4 thoughts on “Saturday Morning Gaming: Hogwarts Legacy Initial Impressions

  1. The game sounds interesting, but I have a huge backlog of games, so I don’t think I will add this one at the moment. How is the actual gameplay, aside from the joy of exploring Magical Britain?

    Most of my focus lately has been on replaying Monster Hunter: Rise (largely with my wife), after purchasing it on the Steam Deck, and playing through Monster Hunter 3U on the 2DS. Fire Emblem Engage has been getting ignored, though I will probably get back to it when I get done with MH3U (or decide to take a break). I have also dabbled a bit in Rim World, Factorio, Space Chem, and Grounded. I’m not very good at spreading my focus around, though, so I haven’t done much with any of them.Report

    1. How is the actual gameplay, aside from the joy of exploring Magical Britain?

      Pedestrian. The combat is kind of okay? I guess? It’s a variant of the Batman Arkham/LOTR Shadow games and that’s, seriously, welcome… but there’s some ludonarrative dissonance in the gameplay and you will recognize each quest genre as it is given to you.

      If you don’t thrill to the idea of a fetch/delivery quest sandwiched by two conversations about how this is a fetch/delivery quest in MAGICAL BRITAIN!!!!, you’re not going to get a lot out the game.

      The joy of exploration is the main reason to visit this game. If you’ve got no connection with the setting, it’s no different than God of War or Horizon: Zero Dawn or Mad Max or Far Cry orReport

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