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I’ve been lost in the Scottish Highlands, on and off, for a few months. Thanks be to “Hogwarts Legacy.”
I loved the books. Considering my concept of how to treat books and movies set upon the same canon, I thought the movies were very well done, apart from strict adherence to many themes and archetypes within the books. This game is a Wizarding World simulator, class 0.7. The critical issues that make it short of class 1.0 include 1. the scope of available spells, potions, herbs, monsters, and beasts, 2. a lack of some version of quidditch, 3. lack of consequences considering some events and actions, and 4. the shallowness of character awareness, and this last one is primarily limited by the depth of the character code.
I believe achieving those four points would make the code, the asset tables, and the development calendar much harder to achieve. So I accept the game as it is.
And I love this game.
The broom flight, the music, the environment, and even hanging out in the vivarium. I like the game’s experience. I would never be among the first to complete the main quest line when I was enraptured for two hours flying my broom over, around, and through the castle and lake on the last prerelease day.
As I replayed the game several times, and with several characters, I made checklists and maps. I am still working on them even now. They need a lot of work!
Quest List – All quests have placeholders; some have content
Interactive Map – Highlands, Hogwarts, Hogsmeade, all the Dungeons, and a few other locations outside the first two unmapped trials.
Tracker – a local storage, steady-state tracker for all the tracked and untracked checklist items in the game.
Field Guide Pages- Hogwarts – Checklist reference for all Revelio, Lumos, Levioso, Accio, and Inflammare pages tracked in the castle.
Field Guide Pages- Hogsmeade – Checklist reference for all Revelio, Lumos, and Accio pages throughout the significant town.
Field Guide Pages- The Highlands – Checklist reference for the Revelio pages scattered about the hills, valleys, and minor towns.
Disillusionment Chest Checklist – todo: few chests left to store
Original Highlands Map – Original Hogwarts Map – Original Hogsmeade Map – Based on an old Google Maps conversion of another game map I had made, there will be no more development here.
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