The currently extremely popular wizarding event Hogwarts Legacy from the world of Harry Potter has garnered very positive marks from critics around the world. It is even ahead of the best-rated game adaptation of the work of writer JK Rowling. However, the connection with it is the target of strong criticism from a part of the community, which has now been joined by the important technology magazine Wired. He gave the game the lowest possible grade in the review.
- Wired magazine v review Hogwarts Legacy awarded one point out of ten
- The review criticizes practically all aspects of the game, but above all points out that it is directly related to the views of writer Rowling
The title is criticized due to its relationship with the author of the book, who repeatedly expresses views strongly offensive to the transgender community. The authors of the game from the Avalanche Software studio have repeatedly distanced themselves from Rowling, reminding us that apart from the authorship of the world, she is not involved in the development, and on the contrary, they directly implemented the most inclusive possibilities of the hero editor or the important character of the transgender witch directly into the game. But part of the Internet community still points out that the writer is profiting from the commercial success of the brand as such.
“I don’t smoke, but I feel like I need to light up before we get down to it. We’re here to talk about the Hogwarts Legacy, and for that we need to sort through all this confusion,” opens his critical text of Jaina Grey. She criticizes the game as such because, in her opinion, it deviates too much from the original, it looks several generations out of date, it contains robot characters without emotions, they also seem like a simple rip-off of popular heroes from books, and above all, the author does not like the story, “interwoven with anti-Semitism”, aimed at suppressing rebellions against slavery, without a satisfactory explanation of the background and motives of the main characters.
(Author’s note – it should be noted that criticism of the basic idea of the story does not make sense, because goblins in the world of Harry Potter certainly do not act in the role of slaves, even if their relationship with humans is very fickle)
“Even with the controversy surrounding Rowling herself, the game feels like it was made to take advantage of fans’ eager nostalgia without any care to actually make it worthwhile. For this reason alone, I cannot in good conscience recommend spending money on Hogwarts Legacy. Combined with who this game helps and who it hurts, well, it’s definitely not worth it unless your goal is to hurt.” continues the author. The Wizarding World, she says, is being emptied out as Rowling continues to express her views, and that affects all related products, she says. Finally, he thanks and expresses support for all the queer developers who refused to participate in the development of Hogwarts Legacy.
The only positive thing about the game is that she was able to leave the world of Harry Potter as a fan for good.
Metacritic review aggregator indexes a few mixed reviews, exceptionally with a rating of 50 or 60 points out of 100. But overall, the resulting rating is between 84 and 90 points. So Wired’s verdict is extremely harsh, and likely to be extremely controversial given the interest in the game.
