![]() ![]() ![]() Here is our explainer on the Hogwarts Legacy controversy. Rowling's public stance on gender identity, which continues to challenge the inclusivity at the heart of the Harry Potter community. The release of Hogwarts Legacy has been the subject of criticism and debate due to J.K. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to kidnap and breed some Thestrals, because apparently poaching is only bad when other people do it. Like it or not, you'll need to sit those exams anyway. If you're worried that using dark magic will affect your outcome, don't be. You can torture, manipulate, and murder as many enemies as you like, and the most you will get is a concerned comment from a nearby classmate. By providing no consequences for your actions, unforgivable curses are now merely curses. You can't get a different ending by declaring that you want to steal tempestuous magic and use it for yourself. But you don't get locked up for using banned spells. The capacity to misuse your magic has always been on the cards for any sorcerer, with the threat of a stay in Azkaban ever looming as a warning to stay on the straight and narrow. It's a role-playing game, but you're typecast into the role of being a good guy with zero opportunity to sway the moral compass. The world is beautiful to explore, and the painstaking architectural design of the castle and its surroundings means I will return to the game again and again, but by denying us a bad ending I feel the game entirely misses one of the core aspects of being a witch or wizard. ![]() ![]() If there's one thing I think Hogwarts Legacy majorly missed out on, then – more so than Quidditch or mermaids or Wizard's Chess – it's the option of getting a bad ending as comeuppance for your wrongdoings. I'm not being dramatic when I tell you that I did everything evil under the sun to ensure that my dark reign of terror would dawn over Hogwarts. ![]()
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