Hi all! Frankly, I am the fan of the Harry Potter universe that he loves books, but the films are somehow not particularly. That is, I liked the films, but much fewer books. And exactly the same thing turned out with the game. But then let’s go in order. We will not delve into the plot, so there will be no spoilers, well, or there will be practically no.
Everything said below is my personal opinion. Can and should be discussed in the comments, but without insults and in the framework of decency.
From the first seconds, as soon as I launched the game, I was captured by nostalgia. Here is this melody from the film, these Festrals, wizards with some secrets … But no, stand the first that it caught my eye is the creation of a character. I am already used to excessive tolerance to all minorities and open humiliation of traditional values, but to create a child, and a teenager is still a child, a boy who speaks a female voice and associates himself to a girl and lives in a female bedroom … That is, if it was a kid’s tricky plan, how to spy on the girls in the locker room, then I would be with all hands for, but here we are talking about association and imposition. Well, okay, the rest of the atmosphere of magic and fairy tales is present immediately. And only intensifies when you get into Hogwarts itself. Flights on a broomstick, on a hypogrit, study of the castle and forbidden forests are simply gorgeous.
And then an almost headless nickname got into the frame
Although the oldest parts of Harry Potter (I’m talking about the first and second, and immediately on PS1 and PC) were the best games in the entire Potterian universe, and maybe now they remain. I remember how I turned them many times … But it can just nostalgic memories of childhood. So what games were more atmospheric for you, write below in the comments.
Harry Potter Game of 2001 on PC
My assessment of the atmosphere of Hogwarts: Heritage
To begin with, we are playing for a unique character, who immediately falls by 5th school. Well, it’s good that he is no longer quite a child. Plus, a certain ancient magic is subject to him, which is much stronger than modern and accessible to units. If I am not mistaken, then this is a complete gag from the developers, but in principle it does not spoil the impression of the game. The plot immediately dips us into intrigues and introduces us to the villain Goblin Rings, a kind of revolutionary who fights against magicians because of their many years of oppression of goblins. Well, a certain modern story of the scriptwriters, a certain modern agenda, was puffing on the written pen, well, okay, she praises to be distracted by modern trends, but I am sure that I will have to return to this below in the review … Our hero begins to fight Bravo with this revolutionary, although he learned to conjure just just yesterday. But all this does not soar at all, because you see around yourself a well -developed world, nature, Greengots Bank, beautiful magical effects. So the whole prologue passes, and we find ourselves in Hogwarts, where we put on a distributing hat on us and we choose a faculty.
Personally, I chose the Gryffindor and somehow regretted, it was painfully sweet here, although there were also heroic idealists in the film, but here it was erected straight to the Absolute. It was necessary to choose Slytherin or Kogtevran, because it is better to be cunning and smart than stupidly brave.
Then we are introduced to the castle and oh my God, how good it is … Everything is like in books with attention to details. Here are living paintings, statues, speaking Garguli, moving stairs, etc. D. It is extremely cool to walk and explore the castle. Along the way, being distracted by lessons to learn new spells and skills. But the world of the game is huge and after you get a broom, you begin to study it plenty. Hogsmit, forbidden forest, old castles with enemies, dungeons, search and salvation of magic creatures and many more things.
Separately a few words about the character’s clothes. During the passage, we come across a huge number of clothes that make our GG tenacious and stronger. Some, especially good, we will improve on a special machine. But they look as strange and kripy as possible, especially in the complete image of the hero. All these strange hats, masks, glasses and mantles, but then the incisions made a very correct chip – we can put on anything, while we can pull on this clothes your beloved skin. That is, clothes can change to a cooler, but your appearance will not change.
This is how my character looks under the skin
And so he would look without a skin and this is far from the most crypt option)
Additional. The quests are good, but there are basic ones (for example, the curler’s tasks or fly through balloons, for the development of flight skills). Generally for every taste and color.
Special respect for helping out a room in which we can furnish everything at will, where we have our own zoo (yes, the room knows how to create entire fields and meadows for saved magic creatures), boilers for potions and beds for plants.
Local fields for their own zoo
I didn’t like that the cultivation of plants and cooks of potions takes real time. Wait 15 minutes while Mandragor grows painful, and if you leave, you’ll forget to return on time at all.
It is funny that the elf Dick is following the room, although in the Russian translation he was called the face, for everyone knows how Dick is translated)))
The plot is here for a checkmark, I would have removed it at all and left it out of school just, but it is impossible, the law of the genre obliges.
You can learn an Avad to the cedar, but not necessarily. It is funny that a 5th year student can safely kill right and left and no one pays attention to it at all 🙂
In the game, as in most of these RPG, there are a lot of characters with whom you can talk, get a task and a little/dofig to learn about their past and about modern experiences and desires. The facial animation and the periodically complete absence of emotions on the faces of NPC are pumped up, which causes bewilderment.
Teachers are good. Made in the spirit of original works, so some of them are also the ancestors of the heroes familiar to us from the book (for example, the director is the ancestor of Black, the godfather Harry, the ancestor of Olivander, Weasley etc.
Fineas Nigelus Black, Director
Matilda Weasley, Deputy Director and Transfiguration Lecturer
Aesof Sharp, Pieces Lecturer
I don’t really want to comment on the bartender/bartender from Hogsmit … In short I think this is terrible and unacceptable in children’s games. I would play in Cyberpank 2077, then I would not say a word, but here it is not permissible and disgusting at all. And naturally this character was made as good as possible. But it’s weak to make a bad character from this? Rhetorical question.
Sometimes empty and stupid dialogs are disappointed, but this is a common problem in such games.
Excellent detailing is immediately striking, in the cats the scenes are generally visible every wrinkle on the faces. By the way, in the scenes there is a Lock at 30 f/s, I put a mod for unlocking, it became more pleasant to look at them. I really liked visual effects during the battle. The flying spells look spectacular.
The same frame, but at night
Each fold and wrinkles are visible
I played on the ultra settings + Ultra Retracing + DLSS with an emphasis on quality in a resolution of 2K (system: i9-9900K, 32GB RAM, RTX 3090) and FPS sagged, like a bastard, sometimes stable 70-80 frames, and sometimes drawdowns under 35-40 fans, which is no longer good at such a gland. And this is after several patches, but when I received the game on pre -order on February 8, it was generally tin, but comparing then and now it is not correct, since then there was a video card 2080ti. There were even more tangible there.
Retracing is on. All attention to the left upper corner, there is FPS
It’s funny that it all started after arriving in the castle, everything was gorgeous in the prologue in general. Here you have all reviews with the first 40 minutes of the game and the first impressions of optimization …
It is necessary to turn off retraining, in the game it is realized shitty and breaks all optimization. Having turned it off, I immediately got good and stable 100+ fps. But personally, I do not like such compromises and I put a fat minus for optimization, but in general, for the column plus.
It’s just perfect, these familiar melodies from the cinema of the saga, the sounds of spells, explosions of barrels, animal sounds, all the same I liked everything.
We got the best game of the Harry Potter universe. The game perfectly conveys the atmosphere of magic and magic. Of the minuses, only weak dialogs, fig optimization and the worst propaganda of all and everything, except for traditional values and genders.
General assessment 8/10
Hogwarts Legacy
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A good, detailed review, but a couple of points, perhaps, I do not agree.
The very first, these are only two voices of the character – male and female – with four mechanical modulations of each. Despite the fact that a set of pre -prepared male and female characters is not that very wide, but clearly more than five. I can’t even remember another game in which they would do something similar. At the same time, the game involves some kind of reproduction. It turns out you need to create a new Persian with the same voice, or the other sex. Well, this is in my opinion.
Second, this is my personal fad, but the rain with virtually no noise of rain is nonsense. During the rain against the backdrop, something quietly makes noise, well, “like a rain,” like, well, somewhere there he goes there. I love rain, including in games – from my point of view, this is just a mortal sin of sound design.
[By the way, the rain returns me to the question of the schedule. GG, but probably not a single character in the game, will not wet in the rain. GG cannot get wet even diving into the lake. Magic probably (no). ]
In addition to a very strongly oak facial animation, which we saw in advance in trailers, the characters are primarily their stories and dialogs. And stories in the game are spelled out as badly as possible. Well, maybe not as much as possible, but very not very. As a result, even the most “emotional” scenes in the game do not cause any emotions at all. The conditional character is forced to kill another, his face is distorted by unbearable suffering (let’s call it suffering), and you sit like this: “Meh, the Katsets are interesting here, it is interesting here. "
P.S. There are several errors/typos.
Thanks for such a detailed answer and opinion.
I agree with the point about getting wet of the character, and just forgot to mention it. Passing the game was funny to watch how the hero comes out of the water, in the literal sense of the word)
Facial animation is also not a strong side in the game- here I agree.
But I really have errors, although my editor (spouse) is very carefully overlining me 🙂
I scrolled each of its replicas and completed both side tasks. Nowhere was it mentioned that she was a trance, but there was a joke that her classmates did not immediately realize that she was a witch, not a wizard.
It was not a joke. A man considering himself a woman and forced/convinced everyone else to count exactly the same and treat him accordingly. Maybe there is another name for this – I am not in this.
Apparently not very carefully. By mistakes, on the vibbon.
The letter “ё” is used, then no – on the one hand there is “everything” and “more”, and on the other “moreover”, “saved” and “transmitted”. There is even “everything” in the meaning of “everything” (“special respect for helping out a room in which we can furnish everything at will. ") And vice versa (" Here you have all reviews with the first 40 minutes of the game. ").
I personally prefer to use the letter "ё" and always welcome when others do it.
By the way, the “help out the room” is almost certainly written through a hyphen, or maybe with a capital letter-you need to cheat with books.
There is no predicate in the sentence;"About clothes" or "about clothes".
During the passage, we come across a huge number of clothes that make our GG tenacious and stronger.
Tautology, and further in the next sentence, “clothes” is repeated again.
I think it’s more correct to write together or through a hyphen, otherwise what is a “cat”?
The name Hogsmid ends on "D".
I could be mistaken, but in my opinion traditional genders do not happen.
But to create a child, and a teenager is still a child, a boy who speaks a female voice and associates himself as a girl and lives in a female bedroom …
In fairness: the game has never raised the issue of gender self -determination of the GG, but nothing is realized with this interconnected. That, as it were, at the same time and there is no political agenda and impositions on this topic) and minus (we again play for the uncertain essence of “They”).
It is funny that the elf Dick is following the room, although in the Russian translation he was called the face, for everyone knows how Dick is translated)))
His name was not translated in any way. In English, his name is written deek.
I don’t really want to comment on the bartender/bartender from Hogsmit … In short I think this is terrible and unacceptable in children’s games.
It is terrible and unacceptable to have a girl with a low voice in the game? Well, what was already born … although it may be a side effect of cream beer. Do not thump.
Siron is not a girl, this is a very specific trans. The game is clearly said about this several times.