Why Hogwarts Legacy is the Most Overrated Game this Year

the most boring game ive ever played with horiffic dialogue, terrible voice acting, and a dead world.

For me, both Hogwarts and the landscape around it are completley detached from the actual gameplay. It makes zero differcene running around the forbidden forest, the class rooms or the open world. I just dont know why they decided to to make the open world so big, nobody in the history of harry potter ever asked what tf lies 2km beyond the castle to the south. It makes the forbidden forest actually look way too small. Also there was no need to have 15 smaller copy paste hogsmeades around the map. Both the lore and the setting are bad imo and the main character is either boring or extremely uncharismatic - like hes shouting how poachers do it to themselves while mass casting death curses

-Terrible optimization -Laughably mediocre gameplay. I wouldn't even call it an RPG, it's just Far Cry with Magic.

I bought this game around launch and ended up playing half the story over a few days. One day I woke up and had 0 desire to open the game again. Still haven’t touched it since.

"feels like you are a superhero who resides at the school" is a great way of describing this game. I was saying to people you are like a "magical Rambo"

-Cut out 80% of the open world and make the forbidden forest and Hogwarts valley bigger. -Have the game take place in Hogwarts, Hogsmede and the forbidden forest. -Combat is good but needs more enemy varieties especially unique and memorable bosses. -Instead of an open world make it more of a student simulator, with schedules, classes, curfews, breakable rules etc. -Side charecters like students and professors needs to be fleshed out a lot more. -Have consequences for your actions especially for casting the unforgivables (dosen't necessary need to be sent to Azkaban)

Agree on all points. No one was as hyped for this game as me, (a big gamer and HP fan). But I feel almost guilty that I haven't touched the game since I finished the main story. The world was just so boring. They build this beautiful castle, to send you out and into caves for 99% of the game, I feel like I'm Tomb Raider not a Hogwarts student. You can't interact or do anything in the castle or Hogsmede, it just all feels like a beautiful screensaver. Where was the fun, why can't I prank students, annoy teachers, throw potions and beasts intro crowds of students, sneak around at night with prefects trying to catch me, the list goes on and on. the game was just one giant missed opportunity after the next.

a sad thing about this is, data mining of the games code showed that a lot of ideas like house points, reputation and relationships were originally planed for the game but got stripped at some point.

I loved the game especially the combat. However, the games world feels empty at times.

The protagonist in this game is as charismatic as a stone. Seriously, I thing my character in Dark Souls was more charismatic despite not saying single word through the entire game.

I was excited for it and while it looks great. It just lacked life and everything felt empty and repetitive. No no soul.

Devs are obsessed with the concept of open-world but can't consistently execute it well. The reason some of the best open-world games are popular is because you can interact with the the world in so many ways. If you can't even interact with the NPCs then you already failed at a fundamental level

As someone who pirates games, I could care less about it being overrated or underrated. It's not my money spent lmaoaoaoaoa

I just can't believe they spent 150 million making this game. It didn't feel like it. The biggest gripe I had with the game was how the atmosphere was just not right. Hogwarts though a school is a mysterious and eerie place. The forbidden forest did not make me uncomfortable at all. There was this cartoonie vibe to everything that killed the HP vibe for me. Being a student made no sense with no curfews, no dynamic NPC Schedules, classes. There was hardly any sneaking around hogwarts. Hogwarts felt more like a grand castle than a school. Hogmeade felt like I was in a studio, the country side was so bland and not well designed. Encountering creatures Outside of the castle should be scary.

The biggest issue with this game that would be called out for literally any other game but this one gets away with it because muh childhood is that the developers literally canned all of the things that were going to make this game great. Much like RDR the game was supposed to have a rep system where your choices would matter, where breaking into peoples houses would get you a wanted level, where using dark magic would get you branded a dark wizard and attacked on sight in towns or the castle. It was supposed to have quidditch. All of it was canned.

Hogwarts is boring af. It was alright for the first 5 hours but once you get out and explore the open world all the side activities are the same thing over and over again. Tedious boring side missions that don’t matter, little enemy variety, exploring caves gives a useless cosmetic item all the time. And for an rpg game it’s not very rpg. Any open world Bethesda game is way better than this.

I 100% agree with your video. I waited until i bought it as a treat for finishing my bachelor‘s thesis bc i thought that’s gonna be one of the best games i would ever play. This game would have been my absolute childhood dream. I was a huge hp fan as a kid/teenager. Now i am around 20 hours in game and i am already so bored, i didn‘t play for a week now. The main and the side quests are so boring, always the same patterns, always the shallow dialogues. My character is the most boring character i have ever met/played in a video game. Not even the 55€ i spent for this are enough motivation for me to continue this game rn. I‘m replaying rdr2 now

Great video which sums up the problems. I would add to the list of problems "revelio". In the books they allways talk about how many secrets hogwarts has. Even dumbledore sais that sometimes he finds a new room or secret. They couldnt even find the entrance to the chamber of secrets. And in the game you just run though the castle and spam revelio to find everything hogwarts has to offer after 3h gametime.

I played a couple of hours and skipped mostly entirely everything. Refunded and it's the best choice I made. The puzzles or hidden stuff was so boring to do and so is everything about the overrated game.

The reason they don't give a broom later is because there isn't anything to see in between your start point and end point and would mean the devs have to make a decent open world. This game, isn't an RPG! I'm so glad you made this video, I thought I was going crazy trying to swim through all the 10/10 reviews from Harry Potter fans that only played the first 20 hours and have never played another game other than this pile of garbage!