

This is a disappointment, as it is brilliant when played on a PC or console. This has been the case with The Outer Worlds, which manages to run on the Switch but at the cost of a poor framerate and terrible graphical quality that makes the game nearly unplayable. They are resource-intense games which test the Switch's hardware, and while franchises like The Legend of Zelda manage to pull it off, there are several examples of games that don't. Historically, open-world games have struggled the most on the Switch. These locations are rendered beautifully, making it very easy to get immersed in the magical world. Furthermore, players can venture beyond the walls of the castle to visit Hogsmeade village. When they do, it proves to be quite an expansive location filled with plenty of secrets to discover. All your choices and decisions will have consequences in Hogwarts Legacy.Hogwarts Legacy takes place within Hogwarts castle, and players are free to explore it as they desire. A morality system, similar to what’s seen in Mass Effect in Dragon Age, has also been confirmed to increase the sense of player agency.

Such an occasion has been a long time coming, with Hogwarts Legacy promising to be a deep and involving solo journey played from a third-person view. Hogwarts Legacy marks the first big-budget Harry Potter game to release on consoles in over a decade.

Your legacy is whatever you choose to make it. Players will be able to learn and cast various spells featured in the movies (as well as new ones), taming magical beasts and battling dark wizards as necessary to gain a leg up on all the evil forces threatening the school’s safety. It sets players in the shoes of a new Hogwarts student attending the eponymous school about to embark on their own adventure.ĭeveloped by the same team behind Disney Infinity, Hogwarts Legacy is a fully single-player adventure. This finally changes in 2023, however, thanks to the release of Hogwarts Legacy, a new prequel story set 200 years before the arrival of the boy who lived. A sprawling single-player RPG set in the Harry Potter universeĭespite releasing several tie-ins during the height of the film franchise’s popularity, in the world of video games, the Harry Potter franchise has remained quite stagnant lately.
