• Kingofthezyx@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    My wife, whose entire history with video games is Sims 3, Animal Crossing: NH, and Pokémon Go, played through this game start to finish and loved it. It wasn’t really made for “gamers”, it was made for Harry Potter fans that wanted to play a Hogwarts game. It didn’t succeed as a gaming revolution, it succeeded in bringing non-gamers to buy it.

    Personally, I love that she got into it whether it’s mid or not, because it introduced her to a lot of the mechanics necessary to play “real” games in the future. And she had a lot of fun.

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      5 months ago

      I’m both a gamer and HP fan.

      I thought the game was great, and I didn’t really realize the depths of people’s distaste for it, I guess.

      Was it crazy revolutionary? No, but it was fun.

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        5 months ago

        Fellow HP fan, I was kinda weirded out by the whole “free access to unforgivable curses” and “canonically killing people” and the honestly kinda disheartening stance on goblin personhood but man flying around the grounds is so fun

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      5 months ago

      the last video game my mom played before hogwarts legacy was like…pac man in the arcades. it was amazing to share our progress together and bond