Your character is a student who holds the key to an ancient secret that threatens to tear the wizarding world apart.

To top that all off, you'll have a menagerie where you can keep the various magical creatures you'll run into throughout the course of the game.' Experience Hogwarts in the 1800s. You even have your own House Elf to do your bidding. You'll also have access to the Room of Requirement, where can grow plants for ingredients, brew potions, upgrade gear, and more.

Leveling up lets you upgrade certain abilities, talents, and spells, so you can hone your character to your own playstyle. There will also be in-game challenges you can undertake to gain experience points and, ultimately, level up.

In your downtime, you can explore the school, uncovering secret passageways that contain puzzles for you to solve. Like any talented Hogwarts student, you’ll face the temptation of powerful dark magic and unforgivable curses. The spells you learn won’t necessarily just be the nice kind, either. The range of spells that you learn will allow for choice when it comes to combat styles. To add an extra layer to the social aspect of the story, you'll nurture those connections, with your magical new pals able to teach you abilities and act as companions on quests and adventures.ĭuring school hours, you'll be learning and casting spells and charms, brewing potions, and attending a host of classes so you can graduate alongside your classmates. The new spells and abilities that you learn from your professors and fellow students will be useable in combat and in puzzles through the wider game world. Once you've created your character and selected your house, there'll be classes to catch up on and new friends (including beasts) to make. Hogwarts Legacy is an entirely single-player experience with no online or co-op modes. With that focus on the single-player experience, the game is about crafting your own personal adventure in the wizarding world.

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