Hogwarts Legacy 1st Month Review

what's up guys I'm reekonjo24 thanks for tuning in so Hogwarts Legacy has officially been released on the next gen consoles and PCs for a month now and we've had a lot of time to play the game find the things that we like and the things that we dislike So today we're going to be going over my thoughts on the game so far and where the game can improve if you guys enjoy the content make sure you show some love and drop it a like hit the Subscribe button so you can stay up to date on all the cool videos I've got coming out from Hogwarts Legacy to Apex and fortnite and more so let's get to it and we're going to start off with the issues I have with the game now I'm gonna label these as either big issues or little issues and my criteria for bigger little is going to be whether or not it's fixable because the reality is there's just some things that can't be fixed by a patch and that can only be really handled before the game is released and once it's out in the world it's a part of the game others can be managed or or fixed by patches or changes and that the devs notice as they go along or hear feedback from Gamers so let's just dive straight into it so even though we have to strike this into the negative column it's one that I can give the dev some leeway and truthfully even some credit every big game and in particular a huge open world RPG they're bound to be plagued with bugs and Hogwarts Legacy is no different now how frequent they are and how bad those bugs are that's what changes from game to game now there's some no without a doubt there's some bugs that show up from time to time you know sometimes it's the characters the weird clippings you know with their robes or I've had uh just today I saw a page from the Hogwarts Field Guide Frozen in midair and then it clipped right back into doing what it was supposed to do but for the most part the minimal amount of bugs in this game is something that players have been able to breathe aside relief about that it's not been as troubled as you know Far Cry or Call of Duty and you know things like like that boy what have you done what what was that from all of us whoa whoa whoa it's that pumpkin doing just to let him calm down a while you may be right so and it's also rare enough that when it does happen you're honestly able just to laugh it off with a simple okay and that was weird so it's just a simple little issue it was bound to happen and we know the devs are working on it it's a that's just a small issue with the game thank you so here's a big issue for the game and it's one that a lot of game players were even aware of before the game even released and if you weren't aware of it before the games released it was one of the very first things that you discovered in the game you start out in Professor black announces at the very beginning of the game that there's no quidditch this year at Hogwarts oh has been canceled foreign as far as the storyline goes they give you a simple whack explanation as to why and it's really just for the storyline truthfully I would have rather they just ignored it didn't even say anything but the reality is that for one reason or another the developers just couldn't make it happen now whether that was they ran out of time or it was technically too challenging I don't know but whether this is permanent is the really good question now there's been some rumors going around on the internet I've seen a few times talking about that it might be released later in a DLC which if that's the case it's it's pretty exciting to think that there's still some future content that's going to be coming to be unveiled in the game and something to look forward to and maybe it's true maybe the devs just simply did not have enough time to finish or perfect the Quidditch gameplay before the game's release truthfully though I just I don't see it to me if the devs simply didn't have enough time or they planned to release it later they wouldn't have made such a concrete position in the storyline and I think it's going to take too much to overcome that and it's just not going to line up with the game in a way that's either going to be way too sloppy if they did do it that way or that I just don't think it's not going to happen at all in this game maybe in a future sequel if that happens which I I think with the roll out of this this is absolutely going to but the devs could always surprise us and truthfully I would love if they did but don't hold your breath for it it's one of those I'll believe it when I see it okay let's just be honest for a second the dialogue is just garbage for so many reasons honestly with all the effort and the amazing details that they put into this game this was a huge short-sighted mistake to miss the Target on for one there's so much dialogue and I'm not going to say that it's too much dialogue for the game but it honestly borders on its very own strike and I mean that's fine some games are just heavy dialogue and that's what they want and some people enjoy that but if you've planned on so much dialogue why not take the extra effort for the scenes with the close-ups of the characters so that their mouths are lining up with the dialogue I mean that's too easy of a mistake or maybe you could have spent more time working with or coaching the voice actors of the characters so that they sound less robotic and fake I mean there's just the simple little things that were so easy to take care of or put the effort into it and they just seemed to have made whatever slapped it on the product and not given a care or worry about it then there's the repetitive dialogue I mean there's some dialogue in this game that if you've played it longer than 10 minutes you've already heard it a thousand times I'm most pleased being handy resource indeed your Field Guide I mostly you know included grade that brooms doesn't get any more cozy than all the broom opened a lot of them any more cozy than Holtz meat it gets old pretty quick and this is a huge problem because for the majority of this you can't fix it the the voice actors are done they've gone home you're not going to hire them back just because you didn't take the time to come up with more than three things to say and the visual issues are they're not just something that you can edit after the release I mean they just really screwed the pooch on this and it was a huge mistake that they should have just given a little bit more effort and attention to so this is a tiny one but really annoying one that I actually found today right before making this video and it happened multiple times because of what I was doing in my gameplay today so here we are I was returning to a professor after completing a task and after getting to the class I go to enter I click to speak with the professor and then I get this cutscene I like a good cutscene [Music] thank you nobody nobody's talking nobody speaks what was the point of that I was is this another thing where nobody speaks [Music] yeah we'll skip this what I don't understand the point of that what on God's green earth was this for nothing happened they didn't do anything there was Zero dialogue at all no yay no explanation not even a good job well done anything there was nothing it was like they finished the game sent the voice actors home and then decided right before they released him like you know what I don't want him just to walk in there let's give him a cut scene there for no reason and just added some fluff for no other reason than to waste my time and didn't bother to pay a voice actor again to come back like could you have not even walked into the Hall grabbed the janitor and then brought him into a microphone just to give you some ah ooh interesting like why was this here like easy fix delete all of these pointless cut scenes that exist for no reason have nothing going on in them don't even have people talking there's no reason for them take them out of the game foreign so this one's kind of a big one but it maybe it's something that can be worked and fixed I I don't really know but you can spend quite a lot of time on missions and side quests just trying to figure out what to do a lot of times there's no real guidance or Direction on what to do and I get that's that's not always a bad thing like it's okay for a game to push you to figure things out on your own or to get you to use the knowledge that you've gained playing the rest of the game but like to a certain degree like I've wasted so much time and resources just trying to figure out what to do like at one point in the beginning they introduced the Merlin trials and I was like all right this is cool I'm gonna start doing this so I go out and I ended up wasting just a ton of mallow Suite because I didn't realize that I can't do most of the Merlin trials until I learn these new spells and there was no reason for me to waste those and just the game could have given me something to let me know it wasn't even possible right and there's also there's certain missions that you might be on where you're doing things that you've never done in the game you have to do things that you've never done in the game you didn't even know they were possible and for some reason the game just expects you to figure it out and like I get if you are developing like you realize maybe I have to do this and this but there are things in here that in this game where you didn't even know was possible in the game to do like that's a big leap and an ask for you as a gamer just to figure it out now like so far I haven't come across anything that I haven't been able to overcome there's nothing I haven't uh been able to get past in a mission so I can say is eventually as long as you do keep at it you'll figure it out but you can waste so much time and effort trying a dozen different spells or going and looking for hidden hallways or something that you know because it's you can't be this way you know and when you could have literally just been given a simple clue like hmm that moth seems to be drawn towards the light or that moth seems to be avoiding the darkness did that reference seem specific yeah I mean it's just way too much of an ass that the developers have put in so much of this game for you to figure things out on your own to the point like it's it's definitely unreasonable and it's not impossible but it's a big issue foreign so this one does hurt a bit but thankfully it's a small issue because it's completely fixable but the broom flying mechanics are garbage it was one of the things that I was honestly most excited for in this game and don't like don't get me wrong I could still love flying around this amazing map but the different joysticks for having one joystick for left and right and then the other for up and down are so backwards like flying games have been around for decades and these flying mechanics are etched into people's brains and it's like riding a bike your whole life and then at 25 you're getting on a bike and turning left but the wheel turns right like it just doesn't work your brain doesn't compute it and I don't know why they tried to reinvent the wheel with this but Hogwarts Legacy dropped the ball here and this isn't something that ruins the game but it absolutely makes what was supposed to be one of the best parts of the game annoying at times developers I I'm begging you this is an easy fix you can make to the game at least give us the option to just have one joystick that's for directional control like that's too easy of a fix and I know this problem isn't unique to console players I've seen online pc players are asking for the same thing they just want to be able to have Mouse control for directions I mean again I'm begging you this is fixable please take care of it foreign like I'm just hating on the game or that the game is trash and isn't fun because that's just not true I'm enjoying this game way more than I have any other game in a really long time the storyline is great and engaging the missions are fun to do the game moves along at a good pace and I don't think I've ever seen a more beautiful game visually like the Aesthetics in Hogwarts Legacy may be some of the best that I've ever seen and I can't say it enough as a lifelong Potter nerd who's also a gamer this is the game that we deserve for the last 20 years it's so great and it's refreshing and enjoyable even though it's been 12 years since the last Harry Potter movie came out it's still good this game is amazing both from the playing standpoint to the visually stunning and I love how so many amazing little details were able to be put into this game just little nods that only serious Potter fans would notice but they took the time and the attention into these amazing details which makes the game that much better there's just little details which set this game back a little bit and honestly I think the best way to describe this game is that it's visually one of the best games that's ever existed and for Potter fans it's the perfect game that we always deserved yet it's still a blast even if you've never known Harry Potter but the lack of detail given to little things like dialogue makes it feel like it was a game that should have come out eight years ago that's just the truth like most big games nowadays are recording actual professional actors and then using CGI to copy their face along with the dialogue at the same time and then they put that into the game like and I get that this game's budget may not have been there for that and then that's not what I'm saying they needed to do like I'm not saying they needed Brad Pitt or the professional set of Avatar but they could have done better than what they did and again I haven't even noticed these issues in a game for so long that that's what made it stand out and it brought me back like I'm playing a game in 2015. but then I start flying around the world on a hippogriff and I'm back to 2055 like it's just oddly contradictory now again I love the game and I'm honestly going to be playing this over and over again for a long time but it just feels like half of this game was made by their a team while the other half was made by interns the one thing we can probably say for sure with this game is the reception of this has been so overwhelmingly amazing and um overwhelmingly profitable for him that there's almost no way that this game doesn't get a sequel even after only being out for a month we can probably say that's a certain and I'm super happy with this game I just I hope the next go around the entire game is made by The A Team thanks for sticking around with me guys till the end I hope you guys enjoyed it if you guys have anything else that you guys noticed in the game let me know down in the comments I'd love to hear what your thoughts are on the game things you noticed issues awesome things bad things just let me know drop it down in the comments and make sure you hit that subscribe 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Length: 18min 25sec (1105 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 13 2023