware of the controversy surrounding this game. No, I do **not** care about it. As always, we don't do politics on this channel. Yes, that includes the politics *you* like. This is not a Bread-Tube channel, nor is it a right wing mouthpiece where we dunk on those on "the Left". You will not find that kind of stuff here, and I don't allow it here either. That means if you have a problem with people playing (or not playing) this game, keep it to yourself, because nobody here cares. The first warning is free My full playthrough of this game: ruclips.net/p/PLkbODR_gyOj9hHwN7HOpm-uLdgPpggCWH Twitter: twitter.com/Th3birdman15 Instagram: instagram.com/Th3Birdman15/ Discord Invite Code: nQZRn5m Subreddit: reddit.com/r/Th3Birdman Facebook: facebook.com/Th3Birdman15
@bird of the abyss Thought about it, but 6 doesn't neatly divide into 100, and most games don't warrant the topic in the first place, meaning most games will receive a less than perfect score simply because their audio and sound design are normal/ par. This game's audio was really good, as I LOVE the music. All of the music you hear in this video is from the game's soundtrack. Only negative was my character's voice lol
@@Th3Birdman audio could have a score out of 5, and another existing category that may not fully warrant 20% weight could be taken to 15, but it's not as neat/even. I think graphics could be out of 15.
I never really felt like a student. More like a guest teacher or something because there's no curfew at night, the Forbidden Forest is just a forest. And the killing curse just gets you side-eyed. Still fun though. 7/10
I think the whole thing with the killing curse being unforgivable is that other spells CAN kill while it DOES kill. it's literally its effect. Other spells were created for other reasons and uses while it only has a single purpose. It's why Harry surviving it was so amazing to the wizarding world. Because it's the one time the spell failed to complete it's purpose. At least that's how I interperate it.
I think you've got it right. Although one could easily kill another wizard with the likes of fire spells or even levitating them off a cliff, the killing curse is made only for that. You can levitate someone with the killing curse, nor start a fire with the killing curse, only kill. Even in a self defense scenario, a wizard would have a multitude of options to protect themselves such as Stupify or even Petrificus Totalus, so killing should never be the only option, and opting to deliberately do so is unforgivable.
The thing that separates the killing curse from spells that kill, is that there is no way to defend yourself against the killing curse. There is no counter charm. No lawful society would want that kind of power out in the public.
Plus the unforgivables can only be cast while experiencing almost objectively negative emotions. The killing curse can only be cast if you want to really kill someone. The torture curse can only be cast if you want to cause someone unbelievable pain. You need to hate someone to cast these curses. I don't really feel like I need to explain imperio. Bellatrix even scolds Harry about how he didn't hate her enough to truly use the torture curse on her after she killed Sirius in OotP.
I loved the game but my biggest complaints are: 1: The game plays loose with the rules of hogwarts. On certain missions it tells you that you can't be outside your dorm at night and you fail if you are caught but after the mission you can roam at night all you want 2: you don't automatically get challenge rewards. You have to go to the challenge menu, find what you unlocked and claim it. 3: There are 95 freaking Merlin trials!!
1) Between the "mark" and the field guide they know where you are all the time and are giving you leadway because the Goblins and Dark Wizards are after you and you are left to find out why in your free time 2)seen to many streamers forget to claim their rewards,Item slots,and skill points😹 3) for 48? Item Slots as a reward though wearing the close with the best offense/defense bonus,hovering over item slot to change it look to any item look in it category you collected then quick traveling to sell the rest(why would you keep a downgrade?) means is its treasure collection spots separate from potions,plants,collections,seeds,recipes,etc........the gear storage being updatable and PCs field guide disappearing under the arm suggests a type of Wizard storage spell as your PC has no Physical backpack(its called "deep pockets" in D&D, not sure what its called when Charles wand disappears at his waist area in first memory )
@@troymartin4260 then maybe scrap the collectibles? The game was advertised as an RPG where your choices matter and you can choose to be the witch/wizard you want to be. Instead your choices didn't matter at all and the game ended up being one big tedious collectathon.
Omg thank you for mentioning Lodgok's performance! I think you're the first to mention it! The story he tells the player about how he met Miriam genuinely moved me. The scene was so well constructed and the way the VA portrayed regret, surprise, and sadness in that scene was phenomenal.
*Spoilers below* Oh my god, I didn't expect to end up actually caring about a goblin in this game. Goblins have never been one of my favorite creatures, they always seemed more like props than characters to me, at least until Griphook in TDH, and even then, he wasn't an especially great character in my opinion. So imagine my surprise when Lodgok comes around, and even just his intonations as he tells the story... Not even the words he's saying, but his VOICE as he says them moved me half to tears. The catch in his throat as he mentions his surprise at having her ask him to sit next to her, at politely asking for his help. It's such a small thing, but it made him one of the best characters in the game for me, and I actually cried a little when he died.
Story wise, the biggest weakness of the game is its antagonists. Is unfair to compare them to Voldemort because he had seven books to be developed as a character and villian, but still. The only moment when we learn about the why for Ranrok doing what he’s doing is during a side mission through dialogue with a character that heard the story. We didn’t even got a flashback. And Rockwood, for me at least, felt like he was just there, and his boss battle lacked pizzazz.
SPOILER: I think the real villain in the game was Isadora Morganach. Ranrok and Rookwood were both after her "illegal" magic, but she's the one that created it in the first place, and dragged the goblins into it by using their metal to contain it, which means the goblins would of course come to claim it, since they have strict ownership rules with goblin-made metals.
i was a bit overleveled when i went into his fight, but dialogue wish it didn't feel like it was suppose to be a 'final battle' with him, legit when I killed him I went, "Am I close to the ending?" because it felt so anticlimatic at that point with his story
I have to say, we need more videos like this in your channel. Did it Suck, Let's Talk, and Honset Reviews are so well done and edited unlike other reviews I watched.
No lie I was hesitant about this game but when it was about to launch I decided I should try it out and I honestly love it for it's simplicity. It's a feel good game that lets you envelop the world and just have fun playing, over stressful quests. I wish we had better interactions but for Harry Potter/wizarding world games this definitely is a peak!
Regarding the "suggested spell section of the quest log": Once you reach an area and see whether the enemies are ashwinders, trolls or whatever, you can check your enemy collection and it'll give you hints about most effective spells. This was such a nice and honest review! Maybe not completely unbiased, but I actually prefer watching HP fans because I love seeing people being happy that the source material was so well implemented into the game
I've never been into Harry Potter. Always felt like I was a little old for it but I did enjoy the last 2 movie. Bought this game for my wife and kids and I'm loving it. I play more than them.
@@luigiboi4244 I’m 19 and had a mustache already in 6th grade lol. I also would need to shave my face everyday if I want to look clean. It takes only 2 weeks for me to grow a very noticeable beard
great review. I absolutely love this game. i just finished my first playthrough of the main story (still need to complete my field guide and some side quests though so not totally complete), but im eager to do a playthrough in each house and use different responses during quests to make myself feel like a different sort of wizard even though i know how things play out in the end
This was an excellent review without being bloated with excess information - thank you very much for the hard work! Honestly surprised I haven't stumbled across your channel sooner and you've definitely earned the sub my man.
Wow, I enjoyed this video very much because it gave me some different perspective. As a long time major Harry Potter nerd I have to say I was rather dissatisfied with the game. It’s interesting that two people who come from the same place when starting the game can come off with so different views.
The thing that makes me most glad about this game is the development time and team. It was full of super fans and there has been a love for Harry Potter games for decades it was just a matter of time when super fans could develop the skills they envisioned and dreamed about through every iteration of the games before this one so it’s like you said it’s almost as if the world was envisioned as a game from the start it’s probably not too far off a thought considering how fantasy even exists in the world today thanks to those who take inspiration from every form they can see before them 🥹 my complaints about the game is also very similar. The amount of things that break immersion suck like when I did the summoners court matches and Samantha Dale says she thought she could beat us because she saw us struggle against natty but in my playthrough I got perfect scores on every summoners court section so I was completely thrown off like what do you mean i literally never struggled with it so things like that are just one of the issues and incidents of that.
Was excited to see you cover this! On the topic of magic games: you ever consider reviewing Forspoken? I’m of the strong belief that it’s incredibly underrated. It’s a flawed game for sure, but has the same kind of broken charm that Dragon’s Dogma does. Including some of the greatest magical combat in any game I’ve played, towards mid to end game. Keep up the great work! Love how in depth you go with these
Same here, but with how many PS4/XBOX1-era games are also on the Switch, it may be of a lowered quality when you compare it to PC/PS4/etc., but I think it'll still be good when it gets ported later this year.
We all agree it is a good game, my highlights are the castle and the creatures, but i have my complains too, it was expected to fullfill the feeeling of going to hogwarts as a students but to be honest i felt more like an spectator or a guest, because there is no rules to what you can or cannot do, if you wander at night there is no problem, or stealing, or not using the uniform or the killing curses, or the restricted areas, also you are alone all the time, and go to class when you feel like it, to and i think the common rooms of each house you only see them like a couple times because you really dont need to go, i think your room should have more emotional impact at the end, on top of all this, you are out there all the time doing the hard work but nobody acknowlegde that you saved the wizard world aand kill more goblins and poachers than anyone in history, it sounds like i didnt enjoy it but i did haha
Personally, as a Trans person, I don’t think there’s any issue with people playing it. While JK may receive royalties, she didn’t make this game, and there are most likely plenty of people who worked on this game who aren’t horrible. Just like how the movies were made by other people aswell, this game was too.
I didn't play this game cuz my PC is bad and I hate playing consoles but everyone else in my family did, including my mum who is far from an avid gamer. She loved it, my siblings loved it, this game is fill of detail and love for the book series. I'm grateful for your playthrough birdman so I could see the best highlights of the game. Thanks a lot for streaming it
This is one of the most fun games I’ve ever played. My fiancée and I are already playing our second playthrough and we’re having so much fun playing in the other Houses.
A review of Hogarts Legacy that doesn't either spend the whole thing ripping apart JK Rowling before giving it -100/10 or spend the first half apologizing for liking the game? Say it ain't so.
I agree with you on the open world for this game and the castle. When I played GOWR after beating it the amount of grinding it took to get all worlds to 100% was insane. I do recommend everyone doing the demiguise statues quest all the way through as soon as you can to unlock the highest level of alohomora. It will save time later in the game not having to come back to unlock something after you get lvl 2 and 3
I think there are quite a lot of shortcomings. Especially in the storywriting, gameplay and "story vs gameplay" areas. With the latter I mean such things like the player character being _enthusiastically surprised_ that they've _beaten an ashwinder alone..._ ... on "dead ashwinder #24528." :D What the studio definitely nailed however is the environment and general feeling of immersion. And imho, that's the more important one to nail. They can always become better in other parts for the next game, but it would be hopeless if they didn't "get" the HP world. However, I did have a bit higher an expectation for an RPG in 2023, considering there's literally a crapton of RPG features that Skyrim (which is now over 11 years old) did better.
@@Th3Birdman i think its more just the ubisoft approach that has become tiresome. if companies took the fromsoftware or rockstar approach to open worlds i dont think we would be complaining as much.
Yes it has flaws and things that could be improved but it's one of the best immersive videogames experiences I ever had, and specially if you like the magic world. The atmosphere, graphics and soundtrack are top notch. The first time I flew over Hogwarts precisely with the song "Soaring over Hogwarts" was and will be one of the best moments in my gaming life experiences.
The way I made my evil Slytherin was someone who hid their evil intentions to those that would cause trouble for them to find out like teachers. Kind of like Voldemort did it. They're evil, but not stupid. I also see it where they appeal to people emotionally is more like just manipulating them.
What would you rate the music score of the game, out of curiosity? I feel like most reviewers leave out the music of a game, even though it can make or break the atmosphere the game is going for.
Congratulations, Birdman. You are the first reviewer that I have seen talk about the game without spending several minutes complaining about the problematic nature of the author. 👑
Great review Mr. Bird. Your gaming content is refreshingly great. If I may I would recommend you checking out Elden Ring, your insights on that game would be great to hear. Much love my man.
This game was phenomenal. Sadly, I didn’t really care for the main story. I found Ranrok to be a boring villain that I feel we never really got to know. He sort of just popped in and said something «evil» or did something bad and went away again. The final bossfight was stunning from a visual point of view, but dragged out and annoying. For me the secondary quests with Nati, Poppy and Sebastian was what made the game so brilliant
You di get to learn a bit more about him during a side quest (I forget which one), which actually explains why he hates wizards so much. It adds a little bit of nuance to his character, though it doesn't actually change anything. You can't, like, convince him not all wizards are bad, or anything. But it does at least help you understand him a bit more.
So I have to admit that I have never seen your channel before. I saw your review pop up and had to watch. Lets just say you earnd a like and subscibe today, well done.
One major thing I want in games is life, starfield fallout 3 and new vegas feels bland and the characters feel like lifeless dolls/robots, I love how they did the African accent and how they added real personality to the characters.
Hogwarts is something of an English private school. A lot of those have rules around having facial hair and typically forbid it unless it's for religious or medical reasons
not really an excuse since a) videogames don't have to mimmick reality and b) it's a magical school with completly different rules than a normal english school
It's a Scottish high school (all have to wear a uniform) The MC starts with a uniform, but you don't have to wear it at all if you choose not to. So what's one more rule breaking...LOL
@@FranWest. Not to memtion; breaking curfew, entering the Restricted Section without permission, sneaking into the professors' private quarters, going into the Forbidden Forest, leaving school grounds to explore the Scottish highlands, and (what's the other one? OH YEAH!) casting the Unforgivable Curses! At this point, our characters have breaking school rules down to an art form. The Marauders and Golden Trio would be proud. If, you know, we weren't 100 years before any of them, that is...
Gameplay and World design were amazing, way above my expectations! I found the story a bit bland, but it's fine. One thing that I couldn't get over was how you are forced to be friend with onai and sallow. I played every single quest with sallow trying to make him stop, only for the game to disregard my choices and just nudge him on, albeit slightly reluctantly. It was quite frustrating.
That's about as real as it gets, man. You can try your ass off to persuade someone away from a negative situation, but it doesn't amount to anything if they don't want that for themselves. I actually found it refreshing that me selecting a single line of text didn't entirely change Sebastian's conviction for trying to help his sister.
Have now played two characters, a Slytherin Wizard and a Ravenclaw Witch all the way through to 100%. Having got my first character to unlock every available achievement, it was my intention to play the other three characters I had made, up to the 'House Special' achievement point to obtain all 45 'Steam' achievements, but was enjoying the second run through so much I took it all the way to completion too. I will now most certainly just play my Gryffindor Wizard and Hufflepuff Witch up to the special achievement point of the game. Only one gripe, I do wish they had left out the Alohomora puzzles you are forced into doing a gazillion times.
Love the review! Since you played on PC how did you get the R2 icons for buttons maps?? Edit: No worries, I didn't know you could change them in options!
That's so funny how you mention the star levels from GTA. I really wanted to play this game & just use the one of the curses on an NPC & steal their broomstick, yet there are no opportunities to do that. That's the one area where this open-world, Harry Potter sandbox experience fails.
I was impressed when the missions actually paid attention to the houses you chose. My girlfriend thought i was ahead of her because I had a ravenclaw mission opposed to her hufflepuff one.
The suggestion for a bounty/wanted system - *chef's kiss*. Love the notion of having dementors join in if you really go too crazy. I wonder how you'd 'pay' your bounty. It's weird to think "Hey, you used the killing curse, that'll be 50 gold please". But I guess that's how it works in GTA - "hey you blew up an armored car, killed half the city, and committed every single criminal act possible, so we're gonna take $500 from you."
This is just a tiny observation, but Avada Kedavra would be a lot more menacing if it was expanded upon just immediately killing someone. As you said other spells kill people, so the answer here would be to make a reason WHY it’s so bad compared to like Confringo-ing a mf to ash. Perhaps when someone is killed with AK they’re denied the ability to go anywhere after death. Ghosts are canon so surely an afterlife is as well, so ripping that opportunity from someone would warrant the punishment of its use. It’s so easy to put in an explanation like this that I don’t understand why they didn’t.
It’s really quite remarkable how playing this game for just an hour or so, gives you a more satisfying window into the expansive lore of the Harry Potter universe, than ANYTHING in all three Fantastic Beasts films. As to your point about the unforgivable curses, keep in mind this is set 100 years before the events of the books, that law might not be in place yet.
This game takes place in the past. I don't know how the rules and regulations about forbidden spells were, but perhaps the rules within the Harry Potter universe got changed over the centuries?
I pre-ordered the game and don't regret it, even if there's not much replayability. I put in 50 hours, though I did not complete all the little side thingies. I'm not sure how different our experiences were, though you didn't sound as though you had much issues on PC. For me, there was considerable stuttering even on my 3060. This has been improved with newer patches, but at launch it was awful in some parts of the castle and Hogsmeade. I'll probably pick it up again when I get another hankering. There's a few mods to check out too. Even one that allows you to fight Aurors and be sent to Azkaban for using the Unforgivable spells on non-hostile NPCs.
I enjoyed the game but i think it still has 2 major flaws. 1) the story wasn't that engaging to me. not bad just not great. the whole goblin rebellion just felt like an after thought to me. we never really learned ranroks motives so i had a hard time connecting to him as one of the villains. Rookwood also felt like he was just there. no explanation as to why just that he was there. I'm not saying that i don't like the idea of a goblin rebellion story. i just felt like they should've saved it for the next game and focused on the keepers storyline in this one. 2) the open world content reminded me a lot of Ubisoft. the content was split between merlin trials, poacher/goblin camps, popping balloons, and side quests. i have no problems with the first three other that they get very repetitive quick. what i did have a problem with were the side quests. most of them just felt like your typical open world filler quests. they mostly boiled down to getting sent to retrieve someone's lost/stolen item, clear out this cave/camp, or collect a certain amount of an item. I wouldn't say bad just very generic and repetitive. there were still some side quests i enjoyed. the haunted Hogsmeade quest(PlayStation exclusive quest) was one of my favorites. the relationship quests with Poppy, Sebastian, and Natty were great even if Nattys was the weakest of the 3. for me i would give the game a 7/10. a game that im not against playing through again when the inevitable sequel. but will be a while time before I play through it again
My Random Thoughts 1. I personally think that the harry potter franchise is actually quite poorly designed video game wise but I think the people who made this game made a phenomenal job with adapting it to a game. 2. This games gameplay loop reminded me of the Insomniac Spider-Man games for some reason. 3. The opening scene where the dragon attacks and kills the guy and you see the thestrals is one of my favourite moment from game I've played recently
I think a Bully style version of this game without the main plot could totally work, focus on the classes and character quests. It kinda did a lot of it but it had the ancient magic stuff and the memories of the past users.
"You get the broom almost immediately"...dude it took me almost 10 hours before I got it haha, spend like 7 running around the castle getting my bearings
You “Almost immediately you get a broom!” Me, Level 12 or something 9 hours in waiting for the broom and animals I have seen: :’D Fast travel is so cool once I get there. Thanks you Hogsmeade for being a shortcut-!
The best way I can describe mechanics of the castle alone is; the castle feels as big outside, as it is inside. Which vla lot of open worlds games done do. Many games have you run to a door, and there's a load screen. With HL, you go to a door and it opens up without having to wait for it to render or load. That's the absolute best feature of the game is how little load screens the entire game has, besides floo travel or the select number of areas l, like a cave, that have their own underworld that's separate from the big overworld.
@@Th3Birdman Birdman before you review let other biased Re 4 fanboys review it. Like Re 3 remake style review. Cant wait for your ultimate roast since 2020. We're just 1 week away.
We have to give Avalanche this; there was no telling how well the game would sell, which is why they probably opted for a pretty basic linear story within the Harry Potter universe. But man, can you imagine if this game had you playing through every year at Hogwarts? Natty, Sebastian, Poppy and even some other characters, DO feel like characters you'd journey with through 5 years of studies at Hogwarts
They were actually. This is an inconsistency unfortunately. Unless it's simply a retcon, and they decided to change when using those curses would become illegal.
I love Harry Potter. One of my most cherished memories is going to see the first film opening night in theaters with my mom as a kid. That being said, while this game is fun in short bursts I have one solid problem with it. The gameplay feels extremely surface level and repetative. Given Portkey games was a mobile developer, it isn't that surprising a lot of quests feel like busy work. Their Hogwarts Mystery game was full of that stuff. What I mean by surface level though is that there are multiple choices like what broom you ride, your wands wood and flexability, and your house. These choices feel like they are going to matter. Like you will have to solve a riddle to get into the Ravenclaw common room only to have the character to know it. The wand could have effected your gameplay. Different wood and core combinations making spells more or less powerful, the flexability make you decide between faster and weaker spells or slower casting spells that will hit like a semi going downhill with no brakes. Even the brooms all feel the same. If they had just made little variations like each one make you choose between what you want like speed, cornering, or more boost, it would have been so much more satisfying working your way up to the best broom instead of buying the one you like the look of. Hell, you can't even go to classes. The one thing most people would want to go to Hogwarts for and the one good thing about Hogwarts Mysteries and they cut it out? So stupid
As someone who's a big fan of high fantasy games with magic but knows absolutely zero things regarding Harry Potter, this game honestly does look pretty cool to me.
I'm not a huge Harry Potter fan. I don't hate the movies by any means, but I'm not what I would call a fan. This game though, this game made me want to go back and watch the movies. I've got over 150+ hours across three characters.
Am so happy to see someone agree that Open World Games are a disease, lol. Am honestly sick of devs using open worlds to create an uninspired, copy pasted world that is more or less empty, while also having no/a bad story and just use "let the player explore instead" as an excuse. Ffs, bring back linear AAA games, I rather follow a good story and a few well designed places than a generic world that is as full as a chips bag
i didnt find pulling off a hard mission particularly rewarding when all you get is a scarf or something, personally wish i got something else more rewarding or satisfying to mark accomplishments
I'm taking it at a slow pace because I'm also playing Elden Ring, but I am having a blast with this game. It feels very refreshing in an open world setting. I'm a casual fan of HP (I've seen all the movies a few times and so far have read 2 books)
I totally agree about the male facial hair! I'm female but created a male character for my second run just to see how certain scenes might play differently, but I wanted my character to look like a baby Geralt of Rivia and instead he kind of looks like Legolas ☹🧝♂
I haven't. Those sound neat. Thing is, I already have all the books, old softcover and hardcover, Fantastic Beasts AND all the audiobooks. I'm too deep in the game already 😅😂
I haven't progressed very far in the story yet. So far the gameplay loop for me has basically been "Explore the map and ignore the story". To put it in perspective just how much I have done this, I have explored half the map and am level 27. I only just got my first broom. Having said that, it's good to hear that the story is also really good so I look forward to engaging with that when I get there.
The leveling system in the game rewards you for actually just enjoying the world, as opposed to grinding enemy kills. I had the entire map explored and most side missions done before I bothered to do the last few missions to wrap up the main story. I was level 39 when I beat the game.
If I had to describe Hogwarts legacy I would call it childish. The reason the movies were so believable was because it actually felt like a school AKA slightly uncaring teachers that sometimes shined but were more so teachers than magical tourists. Bully is the comparison I'll make here as the techers in bully are actually really awful teachers but that's what most teachers are awful whereas it feels like every class but the potions and history class are fake.
You must have a Nasa PC the way you talk about the stable framerates. Still haven't really played the game because it's borderline unplayable even on lowest settings. My actual FPS I get is 40-50 which would be fine for me, but it drops to under 20 constantly because of memory issues. All other AAA games I can play just fine at mostly 60FPS
Specs: NVIDIA 3090 FE, 10900k, 128 gb RAM. Everything was on Ultra settings with DLSS turned on. Yeah, my PC is powerful, but it's no longer the top of the line. What are your specs???
@@Th3Birdman gtx1080, 6700k, 16gb ram. I know my specs are outdated by now but it's way above the minimum recs and also I can play most other AAA comfortably on 2k medium/high with the PC. I think the main culprit is the 16GB Ram because this game has like 95% ram usage as soon as I start it. This should absolutely not happen and there is clearly a developing issue there, maybe the anti-crack software. Also if you check up on reddit or other forums, you can see that even people with your kind of specs have many issues regarding FPS for whatever weird reason. I think you kinda should have mentioned it in the review because it's one of the biggest complaints about the game in general.
Yeah, your PC should run this game no problem. If the game is heavily RAM dependent, though, 16 might not be enough. I haven't run 16 gigs in forever 😅. Hell, I'm looking into buying a mobo that lets me do 256 or more. That being said, I don't do reviews based on other people's experience. My review is my own, and I can't possibly take into account another player's experience. At that point, it wouldn't be MY review. As you can see, I streamed this game live in front of thousands of people, and you can not only see my settings in the first stream, you can see the kind of performance I got in this game in my 25 hours playing it live. All of this footage was from my rig, and 99% of it was from my live streams. The results speak for themselves. I'll say one last thing. PC gaming is interesting in that we all have different builds and that can cause variance in performance. I know this extremely well, as I have three gaming capable PCs. However, this game is currently on PS5 and XSX, and from what I've heard, they run perfectly fine. So if I were to base my review on other players' experience, at least according to you, I'd have to take those into account, and their experiences line up with my own. I don't really go looking for complaints (that's mainly because I don't read or watch reviews until I've completed my own review) but people in my stream were telling me they had no issues on console. As I was having a pretty smooth experience on PC, my assumption was that the game was well optimized, as I said at 17:20, which was the second stream (about 6 hours into the game)
The voice sounded robotic is a bug, due to the default and pitched voices playing at the same time. They should have fixed it by now, but I guess they haven't yet? Gotta agree with the male voice being pretty flat though. The female voice sounds much better. Good review.
I usually play with female characters when allowed to create a character, except in Pokémon games where I always try to create myself. The one time I chose to be a dude would be the time they have a voice bug 😂😂😂
@@wariolandgoldpiramid Not a texture bug, but the face was using the wrong poly model (i.e. one meant for medium distance instead of close distance) outside of cutscenes. That made the faces look a bit distorted.
I agree on the open world stuff... I don't mind it too much as long as there is a clear path you should take to progress. But if you have to make countless side-quests to get the main story forward, it becomes tedious. Kind of why I dislike MMORPGs and alike, as they are way too open for my taste and why I dislike Zelda Breath of the wild. WAY too many open objectives you can takle and no clear line of progression (outside of the 4 giants you can/should free before fighting the main baddy).
I'd like to see more consequences for your actions, don't know why they make you pick a certain choice but doesn't have a effect makes me kinda boo, i love multiple choice ends cause its more realistic and overall cool
question is: when was it decided that imperio ,crucio and avada kedavra were a oneway ticket to askaban? could have been after the first world war or so.
Really good video. Can't wait to get my hands on this. As a humongous fan, I'm glad that this is mostly faithful to the lore. The little details throughout shows just how much went into making this feel like an authentic Harry Potter experience. Also, at 15:49 - The reason the those are illegal compared to others that do something similar, is because, as the HP wiki itself states, "One must also had a desire to use the curses for malevolent purposes." In Order of the Phoenix he tried using the one, and it only worked for a moment, and Tom Riddle even says "You have to mean it Harry." I really don't like how YT doesn't allow comments to go through if certain words (even ones so miniscule) are used
I've been sick the past week and change (cold). I wanted to stream Atomic Hearts. But I'd love to play that demo on stream. I've played both RE2 and RE3 remake demos on here, so I'd hate to break up the set. And as far as I am aware, the PS5 version is rock solid, so it would be a good choice.
I absolutely adore the game, but to me everything feels kinda shallow and POC-ish. As if it was just a big experiment they made to test out the waters. But, the thing is... it WAS a POC; because it did prove the concept and then some. Most of the issues aren't really glaring, and it does have the potential for something truly astonishing.
Thanks for watching my review of Hogwarts Legacy.
Yes, I was made aware of the controversy surrounding this game. No, I do **not** care about it.
As always, we don't do politics on this channel. Yes, that includes the politics *you* like. This is not a Bread-Tube channel, nor is it a right wing mouthpiece where we dunk on those on "the Left". You will not find that kind of stuff here, and I don't allow it here either. That means if you have a problem with people playing (or not playing) this game, keep it to yourself, because nobody here cares. The first warning is free
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Well said 👏
People who say they're apolitical always lean in one very certain way?
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@bird of the abyss Thought about it, but 6 doesn't neatly divide into 100, and most games don't warrant the topic in the first place, meaning most games will receive a less than perfect score simply because their audio and sound design are normal/ par.
This game's audio was really good, as I LOVE the music. All of the music you hear in this video is from the game's soundtrack. Only negative was my character's voice lol
@@Th3Birdman audio could have a score out of 5, and another existing category that may not fully warrant 20% weight could be taken to 15, but it's not as neat/even. I think graphics could be out of 15.
I never really felt like a student. More like a guest teacher or something because there's no curfew at night, the Forbidden Forest is just a forest. And the killing curse just gets you side-eyed. Still fun though. 7/10
@@Jake-nl3er Students at Hogwarts do in the books and the films.
The Wizarding school system isn't the UK school system lol
Datamine showed that curfew was a feature that was later scrapped
I think the whole thing with the killing curse being unforgivable is that other spells CAN kill while it DOES kill. it's literally its effect. Other spells were created for other reasons and uses while it only has a single purpose. It's why Harry surviving it was so amazing to the wizarding world. Because it's the one time the spell failed to complete it's purpose. At least that's how I interperate it.
I think you've got it right. Although one could easily kill another wizard with the likes of fire spells or even levitating them off a cliff, the killing curse is made only for that. You can levitate someone with the killing curse, nor start a fire with the killing curse, only kill. Even in a self defense scenario, a wizard would have a multitude of options to protect themselves such as Stupify or even Petrificus Totalus, so killing should never be the only option, and opting to deliberately do so is unforgivable.
It failed twice I think which is crazy plot armor
@@MIKUIEL I meant pryer to the 2nd wizarding war, but you're right.
The thing that separates the killing curse from spells that kill, is that there is no way to defend yourself against the killing curse. There is no counter charm. No lawful society would want that kind of power out in the public.
Plus the unforgivables can only be cast while experiencing almost objectively negative emotions. The killing curse can only be cast if you want to really kill someone. The torture curse can only be cast if you want to cause someone unbelievable pain. You need to hate someone to cast these curses. I don't really feel like I need to explain imperio. Bellatrix even scolds Harry about how he didn't hate her enough to truly use the torture curse on her after she killed Sirius in OotP.
I loved the game but my biggest complaints are:
1: The game plays loose with the rules of hogwarts. On certain missions it tells you that you can't be outside your dorm at night and you fail if you are caught but after the mission you can roam at night all you want
2: you don't automatically get challenge rewards. You have to go to the challenge menu, find what you unlocked and claim it.
3: There are 95 freaking Merlin trials!!
yeah, a sim curfew system was probably a scrapped mechanic,
@wariolandgoldpiramid I can kind of understand. Having to avoid detection to hunt for those collectibles you can only get at night would get annoying
1) Between the "mark" and the field guide they know where you are all the time and are giving you leadway because the Goblins and Dark Wizards are after you and you are left to find out why in your free time
2)seen to many streamers forget to claim their rewards,Item slots,and skill points😹
3) for 48? Item Slots as a reward though wearing the close with the best offense/defense bonus,hovering over item slot to change it look to any item look in it category you collected then quick traveling to sell the rest(why would you keep a downgrade?) means is its treasure collection spots separate from potions,plants,collections,seeds,recipes,etc........the gear storage being updatable and PCs field guide disappearing under the arm suggests a type of Wizard storage spell as your PC has no Physical backpack(its called "deep pockets" in D&D, not sure what its called when Charles wand disappears at his waist area in first memory )
@@troymartin4260 then maybe scrap the collectibles? The game was advertised as an RPG where your choices matter and you can choose to be the witch/wizard you want to be. Instead your choices didn't matter at all and the game ended up being one big tedious collectathon.
Omg thank you for mentioning Lodgok's performance! I think you're the first to mention it! The story he tells the player about how he met Miriam genuinely moved me. The scene was so well constructed and the way the VA portrayed regret, surprise, and sadness in that scene was phenomenal.
*Spoilers below*
Oh my god, I didn't expect to end up actually caring about a goblin in this game. Goblins have never been one of my favorite creatures, they always seemed more like props than characters to me, at least until Griphook in TDH, and even then, he wasn't an especially great character in my opinion. So imagine my surprise when Lodgok comes around, and even just his intonations as he tells the story... Not even the words he's saying, but his VOICE as he says them moved me half to tears. The catch in his throat as he mentions his surprise at having her ask him to sit next to her, at politely asking for his help. It's such a small thing, but it made him one of the best characters in the game for me, and I actually cried a little when he died.
Story wise, the biggest weakness of the game is its antagonists. Is unfair to compare them to Voldemort because he had seven books to be developed as a character and villian, but still. The only moment when we learn about the why for Ranrok doing what he’s doing is during a side mission through dialogue with a character that heard the story. We didn’t even got a flashback. And Rockwood, for me at least, felt like he was just there, and his boss battle lacked pizzazz.
SPOILER: I think the real villain in the game was Isadora Morganach. Ranrok and Rookwood were both after her "illegal" magic, but she's the one that created it in the first place, and dragged the goblins into it by using their metal to contain it, which means the goblins would of course come to claim it, since they have strict ownership rules with goblin-made metals.
i was a bit overleveled when i went into his fight, but dialogue wish it didn't feel like it was suppose to be a 'final battle' with him, legit when I killed him I went, "Am I close to the ending?" because it felt so anticlimatic at that point with his story
I have to say, we need more videos like this in your channel. Did it Suck, Let's Talk, and Honset Reviews are so well done and edited unlike other reviews I watched.
No lie I was hesitant about this game but when it was about to launch I decided I should try it out and I honestly love it for it's simplicity. It's a feel good game that lets you envelop the world and just have fun playing, over stressful quests. I wish we had better interactions but for Harry Potter/wizarding world games this definitely is a peak!
Regarding the "suggested spell section of the quest log": Once you reach an area and see whether the enemies are ashwinders, trolls or whatever, you can check your enemy collection and it'll give you hints about most effective spells.
This was such a nice and honest review! Maybe not completely unbiased, but I actually prefer watching HP fans because I love seeing people being happy that the source material was so well implemented into the game
I've never been into Harry Potter. Always felt like I was a little old for it but I did enjoy the last 2 movie. Bought this game for my wife and kids and I'm loving it. I play more than them.
1:50 that’s just a fact. I had a guy in my school who, at 10th grade, had a full on beard!
I almost constantly have to shave my face, and I’m 18.
Wait a minute…
goddamn
@@luigiboi4244 I’m 19 and had a mustache already in 6th grade lol. I also would need to shave my face everyday if I want to look clean. It takes only 2 weeks for me to grow a very noticeable beard
great review. I absolutely love this game. i just finished my first playthrough of the main story (still need to complete my field guide and some side quests though so not totally complete), but im eager to do a playthrough in each house and use different responses during quests to make myself feel like a different sort of wizard even though i know how things play out in the end
I've used so many unforgivable curses in this game, I would be locked under Azkaban 😂
This was an excellent review without being bloated with excess information - thank you very much for the hard work!
Honestly surprised I haven't stumbled across your channel sooner and you've definitely earned the sub my man.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow, I enjoyed this video very much because it gave me some different perspective. As a long time major Harry Potter nerd I have to say I was rather dissatisfied with the game. It’s interesting that two people who come from the same place when starting the game can come off with so different views.
The thing that makes me most glad about this game is the development time and team. It was full of super fans and there has been a love for Harry Potter games for decades it was just a matter of time when super fans could develop the skills they envisioned and dreamed about through every iteration of the games before this one so it’s like you said it’s almost as if the world was envisioned as a game from the start it’s probably not too far off a thought considering how fantasy even exists in the world today thanks to those who take inspiration from every form they can see before them 🥹 my complaints about the game is also very similar. The amount of things that break immersion suck like when I did the summoners court matches and Samantha Dale says she thought she could beat us because she saw us struggle against natty but in my playthrough I got perfect scores on every summoners court section so I was completely thrown off like what do you mean i literally never struggled with it so things like that are just one of the issues and incidents of that.
Was excited to see you cover this! On the topic of magic games: you ever consider reviewing Forspoken? I’m of the strong belief that it’s incredibly underrated. It’s a flawed game for sure, but has the same kind of broken charm that Dragon’s Dogma does. Including some of the greatest magical combat in any game I’ve played, towards mid to end game.
Keep up the great work! Love how in depth you go with these
I haven't played it yet, and after that demo, it looked underwhelming, so I skipped it 😅
Glad to see you enjoyed it though!
Lmao
I REALLY hope this game performs well on Switch, cause I want it SO BAD!
Same here, but with how many PS4/XBOX1-era games are also on the Switch, it may be of a lowered quality when you compare it to PC/PS4/etc., but I think it'll still be good when it gets ported later this year.
We all agree it is a good game, my highlights are the castle and the creatures, but i have my complains too, it was expected to fullfill the feeeling of going to hogwarts as a students but to be honest i felt more like an spectator or a guest, because there is no rules to what you can or cannot do, if you wander at night there is no problem, or stealing, or not using the uniform or the killing curses, or the restricted areas, also you are alone all the time, and go to class when you feel like it, to and i think the common rooms of each house you only see them like a couple times because you really dont need to go, i think your room should have more emotional impact at the end, on top of all this, you are out there all the time doing the hard work but nobody acknowlegde that you saved the wizard world aand kill more goblins and poachers than anyone in history, it sounds like i didnt enjoy it but i did haha
I'm really hoping the sequel fixes this
Personally, as a Trans person, I don’t think there’s any issue with people playing it. While JK may receive royalties, she didn’t make this game, and there are most likely plenty of people who worked on this game who aren’t horrible. Just like how the movies were made by other people aswell, this game was too.
The Shaun of the dead line got me. ‘Scribed and liked. I’m a simple man.
I didn't play this game cuz my PC is bad and I hate playing consoles but everyone else in my family did, including my mum who is far from an avid gamer. She loved it, my siblings loved it, this game is fill of detail and love for the book series. I'm grateful for your playthrough birdman so I could see the best highlights of the game. Thanks a lot for streaming it
This is one of the most fun games I’ve ever played. My fiancée and I are already playing our second playthrough and we’re having so much fun playing in the other Houses.
I’m so glad I found this guy, if I wanna buy a game I’ll just watch a video of him reviewing it
One of the best games reviews I have watched. Thanks for being so rigorous and comprehensive!
A review of Hogarts Legacy that doesn't either spend the whole thing ripping apart JK Rowling before giving it -100/10 or spend the first half apologizing for liking the game? Say it ain't so.
I agree with you on the open world for this game and the castle. When I played GOWR after beating it the amount of grinding it took to get all worlds to 100% was insane. I do recommend everyone doing the demiguise statues quest all the way through as soon as you can to unlock the highest level of alohomora. It will save time later in the game not having to come back to unlock something after you get lvl 2 and 3
Beautiful game and every HP fan loves it. Myself included. My childhood has come alive and I feel complete.
Thanks BM!
I think there are quite a lot of shortcomings. Especially in the storywriting, gameplay and "story vs gameplay" areas.
With the latter I mean such things like the player character being _enthusiastically surprised_ that they've _beaten an ashwinder alone..._
... on "dead ashwinder #24528." :D
What the studio definitely nailed however is the environment and general feeling of immersion. And imho, that's the more important one to nail. They can always become better in other parts for the next game, but it would be hopeless if they didn't "get" the HP world.
However, I did have a bit higher an expectation for an RPG in 2023, considering there's literally a crapton of RPG features that Skyrim (which is now over 11 years old) did better.
I personally think Open World games are the future. It makes it so much more fun to traverse when you are not limited in where you can go.
Can't be the future if they are the now.
Pretty much every game these days is open world. Grand Theft Auto created a monster.
@@Th3Birdman i think its more just the ubisoft approach that has become tiresome. if companies took the fromsoftware or rockstar approach to open worlds i dont think we would be complaining as much.
Yes it has flaws and things that could be improved but it's one of the best immersive videogames experiences I ever had, and specially if you like the magic world. The atmosphere, graphics and soundtrack are top notch.
The first time I flew over Hogwarts precisely with the song "Soaring over Hogwarts" was and will be one of the best moments in my gaming life experiences.
The way I made my evil Slytherin was someone who hid their evil intentions to those that would cause trouble for them to find out like teachers. Kind of like Voldemort did it. They're evil, but not stupid. I also see it where they appeal to people emotionally is more like just manipulating them.
What would you rate the music score of the game, out of curiosity? I feel like most reviewers leave out the music of a game, even though it can make or break the atmosphere the game is going for.
Well, I think the fact I literally only used music from this game's soundtrack in this video speaks volumes...
It is pretty glorious, mostly original with some tastes of the movie scores sprinkled in.
Congratulations, Birdman. You are the first reviewer that I have seen talk about the game without spending several minutes complaining about the problematic nature of the author. 👑
Great review Mr. Bird. Your gaming content is refreshingly great. If I may I would recommend you checking out Elden Ring, your insights on that game would be great to hear. Much love my man.
This game was phenomenal. Sadly, I didn’t really care for the main story. I found Ranrok to be a boring villain that I feel we never really got to know. He sort of just popped in and said something «evil» or did something bad and went away again. The final bossfight was stunning from a visual point of view, but dragged out and annoying. For me the secondary quests with Nati, Poppy and Sebastian was what made the game so brilliant
You di get to learn a bit more about him during a side quest (I forget which one), which actually explains why he hates wizards so much. It adds a little bit of nuance to his character, though it doesn't actually change anything. You can't, like, convince him not all wizards are bad, or anything. But it does at least help you understand him a bit more.
So I have to admit that I have never seen your channel before. I saw your review pop up and had to watch. Lets just say you earnd a like and subscibe today, well done.
One major thing I want in games is life, starfield fallout 3 and new vegas feels bland and the characters feel like lifeless dolls/robots, I love how they did the African accent and how they added real personality to the characters.
Amazing video, and also, you had the dragonhide cloak. That deserves a double like but sadly that isnt invented yet
Hogwarts is something of an English private school. A lot of those have rules around having facial hair and typically forbid it unless it's for religious or medical reasons
not really an excuse since a) videogames don't have to mimmick reality and b) it's a magical school with completly different rules than a normal english school
It's a Scottish high school (all have to wear a uniform) The MC starts with a uniform, but you don't have to wear it at all if you choose not to. So what's one more rule breaking...LOL
@@FranWest. Not to memtion; breaking curfew, entering the Restricted Section without permission, sneaking into the professors' private quarters, going into the Forbidden Forest, leaving school grounds to explore the Scottish highlands, and (what's the other one? OH YEAH!) casting the Unforgivable Curses! At this point, our characters have breaking school rules down to an art form. The Marauders and Golden Trio would be proud. If, you know, we weren't 100 years before any of them, that is...
Gameplay and World design were amazing, way above my expectations! I found the story a bit bland, but it's fine. One thing that I couldn't get over was how you are forced to be friend with onai and sallow. I played every single quest with sallow trying to make him stop, only for the game to disregard my choices and just nudge him on, albeit slightly reluctantly. It was quite frustrating.
That's about as real as it gets, man. You can try your ass off to persuade someone away from a negative situation, but it doesn't amount to anything if they don't want that for themselves. I actually found it refreshing that me selecting a single line of text didn't entirely change Sebastian's conviction for trying to help his sister.
Have now played two characters, a Slytherin Wizard and a Ravenclaw Witch all the way through to 100%. Having got my first character to unlock every available achievement, it was my intention to play the other three characters I had made, up to the 'House Special' achievement point to obtain all 45 'Steam' achievements, but was enjoying the second run through so much I took it all the way to completion too. I will now most certainly just play my Gryffindor Wizard and Hufflepuff Witch up to the special achievement point of the game. Only one gripe, I do wish they had left out the Alohomora puzzles you are forced into doing a gazillion times.
Love the review! Since you played on PC how did you get the R2 icons for buttons maps??
Edit: No worries, I didn't know you could change them in options!
That's so funny how you mention the star levels from GTA. I really wanted to play this game & just use the one of the curses on an NPC & steal their broomstick, yet there are no opportunities to do that. That's the one area where this open-world, Harry Potter sandbox experience fails.
Love the honesty of this video he doesn’t exaggerates and says this game is perfect he has good points
I was impressed when the missions actually paid attention to the houses you chose. My girlfriend thought i was ahead of her because I had a ravenclaw mission opposed to her hufflepuff one.
The suggestion for a bounty/wanted system - *chef's kiss*. Love the notion of having dementors join in if you really go too crazy. I wonder how you'd 'pay' your bounty. It's weird to think "Hey, you used the killing curse, that'll be 50 gold please". But I guess that's how it works in GTA - "hey you blew up an armored car, killed half the city, and committed every single criminal act possible, so we're gonna take $500 from you."
This is just a tiny observation, but Avada Kedavra would be a lot more menacing if it was expanded upon just immediately killing someone. As you said other spells kill people, so the answer here would be to make a reason WHY it’s so bad compared to like Confringo-ing a mf to ash. Perhaps when someone is killed with AK they’re denied the ability to go anywhere after death. Ghosts are canon so surely an afterlife is as well, so ripping that opportunity from someone would warrant the punishment of its use. It’s so easy to put in an explanation like this that I don’t understand why they didn’t.
I always wanted Avada Kedavra to keep people from entering an afterlife. It would make it that much more menacing.
hello birdman, looking forward to see your shazam 2 review.
It’s really quite remarkable how playing this game for just an hour or so, gives you a more satisfying window into the expansive lore of the Harry Potter universe, than ANYTHING in all three Fantastic Beasts films.
As to your point about the unforgivable curses, keep in mind this is set 100 years before the events of the books, that law might not be in place yet.
Thank you for an honest review birdman
This game takes place in the past. I don't know how the rules and regulations about forbidden spells were, but perhaps the rules within the Harry Potter universe got changed over the centuries?
I pre-ordered the game and don't regret it, even if there's not much replayability. I put in 50 hours, though I did not complete all the little side thingies. I'm not sure how different our experiences were, though you didn't sound as though you had much issues on PC. For me, there was considerable stuttering even on my 3060. This has been improved with newer patches, but at launch it was awful in some parts of the castle and Hogsmeade. I'll probably pick it up again when I get another hankering. There's a few mods to check out too. Even one that allows you to fight Aurors and be sent to Azkaban for using the Unforgivable spells on non-hostile NPCs.
I enjoyed the game but i think it still has 2 major flaws. 1) the story wasn't that engaging to me. not bad just not great. the whole goblin rebellion just felt like an after thought to me. we never really learned ranroks motives so i had a hard time connecting to him as one of the villains. Rookwood also felt like he was just there. no explanation as to why just that he was there. I'm not saying that i don't like the idea of a goblin rebellion story. i just felt like they should've saved it for the next game and focused on the keepers storyline in this one. 2) the open world content reminded me a lot of Ubisoft. the content was split between merlin trials, poacher/goblin camps, popping balloons, and side quests. i have no problems with the first three other that they get very repetitive quick. what i did have a problem with were the side quests. most of them just felt like your typical open world filler quests. they mostly boiled down to getting sent to retrieve someone's lost/stolen item, clear out this cave/camp, or collect a certain amount of an item. I wouldn't say bad just very generic and repetitive. there were still some side quests i enjoyed. the haunted Hogsmeade quest(PlayStation exclusive quest) was one of my favorites. the relationship quests with Poppy, Sebastian, and Natty were great even if Nattys was the weakest of the 3. for me i would give the game a 7/10. a game that im not against playing through again when the inevitable sequel. but will be a while time before I play through it again
My Random Thoughts
1. I personally think that the harry potter franchise is actually quite poorly designed video game wise but I think the people who made this game made a phenomenal job with adapting it to a game.
2. This games gameplay loop reminded me of the Insomniac Spider-Man games for some reason.
3. The opening scene where the dragon attacks and kills the guy and you see the thestrals is one of my favourite moment from game I've played recently
I think a Bully style version of this game without the main plot could totally work, focus on the classes and character quests. It kinda did a lot of it but it had the ancient magic stuff and the memories of the past users.
Also yea your second and third point I completely agree with, the Thestrals appearing was SICK NASTY
"You get the broom almost immediately"...dude it took me almost 10 hours before I got it haha, spend like 7 running around the castle getting my bearings
You “Almost immediately you get a broom!”
Me, Level 12 or something 9 hours in waiting for the broom and animals I have seen: :’D Fast travel is so cool once I get there. Thanks you Hogsmeade for being a shortcut-!
The best way I can describe mechanics of the castle alone is; the castle feels as big outside, as it is inside. Which vla lot of open worlds games done do. Many games have you run to a door, and there's a load screen. With HL, you go to a door and it opens up without having to wait for it to render or load. That's the absolute best feature of the game is how little load screens the entire game has, besides floo travel or the select number of areas l, like a cave, that have their own underworld that's separate from the big overworld.
Anyone else just completely ignore that gobstones mission 😅
Between this game, and Dead Space Remake, this year in gaming is looking good to me so far. Two amazing games this early in the year.
And Resident Evil 4 Remake is next week!
@@Th3Birdman Birdman before you review let other biased Re 4 fanboys review it. Like Re 3 remake style review. Cant wait for your ultimate roast since 2020. We're just 1 week away.
Boarding high schools don’t allow facial hair. Amazing video!
Bro that john cena bit...😂
Hey Birdman, did you ever play FF 7 Remake? Have you ever played any final fantasy games?
Very professional rewiev, great voice for it also :D
the fatc that you put in "cup tea and wait for it all to blow over". keen man!! keen!
I had facial hair in middle school when I was 12-13, so I do hope people wouldn’t have an issue with the facial hair in the game
That reference to Shaun of the dead was so unexpected but pure gold🤣
We have to give Avalanche this; there was no telling how well the game would sell, which is why they probably opted for a pretty basic linear story within the Harry Potter universe. But man, can you imagine if this game had you playing through every year at Hogwarts? Natty, Sebastian, Poppy and even some other characters, DO feel like characters you'd journey with through 5 years of studies at Hogwarts
Maybe the unforgivable curses weren’t illegal at this stage of the lore So that’s why we are free to use them in game?
They were actually. This is an inconsistency unfortunately.
Unless it's simply a retcon, and they decided to change when using those curses would become illegal.
Day 151 of telling th3birdman I appreciate his content
Same
I honestly was waiting for your review before I brought.... going ro get it now
I love Harry Potter. One of my most cherished memories is going to see the first film opening night in theaters with my mom as a kid. That being said, while this game is fun in short bursts I have one solid problem with it. The gameplay feels extremely surface level and repetative. Given Portkey games was a mobile developer, it isn't that surprising a lot of quests feel like busy work. Their Hogwarts Mystery game was full of that stuff.
What I mean by surface level though is that there are multiple choices like what broom you ride, your wands wood and flexability, and your house. These choices feel like they are going to matter. Like you will have to solve a riddle to get into the Ravenclaw common room only to have the character to know it. The wand could have effected your gameplay. Different wood and core combinations making spells more or less powerful, the flexability make you decide between faster and weaker spells or slower casting spells that will hit like a semi going downhill with no brakes. Even the brooms all feel the same. If they had just made little variations like each one make you choose between what you want like speed, cornering, or more boost, it would have been so much more satisfying working your way up to the best broom instead of buying the one you like the look of. Hell, you can't even go to classes. The one thing most people would want to go to Hogwarts for and the one good thing about Hogwarts Mysteries and they cut it out? So stupid
As someone who's a big fan of high fantasy games with magic but knows absolutely zero things regarding Harry Potter, this game honestly does look pretty cool to me.
I'm not a huge Harry Potter fan. I don't hate the movies by any means, but I'm not what I would call a fan. This game though, this game made me want to go back and watch the movies. I've got over 150+ hours across three characters.
As a ps5 user I can also confirm no game breaking glitches yet
Earned a subscriber with that Shaun of the Dead reference 👌
Am so happy to see someone agree that Open World Games are a disease, lol.
Am honestly sick of devs using open worlds to create an uninspired, copy pasted world that is more or less empty, while also having no/a bad story and just use "let the player explore instead" as an excuse.
Ffs, bring back linear AAA games, I rather follow a good story and a few well designed places than a generic world that is as full as a chips bag
Hear, hear. 🍻
i didnt find pulling off a hard mission particularly rewarding when all you get is a scarf or something, personally wish i got something else more rewarding or satisfying to mark accomplishments
I'm taking it at a slow pace because I'm also playing Elden Ring, but I am having a blast with this game. It feels very refreshing in an open world setting. I'm a casual fan of HP (I've seen all the movies a few times and so far have read 2 books)
I totally agree about the male facial hair! I'm female but created a male character for my second run just to see how certain scenes might play differently, but I wanted my character to look like a baby Geralt of Rivia and instead he kind of looks like Legolas ☹🧝♂
Have you seen the new books with the pop ups? I’m collecting them.
I want to pick up the minalima editions on top of the illustrated editions I've been buying.
I haven't. Those sound neat.
Thing is, I already have all the books, old softcover and hardcover, Fantastic Beasts AND all the audiobooks. I'm too deep in the game already 😅😂
I didnt like how the unforgiveables were implimented. Feels like an extremely forgivable spell when literally no one cares that youve used it.
I haven't progressed very far in the story yet. So far the gameplay loop for me has basically been "Explore the map and ignore the story". To put it in perspective just how much I have done this, I have explored half the map and am level 27. I only just got my first broom.
Having said that, it's good to hear that the story is also really good so I look forward to engaging with that when I get there.
Haha holy shit!
The leveling system in the game rewards you for actually just enjoying the world, as opposed to grinding enemy kills. I had the entire map explored and most side missions done before I bothered to do the last few missions to wrap up the main story. I was level 39 when I beat the game.
shaun of the dead is a good film
watch it
If I had to describe Hogwarts legacy I would call it childish. The reason the movies were so believable was because it actually felt like a school AKA slightly uncaring teachers that sometimes shined but were more so teachers than magical tourists. Bully is the comparison I'll make here as the techers in bully are actually really awful teachers but that's what most teachers are awful whereas it feels like every class but the potions and history class are fake.
Finally getting the game today. I can't wait.
You must have a Nasa PC the way you talk about the stable framerates.
Still haven't really played the game because it's borderline unplayable even on lowest settings. My actual FPS I get is 40-50 which would be fine for me, but it drops to under 20 constantly because of memory issues. All other AAA games I can play just fine at mostly 60FPS
Specs: NVIDIA 3090 FE, 10900k, 128 gb RAM. Everything was on Ultra settings with DLSS turned on.
Yeah, my PC is powerful, but it's no longer the top of the line. What are your specs???
@@Th3Birdman gtx1080, 6700k, 16gb ram. I know my specs are outdated by now but it's way above the minimum recs and also I can play most other AAA comfortably on 2k medium/high with the PC.
I think the main culprit is the 16GB Ram because this game has like 95% ram usage as soon as I start it. This should absolutely not happen and there is clearly a developing issue there, maybe the anti-crack software.
Also if you check up on reddit or other forums, you can see that even people with your kind of specs have many issues regarding FPS for whatever weird reason. I think you kinda should have mentioned it in the review because it's one of the biggest complaints about the game in general.
Yeah, your PC should run this game no problem. If the game is heavily RAM dependent, though, 16 might not be enough. I haven't run 16 gigs in forever 😅. Hell, I'm looking into buying a mobo that lets me do 256 or more.
That being said, I don't do reviews based on other people's experience. My review is my own, and I can't possibly take into account another player's experience. At that point, it wouldn't be MY review. As you can see, I streamed this game live in front of thousands of people, and you can not only see my settings in the first stream, you can see the kind of performance I got in this game in my 25 hours playing it live. All of this footage was from my rig, and 99% of it was from my live streams. The results speak for themselves.
I'll say one last thing. PC gaming is interesting in that we all have different builds and that can cause variance in performance. I know this extremely well, as I have three gaming capable PCs. However, this game is currently on PS5 and XSX, and from what I've heard, they run perfectly fine. So if I were to base my review on other players' experience, at least according to you, I'd have to take those into account, and their experiences line up with my own. I don't really go looking for complaints (that's mainly because I don't read or watch reviews until I've completed my own review) but people in my stream were telling me they had no issues on console. As I was having a pretty smooth experience on PC, my assumption was that the game was well optimized, as I said at 17:20, which was the second stream (about 6 hours into the game)
The voice sounded robotic is a bug, due to the default and pitched voices playing at the same time. They should have fixed it by now, but I guess they haven't yet?
Gotta agree with the male voice being pretty flat though. The female voice sounds much better.
Good review.
I usually play with female characters when allowed to create a character, except in Pokémon games where I always try to create myself.
The one time I chose to be a dude would be the time they have a voice bug 😂😂😂
@@Th3Birdman well, the female character apparently had texture bugs or something, which only got patched a few days ago. Don't know the specifics.
@@wariolandgoldpiramid Not a texture bug, but the face was using the wrong poly model (i.e. one meant for medium distance instead of close distance) outside of cutscenes. That made the faces look a bit distorted.
Loved the Shaun of the dead reference.
I agree on the open world stuff... I don't mind it too much as long as there is a clear path you should take to progress. But if you have to make countless side-quests to get the main story forward, it becomes tedious.
Kind of why I dislike MMORPGs and alike, as they are way too open for my taste and why I dislike Zelda Breath of the wild. WAY too many open objectives you can takle and no clear line of progression (outside of the 4 giants you can/should free before fighting the main baddy).
I personally didn’t feel that GOWR had an issue with its exploration
I want a Harry Potter vr game
I would have taken a point off for the abysmal broom controls with no ability to change them but otherwise I'm generally in agreement.
I'd like to see more consequences for your actions, don't know why they make you pick a certain choice but doesn't have a effect makes me kinda boo, i love multiple choice ends cause its more realistic and overall cool
Definitely wish we got reprimanded or punished for being evil. Such a missed opportunity, since we can’t really be evil, anyways.
Watching B-man play this game was a treat. As always, great content! Love your analysis and breakdown.
Forbidden curses weren't outlawed until the 1700s. That's why it didn't matter
This game takes place in the 1800s
great work dude!
question is: when was it decided that imperio ,crucio and avada kedavra were a oneway ticket to askaban? could have been after the first world war or so.
I just wish it were fleshed out a bit more.. I was hoping for lore and some world building at least similar to fallout
I love open world games. It gives me options and I love it.
Really good video. Can't wait to get my hands on this. As a humongous fan, I'm glad that this is mostly faithful to the lore. The little details throughout shows just how much went into making this feel like an authentic Harry Potter experience.
Also, at 15:49 - The reason the those are illegal compared to others that do something similar, is because, as the HP wiki itself states, "One must also had a desire to use the curses for malevolent purposes."
In Order of the Phoenix he tried using the one, and it only worked for a moment, and Tom Riddle even says "You have to mean it Harry."
I really don't like how YT doesn't allow comments to go through if certain words (even ones so miniscule) are used
What console you getting it for, Buff?
@@Th3Birdman PS5. But I'm actually leaning towards PC. I just have to get a powerful one first, 🤣
Also, did you play the demo for RE4 Remake yet? Or do you plan on streaming that?
I've been sick the past week and change (cold). I wanted to stream Atomic Hearts. But I'd love to play that demo on stream. I've played both RE2 and RE3 remake demos on here, so I'd hate to break up the set.
And as far as I am aware, the PS5 version is rock solid, so it would be a good choice.
@@Th3Birdman Thanks man, and I hope you get better
I absolutely adore the game, but to me everything feels kinda shallow and POC-ish. As if it was just a big experiment they made to test out the waters. But, the thing is... it WAS a POC; because it did prove the concept and then some. Most of the issues aren't really glaring, and it does have the potential for something truly astonishing.