This is the type of the game I'd love to give a mixed review.
At first the game is truly enchanting. Coming back to the world of Harry Potter as its fan surely hooks you up and seeing Hogwarts again, which was created with a lot of attention to detail, will definitely leave many players elated. The graphics of the game are magical and in general very beautiful if your PC can handle it. The school and Hogsmeade alone are enough to capture your attention for many hours. The developers definitely knew that they had to stay on top of their game to deliver a masterpiece in terms of creating the unique atmosphere of Hogwarts and they succeeded at that. Learning spells as a student feels nice and the spells are really cool and using them is convenient however at some point when you've learnt so many of them, it might be difficult to juggle between them. Magical creatures are animated beautifully and generally speaking, the effects are pretty good. The character creation is detailed enough to create a character you may like. The soundtrack is okay albeit limited to my taste. Combat is fluid and feels great.


Then, there comes a sad realization. Despite creating a big world to discover, the many activities the developers put on the map are not good in quality, repetitive and generally boring. At some point you'll feel like you are repeating the same things that are not rewarding in a slightest. There is no Quidditch and places that are not Hogsmeade or Hogwarts are mediocre at best and some of them are not even worth the attention. The main storyline is poor. It is not exciting for the most part. Side missions in the game revolving around your friends at school are also not entirely captivating, even for the fellow from Slytherin, not to mention the children in other houses. The dialogue between your character and others sounds as if the game was made specifically for children. It is uninspired and very simple it hurts sometimes. The way the equipment works sort of forces you to salvage items you find in order to keep a few of them in your inventory, making the system of obtaining items in game rather unrewarding. What is more, 90% of the equipment you find may look alright at times but for an RPG game they give nothing but some mathematical enhancements to your armor or dealing damage, making it very plain. Many choices in the game are either being nice, friendly and good or bad, rude and mean. Nothing in between and episodic or secondary characters are hardly of any interest and appear very one-dimensional. In general, roaming around the magical world on a broomstick is cool but most of the world is empty or full of places and question marks you've seen everywhere else.


The bottom line is that for the hype it received- I expected much more and yearn for more. Just creating a beautiful world should never happen at the expense of a good story, rewarding gameplay, captivating places to visit and well-written characters. I feel like for the most part, the game was good for taking pictures and it is nice that it succeeded at that but a shame that it failed at other, to me, more vital aspects. The game is very expensive so if you are a hardcore fan of Harry Potter you could consider buying it at a slashed price, otherwise, think twice before buying. It might be just enough for you or it may leave you with some sort of disillusioned thoughts after playing.

This is the type of the game I'd love to give a mixed review. At first the game is truly enchanting. Coming back to the world of Harry Potter as its fan surely hooks you up and seeing Hogwarts again, which was created with a lot of attention to detail, will definitely leave many players elated. The graphics of the game are magical and in general very beautiful if your PC can handle it. The school and Hogsmeade alone are enough to capture your attention for many hours. The developers definitely knew that they had to stay on top of their game to deliver a masterpiece in terms of creating the unique atmosphere of Hogwarts and they succeeded at that. Learning spells as a student feels nice and the spells are really cool and using them is convenient however at some point when you've learnt so many of them, it might be difficult to juggle between them. Magical creatures are animated beautifully and generally speaking, the effects are pretty good. The character creation is detailed enough to create a character you may like. The soundtrack is okay albeit limited to my taste. Combat is fluid and feels great. Then, there comes a sad realization. Despite creating a big world to discover, the many activities the developers put on the map are not good in quality, repetitive and generally boring. At some point you'll feel like you are repeating the same things that are not rewarding in a slightest. There is no Quidditch and places that are not Hogsmeade or Hogwarts are mediocre at best and some of them are not even worth the attention. The main storyline is poor. It is not exciting for the most part. Side missions in the game revolving around your friends at school are also not entirely captivating, even for the fellow from Slytherin, not to mention the children in other houses. The dialogue between your character and others sounds as if the game was made specifically for children. It is uninspired and very simple it hurts sometimes. The way the equipment works sort of forces you to salvage items you find in order to keep a few of them in your inventory, making the system of obtaining items in game rather unrewarding. What is more, 90% of the equipment you find may look alright at times but for an RPG game they give nothing but some mathematical enhancements to your armor or dealing damage, making it very plain. Many choices in the game are either being nice, friendly and good or bad, rude and mean. Nothing in between and episodic or secondary characters are hardly of any interest and appear very one-dimensional. In general, roaming around the magical world on a broomstick is cool but most of the world is empty or full of places and question marks you've seen everywhere else. The bottom line is that for the hype it received- I expected much more and yearn for more. Just creating a beautiful world should never happen at the expense of a good story, rewarding gameplay, captivating places to visit and well-written characters. I feel like for the most part, the game was good for taking pictures and it is nice that it succeeded at that but a shame that it failed at other, to me, more vital aspects. The game is very expensive so if you are a hardcore fan of Harry Potter you could consider buying it at a slashed price, otherwise, think twice before buying. It might be just enough for you or it may leave you with some sort of disillusioned thoughts after playing.