Highlights
- Hogwarts Legacy captures the familiarity of the Harry Potter series by featuring references to iconic locations and events from the wizarding world, even in its 1800s setting.
- Including chocolate frogs as consumable items in the game would add a nostalgic touch and provide a functional healing option for players.
- Famous Witches and Wizards cards could enhance the collectible aspect of the game, offering lore and the chance to obtain chocolate frogs as valuable items.
There isn’t much nostalgic memorabilia from Harry Potter’s wizarding world that hasn’t already been featured in Hogwarts Legacy, even considering the fact that the seminal Harry Potter series takes place much closer to the present day. Hogwarts Legacy’s late-1800s setting is still incredibly familiar as not much of the castle is different, and even events players don’t get to have a role in, such as Quidditch or the Triwizard Tournament, are represented or referenced in some way.
Hogwarts Legacy 2 Must Cut Back on One QoL Feature
Hogwarts Legacy has a startlingly large open world and yet it could afford to pare a handful of traversal conveniences that saturate it in a sequel.
How Hogwarts Legacy 2 Can Lean on Harry Potter Nostalgia
It’s interesting how the early PlayStation Harry Potter games adapted their source material and how those experiences could have impacted players more than the movies. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone on PS1 is an obvious example of a popular classic, having generated memes and memorable moments alike. Chocolate frogs are a featured item in Sorcerer’s Stone that Hogwarts Legacy hasn’t yet employed, for instance, and doing so could give it its biggest punch of nostalgia thus far.
Chocolate Frogs Could Supplement Hogwarts Legacy’s Wiggenweld Potions
Chocolate frogs are a terrific Harry Potter confection because of how simple they are in design. They’re frogs made of chocolate, capable of hopping around and fleeing from sight, but in Sorcerer’s Stone they simply hop in place and wait for Harry to consume them.
Chocolate frogs could be purely decorative and be seen hopping around common rooms, but having them involved as consumable items again would be a great way to instill their importance in gameplay. This way, chocolate frogs could be reintroduced as healing items, but Avalanche making them difficult to catch would be the perfect iteration.
Hogwarts Legacy’s Wiggenweld potions are already the perfect basic healing item akin to Dark Souls’ Estus flasks, but perhaps consuming chocolate frogs could replenish players’ health gradually over a period of time—similar to pellets from Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice—in order to give them a functional distinction.
Famous Witches and Wizards Cards Would Kill Two Owls with One Stone
Chocolate frogs are otherwise known to accompany Famous Witches and Wizards cards, which are also featured in Sorcerer’s Stone. It would be wonderful to have another collectible item entry that had lore baked into it because Hogwarts Legacy failed to offer much in the way of loot that didn’t pertain to an abundance of underwhelming gear.
These cards could contribute to such collection hunting, not unlike how Gwent cards are scavenged in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, but with them players could also collect chocolate frogs and decide when they want to consume them for their unique healing properties. It is fantastic that players can brew as much Wiggenweld or any other potion of their liking in their free time, ensuring they’ll have unending stores thereafter.
Only being able to claim one chocolate frog when finding a Famous Witches and Wizards card could be a neat incentive that makes the item far more valuable.
If there were only a finite number of chocolate frogs in the game because they were exclusively found alongside these cards, it would make choosing to consume one terribly important. That said, with the potential for over 100 cards to collect, there’d likely be no shortage of chocolate frogs for players to either consume or hold onto for safekeeping, and at that point Hogwarts Legacy 2 could consider making chocolate frogs an item that is available ubiquitously after all. Moreover, Wiggenweld was sufficient for Hogwarts Legacy and it might as well be for Hogwarts Legacy 2.
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Legacy
Hogwarts Legacy is a game that allows players to explore an open world, including locations such as Hogwarts, Hogsmeade, the Forbidden Forest, and the surrounding Overland area. Players can create their unique witch or wizard character, learn spells, brew potions, grow plants, and tend to magical beasts during their journey. Sorting into a Hogwarts house and forging relationships with other characters enable players to master various skills and shape their characters’ development.
The game features an original wizarding world adventure set in an unexplored era, where players uncover a hidden truth from the past. Challenging encounters await, such as battles against trolls, Dark Wizards, goblins, and a dangerous villain who poses a threat to the fate of the world.
- Franchise
- Harry Potter
- Released
- February 10, 2023
- ESRB
- T For Teen Due To Blood, Fantasy Violence, Mild Language, Use of Alcohol
- How Long To Beat
- 26 Hours
- Metascore
- 84
- PS Plus Availability
- N/A
