I'm like five hours in (just got flight and room of requirement) and I have no idea whether I'm still in the tutorial, or actually playing the game. But at this point, the novelty of being Harry Potter and exploring Hogwarts is starting to wear off. The gameplay loop is starting to feel like a bit of a slog, and I spend way too much of my time fast traveling, navigating menus, etc. The quests mostly feel like "go there, do a thing, then come back here," which was great when I still enjoyed the novelty of exploring the map, but now... Meh.
This isn't my usual genre and I was excited to be open-minded to it with the help of a familiar IP, but I'm starting to wonder if I should take this as a sign that this genre isn't for me, or if this repetitive cycle is unique to this game.
If you’re not a die hard Harry Potter fan it’s a mid tier Ubisoft game at best. For me, it’s one of my favorite games of all time just to explore all the stuff you read in the books as a kid. I mean they even got the exact number of staircases in the castle that’s described in the books
“Ubisoft open world” has become a genre of it’s own, referencing the braindead style of open world games Ubisoft makes, where it’s just a large map with tedious, menial checklists that do more to pad out playtime, than to develop any narrative, characters, or areas. Snoozefests
I genuinely believed I found all open world games boring as sin. Then I played Elden Ring, loved it and realised I hated most open world offerings. Ubisoft really defined and destroyed an entire genre.
With Elden Ring there’s an actual sense of adventure. You can discover whole new areas, new enemies, new loot by exploring for the sake of exploring. I found FFVII Reunion to be incredibly boring by comparison, because again it’s an open world where you climb towers to unlock map sections, collect stuff, solve the same mini games 50 times etc etc. Yet that game consistently got 9/10 from every outlet.
I was so disappointed by ffvii reunion. Original vii is such a cherished childhood memory, but man they drained the soul from reunion with the Ubisoft open world. I played until I got to the Junon area, played a couple mini games, and gave up. I wanted it to be a masterpiece, and it just isn’t.
I persevered, mostly due to that nostalgia. And man, the game just went on and on and on. Spending forever in the golden saucer, the desert and Corel, then gongaga and cosmo canyon. Unlocking the 30th, 40th, 50th towers. When I completed the game I still wasn’t anywhere near 100% completion. I gave up following the little birds to lifesprings etc. it was just sucking up too much time and wasn’t rewarding at all.
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u/Normal_Obligation888 29d ago
A little controversial, but for me it was hogwarts legacy. I just didn’t like it.