I pirated the game. The first part in the actual school was really fun. But once you get out into the world, you quickly realise that it's just another generic open world game with outposts, collectibles, and general busywork that you've seen in every other open world game. It got boring very quickly for me and I never finished it.

[–] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 14 points 9 months ago

I also pirated it, and yeah, I definitely got my money's worth from it. I tried to have fun, but it's the poster child for "mile wide, inch deep."

Maybe they can reuse the environment for a better game in the future.

[–] cerulean_blue@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

I agree. The magical feeling of being a student at Hogwarts soon evaporated as soon as you got a broom and didn't really need to visit Hogwarts again and instead just fight endless random enemies, which gets pretty easy as you level up.

I was also disappointed by the endless voice acting. There was so much pointless talking and you couldn't really control the outcome, all options seemed to result in a positive outcome when I just wanted to be a badass Malfoy but you're not allowed, you jave to be a goody goody Hermione, juat in Slytherin clothes.

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I was very interested in mods for this game, people found all kinds of fun cut stuff that would've elevated this game so much like companions having commentary for several quests when you used a mod to bring them, and having actual consequences for using the dark arts. But it's impossible to implement.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

I loved the mod that turned all those animated paintings into anime vtubers, so goofy

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

Technically it’s possible, but you’d have to reply on the cooperation of empress and that’s… not gonna happen.