A very, very nostalgic game for me... but even as a kid, I felt this was half-baked. Don't get me wrong, I loved it so very much, and I still feel a lot of that love (even this rating's probably generous), but you can tell they didn't quite stick the landing. Bugs are very easy to reproduce, the game's pacing is very lopsided (though, on revisit, that's actually pretty in-line with the book), world and level design feels very restricted, things like the bean checks and the missable Wizard Cards feel like they should belong in an open world game rather than a strictly linear game, this isn't the game with PS1 Hagrid but the graphics aren't that far off, etc etc etc.

But the game does nail a lot of the appeal that comes from exploring a setting like Hogwarts, ever-changing and full of secrets. This would be much stronger in later games, but there's hints of the potential here. Also, Snape's pretty well-used here; there's Fred and George's prank at the end, of course, but I was charmed by his Potions Class overall on this playthrough.