Brian Shin

I'm still going to give this game a 5 out of 5 because I simply love it, but I will mention things that skeptics would want to consider when buying this game. Some of the cons or things people would get turned off by: FPS drops when you get into certain corners Game is slow in the beginning, but picks up very quickly once you touch the forest area. Spells only work based on its intended use. Most games you can attack allies and they will respond with a "stop that" or "we're on the same team", but if you try to hit them nothing happens and you can only talk/interact with a handful of NPCs. Your stats will increase mostly on items and a lot of the glasses are hideous. Enemies start to get repetitive, it kinda gives me that Spiderman: Miles Morales feel to it. This feeling makes me feel like this is a common template used in games because almost every game has a lack of enemy variety. All these cons actually exist in 99% of games, so it's not like this is out of the ordinary. Basically, this game is a copy and paste of most open world games. The pros: The game is quite relaxing, it's not sweaty like Call of Duty, so you can enjoy many moments to it. There is a variety of spells to learn, so it gives you motivation to actually collect something. You can pick the design of your character and you can choose your gender and how you look. Hogwarts looks exactly what you expect it to be and same with the forest. The side missions are actually not boring. There are bosses in some of them and you actually have a reason to them because this game is mostly exploring. This is probably the best feature because games like Ghost of Tsushima or Horizon, the side quests were just side quests, but the side quests in this game feel bigger than side quests if you get what I mean. Overall, the game is fun, but it's still the same open world template is most games you would play. If you're someone who is tired of open world games you would be tired of this one too. If you are new to it or enjoy the concept, then this is going to be an amazing game for you.