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It’s classic crappy Star Wars under Disney. The storyline is also incredibly unoriginal and makes no sense. Take the fact the Empire has such a massive presence near Chandrila. Local New Republic forces near Chandrila would’ve destroyed the Imperial Star Destroyer with ease. Plus they make the characters they made seem far more important then they’d ever be as well as destroy their own storylines. You see this with Grand Admiral Sloane not going to the unknown regions and a certain skilled pilot becoming a general despite not having any tactical skills whatsoever. You’d be better off with Namir from the Star Wars Battlefront book as a general than you would be with Hera Syndulla. It’s just Disney trying to make their characters seem more important. What’s more a single Imperial Star Destroyer even under Grand Admiral Thrawn before his campaigns in 8 ABY wouldn’t have caused the concern to the safety of Project Starhawk that Terisa Kerrill did. The Starhawk itself was too powerful and as stated earlier reinforcements from Chandrila would’ve dealt with any threats to it. Plus some no name Imp pilot reassigned in disgrace randomly becoming a Star Destroyer captain wouldn’t have happened even by the end of the Empires reign. Not to mention that both the Rebel Alliance and the New Republic wouldn’t make Project Starhawk. They’d either use a modified Imperial Star Destroyer or they’d create a tractor beam with a hyperdrive aka a Mon Calamari cruiser that’s been updated. The Mon Calamari are expert ship builders. Note that even after Endor the Imperial Navy was far stronger than the Rebels and an Imperial faction no matter how small wouldn’t be as desperate as Grand Admiral Sloane appeared to be. It’s ridiculous plain and simple. This game was made to make Disney Execs money plain and simple. The PvP part of the game is like the starfighter battles in Battlefront 2 so even that isn’t worth it. A side note is how little Disney delved into politics in this game. You got politics in Battlefront with things like the Imperial Genocide at Vardos but here it’s almost completely lacking minus the whole necessary evils which was just short and shallow. The campaign is essentially Star Wars Rebels in video game form which boxes it in and is part of the reason it’s so bad.

Having played this game I can say that if it weren’t a Harry Potter Game few people would play it. The gameplay is repetitive, the characters shallow, the plot all about how the slaves should want to remain subordinated, and most egregious to me, the way they treat beasts. When it comes to the story, the start was well done particularly with the story choice but by the start of the end, you can see just how half-finished the story was. I did like the last few quests but there’s not a lot of choices you can make and none that result in a significant change in the ending. The relationship quests are interesting in concept but also clearly rushed and like the main story have some retcons that are really annoying and worst of all, while three houses had characters with relationship quests, it seems the one for Ravenclaw was cut despite it having the perfect setup especially in conjunction with the other three. The Merlin Trials are endless and the same old thing, you can’t even enter all the vaults, and the side quests are what you’d expect for a AAA game. The broom trials are cool for all of 5 minutes then get boring and while the challenges are interesting, they get redundant as do the field guide pages. At least they made Professor Black being the least popular Hogwarts Headmaster seem justified with the whole Quidditch thing and his speech at the end of the game that they in my opinion fumbled. I will say, the music is quite good especially the map music, it’s not John Williams but it’s still very pleasant. The world felt so condensed and it frustrated me especially shrinking the Forbidden Forest, that took me out of the immersion. In the books, it seemed vast and mysterious. In the game it seems questionable that centaurs and Acromantulas could actually fit in it. Finally the Beasts. Spoiler: in the game there are poachers trying to kidnap animals so how do you rescue them? By kidnapping them first. I wish I was kidding. Oh and by breeding them in the Room of Requirement. This game got as far as it did on nostalgia fumes. When I first got it, I played through it twice but stopped two months after launch out of boredom. A year later, I decided to pick it up again and after 2 hours apart from doing side quests I hadn’t before, I’m too bored to do the rest. Not worth the money at all.