I'm still having fun turning enemies into exploding barrels and throwing them at cursed enemies stuck floating in the air.
Running around outside of hogwarts and through the forest has been the most fun part of the game. I know it isn’t likely the best or most in depth rpg ever. But I enjoy that is approachable for my wife. And I like using online guides to complete games like this.
that’s how I viewed it but I just didn’t like that the side quests felt like they were in a vacuum and had no influence on the main plot
I beat the main story and don't plan on platinuming (I platinum 50+% of the games I play). It's too time consuming and annoying to go around trying to find all the hidden books. I did amost all the Merlins because I did them as I discovered them, but those were a drag.
Finding everything wasn’t bad at all actually. I just now realized you have to play the first couple hours of the game 4 times to platinum. (Reach map room with each house)
There were only a few of the hidden scrolls or whatever and one key butterfly to find and I kept getting lost. I guess I could have used a guide, but was too bored with the game to attpemt to platinum. The 3 playthroughs also made me not likely to platinum. I'm not going to waste 3-9 hours just because I'm a weirdo that likes to 100%. Maybe I'm growing as a person
Yeah, the secret to finding it all is zoom all the way out on map and it shows you what areas you’re missing things. Pretty easy from there. But I don’t feel the need to waste 6 hours on three more partial playthroughs for a platinum.
Yes but that’s not the trophy, you have to then play all the way to the “Map room” which is a couple hours more.
Finally finished the storyline and cleaning up the last few of the relationship quests, I'm 43 hours in now I think. Huge Potter fan, have probably read the books and watched all the moves 6 or 7 times each over the years, so this was my most anticipated game of all time. Story was fine, side quest stories were fine too (if you have a PlayStation and didn't play the Haunted Hogsmeade mission you need to go back and do it, best one of them all), but unlike in most games I wasn't really here for the story. I thought the combat was above average throughout. To me the star of the show was the world and the attention to detail and just how much there was to see and do. The castle was incredible, and the surrounding world was just as good. There's so much to explore and find randomly, I loved just flying around and looking down, not at the map unless I was searching for something particular. I was just flying around randomly last night and stumbled on an ancient magic spot, a hedge maze, and an old house that had two famous foes in there. So yes it can be a checkbox, go to the next spot on the map, ho-hum thing but it can also be just as exploratory and discoverable as something like Elden Ring (so I'm told, haven't played ER yet myself) if you choose to do it that way. I am in shock that Avalanche was able to pull this off as well as they did, so good and so much better than I had even dared to hope for.
Anyone have any idea why I have now purchased and exchanged for a second copy and both brand new discs won’t work?
It wouldn’t let me use the last name so I had to go with Dingus Dingleberry Edit: won’t let me do that one either
So I started a Hufflepuff playthrough so I could do the Azkaban mission and I can't get the mission to show up. All the walkthroughs say to play until you get to the part where you save the lady from the Ashwinders by the lake, where you do the first Merlin trial, then you're supposed to get an owl about the portrait wanting to talk to you in the common room. I do the mission but never get the owl and when I go to the common room you can't talk to the portrait. Anyone else have this problem?