Hogwarts Legacy May Have a Competitor in Forspoken

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This year has seen many games receive delays, leading to 2023 becoming a year filled with big releases. Hogwarts Legacy, which was meant to drop in 2022's holiday season, has been pushed to February 2023. Hogwarts Legacy's delay is not long, but it does mean that it will release around the same time as Forspoken, which was also originally scheduled for a 2022 release, but after a few delays, it will now hit stores on January 24, 2023. Delays can be useful, as they give developers time to polish their product and release their best work possible. However, with the similarities between Forspoken and Hogwarts Legacy, the delay may have caused the games to become direct competitors.

Both games feature spells, and they will allow players to explore a magical world. However, their implementation of magic and their approach to open-world design differs. Both games likely have overlapping fan bases eagerly awaiting the release of the games, and if Hogwarts Legacy wishes to be the biggest game of early 2022, it will have to prove itself against Forspoken. It will be a good time for fans of the fantasy genre, as they will have plenty to choose from.

Hogwarts Legacy's Dark Magic Trailer Shows a Different Side of the Game

Although Forspoken and Hogwarts Legacy may appear quite different on the surface, they do share many significant similarities. Perhaps most notably, both games lean heavily into the fantasy genre, and they integrate magic into their combat. Each game approaches the concept of magic differently, and it will ultimately be up to gamers to decide which style appeals to them. The magic of Hogwarts Legacy's Wizarding World mainly draws from European mythology, leading to the appearance of several mythological creatures from