LEGO® Harry Potter™ Collection

[code]Casual playthrough ~20 hours Played both on a Steamdeck and with mouse and keyboard [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45534557/]@MatureContent[/url][/code] I think the first thing everyone should know before buying this game is that this isn't as much of a total remake as e.g. the Skywalker Saga, but more like a rerelease of the classic games bundled into one launcher with achievements. So, playing this is very much the classic Lego game experience and not nearly as beautiful and polished as the Skywalker Saga and Legacy of the Dark Knight. When launching this game, you will first be greeted by a launch window where you can choose either one of the two Lego Harry Potter games. Year 1-4 and Year 5-7. These two games are not combined or merged in any way whatsoever with no save data moving over between them, so you can pretty much start with whichever game you want. I played them chronologically. [h3]Year 1-4:[/h3] The first game covers the first four movies in chronological order with most of the unimportant scenes cut out, leaving only the highlights. This game is from 2010 and since it has been mostly left alone in this rerelease, it shows its age and in more than just the visuals. This game is from the mute era of Lego games, so unless you already know the story, it will be hard to follow along with what is actually happening. The things you are tasked to do are also all simple and very repetitive with most of the interactable objects and puzzle games being reused in almost every area of the game. The only levels that felt somewhat unique were the few chase sequences and every final level of each movie which was usually some kind of a boss fight. Hogwarts serves as the free roam area and is pretty much indistinguishable throughout all of the first four movies. You can spend quite a bit of time in the free roam itself if your goal is to 100% the game, but mine wasn't, so I mostly just stuck to completing the main missions and followed the guiding ghost around the map to find out where to go. You also have access to a small collection of spells in the game which are unlocked gradually as you get further into the game. The spells are mostly just for breaking, building and moving bricks around and you will need to have unlocked them all to freely traverse all of Hogwarts. Beside the old repetitive and slightly generic gameplay you get with these older titles, I quite enjoyed my time with this first game and the only thing I found slightly annoying was the mandrakes in the second movie, that while of course important to the story, played too big a role in the actual gameplay. Having to constantly find a wardrobe to get ear protection instead of just making it an ability, made the second movie a bit of a drag to get through, but thankfully they were mostly gone by the third movie. The first game took around 11 hours to complete. [h3]Year 5-7:[/h3] The quality definitely improved in the later game, even with there only being around a year in between them. The last three movies look better visually and the missions offered more variance, that said, it was still very much the old Lego game experience with the mute characters and the still very simple level design. In this final game, you spend less time on Hogwarts and more time in missions and running around other locations like Hogsmeade and the Campsite. Hogwarts is still the biggest free roam area though and is pretty much the same as it was in the first game. The only difference is a few new areas and some new mini puzzles to complete to find hidden bricks and such. The missions, gameplay and storytelling has still improved though and I especially liked how you forget some of the spells you learned in the first 4 years when you arrive at Hogwarts again in the new game. The first year of the second game follows the fifth movie and this is where Dolores Umbridge takes over Hogwarts and switches out wand practice with book reading. It was just a good and natural way for the developers to take away all the spells you already knew and allow you to learn new ones throughout the story. The last two movies were also good and definitely better than any of the movies in the first game, though I had hoped for more from the Half-Blood Prince, since it is my favorite of the movies. The sixth movie just didn't do a good enough job at resembling all the movie scenes well enough, especially the flashback memory scenes with Snape and the Cave where they go looking for the Horcrux were kinda bad. The last movie while fun to play, unfortunately seemed to crash a lot. My game crashed two or three times in the 3 hours it took me to complete it and every time I lost like 20 minutes of gameplay, that kinda sucked. The second game took me around 9 hours to complete. [h3]Other issues:[/h3] While I didn't find that many other issues, there were still some that I feel like addressing. This game is listed as supporting Steam cloud, but my save did not carry over to my SteamDeck from my PC when I tried, so I don't know if Steam cloud actually works with this game or if it's just mine that is broken. Another issue I had was that the game would sometimes continuously get stuck in split screen mode. I had this issue in multiple different play sessions where I would constantly go into the menu to "drop out", but 10 seconds later, it would go back into co-op play again and then it would do this weird thing where I would control two different characters at the same time. [h3]Achievement Hunting:[/h3] This is apparently a horrible game for achievement hunting, as it is buggy and has a chance at locking you out of completing certain achievements. This is something that is quite common in older Lego games, so if you get this game with the intention to 100% it, be aware that it might not be possible. [h3]Conclusion:[/h3] I got this game on sale on the Steam store for 5,99 euro and at that price I can definitely recommend it, even if they are older games. I however, would never recommend paying the full asking price, as they have done the bare minimum with this rerelease. ————————————————————————————— [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45534557/]Help me out by following my Curator, I’d really appreciate it!![/url]

First off, let me start by stating that I have NEVER played a Lego game prior to picking this game up. In a million years, I would never have imagined that I would love this game, and LEGO games, so much! I bought this as part of a sale, and being a big Harry Potter fan, I figured it was a no-brainer to jump on this game quickly. From the very beginning of the game I was absolutely hooked on the style and feel of the game. It was smooth and worked well with my style. I played this mostly on my Steam Deck which makes this 10x better! I was so invested and addicted that I 100% this collection. Put about 58 hours into it and it is completely worth it! I have now purchased additional LEGO games.

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Seems like a good lego game, but in about 1 hour I experienced two crashes and a bug that completely bricked my save file. Unless you're running on older hardware I'd stay away from this game.

Ficou muito bonito esse remaster, você tem os dois jogos em um só e resolveram um bug que tinha no primeiro jogo onde uma fase travava, fazendo o jogo fechar sozinho. Porém não vale o preço, recomendo apenas se estiver na promoção.

masa błędów, zbugowane osiągnięcia, kontrowersyjny remaster tekstur, ale nostalgia niesamowita

Fun game if you like lego games, but it's a very lazy remaster. Still I can't bring myself to dislike it. The game is fine, the main issue I have is that despite it being a remaster of the old game the issues plaguing the original are still here. For example spell rotation, if you buy a lot of spells that take the same slot, going through all of them is a unintuitive chore. Buying character is also very badly designed, especially in years 1-4, it's an one direction scrollable UI with 200 elements and zero filtering options. I highly discourage you from using it unless you NEED the character's skill set or you've finished collecting all of them. In years 5-7 menu is a bit better but still not ideal. Also the "single player only" text in achievements is an artifact of old times, it will work here just fine. Then why won't they remove that text? For me it's nothing but lazy. The gameplay is okay, just turn off your brain and go with the flow. Most levels feel the same gameplay wise, go forward, destroy few items, create few new items of destroyed bricks, go to the next part. But well it's a typical lego game so don't expect super engaging gameplay if you are playing casually. The story is.. well it's here but if you somehow want to play this game without watching the movies, then just don't do it. There's no dialogue, just mumbling, most of scenes are really fast paced and you won't understand a thing. Even I who watched all the movies was confused at times. I understand that the target audience was mainly kids but that doesn't mean it needs to be shallow. A lot of movies and games have a deep story despite being kid family friendly. There's a lot of content in this game, it took us over 40 hours to finish all achievements and it was fun. Getting red bricks allow you to buy "cheat codes" that help with finding collectibles that were almost impossible to find on your own. There were few hiccups on the way but nothing game breaking, usually involving player 1/2 issues. Only if player 1 performed an action it was counted towards achievements. One thing that annoyed us the most was weird one time bug that made our companion's AI broken, he would just go towards one place and don't give a f. It wouldn't be an issue, but he was going into loading zone and moving us to another location. So one of us had to block his path, try to move him into some safe place and only then we could continue with the level. Overall despite it's flaws, if you like lego games, or just want a chill game to play, go for it! But if you are looking for more engaging gameplay or story there's high chance you will find this game boring.

Note: GET THE COLLECTION ON SALE! for around 9 bucks, this isn't a bad collection if you dont own one or both of the games. If you already have both, from what i've experienced the port of 5-7 here is less prone to crashes and major issues compared to the first steam release (there's still small audio pops, but beyond that it's good.) Now, the review! 1-4 slightly edges out as the better lego game here, even though 5-7 does a lot of QOL changes that streamlines the experience, and 1-4 has a lot more filler content inside. This could be my bias, but 5-7 feels more like a slog to experience and finish than 1-4, even when i spent 2 less hours in it compared to the original. My guess is either the feeling of the game is off, or my experience was soured by playing both back to back at once. Not sure. Regardless of which title you play, what you have here is genuinely one of the best lego experiences TT has offered pre skywalker saga (the game where lego games started trying to be bloated AAA slop) you will ever play. It combines story levels with unique hub world segments in a way we wouldn't get much of other than straight up open worlds, and i really love this style. some may call it linear, but honestly it keeps the game fresh compared to other lego games where the hub is the vehicle for the levels, whereas here the hub IS part of the game. And of course, if you know lego games, gameplay consists of levels where you do puzzles and fight. although the puzzles are going to be most of your gameplay, and combat is usually just an afterthought here.(except for 5-7, where it changes up a little, but not much.) If you like lego games, dont want too much of a challenge, need something for your kids (or are one...?) Lego Harry Potter Collection is certainly a game you'll want to get on heavy sale. highly recommended. (also TT i swear to god if you make a AAA slop lego harry potter game that's just "hogwarts legacy but lego!" im going to gouge my eyes out. start making real lego games again.)

Very fun, lots to do and secrets to find.

This is supposed to be remastered but I can't choose above 720p and it doesn't support a dual sense what a bunch of garbage