After the mess that was the Goblet of Fire, EA went back to the drawing board and went in a different direction for the game based on the fifth Harry Potter movie. This time around, the focus would be on creating a fully explorable and movie-accurate Hogwarts.

This is the first Harry Potter game that attempts to give you the feeling that you're living through the world of the movie. Gone are the Zelda-inspired dungeons of the early Harry Potter games or the trashy co-op collect-a-thon levels in the fourth. This time around the focus is on walking around the massive castle, talking to students, and completing simple tasks.

As a big Harry Potter fan, I appreciate the attention to detail that went into this one. They went and scanned in the faces of the actors across the series, even down to the bit characters you wouldn't think of. It's little things like when you're running a quest from Colin Creevey (who isn't even in the movie but they brought the actor back anyway), or noticing little details in the castle that are accurate to the movie, where I was pretty impressed.

Unfortunately, it appears all of the focus when into creating the environment and the team forgot to include fun things to actually do in Hogwarts. Pretty quickly in Order of the Phoenix, you get a laundry list of tasks to tackle at your own pace. These are spread all throughout the castle, and often the quest itself will entail running a simple fetch quest from one side to the other. The game as footprints appear in the direction you're meant to go when you choose a quest on the Marauder's Map, but it still feels like most of this game is just running from one side of the castle to the other.

Some of the tasks do prove more interesting, but too much of them feel like filler. Other than working your way through the list, there are a few subpar minigames that Harry can play including Exploding Snap and Gobstones. Gobstones especially has really rough mechanics.

Throughout the castle there are chores to complete with your wand. There was actually some satisfaction to be had in fixing things up, which is intuitive as moving the right stick around in a certain way to cast a spell. The spell-casting system works well in these low stakes environments but when it comes to actual dueling it's a complete mess of spamming with a total lack of strategy. Dueling comes up very little in the game, only at specific story moments, which sounds disappointing but it ultimately works in the game's favor because the system is so broken.

There is no Quidditch or classes in the game and it can't help but feel that the whole experience is lacking some gameplay variety. While the Hogwarts setting is definitely impressive and I'll take it over the ugly series of levels from Goblet of Fire, but this game never quite realizes its full potential. Even so, it's probably the best of the later Harry Potter games and fans will probably get just enough out of it to make the experience worth their time.

The first open-world Hogwarts, eat your damn heart out Legacy! And it actually feels like the movie it was based on! And it even had motion controls for casting spells to boot!

Unfortunately the controls, and particularly the minigame design, do suffer a lot from the limitations of the Wii, and it does start to feel like too much like a collectathon at times. Also, if the movie feels like a watered-down version of the book, the game is kind of in-between the two, with some plot-points from the book that wasn't in the film, but then missing key parts of the movie.

Anyway JK Rowling is a terf and can get fucked. And so can Gobstones and Wizard Chess as well, they're the only reason I didn't master this one.

SE LES OLVIDÓ LA DIVERSIÓN

Tras un mediocre pero entretenido (si jugabas con amigos) Harry Potter y El Cáliz de Fuego que se convirtió en un juego random de acción estilo Señor de los Anillos, llega La Orden del Fénix con la premisa de volvernos a dejar explorar Hogwarts, sin embargo, tenemos un grave problema.

Si recordamos, los 3 primeros juegos de Harry eran aventuras que, si bien no encajaban dentro de los libros o películas, estaban hechas para que el juego fuese divertido. La adición de criaturas mágicas como enemigos, el hecho de que las clases fuesen circuitos de obstáculos o los petardos mágicos.

Pues aquí nos olvidamos de todo eso, todo eso está calcado de la película, lo que significa que solo vamos a estar dando vueltas de un sitio a otro charlando con gente y haciendo alguna estúpida tarea secundaria hecha para conseguir atravesar los retratos o tener buena puntuación en clase ¿Quieres usar magia para luchar? Solo tienes duelos contra estudiantes y los obligatorios de la historia, fin.

Otra cosa ¿A quién se le ocurrió de que ahora los hechizos se hiciesen con movimientos random de joystick? Lo entiendo para la versión de Wii, pero ¿El resto de versiones? ¿Por qué?

Antes de Hogwarts legacy pensar em nascer, existia um jogo de HP que ambientava bem a escola e fez fama na era do PS2 e tenho certeza que muita gente jogou esse aqui e não terminou, assim como ocorreu comigo na época.

Ordem da fênix não é um jogo tão memorável, mas ele é divertido o suficiente pra te dar uma experiência sólida e completa, isso claro considerando que era um jogo de 2007

Seus gráficos são mais ou menos, tendo em conta que ele é da mesma época que Assassin's Creed 1 e God of War II, hoje ele já envelheceu mal e não agrada mais tanto os olhos, porém da pra engolir seco.

E sobre a sua gameplay em geral ela é ok, nada incrível e nada péssimo, na medida, o bom é que ela não envelheceu tão mal assim, e se você for curioso o suficiente da pra explorar alguns cantos de hogwarts assim como fazia no câmara secreta e isso sem dúvidas, me encantou nesse título.

Ele receberia 4 estrelas, porém darei 3 porque esse jogo é complicadissimo de rodar no PC atualmente e tem vários bugs e crashs que vão incomodar, mesmo se você decidir deixar ele... vanilla por assim dizer.

didnt have a memory card for my ps2 growing up so every time id play this itd be from the beginning n lots of memories were made. revisiting this game involved the quest of finding a copy that wasnt corrupted. luckily i was able to find one at my local cex store (over a year of waiting for an alternative to the £30 copy listed on amazon) and the gameplay was just as good as i had remembered it :))) nostalgia always wins. the side quests and collectible missions can be tedious but it means getting to discover all sections of the map.