THE MAGIC HAS FINALLY ARRIVED

If you are anything like me, you are obsessed with the Hogwarts world and Harry Potter legacies that have grown over decades. After waiting for a full-force interactive game, I’m thrilled that it has finally arrived, with the Portkey games product “Hogwarts Legacy.”

Legacy is a full RPG game set 100 years before Harry Potter ever existed, but as a player, you are a student roaming through the halls of Hogwarts, as a fifth year, getting thrown into a feud between the wizards and an evil goblin. It is now up to you to help solve mysteries and learn the dark secrets of the school we always wanted to help reveal.

This version of the game is very interactive and a combination of everything that we enjoy from some other favorite RPG games, such as “Skyrim” or “The Breath of The Wild (from “The Legend of Zelda).” It’s filled with numerous nostalgic references to the Potter movies and books, and the developers poured their heart and soul into the details of Hogsmeade, Hogwarts, and the surrounding world.

Being able to fully customize characters, wands, and robes, I feel this game allows me (and you) to be the wizard that you have always dreamed of. On top of the gameplay being strategic and engaging, I also enjoy the fact that this game offers multiple save files so that you can live out different magical destinies – meaning you can experience the game from different houses, one day Gryffindor, or perhaps the next, Slytherin? The possibilities are endless.

With the game just being released there are, of course, going to be some beginner game bugs and glitches, such as the lagging images and non-blending voice overlays I noticed. However, I find that none of those are distracting enough for me not to enjoy my wand-whipping combats.

So, if you have dreamed of joining the wizarding world or just enjoy an open-world RPG game, you should give Hogwarts Legacy a try.

Isabela Durighello