Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery

[ganimede]

I was very much looking forward to Hogwarts Mystery, the new Harry Potter mobile game and I downloaded it as soon as I got the notification that it was available. I've got a little way into it now and I have to say, it's not exactly what I was expecting. There was a big deal made over the fact that they had got the actors from the films to

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[rogueslayer452]

I find it so confusing as to why there hasn't been an RPG/interactive game of Harry Potter that is truly worthwhile yet. You'd think that it wouldn't be this hard to basically create an entire RPG based around the Wizarding World, and yet here we are being disappointed once again. I mean, I guess if you have a kid or something this will seem decent enough, but for hardcore Potter fans this will undoubted be boring, repetitive, and honestly unimaginative that does nothing to introduce something new or interesting to expand the world itself (Slytherins being mean just because they're Slytherins, why, groundbreaking material there. -_-)

I remember when Pottermore was being announced and everyone thought it was going to be similar to an RPG, a way of interacting with other fans, and exploration of the world through digital means, and that excitement died fast because that was the exact opposed of what it turned out to be. And now this recent disappointment. Not that I was expecting anything from it because I had only heard about this thing the other day, but still.

[ganimede]

Pottermore was quite disappointing, I think a lot of fans were expecting it to be more of an actual way of attending Hogwarts than just progressing through the books. I don't think it helped that the site had to be suitable for younger fans but there were a lot of older people on it too. The interaction was limited, the chat feature in the common rooms was incredibly difficult to use and the fact that you couldn't put numbers in it was ridiculous. I don't think there will ever be a game that pleases everyone mainly because the age range that they have to cover is so vast and at the end of the day, it's aimed at children, not older people.