I find that the game is quite enjoyable. Hogwarts is quite big and you can easily lose yourself in the castle. You can spend hours running around in Hogwarts before seeing the rest of the world. I'm still finding areas of the castle I did not know about. The amount of time that they spent crafting this is very obvious. There are dynamic events in many areas of the castle. If you go to the great room early in the morning, you will find students eating their first meal of the day.

The game is set sometime before the events of the books, so you won't find the characters that you know, but you will find their ancestors. There's a certain poltergeist which is an exception to this. There are a few subtle winks to the books and movies.

One of the thing that this game does very well is have simple yet engaging game play. I find that way too many modern games try to one up each other by increasing the complexity of the gaming loop. Often, that complexity ends up getting in the way of my enjoyment of the game. Hogwarts has a simple and yet elegant game play loops. They went back to the basics and it works really well.

My one complaint has got to be the tutorial. I just hate the very specific format that it used to teach you the basics. Don't put me in a loop. If I succeed at beating the initial fight without doing the one thing you wanted me to do, just let it be. It is much more organic to just let me learn and perhaps fail at my own pace.

Graphically, it can be a bit demanding. If you are using a higher resolution, you are probably going to end up having to use DLSS. Fortunately, it appears to be working quite well in Hogwarts Legacy. There's no real difference visible, but the frame rate is definitely much better.

There's a few settings that I would have expected which are missing, such as the ability to mute sounds while in the game is in the background. I haven't found any option to quickly hide the interface to take a quick screenshot. Otherwise, the settings and options are quite comprehensive.

I find that the game is quite enjoyable. Hogwarts is quite big and you can easily lose yourself in the castle. You can spend hours running around in Hogwarts before seeing the rest of the world. I'm still finding areas of the castle I did not know about. The amount of time that they spent crafting this is very obvious. There are dynamic events in many areas of the castle. If you go to the great room early in the morning, you will find students eating their first meal of the day. The game is set sometime before the events of the books, so you won't find the characters that you know, but you will find their ancestors. There's a certain poltergeist which is an exception to this. There are a few subtle winks to the books and movies. One of the thing that this game does very well is have simple yet engaging game play. I find that way too many modern games try to one up each other by increasing the complexity of the gaming loop. Often, that complexity ends up getting in the way of my enjoyment of the game. Hogwarts has a simple and yet elegant game play loops. They went back to the basics and it works really well. My one complaint has got to be the tutorial. I just hate the very specific format that it used to teach you the basics. Don't put me in a loop. If I succeed at beating the initial fight without doing the one thing you wanted me to do, just let it be. It is much more organic to just let me learn and perhaps fail at my own pace. Graphically, it can be a bit demanding. If you are using a higher resolution, you are probably going to end up having to use DLSS. Fortunately, it appears to be working quite well in Hogwarts Legacy. There's no real difference visible, but the frame rate is definitely much better. There's a few settings that I would have expected which are missing, such as the ability to mute sounds while in the game is in the background. I haven't found any option to quickly hide the interface to take a quick screenshot. Otherwise, the settings and options are quite comprehensive.