The locations the detector is pinging are: And since there are no words in the cutscenes, you'll probably already have to know your dementors from your Hogsmeade if you want to really understand everything that's happening.Assuming 1 gold brick per bonus level, I'm down to the last 3 (technically 4 but I'm a Student in Peril missing as well). There's no tutorial or guidance, so younger players have complete freedom to explore, but older players won't find any depth to speak of. If you (or, more likely, your kids) enjoy the Lego games, you'll like this one, too.īut in the end, I wasn't sold on the early version I saw - it was too much chaos with too little payoff. There's also drop-in and drop-out co-op, and Harry and friends can combine their spells in interesting ways - like spawning a puddle of water and moving it onto flowers, which then grow up into a ladder - to open up secrets or move the story forward. One area had Harry actually building a staircase with Lego bricks, and the staircase could be built in multiple ways or up to new areas to earn extra goodies. Lego Harry Potter is not a bad toy - there are a few puzzles, and one of the new additions in this version brings actual physics to some of the pieces that you find. And when you combine that with the fact that there's no real punishment to speak of (though there are enemies later on), Lego Harry Potter isn't so much a game as it is just a toy a playground for kids to explore and press buttons in and see some flashy graphics. While there is a lot going on in the game, the goal isn't to collect everything, it's just to collect whatever you want. I tried to wrap my head about all of the little gameplay quirks, thinking that it would get me excited about playing another Banjo Kazooie-style collect-a-thon, but then I realized I was putting too much thought into it. The basic gameplay has you collecting Lego "studs," which can then be spent later for characters or items, but then there are also "gold bricks" hidden around that you can collect for - well, I'm not quite sure.
You can overturn tables and smash items, and then cast spells to rebuild them or just interact with other characters in a weird sort of wordless whimsical free-for-all. Gameplay consists of running and jumping and smashing and collecting and rebuilding lots of little Lego blocks. As Hagrid, or Harry, or Hermione, or in fact any of 140 different playable characters (I saw Scabbers the rat and one of the Gringotts goblins also being played), players run around with abandon, and play and interact with all of the various environments, from Platform 9-and-three-quarters all the way up to Hogwarts and everywhere else in the first four Harry Potter books (that's from Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone up to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, or "right, the one with the Olympics," as I called it). The hallmark of the game, as with most of the Lego titles, is consequence-free exploration.
Maybe actually seeing Lego Hogwarts in action would win me over. Nevertheless, I previewed TT Games' latest Lego outing, Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4, with an open mind - I have read and liked the Harry Potter books and seen and enjoyed most of the movies. While Lego Batman and Lego Rock Band have tempted me, I've always stuck with the regular versions of those games rather than diving into any block-based variations.
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