REVELIO
Hogwarts Legacy nous plonge dans l'univers magique de J.K. Rowling, avec des environnements enchanteurs, nous permettant d'incarner un sorcier ou une sorcière de différentes maisons.
Nous offrant l'opportunité d'explorer Poudlard, Pré-au-Lard et ses alentours tout cela dans une aventure immersive.

Au programme : A la découverte du Monde Magique.

Arrivé à Poudlard en tant que jeune sorcier ou sorcière, nous sommes plongés directement dans le cœur de l’action avec un scénario qui nous place au centre d'un mystère ancien.

Après avoir créé notre personnage et choisi notre maison, nous débutons notre aventure dans un Poudlard magnifiquement recréé, avec ses couloirs enchantés et ses environs magiques qui s'étendent au-delà des murs de l'école.
Très vite, nous découvrons que nous possédons une rare capacité à manipuler la magie ancienne, un pouvoir qui va nous entraîner dans des quêtes palpitantes et des combats contre des ennemis redoutables.
Entre exploration des salles secrètes de Poudlard, résolution d'énigmes, et apprentissage de nouveaux sorts, l'immersion est totale.

Après cette introduction captivante, nous sommes libres d'explorer non seulement l'école, mais aussi ses environs comme Pré-au-Lard ou la Forêt interdite.
Il est facile de se perdre dans cet univers fascinant, avec pour seul guide notre carte et les indices laissés par les quêtes.

Cependant,
[+] | L'OST nous ensorcelle, associé à une direction artistique fidèle aux livres et aux films, ce qui donne une bonne immersion au monde des sorciers.

De plus, la liberté offerte au joueur de personnaliser son personnage (bien que limité) et de choisir sa maison à Poudlard (Serpentard, Gryffondor, Serdaigle et Poufsouffle) ajoute une dimension RPG bien intégrée.

Le système de combat, quant à lui, est fluide et intuitif, permettant de maîtriser la variété de sorts mis à notre disposition dans des affrontements dynamiques.

En parcourant les couloirs de l'école ou les terres environnantes, vous découvrirez des secrets, des énigmes, et même des créatures fantastiques comme des trolls ou des hippogriffes, qui ajoutent une diversité intéressante aux rencontres.

[-] | Néanmoins, le jeu souffre de quelques défauts, notamment des quêtes secondaires qui peuvent parfois manquer de profondeur, ainsi que de rares bugs lumineux. Certains joueurs pourraient aussi regretter l'absence de véritables choix moraux impactant significativement l'histoire.
(Les énigmes et les épreuves de merlin sont pour moi trop répétitives et n'ajoutent rien à l'histoire horsmis nous faire perdre du temps pour le 100 %).
Bien que l'histoire soit relativement courte (24 quêtes principales soit une trentaine d'heures) sans parler des quêtes secondaires (pour un totale de 80h pour faire le 100%) et qu'il manque de nombreuses choses comme le Quidditch, des Activités, Une réelle implication dans la coupe des 4 maisons...

En dépit de ces petits points négatifs, Hogwarts Legacy reste une aventure magique à ne pas manquer pour tout fan de l'univers créer par J.K. Rowling.

Petit Zoom,

[L'extension] Pack Magie Noire | Pour ma part cette extension est seulement intéressante pour les fans de l'univers car cela rejoute: Une monture - Le Sombral, Des Vetements - Ensemble de cosmétiques de mage noir et une arène de combat de magie noire.

Pour Conclure :
Hogwarts Legacy réussit à nous transporter dans un univers riche en magie et en mystère, fidèle à l'esprit de la saga de J.K. Rowling. Malgré quelques imperfections, telles que des quêtes secondaires parfois répétitives ou l'absence de certaines fonctionnalités attendues comme le Quidditch, le jeu offre une expérience immersive et envoûtante. Entre exploration, combat et personnalisation, chaque joueur y trouvera son compte. Pour les fans inconditionnels du monde des sorciers, cette aventure reste incontournable, pleine de découvertes et d'enchantements.

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Mouais J'ai payé le jeu 15 balles donc j'arrive à me faire une raison mais malgré que le jeu soit magnifique d'un point de vue graphismes , je me suis tellement ennuyé dessus.
Un jeu super répétitif, l'xp monte pas , la caméra quand on est sur le balai est un désastre ,
J'imagine même pas la détresse émotionnelle pour les joueurs qui ont acheté le jour J à 60/80€.

Bien à faire une fois d'où mon vote positif mais casse pas un barreau de chaise.

Très très lent, énormément de blabla, des quêtes ou il faut suivre des PNJ en marchant... Après 10h de jeu j'ai l'impression d'avoir à peine touché à la manette.

As helldivers creator said, "a game to everyone is a game to no one"

Honestly this one of most diluted experiences i had in the last years, a lot, a lot of stuff seems half-finished, which i'll delve into the full review. But what stands out for me is, Unable to have any decent looking NPC/player, the teenagers mostly have young adult faces with a wacky body of a child. YET we have a very immersive and diverse cast of DEI culture, so they bothered in inserting this over any quality in the game. Every spell outside of the forbidden/ancient ones, have the exact same cast style like "yurray diversity for mages, ♥♥♥♥ off diversity for animations :D*bare minimum in a game"
Plus The game after one year, crashes a lot, 4070 ti super+ssd+12th CPU, it's KEK. Overall, i'm half finished with it, but thinking about dropping the main quest, i did like it so far...but the gameplay is atrociously boring.



I'll leave some of the early criticism aside, but focus in the beginning itself of the game, whatever House you choose to join won't matter. The questline is made in a way you don't have free will, it's a linear game sold as RPG, you discover A DEEP SECRET and then your char simple reveals it to a lot of people WITH ME CHOOSING TO NOT REVEAL THE SECRET.(Main quest) as time passes, you noticed we dont rivalry between the houses, we don't have the same experience we had in older games of HP, neither the books, neither the movies, out of blue you are buddy buddy with pretty much any House, for example, me, myself and I, as a Slytherin, i def won't ♥♥♥♥ choose some stuff which is forced upon us to do.
(Gladly last year we had a real RPG, aka BG3, that is so much better in every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ way, which is a pain for me to play this while i could play something better, that's why i'm considering dropping it)

Recently i finished Wukong which is also an unreal engine game, if you pick that game vs this one, you noticed the glaring difference when a dev cares about polishing the user experience vs a dev who wants to milk our money.
1) 90% spells use the exact same movement cast. The game forces you to draw a movement, but in game wise you don't use this movement, it's hilarious. It's a problem which could've been addressed in two ways : A slow motion style of camera when you cast the spell to see the movement of your hand vs a fast paced casting, like the game is, but respecting the wand movement isn't impossible to do, they just didn't cared about this, instead it was more important to marketing useless DEI mechanics, i'll complain about this, because if a dev team wastes their money in some rubbish instead of polishing the game, they're wrong. We have decent DEI Games such as Mass effect and Dragon age, which didn't traded their core mechanics over this.

The ♥♥♥♥ they locked inventory space upgrade behind a cutscene you can't skip and spread over a dozen of puzzles like this over the area was ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ insane, it took quality of life of any player and shoved inside the player ***, seriously it isn't hard to do, but its so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ boring i stopped playing sometimes, because it was one of most immersion breaking bs, i've played in my life.

- You can pet the cats, cool cute, later on you can tame animals, guess what, you can name, rename, breed, feed, play catch with balls, brush, YET you can't pet any animal you own, again they wasted money with irl politics to a virtual game, but forgot about the basics feature inside the game WHICH IS ALREADY PRESENT.

- Brewing potions, you simple don't brew your potions, I LOVE I LOVE WITH MY ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ SOUL, THE ALCHEMY SYSTEM IN KINGDOM COME DELIVERANCE, and this game could've tried something, anything would be better than staring 1m and 30 secs to get my potion automatically done, as of now, i don't ever bother trying to brew potions, because its so boring i rather not use them. This to some extent works with the plant system, you pick the rarest, poisonous and other stuff plants, without any special gear to safeguard your char, which goes against the book/lore of the game itself xD

- The school side clubs are so lacklusters i didn't felt anything , i never believed i would despise doing quests for mages in Hogwarts as much i hated in Skyrim, oblivion kept being the top dog in rpgs mage quests for myself in this regard.

- The devs of this game said we don't have a relantionship with other students, due to retaining the purity of teenagers... meanwhile in game we can cast avada kedrava,crucio.... we watch dark wizard killing people here and there, but oh dear, we can't stand the teens and the player experience youth love, i mean Bully and Persona addressed this without including anything more than a kiss, so honestly it's beyond silly, personally most npcs are so blant i won't bother with this, but if i was a teen player and wanted to have this exp, i'm denied of one of the most common things, which are in fact present in the original HP books/movies. And i think, sebastian and poppy both have qualities to deliver this, if it was properly done, and in fact any of them could be a Dei individual, and poppy lowkey throws at your character some pick up lines, which you will never reply.

- Last and one of the most important, the UI in this game is atrociously bad, you have hotkeys to menus, but you can't simple quit menus when you press "esc" once, you usually press thrice, so after a time, you noticed you spent a lot of time, using the menu due to the non existent quality of life.

The achivement for beating the game is around 30% ratio global, like HP fans as whole usually are kind fanatical, i remember when i saw day one gameplay and i was like, nah i won't pay fullprice in this BS, some friends of mine got angry at me, xDDDDD. Like, bro when the books were released in my country, or the movies, i was able to see rolls of people standing to buy either the newest book/ticket. Which with the game happened, it sold well, but the crux of the problem, this game is so unsavory, the playerbase didn't finished it. (and the story is kind short...)

Yes, actually the graphics and exploration were pretty decent, i think this game is a 6 worthy of neutral review,(not avaible on steam). They had the money to deliver something better and didn't. The world building is really beatiful, night and day, the four seasons, the eco system and the enemies interact with one another, magical beasts sometimes attack both enemies, you and animals based in their predatory styles. So, it wasn't the worse experience i had in a game, but it was def one of most boring experiences in my life. I mean this was more boring than grinding stuff in games with RNG, and grinding stuff is peak boredom.

This game is too ambitious to be released in this generation of gaming, and maybe even the next.

I think, if it had to be released right now, it would fare best as a discoverable sandbox of Hogwarts and the schoolground, with nothing else to it.
It’s painfully easy to tell that this game started as a love project by fans who wanted to build a full-scale digital replica of Hogwarts - which is definitely the only place where it really shines. I loved how true-to-source and awe-inspiring the castle looked from every angle, and how every little tower and bridge actually had a real explorable space inside of it.

But that is unfortunately where its shine ends, because everything else screams that, well, “they had to make a game out of it.” Every nook and cranny is just filled by some copy-and-pasted simple little puzzle, or a chest with another copy-and-paste cosmetic inside of it, or a copy-and-paste student handing out the most bland “side-quest” that rpg’s from decades ago already shied away from (over)using. The whole place doesn’t feel alive at all, but rather just like some empty space inside the engine that had to be filled up in ‘some way or another’.

Speaking of feeling like you’re walking around inside the engine itself; the lighting was absolutely horrible pretty much everywhere inside the castle without ray-tracing on. And even with ray-tracing turned on, most of the windows and ceilings still were just some white boxes of pure light (or just a single texture at night) that had to be reflected as such - so it was barely saveable by RTX. Hilariously, one of the repeating NPC lines is "the view from the Ravenclaw tower must be amazing!" - while literally none of the windows are actually functional.

There was also a weird thing where they really wanted to make travelling seamless, so walking through doors was just a matter of walking up to it and the character would open them… if that idea worked. Instead, more than half of the time, my character would just bonk head-first against a door and then stand there awkwardly for a second before the door opened (just to be greeted by either a white flashbang or some textures that still had to hastily load in).

I guess those technical aspects could be somewhat excusable by the fact that the game had to be released on last-gen consoles as well as on the Switch, but even then they could’ve fully optimised it for either last-gen or current-gen instead of making an awkward mix that doesn’t run perfectly well on any platform at all.

Even the story is very awkward and feels like it was thought up after the fact; like just some other aspect they “needed” to make a game out of a Hogwarts project. It doesn’t help that the characters try to both be as immersive as possible while also constantly breaking the fourth wall by “subtly” giving gameplay hints.

Oh yes, gameplay.
I am baffled that this game gets mostly general praise, in sharp contrast to most of the latest Ubisoft titles. Hell, even Forspoken had way more fluent combat and fun gameplay loops then Hogwarts has to offer. Everything from combat to exploration to side-quests to controls all felt like it was some bad AI-mixture that only got fed with mediocre Ubi, Square and Mobile side-projects.

Sure, there was definitely ambition to it. But if this is supposed to be a full-on videogame where nothing in the world felt boring or repetitive and actually excited you to continue playing, this has to be released at least a decade later.

For now, take it as it is and treat yourself to a few rounds around the digital castle, before putting it away again. Most definitely do not pay full price for it, that’s for sure.

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If you are looking for a fun Harry Potter game, this is perfect. The game is beautiful, and has tons of stuff to do - from dueling goblins and wizards, to flying around exploring the incredible scenery, to capturing and taming magical creatures, there is something for everyone. The story is pretty good, not the best you'll see in gaming, but it does have its moments.

Not many complaints but the main ones for me were: After about 30 hours or so, the gameplay can start to feel repetitive - similar to Assassin's Creed games, a lot of the sidequests feel like busy work. For example, it's cool to solve the first 3-4 Merlin trials, but then you start to notice they are the same trials over and over. Also, there aren't too many choices that feel meaningful - you can choose what to say but it rarely affects the outcome of the quest.

But overall it's a very fun game and really does make you feel like you're a student at Hogwarts - amazing experience for any HP fan!

10/10 A beautiful game and a wonderful time! I will be going back to 100% this one for sure and could see myself returning to this game in the future. I would highly recommend this to anyone looking for what might just be the best Harry Potter and wizarding game out there.

Hogwarts Legacy - 7/10

WARNING, i personally experienced massive stutterings after about 2h into the game, where i found a mod that fixed half the massive stutters i've gotten.

The mod didn't fixed much of the massive stutterings, but after about 2h of gameplay my game suddently started to stutter violently over 10 times per minutes (3-30fps), which this mod seems to lower the frequency, but not the intensity, now it has massive stutters every 1-30 seconds.

https://www.nexusmods.com/hogwartslegacy/mods/69?tab=description&BH=0 <----------LINK TO THE MOD THAT FIXED 1/3 OF MY STUTTERING ISSUE.

Optimisation is trully horrible, i can't imagine this running at 720p 30fps on the Nintendo Switch at all considering all the stutterings with over 10x the hardware of the Switch.

Optimisation is on par with a day 1 pre-alpha build who many devs calls "early access".



Game is great, only the performance runs horribly, no matter the hardware, as i've seen by many poor performance complaints online.




EDIT: After further gameplay. i noticed the game running much more smoothly after about 30-60 minutes of playing, maybe caused by the mod mentioned above but the gameplay is quite enjoyable and near stutter free...Looks like i'll have to let the game run for half an hour before playing for real, since the game isn't loaded properly for that long, for some reason. It also seem that every time i launch the game, it stutters with even more violence, freezing the game from time to time and fps dropping between 2-30 on average, or else the game runs at around 80-110fps with my settings (mostly high at 4k, DLSS Quality) with an RTX 4070

Something i cannot stop enjoying is Lumos, this spell is just perfectly made, i am in awe every time i use it to lighten my surroundings. The only thing i have to say that's bad about gameplay is the 4-hit combo to inflict damage, the first 3 hits barely do anything, I find this 4-hit combo unpleasant.

Update on the mod, it stopped working when i updated my gpu drivers. The game still doesn't run better with this driver.

you can pet every single cat