GameSpot gave the console versions an 8/10, complimenting the "large amount of secrets and charm", and disagreed with the Nintendo Magazine, saying it was both "easily the best Harry Potter game to date", and "one of the finest Lego adventures to date". To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The game featured similar components to those of other freemium games, such as wait timers, and microtransactions. Duelling is probably the most common of the 3 games and can be difficult against bosses so early in the game and time consuming as lots of people try to challenge you.

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, also released in 2018, received media backlash for its use of microtransactions, despite the game being free to play.Together they work to find the key to unlock Voldemort’s defences’ and, to this end, Dumbledore recruits his old friend and colleague, the well-connected and unsuspecting bon vivant Professor Horace Slughorn, whom he believes holds crucial information. The wizarding world continues to expand with the sequel to Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them due out this November. Despite the game being created differently for different systems, the game was rated higher on consoles across the board against every other entry in the series. LEGO® Harry Potter™ Years 1-4 combines two of the most beloved franchises to deliver a magical, fun-filled adventure. Later entries in the series received increasingly lower scores on Metacritic, as critics rated Deathly Hallows – Part 1 being the poorest reviewed.

What this means in practical terms is that you’ve got almost the whole of Hogwarts school to explore from the off, with different missions of varying degrees of importance available from different locations. However one of the collectible 'red bricks', found in the courtyard next to Herbology, gets the player an 'extra' that makes the ghost studs worth 1,000 each.Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery game now available on iPhone and iPad, but it's an obnoxious free-to-play game". A remastered version of the game was released for the PlayStation 4 on 18 October 2016 in North America and in Europe on 21 October as part of the Lego Harry Potter Collection in which the game was bundled with its sequel, Lego Harry Potter: Years 5–7. The DS version uses touchscreen controls to perform spells, and is a downscaled port of the PSP version.

The first console release of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was developed by Argonaut Games and released in 2001.

There are so many actions that require you to press the A button that, with Hermione and Ron always being in your face, your 'should be easy' task of levitating a pumpkin to smash it against a wall, is constantly interrupted by Hermione's whiny voice screeching about how you should really go and see Professor Flitwick and complete that Charms essay. What drew me to this Happy Potter game the most was the fact that you could explore the whole grounds.

if you exercise some patience in this area you can clear it out and proceed with the rest of the game. The first retail release of a Harry Potter game outside of the film adaptations was for the Lego Creator, released in 2001 as Lego Creator: Harry Potter and the sequel, [22] Creator: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, released in 2002. This release was the first in the series to include motion capture from actors in the film series, including Rupert Grint and Evanna Lynch. Gran parte del juego te lo pasas escuchando las conversaciones que tienen los personajes (sin poder interactuar) o caminando para ir a los lugares. with a figure like harry potter you expect there to be more action, he doesnt even have a heath gage.In 2005, World of Harry Potter was released for PC, containing all of the first three novel games, and the Quiddich World Cup game. You now control only Harry, with Hermione or Ron reduced to supporting roles, although there are some short sections where you can play as Fred and George Weasley instead.