Hogwarts Legacy Early Impressions: A Worthy Return to the Wizarding World
Hogwarts Legacy comes out later this week and we've spent a little over 15 hours in the game so far, running around the gigantic Hogwarts castle, sneaking into the not-so-Forbidden Forest, buying all sorts of magical contraptions in Hogsmeade, and flying around on our trusty broom. Our review for the game will follow soon, but from our adventures in Hogwarts and its surroundings so far, Hogwarts Legacy looks like a worthy return to the Wizarding World. Avalanche Software has somehow extracted all the best memories of the Harry Potter books and films into a Pensieve, capturing the lore and life of Hogwarts castle. In the process, it has also made a truly fun RPG that has its own merits aside from all the borrowed magic.
While Hogwarts Legacy's story takes its own route and has little affiliation to the world of Harry Potter, the DNA remains the same. A good chunk of its first 15 hours are spent with a little too much handholding, but once the castle gates open up, you're free to explore Hogwarts' surrounding areas. Be it Hogsmeade and other nearby hamlets, or the enchanting Forbidden Forest, iconic locations from the books and the films make the open world a treat to explore, like a big delicious candy you get to unwrap slowly and have all to yourself. In my estimate, the game should take around 40 hours to complete (going by my quest and challenge progression stats) if you partake in a healthy number of side offerings. The first 15 hours alone pack in a lot. Here's what we can tell you about Hogwarts Legacy:
The main star of the show, of course, is the Hogwarts castle. It is not just packed with things to do and secrets to find, but it is also recreated in such painstaking and beautiful detail that I often stopped to
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