Finished the game last night. I have to say it was an epic ending and there were so many great quests in the run up to the final moments. Even the side quests ended on a high. One of my favourites was getting into the headmasters office, just brilliantly done and very funny. The final boss fight was brilliant too. It did seem to stretch on for a long old time and wasn’t perfect, but still felt like a very fitting end to the game.
Collectibles wise I’ve got most things but still a long way short of 100% which will mean having to earn lots of money. Looks like this can be done by beast and gear farming but is going to take a while. I’ll see about just dipping in and out of this whilst playing something else and just see how it goes.
Overall a very very good game and an amazing open world that I could happily recommend to anyone.
@Th3solution I managed to pop the Collector's Edition trophy last night. I was actually way closer to it than I'd imagined. I just spent about 30 minutes farming beasts around the map and selling them in order to buy all the brooms and items from Tomes and Scrolls that I hadn't yet got and then did a quick sweep to make sure I'd got all the 15 butterfly locations as well as the last 7 revelio pages I needed around Hogwarts. The last collectible I needed was a chest I'd missed in one of my Vivariums. All in I think it was about 1.5 hours worth of effort. No bad really. Unfortunately I've got the last 3 partial play throughs still to do but at least I know the deal.
@render That’s good to know. I think it’ll still be difficult for me to commit to but when I hit the end game I will see where I am. I think I’m around 65% completion on the menu. I figure that by the end I would only be around 80%, just guessing. I’ll see. Props for making it that close to the platinum though. Now, just need to shackle your little servants to the console to mop up this last 3 partial playthroughs!
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@Th3solution Popped the platinum over lunch today. It was good to do those last 3 partial playthroughs as I got to see that part of the quest to find the missing pages was different for every house. It's a shame they hadn't split quests like this more often as that might have made it more interesting to do multiple playthroughs. That bought me round to thinking that actually there wasn't much involving the common room except for the initial quest where you meet your roomies. These don't take away from what was otherwise a great game but they really would have added to you feeling like there was a reason to select a specific house.
P.S. Whilst I did get the kids started on that task it ended up being a pretty lousy idea as they couldn't help themselves but get distracted by other things like collecting pages or accepting side quests 😂
@render Haha! In fairness, I usually play an open world game just like your kids do — easily distracted by something at every turn. It’s why I’m so far into this and have yet to finish! 😅
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
I’ve encountered a bug while playing Hogwarts Legacy and I was wondering if anybody has had a similar problem with the game. Once, while I was changing the appearance of my gloves, it suddenly started showing all the gloves as looking completely different than they originally had looked when I equipped them. Even when I completely remove the gloves it still appears as if my character is wearing black gloves. I believe what has happened is that a pair of gloves got stuck on and now when I try on a different pair the game kind of mixes them together, and the results come out looking weird! It’s not a big deal and it doesn’t affect the gameplay or character stats in any way but I was curious to see if anyone else has had a similar experience?
@Engineblow You know, I played Hogwarts Legacy for 80 hours and don’t think I ever noticed this bug. But I honestly paid little attention to the gloves. I was very active about changing my hat, glasses, cloak, suit, and scarf however. But the gloves I never worried to change the appearance of and just used whatever gloves had the best stats and didn’t really pay attention to how they looked. I think I would have noticed if there was a bug that was just stacking different gloves on top of each other though. 😅
I wonder if you take the gloves off and then take your character to the Hogsmeade salon and completely change the character’s appearance if maybe it will “reset” the appearance of the hands too and get rid of the black gloves that are “stuck on”?
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
I’m glad you haven’t encountered any issues with the game. Really, considering everything you can do in the game and how outstanding everything from the graphics to the voice acting are, this really is no big deal. In fact, the only other bug I’ve seen in the game is a few times where an item you’re suppose to be able to interact with, like a coin pouch, is stuck inside of something like a rock. Hogwarts Legacy is the first game I’ve played on the PS5 and I’ve been very impressed with pretty much every aspect of both! Oh, and I tried your idea of “resetting” the character’s appearance in Hogsmeade. Unfortunately, it didn’t work but it was a good idea that I hadn’t thought of!
But yeah, it’s a remarkably well developed game for as large as it is. I actually did have a few small bugs, like the coin pouches you mentioned that occasionally were spawned inside or behind an indestructible object and could not be picked up. I talked about it elsewhere but one of the worst bugs was one of the Depulso puzzles that didn’t work right and a section of the room didn’t shift correctly therefore making the puzzle unsolvable. Exiting and then reloading fixed the issue though.
I really loved this game. If it didn’t have a million other games to get to then I would have pushed for the platinum. As is, I have about 4 or 5 trophies left (outside of the 3 other trophies for getting through the opening section with each house) but I just need to move on.
How far along are you? My favorite part was the 3rd trial. The change in art design just blew my mind. That was spectacular.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
I couldn’t agree with you more, the third trial is an absolute triumph! Did you ever play that game Ōkami? It reminded me a lot of that as far as the artwork and movement. I’m pretty deep into the game. I’ve put in around 82 hours and I think I have 5 main missions left to complete. I’ve enjoyed many of the companions missions as much as the main one. I admit, as soon as I was able to get the level 3 alohomora spell I kind of completely forgot about what I was suppose to be doing and went crazy unlocking all the floo flame locations and doing all the Merlin trails and treasure vaults and the townspeople's missions and hunting down field guide pages. When I finally got back to the main missions I was way overpowered for the enemies I had to fight! Lol! I’ve always thought that the mark of a great game is how easily you can get lost doing all the side stuff without ever thinking about the main story. That’s one of things I liked so much about the Fallout games. But the main story in Hogwarts Legacy is great also. I just hope that the ending can live up to how great the rest of the game is!
@Engineblow I did play Okami, and it was a really great game, especially the art design and painted aesthetic, so I can see what you mean there with the section feeling reminiscent of Okami
Regarding Hogwarts, I do agree that the game excels with side content and collectibles. It’s very easy to get distracted and lose a few hours flying around and messing around with extraneous activities. The story is pretty decent. Not the highest tier, but it’s good enough to feel satisfying in the end.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
I may be wrong, but to me this feels like a potential franchise where they put in tons of work getting the graphics, mechanics, characters and ip just right in the first game and then create something really mind blowing story wise in the sequel. Rowling gave them this incredibly fleshed out world to work with and they did more than give it justice bringing that world to life. Even if they can’t come up with a great story for the sequel, I’d still be happy to spend another 80 hours exploring the parts of this world that weren’t featured in this first game.
@Engineblow I won’t spoil anything specific for you, but I’m sure you’ll enjoy the ending if you’ve liked the storyline up to this point. You’re absolutely right about the developers nailing Rowling’s vision of this world and setting and the absolutely stellar attention to detail and consist call-backs to the HP Universe and it’s lore. Interestingly, outside of the inclusion of several prominent wizarding family characters like Black, Weasley, Gaut, etc. there is no specific tether to the storyline of the Harry Potter books, per se. I’m sure I missed some of the Easter Eggs, but many of the most important parts of the Harry Potter story are left alone and they use the extra parts of the Rowling universe to create a story which stands independently. They took liberties as well with adding pieces of lore like the “ancient magic” which is the central crux of the whole narrative. The end result is an absolute joy to play, and gives fans of the franchise such a rush to see in action. But the story itself if taken on its own merits is pretty typical video game stuff and if it existed on its own it would probably be an average story imho. Not bad, but not The Last of Us or BioShock. Which is slightly disappointing since each of the Rowling book weaves a very deft tale that I still consider to be excellent storytelling. The game doesn’t achieve her level of dropping so many perfect “Aha!” moments into her stories with twists and reveals that you’d never see coming. But in defense of Avalanche studios, I don’t know that even the best video game stories quite reach that level of storytelling.
That’s probably an over-analysis, but it’s just such a great game and I kind of miss it now that I’ve moved on. Let me know how you like the ending when you get there!
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
Well, I finally beat Hogwarts Legacy today. I liked the way the story ended (I got the “good”ending) but I did feel like the final mission was a little short and too straightforward. I mean, you just fight a few group of goblins, watch a few cutscenes and then you’re on to the final boss. I’m colorblind so I hate anything in a game that requires you to match colors. So obviously the final boss fight was a little bit challenging for me because you had to match the colors of the magical bubbles to the spell that would destroy them. However, playing on the normal difficulty level, I never felt like the combat was overly challenging. So my difficulty with the final boss fight was welcomed. Even though I found most the fights to be easy that doesn’t mean I didn’t love the fighting mechanics. The dodge/block/counterattack reminded me a lot of the Batman Arkham games and all the different spells and the way you sort of make different combos with them were excellent! Overall the game is a triumph in my opinion, especially considering it the first one in what I’m certain will be a long running series. A few things I’d like to see in the sequel. Hogwarts Legacy gave you a lot of world to explore but any sequel would need to be even bigger. I’d like see more companion storylines and have those relationships affect the main struggle of the game. And my one complaint with the game that will hopefully be addressed in the sequel was the lack of enemy variety. There was really only six types of enemies in the game. Each enemy type had subsets to try and make it feel like they were different but at the end of the day you were fighting humans, goblins, spiders, mongrels, dugbogs or trolls. But I’m confident they’ll be more variety in future games!
Oh, I meant to add that I decided not to go for the platinum, mainly because I have so many other games I’ve been waiting to play. Next up is Gotham Knights. I know people have been disappointed in it but I’m not missing anything that has to do with Batman!
I have to say, overall, this game for me didn't live up to the hype and buying the delux version at around £70+ was a bit of a waster of money. Once the story line is done, that's really it and the side missions didn't really interest me that much.
In terms of it being 'open world' - I was expecting it to be like RDR2 - something it clearly isn't. There is an element of open world, no denying that, but not to the same level or detail.
As for the game itself, once you've finished the story line, that's pretty much it isn't it? Is there plans to shift it to an online format? updates? I've not really been following it and switched back to playing other games.
@KillNotConfirmed It’s unfortunate the game didn’t quite live up to expectations for you. I think if taken on it’s own accord that the open world set up is fairly standard and akin to what you might see in a Horizon or Assassin’s Creed — in other words, a lot of collectible side activities, small various puzzles, bandit-type encampments with some extra treasures, etc, etc. RDR2 is on another level of anything I’ve seen with it’s open world, as far as it’s interactivity and attention to detail.
I spent a lot of time outside the main story clearing most of the map and it’s quite huge, and there’s some fun to be had. The activities can get a bit ‘samey’ eventually, so it all depends on your specific interest in the setting and the HP lore. Quite a few extra little Easter Eggs exist, especially in the actual Hogwarts map and Hogsmeade.
The side quests are of varying quality, but some are pretty good. I enjoyed the PlayStation exclusive side quest about the Haunted Shop the most. It was quite different from the rest of the game and reminded me a little bit of the Ashtray maze in Control, if you’ve played that. The relationship side quests were good too, like Poppy’s and Sebastian’s (Natsai’s was more ‘meh’) but your mileage may vary.
As much as I enjoyed monkeying around in the open world, I also eventually moved on too, even though I was still incomplete on some of the Merlin Trials, Balloon popping, page collections, etc. But I did over 90% of the collections.
As far as I know there’s no plans for an online component or any updates/ DLC. It would be pretty fun to have some online multiplayer co-op or PvP but that’s probably something for Hogwarts Legacy 2. The developers have their hands full with porting the game to Switch for now.
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I play Hogwarts Legacy in performance mode with the fps locked and I noticed that when I run around, or when I move the camera while running, it gives some small stutters, especially in the Hogwarts castle region and in Hogsmead, sometimes and in some In specific places it seems that the fps drops from 53 to 55 and stays there for about 3 seconds, all of this makes it seem like the game is not fluid. Can anyone tell me if this is normal? What if it could be the performance of my PS5?
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