{"id":8883,"date":"2023-02-06T15:39:25","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T14:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/06\/hogwarts-legacy-review-wizarding-wish-fulfilment-whose-magic-wears-off\/"},"modified":"2023-02-06T15:39:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T14:39:25","slug":"hogwarts-legacy-review-wizarding-wish-fulfilment-whose-magic-wears-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/06\/hogwarts-legacy-review-wizarding-wish-fulfilment-whose-magic-wears-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Hogwarts Legacy review \u2013 wizarding wish-fulfilment whose magic wears off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PlayStation 5 (version tested), Xbox Series X, PC; Avalanche\/Portkey Games<br \/><\/strong>Being able to wield a wand in the hallowed halls is enchanting, but what\u2019s beneath the spell is competent but unspectacular<\/p>\n<p>Given how merciless modern pop culture is in its exploitation of childhood nostalgia, it\u2019s remarkable there\u2019s been no credible attempt at a big-budget Harry Potter video game before now. Hogwarts Legacy has so much to work with: it is the product of millions of childhood dreams. Donning the Sorting Hat and setting foot inside the Gryffindor common room, manipulating the world effortlessly with a wand and fighting dark wizards are all fantasies that it can easily fulfil.<\/p>\n<p>However, among a significant percentage of the millennial contingent that form Potter\u2019s original and most passionate fanbase, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jkrowling.com\/opinions\/j-k-rowling-writes-about-her-reasons-for-speaking-out-on-sex-and-gender-issues\/\">JK Rowling\u2019s interventions into the debate<\/a> about transgender rights \u2013 she is against self-ID, or admitting trans women to some single-sex spaces such as women\u2019s prisons or rape crisis centres \u2013 have caused outrage, and this game is the subject of <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/hogwarts-legacy-why-are-people-boycotting-one-of-the-biggest-games-of-the-year-12790384\">a boycott<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2023\/feb\/06\/hogwarts-legacy-review-wizarding-wish-fulfilment-whose-magic-wears-off\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/893fc870d6991b10c49b5d00d90efa615fcdd360\/175_65_1582_949\/master\/1582.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3c9cde78e8a226224e29f07858ade0e2\" title=\"Hogwarts Legacy review \u2013 wizarding wish-fulfilment whose magic wears off\" \/>PlayStation 5 (version tested), Xbox Series X, PC; Avalanche\/Portkey GamesBeing able to wield a wand in the hallowed halls is enchanting, but what\u2019s beneath the spell is competent but unspectacular<br \/>\nGiven how merciless modern pop culture is in its exploitation of childhood nostalgia, it\u2019s remarkable there\u2019s been no credible attempt at a big-budget Harry Potter video game before now. Hogwarts Legacy has so much to work with: it is the product of millions of childhood dreams. Donning the Sorting Hat and setting foot inside the Gryffindor common room, manipulating the world effortlessly with a wand and fighting dark wizards are all fantasies that it can easily fulfil.<br \/>\nHowever, among a significant percentage of the millennial contingent that form Potter\u2019s original and most passionate fanbase, JK Rowling\u2019s interventions into the debate about transgender rights \u2013 she is against self-ID, or admitting trans women to some single-sex spaces such as women\u2019s prisons or rape crisis centres \u2013 have caused outrage, and this game is the subject of a boycott. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PlayStation 5 (version tested), Xbox Series X, PC; Avalanche\/Portkey GamesBeing able to wield a wand in the hallowed halls is enchanting, but what\u2019s beneath the spell is competent but unspectacular Given how merciless modern pop culture is in its exploitation of childhood nostalgia, it\u2019s remarkable there\u2019s been no credible attempt at a big-budget Harry Potter &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/06\/hogwarts-legacy-review-wizarding-wish-fulfilment-whose-magic-wears-off\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hogwarts Legacy review \u2013 wizarding wish-fulfilment whose magic wears off<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}