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Game Information​

Game Title: Hogwarts Legacy
Platforms:

• PC (Feb 10, 2023)
• PlayStation 4 (April 4, 2023)
• PlayStation 5 (Feb 10, 2023)
• Xbox Series X/S (Feb 10, 2023)
• Xbox One (April 4, 2023)
• Nintendo Switch (July 25, 2023)

Trailers:

• Headmaster Black's Legacy | Hogwarts Legacy (Simon Pegg Reveal)
• Hogwarts Legacy - A Calm Autumn Morning [ASMR] [4K]
• Hogwarts Legacy - Gameplay Showcase

Developer: Avalanche Software
Publisher: Warner Bros. Games
Review Aggregator:


OpenCritic - 85 average - 89% recommended - 29 reviews

MetaCritic (PS5) - 86 average - 42 reviews

MetaCritic (XSX) - 89 average - 13 reviews

MetaCritic (PC) - 83 average - 8 reviews

Critic Reviews​

AltChar - Semir Omerovic - 78 / 100

Attack of the Fanboy - Noah Nelson - 4.5 / 5

Echo Boomer - David Fialho - Portuguese - Recommended

FingerGuns - Kat Bullock - 9 / 10

GGRecon - Ben Williams - 4 / 5



Game Rant - Dalton Cooper - 4.5 / 5

GamesRadar+ - Josh West - 3.5 / 5

GamingTrend - Ron Burke - Unscored

Geek Culture - Jake Su - 9 / 10

IGN - Travis Northup - 9 / 10

Impulsegamer - Andrew Paul - 4.5 / 5

Metro GameCentral - Nick Gillett - 8 / 10

One More Game - Vincent Ternida - Buy


PCGamesN - Ford James - 7 / 10

PlayStation Universe - Michael Harradence - 9.5 / 10

PowerUp! - Adam Mathew - 9 / 10

Press Start - James Mitchell - 9 / 10

Screen Rant - William Cennamo - 4.5 / 5

Stevivor - Ben Salter - 8 / 10

Tom's Guide - Rory Mellon - 4 / 5

Tom's Hardware Italia - Giulia Serena - Italian - 8 / 10

TrueGaming - حسين الموسى - Arabic - 8.5 / 10

We Got This Covered - Shaan Joshi - 4 / 5

WellPlayed - Ash Wayling - 9 / 10

Xbox Achievements - Dan Webb - 88%

XboxEra - Győző Baki - 9 / 10

It's good and it's been cancelled by Reshitera... perfect resonance.

 

[Chozoldman]

Cancel and buy digitally?

Thinking about it, but I am one of those old guys that just really likes physical media. Super annoying

 

[Topher]

And...just got an email from Amazon stating my pre-order has been delayed until...March fucking 1st?!?! What the hell is this?

Anyone else get boned?

Holy shit. Sounds like they underestimated demand

 

[GHG]

Eh, not good.
We basically never agreed on anything but it's good to have different opinions on the board. We're at risk of creating an echo chamber.

Debates and disagreements happen all over this site every day but you have to draw the line somewhere.

The reality is that extremes at both ends of the spectrum get weeded out.

 

[SCB3]

Is there a list of places that are not going to review this, I'm jsut gonna block them all I think, sick of the negativity online in general

 

[BoxFresh123]

"That Wizard Game". Hermione called it ages ago

 

[NickFire]

Holy shit. Sounds like they underestimated demand

Not surprised. Dev wasn’t on the map like it is now before today, less exposure than normal due to media outlets not covering it, and there’s been no shortage of licensed games coming in trashy. Perfect recipe for lower preorders and less initial retailer investment.

But still, props to the devs for coming in this hot. Last time I remember a game disc being sold out (near my home at least) was when Diablo 3 launched.

 

[Sgt.Asher]

You can't win with these nutbags. There is no point in placating them. Seems to work better making them angry though.

 

[Thaedolus]

I’ve got a neighbor named Riann, I guess I should go tell her she has a boy’s name and is probably a transphobe if she disagrees

 

[Agent_Nobody]

Is there a list of places that are not going to review this, I'm jsut gonna block them all I think, sick of the negativity online in general

It’s got about the normal number of reviews on Metacritic you’d see at this point after a embargo lift on other fairly big game releases, so I don’t think it’s that pervasive.

 

[anthony2690]

Found this, may be fake, but funny...

Turns out it is real.

Does this mean the Resetera community will now boycott & cancel Resetera for taking transphobia advertising money?

 

[Vyse]

Had Microsoft points so used them to preorder. Couldn’t download because I needed to free up space. When I did the store kept saying I purchased already and to download from my library, but it wasn’t there. After some research on the web, ended up having to download to my console from the Xbox app. So strange, but it worked.

 

[Freeman76]

Why did the OT get locked?

 

[Agent_Nobody]

Why did the OT get locked?

Think somebody else had already claimed the OT.

 

[Kadin]

Why did the OT get locked?

Read the last post in the thread

 

[DeepEnigma]

I’ve got a neighbor named Riann, I guess I should go tell her she has a boy’s name and is probably a transphobe if she disagrees

Every nerd loved 7 of 9, and the actress had "two masculine names."

 

[FBeeEye]

How on earth did this get over 60k likes?

There's the "unsafe" argument. These demons don't know what it really feels like to feel unsafe. It's an affront to minority communities worldwide who historically had to deal with witch hunts, lynchings and terrorism. In reality, the most dangerous person to a trans person is that transperson themselves as, proportionally, they off themselves in greater numbers than the general population. It's a result of us as a society failing them by coddling them and not addressing their mental illness.

With their ridiculous and fanatical assault on the livelihoods of innocent people, their incessant and infantile screeching about feeling unsafe may end up being prophetic.

 

[Thaedolus]

Every nerd loved 7 of 9, and the actress had "two masculine names."

Yeah but what a womyn

 

[Krathoon]

You can't win with these nutbags. There is no point in placating them. Seems to work better making them angry though.

Yeah. They are reading way too much into it. Wow.

 

[Clear]

High user counts.

I can only hope Era normies come here and start to question whether playing the most trans friendly game ever released, one based on a wizard book, is the ultimate sign of bigotry and genocide after all.

It is delightful to see the sales and critical success, maybe this will finally show the publishers and media that the loonies can be safely ignored with no adverse effects.

Yeah and I really hope the fools who have tried to make an ideological point by boycotting coverage of this find that their businesses suffer as a result of this amazingly stupid and pointless "protest".

Like, what do they hope to achieve?

 

[Kacho]

When I did the store kept saying I purchased already and to download from my library, but it wasn’t there. After some research on the web, ended up having to download to my console from the Xbox app. So strange, but it worked.

Reboot your Xbox when that happens.

 

[Negatorus]

I preordered this a long time ago, looks like I didn't make a mistake.

 

[rofif]

I dunno man Halo Infinite got an 87.

yeah that's sus.
Infinite gets 87 and forespoken gets 68. Can't ever trust nobody after that

 

[DeepEnigma]

Yeah but what a womyn

On a side note, I find Taylor, Alex, Riann, Jordan, etc., to be sexy names for females.

 

[zizou6971]

The mods there live in a idealized world where things work in the way they want to,

Wwe are talking about them in every Hogwarts Legacy thread because the idea of locking and banning people on a gaming forum for discussing about one of the most waited games of 2023 on top of their website hosting ads on the game is hilarious,

Is J.K Roling a bigot? Yes she is.

Is Hogwarts Legacy Bigot? No. For the contrary, J.K Rowling is probabvly going to seethe once she finds out the game has trans characters

Im sure she doesn’t care.
And why is she a bigot?

 

[Thaedolus]

On a side note, I find Taylor, Alex, Riann, Jordan, etc., to be sexy names for females.

 

[Arachnid]

Lmao @ how loud the silence is over at Era

I'm glad to see this reviewing well. I bet it'd be in the 90s if not for the controversy.

 

[rofif]

Something weird about a console game having 5 different graphical modes lol.

I don't like it.
If I wanted to find best setting and watch a df video, I would play on pc.
But I will watch df video anyway because I want to know which mode does what
If they at least described the modes correctly and not "balanced"... so fucking what ?! is it 1440p? 1080? 40 or 60 fps?!

 

[OmegaSupreme]

On a side note, I find Taylor, Alex, Riann, Jordan, etc., to be sexy names for females.

Can confirm. I'm banging one of those right now.

 

[Negatorus]

I never give JK a second thought when I watch a Harry Potter movie or play one of the games. She wrote the books. Other people worked long and hard on these other properties. It's the same thing with GOT. I just finished finally watching House of the Dragon. George RR Martin didn't cross my mind even once lol. You can be anti-JK (if you want to be) and still enjoy this game and the Potter universe.

 

[lifa-cobex]

This is almost old school 4chan trolling.

The fact that the progressives can see this but a shit lord like myself didn't is amazing.
The whole thing feels like a parody.

OK Ree. the Trans character is an Aryan Lord now.
Well played.

 

[Krathoon]

You slip the sorting hat a $100 to pick your house.

 

[Batiman]

About what I expected. Not a fan of HP but interested in this game.

 

[Draugoth]

r/gaming has banned Hogwarts Legacy discussions lol

 

[GHG]

r/gaming has banned Hogwarts Legacy discussions lol

This is rule 9 for anyone wondering:

Spineless clowns.

 

[LordCBH]

 

[Jaybe]

r/gaming has banned Hogwarts Legacy discussions lol

That’s Reddit mod power tripping for you, for example: r/movies doesn’t even allow Avatar posts

 

[Agent_Nobody]

r/gaming has banned Hogwarts Legacy discussions lol

To be fair that sub is basically just shitty memes.

Actual gaming discussion is on r/games.

 

[lifa-cobex]

That’s Reddit mod power tripping for you, for example: r/movies doesn’t even allow Avatar posts

Wait! What's the story behind that?

 

[balls of snow]

Ok this look kinda fun.

Good on them figuring out a good magic combat system. Looks fun.

Man, im going Slytherin and gonna relish the fact that these people are legit mad that im having fun.

 

[jorgejjvr]

Exactly, and it's perfectly fine to do that to curate to the image you are going for.



Waiting on DF analysis, but PS5 has extra content.

More content??? Why

 

[Jaybe]

Wait! What's the story behind that?

Oddly enough there is no real big story or controversy other than the mods don’t like Avatar and are on a power trip of silencing conversation on a entertainment project because they can… that’s the only real connection here, I’m probably getting off topic. Here’s the best write up I could google.

 

[Vyse]

Reboot your Xbox when that happens.

First think I did. Didn’t work. Disconnected from the internet and pull the power. Waited a half hour, still no luck. This was a weird one.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Oddly enough there is no real big story or controversy other than the mods don’t like Avatar and are on a power trip of silencing conversation on a entertainment project because they can… that’s the only real connection here, I’m probably getting off topic. Here’s the best write up I could google.

Pussies.

 

[cormack12]

Good on them figuring out a good magic combat system. Looks fun.

Man, im going Slytherin and gonna relish the fact that these people are legit mad that im having fun.

Surprising to think that people who play games read articles that review those games and don't really care that the authors want pats on the head for their moral outrage.

 

[Nankatsu]

Is the Dark Arts DLC deluxe exclusive? Can't you buy it separately?

 

[Topher]

More content??? Why

Part of PS5 marketing deal

 

[Otre]

 

[LordCBH]

Is the Dark Arts DLC deluxe exclusive? Can't you buy it separately?

It’ll probably be available separately as a dlc purchase when the standard edition launches on Friday, would be my guess.

 

[Valedix]

r/gaming has banned Hogwarts Legacy discussions lol

More traffic to /r/harrypottergame lol