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Hogwarts Legacy<\/p>\n

<\/fbs-accordion>Hogwarts Legacy<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hogwarts Legacy reviews will be live tomorrow <\/a>across outlets that got codes, which is four days before release on Friday the 10th, but just one day before early access, where the Deluxe\/Collector\u2019s Editions will let everyone play on Tuesday. So it\u2019s essentially a day-before launch embargo. Could be fine, but it\u2019s not\u2026ideal.<\/p>\n

The central question of any batch of reviews dropping for a game is of course \u201cis it good?\u201d but in Hogwarts Legacy\u2019s case, it feels like this has a few extra considerations. First, this at least looks<\/em> like a Harry Potter dream game, so it\u2019s not really about just being passable, it\u2019s about whether it can live up to the highest fantasies of fans and really be that perfect HP game they\u2019ve waited two decades for.<\/p>\n

One thing I\u2019ve always found a bit strange with this entire process is who is making the game. Hogwarts Legacy has been developed by Avalanche Software, which is a 30 year old gaming company, but in all this time has never seemed to develop a game anywhere close to this scale.<\/p>\n

Avalanche\u2019s entire past decade of work has been making licensed Disney games. Three Disney Infinity games, and also Bolt, Toy Story 3 and Cars 2 games for PS3 and Xbox 360. Their last game was in 2017, and it was \u201cCar 3: Driven to Win.\u201d The PS4 version has a 72 on Metacritic, which I guess might be good…for a licensed Cars video game?<\/p>\n

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Cars 3<\/p>\n
<\/fbs-accordion>Avalanche<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
But this<\/em> is the central question of Hogwarts Legacy. How does a studio go from making Disney Infinity and Cars 3 to a sprawling, blockbusters, mega-game like Hogwarts Legacy? Not to say studios cannot grow and evolve in their scope, and it\u2019s possible this ends up being a brilliant success story for them. But you know, even with something like say, Diablo 4, another game I\u2019d argue looks almost too good to be true, even with all Blizzard\u2019s problems, it\u2019s still\u2026Blizzard, the company that many Diablos 1-3 and a bunch of other huge things. Here, there\u2019s a lengthy resume for Avalanche, but with games that are simply nothing at all like the proposed scope and scale of Hogwarts Legacy.<\/p>\n
So far, most early preview coverage of the game has been pretty positive. Recently, leaked clips of gameplay have been circulating that have been mocked by some as a bit too rote and generic. But we will have a better picture tomorrow when full reviews drop. And then of course, when the game goes live.<\/p>\n
Hogwarts Legacy has already sold more than enough copies ahead of release to be a blockbuster hit. But whether it lives up to expectations is another matter entirely. More on this tomorrow.<\/p>\n
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