The Great Hall is beautifully realised and the enchanted ceiling is stunning. Hogwarts itself is a stone labyrinth that accurately reflects the depictions we’ve all seen in the eight feature films. An interactive Hogwarts simulator that allows the player to experience the intricacies of the school, complete with moving staircases, sentient painting and all its hidden secrets. Hence, Hogwarts Legacy offers much that fans wish from the iconic school of wizardry. However, open world gaming has evolved significantly in recent years, providing the tools necessary to create a suitable home for the franchise. Yet the heyday of the MMO has now been and gone. I always thought that the MMO genre would be the best fit to provide a virtual Hogwarts where players could choose a house, learn magic and fight dark wizards. I suspect that during the height of Harry Potter mania in the mid 2000s, the technology didn’t exist to support such a project. Moving on to the matter in hand, it is interesting that it has taken so long to produce a game with the scope of Hogwarts Legacy. Thus, I believe it is possible to be able to separate an artist or their personal worldview, from their work. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, but I reject his position on eugenics. Hence I won’t be drawn into the arbitrary nature of the protests that surround the “Wizarding World” as they strike me as a Hobson’s Choice which do little to address the real points of debate. Anyone who suggests otherwise is either misinformed or deliberately misleading you. I believe in equality and personal freedoms but such matters are often complex and rife with nuance and subtleties. I don’t like it when complex social or political issues are framed as a simple binary choice, usually with one side claiming righteousness and the other being presented as an anathema. Before we begin let me address the issue of the “baggage” that accompanies anything associated with the author J.K.
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