Game for fans of magic and exploration
Absolutely worth it game for the discounted price and you don't have to be a Harry Potter fan. Descriptions of the important areas and items reward you with XP and give you a small info about them, immersing you in this magical world.
J.K. Rowling wasn't involved in creation of Hogwarts Legacy and she'd most likely hate it for certain things.
+Graphics are beautiful, decent facial animations
+Detailed world built with attention to detail
+Puzzles, fun side quests, large amount of spells
+The world feels alive, it's not waiting for you to arrive like in other games
+Metroidvania style exploration, revisit older areas with new abilities and unlock new secrets
+Summoning and flying on a broom feels seamless, controls are well done
+Lockpicking minigame that's fun to interact with
+Dialogue options make sense and feel like something that you'd like to pick
+In certain quests, you can pick a mean option and the characters will remember it, fun little easter egg
+Plenty of cosmetic options, each gear you loot is added as Appearance and you can change the look of whatever you wear
+Game's performance is fine, 5800x3D and RTX 4070, settings on Ultra, with Raytracing and DLSS, I've had only few stutters
-Combat at the start can feel a bit spammy with the basic attack, but give it just few hours of quests and you'll learn plenty of spells, you can have 16 in your quick slots - it's enough to not even need the basic attack anymore
-Gathering materials can be fun or feel like a chore, but later on you'll unlock the ability to basically summon most of the ingredients that you'll need, even creating potions for free, which greatly helps to actually use them
-More spell slots would be welcomed and larger gear inventory as well
-Few times I got stuck in places out of which was no return, luckily you can always open Map and teleport elsewhere
-You can't interact with the NPCS in the world, can't really use your magic on them - which is a shame, cause it would lead to some fun situations
-There's some LGBT content in the game, that feels out of place for the world you're in. Maybe it's there to provoke Rowling, maybe it's there as inclusion, but nevertheless it felt odd to interact with. It's a small enough part of the game, that it shouldn't detract from your overall enjoyment of the game.
TIPS
-Don't adjust your character's voice pitch, it creates strange effect of echo and produces worse audio quality. If you did adjust the pitch, go into game's Settings, Audio options, and click Reset to defaults, that'll fix your character's voice.
-In the settings in the last option - User interface, I'd suggest to turn off: Show hud tracking icons / and / Show minimap. That way, when you want to find something, you look around, use magic spells to help you, press V to show you where to go and it's overall more immersive than just staring at minimap and have an icon point to exactly where you need to be.

Hogwarts Legacy feels like Skyrim, in a good way. Receive a new quest, start moving towards the area, find a cave to explore, enemies near the cave fight a troll, ancient trial with a small puzzle, random character that needs help and then few hours later, I get to my actual quest :D The fact that it's so easy to get lost in the game's world, says a lot about how immersive it feels and how much it has to offer. Finally another proper open world game, where you can enjoy using magic :) More freedom would have been nice, but then they'd honestly have to spend another 5 years adding all the possibilities.

[h1]A magical open world witch simulator[/h1] [b]Game for fans of magic and exploration[/b] Absolutely worth it game for the discounted price and you don't have to be a Harry Potter fan. Descriptions of the important areas and items reward you with XP and give you a small info about them, immersing you in this magical world. J.K. Rowling wasn't involved in creation of Hogwarts Legacy and she'd most likely hate it for certain things. +Graphics are beautiful, decent facial animations +Detailed world built with attention to detail +Puzzles, fun side quests, large amount of spells +The world feels alive, it's not waiting for you to arrive like in other games +Metroidvania style exploration, revisit older areas with new abilities and unlock new secrets +Summoning and flying on a broom feels seamless, controls are well done +Lockpicking minigame that's fun to interact with +Dialogue options make sense and feel like something that you'd like to pick +In certain quests, you can pick a mean option and the characters will remember it, fun little easter egg +Plenty of cosmetic options, each gear you loot is added as Appearance and you can change the look of whatever you wear +Game's performance is fine, 5800x3D and RTX 4070, settings on Ultra, with Raytracing and DLSS, I've had only few stutters -Combat at the start can feel a bit spammy with the basic attack, but give it just few hours of quests and you'll learn plenty of spells, you can have 16 in your quick slots - it's enough to not even need the basic attack anymore -Gathering materials can be fun or feel like a chore, but later on you'll unlock the ability to basically summon most of the ingredients that you'll need, even creating potions for free, which greatly helps to actually use them -More spell slots would be welcomed and larger gear inventory as well -Few times I got stuck in places out of which was no return, luckily you can always open Map and teleport elsewhere -You can't interact with the NPCS in the world, can't really use your magic on them - which is a shame, cause it would lead to some fun situations -There's some LGBT content in the game, that feels out of place for the world you're in. Maybe it's there to provoke Rowling, maybe it's there as inclusion, but nevertheless it felt odd to interact with. It's a small enough part of the game, that it shouldn't detract from your overall enjoyment of the game. [b]TIPS[/b] -Don't adjust your character's voice pitch, it creates strange effect of echo and produces worse audio quality. If you did adjust the pitch, go into game's Settings, Audio options, and click Reset to defaults, that'll fix your character's voice. -In the settings in the last option - User interface, I'd suggest to turn off: Show hud tracking icons / and / Show minimap. That way, when you want to find something, you look around, use magic spells to help you, press V to show you where to go and it's overall more immersive than just staring at minimap and have an icon point to exactly where you need to be. [b]Hogwarts Legacy feels like Skyrim, in a good way.[/b] Receive a new quest, start moving towards the area, find a cave to explore, enemies near the cave fight a troll, ancient trial with a small puzzle, random character that needs help and then few hours later, I get to my actual quest :D The fact that it's so easy to get lost in the game's world, says a lot about how immersive it feels and how much it has to offer. Finally another proper open world game, where you can enjoy using magic :) More freedom would have been nice, but then they'd honestly have to spend another 5 years adding all the possibilities.