It was good. Not without flaws, primarily the underdeveloped dungeons and a terribly designed and unrewarding loot system, along with other redundant systems it feels like they threw in just 'because'. Like solving an ancient wizards long lost magical door lock puzzle in a hidden underwater cave and finding....a common green or brown shade school jumper in his locked treasure chest...is erm crap. It needed far more unique and interesting loot.
All the repeated open world 'things to do' there was about 50% too many, hell you would actually unlock the reward for completing them when you were only half way through the total available for some with the quest giver going 'yey, well done, here's a reward, there's still tons more out there, but for some reason I don't give a fuck about those ones'. The world lacked some variety too. All those critiques aside it was a solid game, and a great Harry Potter universe game.
As for owning the libs, it was always a dumb premise, hell its probably the most representative and diverse game ive played, and certainly is the most representative among AAA games. It has trans characters, gay characters, you can be a non binary wizard if you want to be, and it has representation from every ethnicity you can think of, and trans/gay actors... Really the LGBT community should have been shouting from the rooftops about how an amazing an example it was and how great it was for the community, and for how positive it would be for young gamers struggling with their identity, and being able to see themselves represented in such a major property...instead they tried to cancel it and everyone who dared to play it or work on it. Freaking bizarre situation. The fact they went so hard on actively trying/demanding that countless millions of people should feel bad about something they love (including my wife who had people on her socials saying if anyone they knew played it, they are a disgrace and are no longer their friend and should unfriend them) is so fucked up, given that is exactly what their community is supposed to be against and has campaign on (and rightly so) for decades. I'm genuinely of the opinion the campaign against the game has likely done some lasting damage to the LGBT community as it will have alienated a huge number of people who will now as a result will be more receptive to right wing messaging (in a coming election year where gender politics is a big factor).
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