Hogwarts Legacy is a good game but here’s everything I hate about it

A reader claims to enjoy Hogwarts Legacy but has an expanse list of very angry complaints about it.

So, I’ve finally completed the main story of Hogwarts Legacy and I’m absolutely relieved about it. It’s taken me countless hours, many pointless side quests and one Merlin Trial. But I enjoyed my time with it. It has too many flaws though.

Where do I start? Maybe the Merlin Trials being so pointless and a waste of time. I only did the one trial, when I got introduced to it, and ignored it completely after that. Why should I waste my time with expanding my gear slots when the rewards are worthless clothing items?

Hogwarts itself is just a beautiful centrepiece but there’s no requirement at all to actually be there or even bother with it. You can skip days, skip classes, and even journey further away from it. There are no consequences at all and the castle itself is littered with stairs, lifeless students, and repeating lines of dialogue.

There’s also the fact that the classes are two minutes long. You learn a new spell and that’s it. You never need to worry about it ever again. You spend more time carrying out assignments outside of Hogwarts than attending classes, or even caring about Hogwarts.

Summoner’s Court is a waste of time. The duelling club is five minutes long and is never brought up again. You can’t attend the feasts. Even the end of year feast is locked off to you. There’re no house points. The Unforgivable Curses are pointless. You can cast Crucio as many times as you like. Azkaban is an afterthought. No consequences at all. There’s more. The fact that Quidditch was saved for another game and more cash to pay for it is shameful.

The rewards for every dungeon is just more clothing items. The Forbidden Forest is just filled with the same types of enemies. Spiders. Trolls. Poachers. They just come across as bullet sponges and that applies for the trolls. They become tedious tasks and it just gets boring.

The enemies repeat the same lines and even characters such as Harlow and Rookwood are extremely boring. Their fights are less than five minutes long. The final fight is just boredom. Even the professors are just forgettable.

The beasts aspect of the game is pointless. It only serves to introduce Poppy, and I do like her, but she’s only there for her questline and then forgotten about. Same for Natty and Sebastian. Sebastian was my favourite companion in the game, but I know his story is finished and I’ll never be able to speak to him again. There’s also the fact that the common rooms are more pointless than Hogwarts itself. You travel there for the first time and it just becomes absolutely worthless.

It’s empty as hell, you can’t even sleep in your own bed and there’s no motivation to even visit the common room. It looks nice and it’s a great introduction to the three best Slytherin characters: Ominis, Imelda, and Sebastian. I loved all three of them and I was proud of choosing Slytherin as my house. But that was ultimately a waste of breath because you’re locked down as the hero of Hogwarts and you can’t actually be evil.

Like I mentioned before, there’s no consequences and no one is phased by you knowing and using Avada Kedavra. Only Sebastian faces the consequences. I didn’t actually expose him and that wasn’t an issue because it never gets brought up again. Just a final conversation with him. That’s it.

I’ve said enough but this was a good game. It could have been great. I hope Avalanche takes the criticisms on board because I’d be glad to see a sequel and continue the journey of my character named Marguerite Vasilisa.

Also, on a final note. You don’t even take your O.W.L.s. So, you’ll never know your career path. But you win the House Cup. Which is pointless. So that’s something.

By reader Shahzaib Sadiq