"This Is No Longer My Relaxing Game": Hogwarts Legacy Player Showcases Pure Nightmare Fuel Within The Valley

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is a beautiful and immersive world that lets players live out their own fantasy of being a student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, providing many with a cozy feeling that is relaxing and comfortable despite the dark themes that fill the game. In reality, has plenty of serious narrative threads that can add weight and depth to its story, including death, poachers, and more that is far beyond what any young student should have to experience.

Reddit user Katt_Natt96 recently shared their experience of coming across the Haunted Hogsmeade quest in, which was added earlier this year to most versions of the game after having been a PlayStation exclusive quest for a year following the game's release.

Shown in the thread is a screenshot of Katt_Natt96's character in the game holding up their wand with the Lumos spell and revealing a horde of animated mannequins who come to life to attack whenever the main character is not looking at them, with the caption «the scream I scrumpt was loud.» In fact,this entire questline is filled with strange happenings such as rotating walls, upside-down rooms, and, ultimately, a mischievous and dangerous poltergeist.

Though many players have found to be a relaxing and comforting experience of living in the familiar world of fame, it isn't always a peaceful and cheerful place to be. As Katt_Natt96 quickly discovered, this cheerful little store quest in Hogsmeade is far from being a lighthearted romp. The quest offers an incredible story with fun rewards at the end of it, but only if someone can make it through the fright of having creepy mannequins attacking them. Particularly when playing through the story late at night or in the dark, many players have experienced the same terror that this Reddit user felt.

Hogwarts Legacy has a number of unresolved storylines from side quests to the main story that deserve to be carried over into the upcoming sequel.

Commenters on the Reddit thread have even likened the scenario to the