Harriet Potter - A game changer?

I think the easiest thing to do is to just wait until Rowling has been dead a hundred or so years and play the games or whatever then. Some people just have no patience

The verbatim quotes online aren't that unequivocal, they say he still isn't really an actor but will undoubtedly produce/direct.

Also, Radcliffe has very clearly demonstrated he can act. I'm quite looking forward to the Weird Al film.

technoish the Weird Al film is a hoot. Well worth a watch.

Not saying he was particularly good in it acting-wise, but Guns Akimbo is a hoot

She denies it but her choosing the name Robert Galbraith when the conversion therapist chap was Robert Galbraith Heath is a pretty massive coincidence.

You would think someone who is known for being quite clever would Google a name before adopting it but no. So it's just a massive unfortunate coincidence.

The best coincidences. The greatest.

Devs hate this 1 trick.

So is the game any good? Think I might buy it this week.

I think the kids were pretty good, although maybe that's due to being around them for so long. I can't imagine Ron, Hermione, Harry, Malfoy, Neville etc... as anyone else.

While the books (and movies) are flawed in places, and hardly the best fantasy fiction ever, they do a great job of absorbing you in the world, and it's a world that's a fantastical escape that you'd want to be part of. (Hence the number of kids wanting to go to boarding school skyrocketing after the books)
(even if the entire thing is a big rip-off of The Worst Witch)

I think that, combined with the regular releases of books and movies over a period of about 15 years, meant that a lot of people grew up with those characters and felt a stronger attachment than they might do with characters and worlds from other fiction.
I wasn't a kid when I started reading them, but I must admit to feeling kind of sad after the last movie finished, having just spent 15 years with those characters and watching them grow up from little kids to basically adults.

Combine that with several of the characters and the author herself being held up as inspiring examples of things like feminism and you can see why the author and the characters would mean a lot to people.
(again, I have issues with Hermione's portrayal, and clearly the books aren't as progressive as they were felt to be at the time, but that's how many people felt)

As such, I think JKR's fall to the dark side has hit a lot of those people harder than if it had been just some random author of one good book, or some random game developer/actor/director.

I think the actors get that, hence them distancing themselves from JKR's views pretty quickly.

It is very twee, public schoolboy/girl chit chat. If you can stomach that, there is a lot to like about the game. About 16 hours in now and its still very interesting, unlocking some more spells and crafts. A very solid game from a fairly unknown studio.

It's great. The world is what elevates it though. Top-tier stuff.

I literally skip every line of dialogue because I can't bare any of the characters, writing, or acting. Which isn't ideal. 15 hours in it's a solid 8/10, but I'm at the point where I'll probably just focus on the story once I've explored the map a bit more.

As others have said, if you happen to be into the Wizarding World it's probably a 9 or 10!

My plan to have the girlfriend's new living room fully decorated and the TV on the wall in time for Valentines Day so she could play Hogwarts Legacy on her surprise new Xbox has hit a snag, in that the job was too massive to get done in time, but we'd decided since we were both so work busy we'd do Valentines on the 15th instead, so I switched to my back up plan.

Her TV was being safely stored in the spare bedroom on top of a desk, so I am setting it up in there for her temporarily so she can play tonight when she gets in from work.

To that end, I just managed to get a 2 seater sofa out of 1 room, round an awkward banister, up the stairs and round another tight corner single handedly. I am a golden god.

The TV remote apparently got lost in the move, so I need to grab a universal one from Currys before she gets home.

All this so she can play a game before July. She'd better enjoy the bloody thing now.

"Happy Valentines Day!! Now piss off and spend the evening in another room."