Although the leaked LEGO Harry Potter game has some inherent potential, all signs point to it quickly re-treading a well-worn story, primarily subjecting players to an uninspired, open-world collect-a-thon. The group was led by Percival Rackham and it members included Charles Rookwood, Niamh Fitzgerald, and San Bakar, all of whom were professors at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Unless Traveller's Tales has significantly re-evaluated its approach to LEGO game development since the release of Skywalker Saga, the leaked LEGO Harry Potter may have disappointingly little substance. The Keepers was a small group of witches and wizards in the Tudor period who were devoted to guarding the secret of ancient magic. ![]() Hogwarts Legacy's saving grace is perhaps its story while not exceptional, it's at least novel, and it is – despite the game's bloat – given plenty of room to develop. The lovingly and beautifully crafted castle is filled to the brim with repetitive tasks, and its halls and classrooms are only a fraction of Hogwarts Legacy's sizable map, which litters the surrounding Scottish highlands with near-identical puzzles and one-note combat encounters. Although the two are quite different, Hogwarts Legacy suffers many of the same issues as LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. The leaked LEGO Harry Potter game would be coming on the heels of Hogwarts Legacy, a wizarding world game which demonstrates the folly of adapting the eponymous castle and its grounds to another open world. Instead, Harry's early years at Hogwarts and the events of the Second Wizarding War will likely feel tacked onto an expansive world filled with mindless tasks, freely explorable through a great number of characters that offer little more than fan service. A plot spanning seven years of Harry Potter's struggle against Lord Voldemort is simply too much to adapt into engaging gameplay. With the leaked LEGO Harry Potter presumably taking a similar approach to the seven-novel, eight-film series, the same missteps are bound to resurface. While LEGO Skywalker Saga's re-telling of the Star Wars story is endearing, the slapstick parody the LEGO games are known for takes a back seat in favor of repetitive platforming, puzzle-solving, and collecting. Main missions became short, incredibly linear segments that ultimately feel like bare-bones vehicles to drive the plot forward in the interest of returning players to its open hub areas. Professor Binns could also start out alive at the beginning of Hogwarts Legacy and become a ghost during the game. Even if Professor Binns died further in the past, there could be more revealed about this character and his unknown origins in Hogwarts Legacy.LEGO Skywalker Saga's recreation of every major setting in the nine-film epic is admittedly impressive, but its scale came at the expense of meaningful gameplay – an issue not even the return of Mumble Mode could remedy. ![]() It's possible that Professor Binns died just before the game starts, and that some of the characters in Hogwarts Legacy may have information about his life or how he reacted to dying. Professor Binns died in his sleep one night and then woke up to teach his class as if nothing happened. Since Hogwarts Legacy players start off in their fifth year, it's possible that their classmates might have known Professor Binns while he was alive. ![]() Professor Binns may also play a similar role to his part in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by revealing some ancient Hogwarts secret or an old myth of magic. ![]() If attending History of Magic is part of Hogwarts Legacy, then Professor Binns could potentially reveal important backstory for the events in the game, or even new information about a much earlier wizarding community. During the State of Play, it was shown that one of the goblin rebellions occurs during Hogwarts Legacy, so Professor Binns could be a source of information about earlier rebellions and their outcomes. Since players will have a part to play in a goblin rebellion in Hogwarts Legacy, paying attention to Professor Binns in History of Magic could provide some key information.
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