Harriet Potter - A game changer?

To further demonstrate how people are acting mad over this, Wired gave the game a 1/10 because not enough LGBT people worked on it.

www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/review/hogwarts-legacy-review/amp

I didn't see a score there, I mean it's less of a review and more of their issues with Rowling as they barely mention the game. As it is it's written by someone who's trans and they're fully entitled to their reviews but it still comes across as strange for a publication to ok this as a review because, well it is isn't. Fair enough about the baffling antisemitic tropes, it's amazing that they went down that route of enemies for the game.

They've removed the score, it was absolutely there, screenshots of it floating around Twitter. The part where its criticised that the graphics are a few generations behind seemed unbelievably petty lol

The score is still there in all its 1/10 glory.

What I just read felt like a release of pent-up disillusionment with the franchise and the author but it was not a review of the game.

That said, the game looked like a generous 5/10 from my brief time looking it over.

Well, Empire magazine have given it three stars, which is what it sounds like based on most people talking about it (arguably it's one of those where you could add an extra star if you love the source material - same is probably true of Fallen Order, tbh).

www.empireonline.com/gaming/reviews/hogwarts-legacy/

Interesting that the film magazine hasn't mentioned the brouhaha at all, which it doesn't really do when reviewing the films, either.

I won’t rise to this.

Nothing like a bit of supremacy to really make a point.

This video sums up a lot of my feelings on this whole boycott this game issue. It's only about 4 minutes long.

I've been thinking of how to phrase my main misgiving about it and he spells it out quite well. It's easy. There's no sacrifice involved. And it's mostly to make them feel better about themselves than actually doing something positive.

This might be wrong but I get the impression that most of the people saying they're boycotting had no real intention in the first place to buy it anyway, so what have they actually done? Other than actually raise even more awareness of the game, albeit unintentionally.

I tend to have more sympathy with these sorts of causes when there is a tangible sacrifice being made but here I don't see that. Deleting your twitter account for example, would have more of an impact to the target, and would be more of a sacrifice to many people here. But that might be too inconvenient to some.

I don't mind them so far. It's very different from what I'm used to, but I'm not yet sure if that means I like it or not. It's just... different.

Fair enough. Maybe I'm just giving him leeway because he's probably my favourite living writer. There's just not really anyone who writes a sentence quite like McCarthy, so I'll hopefully be able to savour that even if I think these (probably his last) books are sub par.

Looks like we got ourselves a couple of readers!

Wired in name, wired in nature?

Just started playing this...amazing attention to detail and the whole atmosphere is really nailed. Not a huge Potter fan (but have watched the films) and I can see this being something rather special if you are into the universe. Hogwarts is really well realised - really does feel like a real place. Have walked to Hogsmeade and the outdoor environments are stunning. Still very early days (not even a broomstick yet) but I think this could be a winner for me.