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Hogwarts Legacy (2023)

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Taking place before the events of the novels, the player controls a student at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the late 1800s who learns to wield different magical abilities and objects, aided by other students and professors. Hogwarts Legacy is Avalanche's first release since their acquisition by Warner Bros. in 2017. Development began in 2018. Announced in 2020, the game was subject to delays, first to 2022 and later to its final release date. Before its announcement, pre-release gameplay footage was leaked onto the internet in 2018.

The game received generally favourable reviews from critics, with praise for the combat, world design, and characters, and criticism for its side missions and technical problems. Before release, the game attracted controversy due to the views on transgender people held by the Harry Potter creator J. K. Rowling and allegations that the game included antisemitic tropes, leading to calls for a boycott.
Gameplay

Hogwarts Legacy is an action role-playing game in which players are able to attend classes at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Players can explore locations from the Wizarding World franchise, such as the Forbidden Forest, Diagon Alley, and Hogsmeade. Other areas as yet unseen visually in other media include the Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw common rooms. Progressing through the game sees the interior and exterior of the castle change visually to match the seasons.

During character creation, the player can choose their appearance, gender, and one of the four Hogwarts Houses. Players may customise their character's voice, body type, and add accessories such as glasses in character creation. Level progression allows the player to access and upgrade different spells, talents, and abilities. Through in-game challenges, the player character gains experience points to gain levels. These challenges come in the form of combat, quests, exploration, field guide pages, and the Room of Requirement. While house points for the four Hogwarts houses play a part in the game's plot, they are not influenced by player actions. The game features environmental customisation elements; players can modify the Room of Requirement as they level up through the game.

Hogwarts Legacy is set in the late 1800s and follows a student starting at Hogwarts in the fifth year. Players take control of a new Hogwarts student voiced by Sebastian Croft or Amelia Gething. As the player is starting at the school later than other students, the Ministry of Magic provides them with a wizard field guide. Completing sections of this guide through exploration provides additional information and experience points. The player character, who holds the key to an "ancient secret that threatens to tear the wizarding world apart", is capable of manipulating a mysterious ancient magic, and will need to help uncover why this forgotten magic has suddenly made a resurgence and the ones that are simultaneously trying to harness it.

The new character Professor Eleazar Fig acts as a mentor figure to the protagonist. Other new characters include Hogwarts students Amit Thakkar (Asif Ali), Everett Clopton (Luke Youngblood), and Professors Onai (Kandace Caine) and Shah (Sohm Kapila), Phineas Nigellus Black (Simon Pegg) and Professor Matilda Weasley (Lesley Nicol). During their adventure, the protagonist can build friendships with fellow students Natsai Onai, Poppy Sweeting and Sebastian Sallow, who accompany them on their journey as companion characters. Antagonists featured in the game include Ranrok, the leader of the Goblin Rebellion, and Victor Rookwood, the leader of a group of Dark Wizards.
Development

The game was developed by Avalanche Software, which was acquired by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment from Disney in January 2017. In the same year, Warner Bros. established a new publishing label named Portkey Games, which was dedicated to managing the Wizarding World license.[16] The Harry Potter creator J. K. Rowling was not involved in development.

The game uses the Unreal Engine. Gameplay footage leaked in 2018. Hogwarts Legacy was announced at a PlayStation 5 event in September 2020, with plans to be released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S in 2021. The primary voice cast for the game was announced on 12 January 2023. It was delayed twice, first to 2022, and later to 10 February 2023. Its PS4 and Xbox One versions were delayed from its February 2023 launch to April. A Nintendo Switch port is scheduled for release on 25 July 2023.[23] Early access was made available to people who had pre-ordered the game’s physical Collector’s Edition or Digital Deluxe Edition on console or PC on 7 February 2023.

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