1. More customization options

How are you going to tell me that Tony Hawk Underground 1 had more voice options than Hogwarts Legacy did? How come there wasn't any better way to modify the MC's face? Like sliders for cheekbones, for your eye length, eyebrow height, and every other facial feature. Make sliders to make your character shorter, taller, skinnier, fatter, and etcetera. I loved the customization here, in Hogwarts Legacy 1, but it felt a little too simple and barebones. Like Miis from the Nintendo Mii channel were more customizable than this. Outfit customization was fine. I get a reason why facial hair wasn't added, its because we are a fifth year. But aren't fifth years the age where they can hit that growth spurt and start growing at least some peach fuzz?

2. Companions in free roam mode

How come I couldn't take Sebastian out to fight alongside me at Bandit camps? How come you cannot build friendships with certain characters? I wish to see something like Grand Theft Auto 4's system. Like send an owl to your fellow classmates "Hey, want to go hang out?" The more you hang out with your classmate, the more stuff you'll unlock. Perhaps if the glossary of spells in Legacy 2 is much larger, we could unlock certain spells by hanging out with people from different houses. Perhaps we could unlock clothing items and/or abilities by doing this.

3. More challenging gameplay

I 100%-ed this game on hard. Didn't feel too hard. Yeah I died a few handfuls of times. But that don't mean it was hard. I've played more challenging games than this. I want to see an actual hard mode, and perhaps even add a mode that's one step higher, and in this much harder mode, it's a one hit K.O. mode. You gotta be quick with your wand work and careful with what you spend your talent points on. Wiggenweld potions don't exist in this one for the sole purpose of it being a one hit, you're dead mode. Also, would love to see a curfew in place for the Hogwarts castle. Make it so that way at night, if you are seen by a professor, you either lose house points, or you're sent back to your common room. Some kind of punishment.

4. A bigger map

Trust me, this map is pretty big. But I'd have loved to see more urban sprawl towns. More towns that weren't "rural" looking. Give us the option to use Platform 9 3/4 to go more places. I'd love to see more use of the PlayStation 5's/Xbox Series X's power. I feel like just seeing grass and such all the time is just overdone. Would have also loved to see a town atop a big mountain.

5. Please start me off as a first year and let me work my way up to a seventh year.

Self explanatory.

6. More interactive gameplay

• Potions making

I'd love to see a "Cooking Mama" or "Kingdom Hearts III Little Chef" element to brewing potions. Make it so when you go to brew a potion, you first select how many you want to make (so that way you don't go through this one at a time [LOOKING AT YOU ANIMAL CROSSING DIY MECHANIC!]), and then you start the interactive potions brewing. If you fail to follow instructions, your potion comes out with 25% potency, if you fail a couple instructions, your potion will come out with 50% potency, and if you do great, your potion will come out perfect.

• Alohomora

I liked the interactive puzzle for Alohomora, but however, the "Level 1," "Level 2," "Level 3," thing was disappointing. The same ass puzzle with all three locks? I was hoping to see three different puzzles with these three lock types. Can keep one at the spinny lock thing, perhaps with two, we can do something like lifting lock pins up until we see or feel something. * For console, it would be the harder the vibration, the closer you are. For PC, you could make the green and/or red orb goes up or down. Level 3, could be a sort of a maze puzzle where you rotate the maze and the ball has to fall into a certain place.

7. More time in the Hogwarts castle. More quests in the castle, please. Also make the castle feel a little bigger somehow than how big it feels in Legacy. Also, please make it more accurate to how the books and/or movies make it look.

These are just some things I'd hope to see in Hogwarts Legacy 2. What are some things you'd love to see in Hogwarts Legacy 2?

This was a fun game, but I think it could have been MUCH better with some changes. My ideas:

• Continue classes until the end of the year. They’re not just to learn spells. Maybe you have to answer questions during them or do different activities with your classmates. Make them interactive.
• I want to feel more like a student. I want to be able to hang out in my common room and play gobstones with students, I want my dormitory to have people in it I can chat with, I want to be able to eat in the great hall with my classmates. I want to have to do assignments and stuff.
• Mini games and more things to do around the school! Gobstones, chess, duelling club.
• Quidditch! And if you’re not on the team, have some cut scenes of some quidditch games where you’re a spectator. Maybe you have to do some sort of quest while a quidditch match is going on in the background.
• House points system. Answer a question correctly in class, get some points. That sort of thing. Get caught in the corridor at night, you lose points. And it’ll determine who wins the house cup at the end of the year.
• Prefects and professors patrol the corridors after dark in certain areas, and you’ll get detention if you’re caught. Maybe you can even bribe some of the prefects to avoid detention.
• Skills like charisma, wisdom. And your skills impact the choices you can make in the game. For instance, if you’re high in charisma maybe you can talk your way out of losing house points or getting detention when caught after curfew.
• I want to learn a patronus and fight dementors.
• I want to have a quest where I can become an animagus.
• I want way more spells, that are for more things than just combat.
• I want the side quests to be mixed up a little more. They all got so repetitive after awhile, and had the same sort of theme (“rescue my lost animal”).
• I want to be able to talk to random people on the street. I also want my friends to acknowledge me in the hallways instead of walking by like I’m invisible. I want the world to feel more alive!
• I want my actions and choices to matter! If I jinx a student in the hallway, I want to get in trouble and have my reputation go down. Maybe then I hear people talking later about how shitty of a person I am for jinxing that student. Or maybe I get detention, or lose house points!
• Companions. I can become really good friends with a certain student, and they accompany me around. It wouldn’t feel so lonely that way. And if I did things they didn’t agree with, maybe we’d fight and they’d stop accompanying me on quests.
• Rookwood and Harlow were stopped WAY too easily. It needs to be much better thought out. Like a huge quest. Maybe I get kidnapped and have to escape. I could leave my cell using stealth and escape, and then get into the courtyard and get caught by them, and then have to fight my way out. Make it a bigger event!
• I want to have a school pet! An owl, cat, toad. Along with those lines, I would have liked to be able to go to diagon alley to get my supplies. I think it would’ve been fun, meeting professor fig in the leaky cauldron, and he takes me around to get my stuff, and then my wand, and then he teaches me some of the basics from there.
• I want a backstory about my blood status, my parents, my background and life experiences. And I want that to impact my choices and experiences in the game.
• I want an actual explanation as to why I started in fifth year?
• I want holiday themed quests! It’s fall and Halloween season, make there be a spooky quest on Halloween and have me go to the Halloween feast! Maybe something happens at the feast. Same thing with Christmas. Have me waking up Christmas morning, opening a present from my parents, and then doing festive things during the day. Like maybe one of my companions earlier could ask me to accompany them to hogsmeade to help them pick out a Christmas gift for their family member. And maybe they explain a little bit about the family member and then you suggest gift ideas. And then later on you find out if the family member liked the gift you suggested or not. Have me go for butterbeer in the three broomsticks with some friends. Have me help the gamekeeper cut down and haul in the Christmas trees. Maybe I can even help decorate the trees.
• I want the different House experiences to be super different! You get different quests, maybe your companions are different people and their storyline only comes up when you’re in the appropriate house. Maybe your choices, skills, characteristics, and dialogue options are all house dependent! Or the house will give you certain bonuses, like if you’re in Ravenclaw you automatically have an advantage in intelligence, but it can be increased by personal skills, so you could still be a smart gryffindor. Same thing with bravery, or charisma, or cunning.
• I want to spend a lot more time in the actual school. More quests in the school. Stop giving me so many reasons to leave the castle and the grounds when they’re the coolest most interesting parts! The hamlets get repetitive and boring after awhile, I’d be totally happy if you decreased the world size to incorporate more detail and things to do in the castle and on the nearby grounds.
• Actually give us OWL exams at the end of the year! They could even just be cut scenes, especially the written portion, but it’d be cool to go into a room with an examiner and have them ask you to perform certain spells and that sort of thing.

I’m interested to know what you guys want most/how you want to game to be like in the next Hogwarts legacy? I’m not talking overall story, more like what aspects or improvements do you want to see?

For example, I hope the put a bigger emphasis on the student aspect in the next game. Maybe it’s just me, but it didn’t really feel like I was a student at Hogwarts in HL. Don’t get me wrong, I think they did an AMAZING job recreating Hogwarts and filling it with cool puzzles/secrets, but as for it being a school, it seemed a bit empty (classes didn’t mean much, very limited interaction with other students, etc). And I don’t want Bully level school sim, but I felt a bit like they missed an opportunity with the “you’re a student at hogwarts” aspect of the game.

But I think they could have had different clubs to join that had their own missions or mini games (i would play the heck out of a gobstones minigame). Have friendship meters that could play a factor if you do them favors or are rude to them. Or incentivize going to class so you could make the choice yourself if you wanted to play that way or not. Or have your house play a bigger role that actually affects the game and how npcs react to you.

And obviously Quidditch is a must in this next game.

I’m excited to hear what you guys have to say!

It's a well known game so no new revelations. Good time especially if you're a fan of the books or movies. Great job designing the wand combat and integrating herbology. Broom flying is nice af I end up skipping fast travel just to do that.

Hogwarts is well designed and is fun to explore. There are a ton of collectibles to find but subjectively they were easy for me as I spent most of my playtime exploring the world.

Story is a bit meh and the actor face capture is not the best. There are also some trophies which you need to track manually like the one that needs you to hit every type of enemy with the ultimate and one for collectible chests.

Tip: if you're a pottermore/wizarding world user you can connect accounts to migrate your house and wand.

As much as I’ve enjoyed Hogwarts Legacy, I feel like there’s still so much untapped potential in the game. Whether it’s gameplay mechanics, story expansions or just quality of life improvements, I'm curious to hear what you think could take the game to the next level.

What would you love to see added in future updates or maybe even a sequel?

More interactive classes?

Quidditch?

Deeper relationships with other students?

Darker moral choices?

Let me preface this little review with one thing. I enjoy the game, it’s fun, it does a lot right, but it missed the mark on a few things. I’ll break it down in two lists, my praise and gripe lists.

Praises: Letting us choose our houses was a good choice, I’d hate to be shoehorned into one Hogwarts house. The animations are extremely well done and gameplay is pretty fluid. A good interesting diverse cast. And an engaging storyline that didn’t try to copy the books.

Gripes: Customization was pretty barebones, and a lot of the customization is just minor variations of the same outfits. The cast was diverse yet shallow, more intricate character opinions and relations(not romance, but rivalry and friendship) would’ve felt really good in the game. Lack of true rpg function, I feel like the game just teases you with opportunities to become a villain, it would’ve been nice if there was more of a dark arc when you start learning and practicing dark magic. Also I’d have loved a little more in depth wand creator tbh.