For all those, who haven't heard about this game: It's mainly about fashion.
There is also a minor backstory about a magic boarding school or something, but, after you complete some lessons about how to move a wand and learn some spells, you spend most of the game roaming a great castle and looting chests for clothing items. There is also a large area beyond the castle, where you can break into civilians homes, raid bandit camps and desecrate old graves in the search of new attire.
The fashion you can collect comprises several types of school uniforms, cloaks, capes, traditional scottish costumes, glasses, creepy masks for psychopaths and of course - silly hats.
Unfortunately your inventory is quite inadequate for the amounts of clothing you have to carry around, and the only way to mend this is completing so called 'Merlin trials', an endless series of rudimentary puzzles, where you have to search the shrubbery for rock balls to push into their receptacles.
A far more entertaining pastime is battling criminals for their wardrobe. Although there are not as many distinct magic spells as there are clothing items, you get a lot of possibilities of what to do to the outlaws: In a good-cop-bad-cop manner, you can chose to torture and murder the petty criminals with illegal spells or just ignite them, slash their throats, slam them into hard objects or explode their heads like a good law abiding citizen. At times the game delivers useful hints on how to make combat more effective: 'Torture a burning enemy' was one I remember vividly. Surely this portrayal of British boarding schools is a bit exaggerated!
Later in the game you are given the possibility to 'save' wild animals from their natural habitat to use their sustainably harvested products to enhance the value of your fashion items. Of course, you can't completely change the properties and looks of them as this would defeat the purpose of the game - breaking and entering every home in the region and rummage through their strangely school uniform centered wardrobes. However you can at least change the looks of the items while you wear them. A great deal of my playtime went into changing the new equipment I got into the style I had chosen in the beginning of the game. Of course I didn't want to run around wearing a nightgown, a suit of armor, a pair of assymmetrical googles with one eye and an old lady's hat all at the same time. That would be rather silly. Thus it came down to the same routine: Find better item - Put on item - change appearance - repeat. A rather ingenious way of the game to remind us: It's not your brains or power or your morals that count, it's not your money or the purity of your bloodline, it's what you wear!

Das Gameplay ist wirklich nicht schlecht, aber dagegen ist die Hauptstory echt ziemlich langweilig.
Dummes Rumgelaufen, Kill die, Sammel das und verschwende dein Zeit mit dingen die sich ständig wiederholen. die 100% war eine Qual durch diese Nervigen Merlin´s Rätzel so wie alle Handbuchseiten und mit jeden der 4 Häuser die Story auf ein gewissen punkt zu spielen.
Am Anfang des Spiels ist immer das Inventar voll, weil man mit unnötigen misst zugeballert wird und man kann den misst auch nur in der Stadt verkaufen.
Die Boss Fights waren MÄÄÄHHHH und nicht besonders Anspruchsvoll naja im groben und ganzen ein solides Game, was Spaß machen KANN.

Aber es ist nicht Alles schlecht, die neben Questen machen mehr Spaß als die Hauptstory selbst.
Die Quest reihe mit Sebastian macht echt Laune auf mehr, so wie die PS5 Mission die wir Steam Gamer nun auch zocken dürfen
Die Grafik ist ein Traum, aber hätten die Entwickler lieber mehr in eine abwechslungsreiche Story stecken sollen.


---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

Hogwarts Legacy