
The new spells and abilities that you learn from your professors and fellow students will be useable in combat and in puzzles through the wider game world. To add an extra layer to the social aspect of the story, you'll nurture those connections, with your magical new pals able to teach you abilities and act as companions on quests and adventures.ĭuring school hours, you'll be learning and casting spells and charms, brewing potions, and attending a host of classes so you can graduate alongside your classmates. Once you've created your character and selected your house, there'll be classes to catch up on and new friends to make. It's no surprise, then, that you'll create your own character in a character creator that seems to allow for a fair bit of customization, based what we were shown in the Hogwarts Legacy gameplay reveal.Īccording to a report from Bloomberg (opens in new tab), the character creator for the game will be trans-inclusive, with the report stating that sources “familiar with the game’s development” have revealed that the game will allow players to customize their character’s body type, voice and gender placement for school dormitories. With that focus on the single-player experience, the game appears to be all about crafting your own personal adventure in the wizarding world. Hogwarts Legacy gameplayĪs confirmed in an official FAQ (opens in new tab) for Hogwarts Legacy is an entirely single-player experience with no online or co-op modes. Once Ranrok gets what he wants, no one will be able to stop him and the wizarding world will be doomed. His worldview is skewed by his hatred of wizards, which makes his alliance with Victor Rookwood particularly tenuous. Your character apparently has “ties to an ancient magic” which will “put you on a collision course with a goblin rebellion led by Ranrok, aided by his alliance with the Dark wizard Victor Rookwood, who both present formidable threats to the entire wizarding world.”Īccording to the post, Ranrok “has seen a glimmer of a magic that wizardkind tried to hide – even from themselves – and he wants that power in particular. There's an original main story that runs through Hogwarts Legacy, just in case you were worried that the game would let you loose in the school with absolutely no adventure whatsoever.Īccording to a post on the PlayStation Blog (opens in new tab), you will start at Hogwarts in your fifth year, coming to the school after surviving some kind of mysterious incident. The developer says it's aiming to "chart new territory by creating fresh ways for fans to immerse themselves in the wizarding world".
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Taking you to the wizarding world of the 1800s, Hogwarts Legacy is creating some distance between itself and the familiarity of the books and films but fans of the Harry Potter series have been assured that the game will be "firmly rooted in the Harry Potter universe".

Hogwarts Legacy is an RPG set in an immersive, open-world. Watch your step – not everyone who enters is able to escape the darkness,” the blurb states: Uncover what lies beneath this haunted shop during a PlayStation exclusive quest. “Madam Mason has a Hogsmeade shop to sell – but there’s a catch.

However, the start of 2021 saw an official delay to 2022, as publisher Portkey Games confirmed more time was needed to get the game in tip-top shape. In August 2022 this was pushed a little further forward to the current release date with the developer stating on Twitter (opens in new tab) that it needs "a little more time to deliver the best possible game experience." Hogwarts Legacy trailersĭuring Sony's September 2022 State of Play conference, we got our first look at the PlayStation exclusive quest, The Haunted Hogsmeade Shop. When Hogwarts Legacy first leaked, Bloomberg reported that it would come to next-gen consoles in 2021.

While a Nintendo Switch version is coming, too, Warner Bros.
