Great breadth, not much depth. I think this is the best way to describe this game.

Game mechanics are good and the world is big and I personally found fun to explore (especially the castle itself). My main criticism is that they should have made the world a little smaller and focused that time on more characters and interesting quests. That's not to say there aren't good quests in the game - there are - it's just that there aren't enough of them.

Basically, I wouldn't get the game at full price - at the time of my review it's on a 75% sale which I absolutely think is worth it, and at 50% sale I still think it's worth getting, but not at full price. I do hope they make another one of these and will have the time and resources to focus on some depth - I personally think the actual layout and design of the world is already perfect, it just needs to be populated a little more.

It's a shallow movieset, not a game. Visually stunning, but no depth. Open world is dull and monotonous. Hogwarts is lifeless and empty. No NPC interactions, no heat for casting unforgiveable curses, no classes, no immersion, you're a visitor in a movie set of Hogwarts. A disneyland tour of sorts. Nothing particularly innovative gameplay-wise either. Without the Harry Potter label, this is just another generic open world RPG.

Only reason this game is this successful is because there are no other modern Harry Potter games. If EA or Ubisoft released this, it would be the subject of 100s of videos on Youtube about everything wrong with the modern gaming industry.

- DIFFICULTY -

🔲 My 90 year old grandma could play it
🔲 Easy
☑️ Normal
🔲 Hard
🔲 "Dark Souls"

- GRAPHICS -

🔲 "MS Paint"
🔲 Bad
🔲 Meh
🔲 Graphics don't matter in this game
🔲 Good
🔲 Beautiful
☑️ Masterpiece

- MUSIC -

🔲 Bad
🔲 Not special
🔲 Good
☑️ Beautiful

- STORY -

🔲 This game has no story
🔲 Like playing "Temple Runners" for the story
🔲 It's there for the people who want it
🔲 Well written
☑️ Epic story

- PRICE -

🔲 Underpriced
☑️ Perfect price
🔲 Could be cheaper
🔲 Overpriced
🔲 Complete waste of money

- REQUIREMENTS -

🔲 You can run it on a microwave
☑️ Average
☑️ High end
🔲 "NASA" computer

- LENGTH -

🔲 Very short (0 - 3 hours)
🔲 Short (3 - 15 hours)
☑️ Average (15 - 50 hours)
🔲 Long (50 - 90 hours)
🔲 Extremely long (90 - 110 hours)
🔲 No ending

- FUN -

🔲 I'd rather watch paint dry
🔲 Hard to enjoy
🔲 Repetitive
🔲 Actually pretty amusing
☑️ Ride of your life

- REPLAYABILITY -

🔲 It's a one - time experience
🔲 Only for achievements
☑️ If you wait a few months / years
🔲 Definitely
🔲 Infinitely replayable

- WORTH BUYING -

🔲 No
🔲 Wait for sale
☑️ Yes