Overall Hogwarts legacy is a fairly polished open world RPG-ish adventure game.

TL;DR wait for a -50% or more sale, the repetitive open world style game does not warrant a €60 price point.

• The dueling combat is intuitive and fun but becomes repetitive quickly. As I unlocked more spells, I used them for a few minutes then changed back to what I was comfortable with, which is a shame.
  
• The world and environment design are beautiful aesthetically but fall pretty flat when secrets don't feel as secret considering most of them can be revealed with a single spell.
  
• The story is extremely generic. The idea of ancient magic is interesting but is executed in a predictable fashion. The only interesting storyline is the one of the Dark Arts side quest; however, even that is predictable but with more interesting characters.
  
• The open world activities include a variety of tasks from rescuing beasts to solving Merlin's trials (9 variants, divided into 95 total), broom "challenges," etc., and like most other Open World games, follow the same pattern of almost no variety. I somehow still completed most...
  Some of the voice acting is really off-putting as most characters do not have the capability to gesticulate and become very robotic, especially if it is an enthusiastic voice actor.
  
• Lastly, the way they excused not developing Quidditch for the game was pretty lame.

The game is way too expensive for what you get out of it: tedious, repetitive tasks, unskippable cutscenes, and worse writing than some cartoons produced for toddlers. I can only recommend the game at like 50% off or more - so wait and get it on sale.

5/10 - mediocre

Overall Hogwarts legacy is a fairly polished open world RPG-ish adventure game. TL;DR wait for a -50% or more sale, the repetitive open world style game does not warrant a €60 price point. [list] [*]The dueling combat is intuitive and fun but becomes repetitive quickly. As I unlocked more spells, I used them for a few minutes then changed back to what I was comfortable with, which is a shame. [*]The world and environment design are beautiful aesthetically but fall pretty flat when secrets don't feel as secret considering most of them can be revealed with a single spell. [*]The story is extremely generic. The idea of ancient magic is interesting but is executed in a predictable fashion. The only interesting storyline is the one of the Dark Arts side quest; however, even that is predictable but with more interesting characters. [*]The open world activities include a variety of tasks from rescuing beasts to solving Merlin's trials (9 variants, divided into 95 total), broom "challenges," etc., and like most other Open World games, follow the same pattern of almost no variety. I somehow still completed most... Some of the voice acting is really off-putting as most characters do not have the capability to gesticulate and become very robotic, especially if it is an enthusiastic voice actor. [*]Lastly, the way they excused not developing Quidditch for the game was pretty lame. [/list] The game is way too expensive for what you get out of it: tedious, repetitive tasks, unskippable cutscenes, and worse writing than some cartoons produced for toddlers. I can only recommend the game at like 50% off or more - so wait and get it on sale. [b] 5/10 - mediocre [/b]