The feverishly anticipated Harry Potter video game can’t muster the fantasy escapism it so desperately wants
seemingly promised everything game-playing Potterphiles had long craved. Showing various witches and wizards engaged in quintessential Wizarding World activities — donning the Sorting Hat, brewing potions, battling fantastical creatures — it appeared Avalanche Software, the studio developing the game, was cooking up an open-world role-playing game to finally scratch the magical-boarding-school itch after years of.
, the story follows the same broad beats over the course of a school year. A goblin named Ranrok is leading a rebellion: You must help quell it, all while making friends and attending class. The actual gameplay, the parts that come closest to making you feel like you’re an actual Hogwarts student, are mildly successful. There’s an undeniably nostalgic charm to exploring the labyrinthine corridors of Hogwarts. The castle is full of mysteries: hidden doors, disappearing staircases, moving paintings, a string quartet of instruments that play themselves — many elements of visual and audio design coalescing into a genuinely wondrous interactive whole.
This, of course, is a fallacy, as the fallout to the game’s release continues to prove. Ever since it was announced in September 2020, three months after Rowling published a 3,669-word
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