Highlights
- Hogwarts Legacy offers a detailed Hogwarts experience with intricate design and countless secrets to uncover.
- The game could improve by exploring other wizarding schools like Beauxbatons and Durmstrang.
- Hogwarts Legacy 2 has the potential to include deeper wand customization and inspiration from the Triwizard Tournament.
Hogwarts Legacy does very well for what it is, providing players with the chance of a lifetime to experience the most famous school in the Harry Potter universe, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The castle is undoubtedly one of the game’s best features, and rightly so, considering it’s the game’s namesake. With its intricate design and decorated hallways, it is highly satisfying to explore, complete with plenty of secrets for players to uncover and countless collectibles for them to find. However, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter is expansive and includes schools other than Hogwarts that Hogwarts Legacy fails to explore. This is one area where Hogwarts Legacy 2 could improve the franchise, and it could pull inspiration from one of the books from the Harry Potter series.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the fourth book in the Harry Potter series and marks a major turning point for it as well, as Voldemort is resurrected and the beloved Cedric Diggory is killed by Peter Pettigrew on his order. The end of Goblet of Fire certainly sets the Harry Potter series on a much darker path than before, but the story leading up to it introduces several other wizarding schools as they come together to compete in the Triwizard Tournament. It is here that Hogwarts Legacy 2 could find inspiration and follow suit.
Hogwarts Legacy 2 Has The Perfect Blueprint to Improve Wands
Hogwarts Legacy 2 should lean more heavily into role-playing elements when it comes to its wands, allowing much deeper customization than before.
Hogwarts Legacy 2 Should Include Goblet of Fire’s Triwizard Tournament Schools
Goblet of Fire Introduced the Beauxbatons Academy of Magic and the Durmstrang Institute
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a standout entry in the series thanks to the Triwizard Tournament, a magical contest that first began as nothing more than a friendly competition but eventually became the preferred method for connecting witches and wizards of different nationalities. In the Triwizard Tournament, the three largest wizarding schools of Europe — Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the Beauxbatons Academy of Magic, and the Durmstrang Institute — would all choose a champion to represent them, each of whom would compete in a series of tasks designed to test their magical prowess, bravery, and intelligence. The winner would then receive the Triwizard Cup and a sum of money as a reward.
Hogwarts Legacy 2 Should Find a Way to Bring in the Beauxbatons Academy of Magic and the Durmstrang Institute
It would fill Hogwarts Legacy 2‘s world a bit more if it were to bring the Beauxbatons Academy of Magic and the Durmstrang Institute into the picture. Obviously, Hogwarts Legacy 2 has made its bed at this point as a franchise and has no choice but to be set at Hogwarts, so players wouldn’t be able to create characters from other schools. Still, the other two schools featured in Goblet of Fire could be included in the sequel in some way, but the question is how.
Unfortunately, according to Harry Potter lore, the Triwizard Tournament was canceled before the period Hogwarts Legacy is set in, although it was revived in 1994, so including that event as a way to feature the other schools would be out of the question. However, perhaps Hogwarts Legacy 2 could feature another event of some kind that would bring the three schools together. At the very least, it would be worth it to see the other schools and flesh out the lore of Hogwarts Legacy a little more.
It’s unclear whether Hogwarts Legacy 2 will somehow feature other schools, but it is also unclear whether Hogwarts Legacy 2 is indeed in development. Plenty of rumors, leaks, and job listings do all but confirm Hogwarts Legacy 2 is happening, but the hope is that Avalanche will find a way to include the other schools that make the magical world of Harry Potter as expansive as it is.
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Legacy
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- Franchise
- Harry Potter
- Released
- February 10, 2023
- ESRB
- T For Teen Due To Blood, Fantasy Violence, Mild Language, Use of Alcohol
- How Long To Beat
- 26 Hours
- Metascore
- 84
- PS Plus Availability
- N/A
