Hogwarts Legacy on Switch finally unvieled

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Slownenberg on 14 November 2023

Pinkie_pie said:

DonFerrari said:

Saying it have an issue or need to enter spaces with loading and whatnot is fine, but that doesn't make it any less openworld. For me Yakuza is open world, although limited in scope, and there is loading when entering some spaces, this was changed just recently with SSD and the like making it possible to enter and leave stores without any loading.

I don't know. Most if not all games that are considered open world don't have loading screens when entering a town. It's mostly interior like entering dungeons or buildings that have loading screens in open world. My point was the long loading screens which the original version didn't have. To me because of the loading screens between areas that does make it less open world but if you still consider it open world then that's fine but it's not open world in the way like the original version was

Ferrari is right about open world. Open world is about game design / gameplay design, not about whether it has loading screens. Open world essentially means you can go anywhere and there is no linear path you have to follow in the game. Has nothing to do with loading screens whatsoever.

That said, to your point, I think a general goal in open world game design is to not have loading screens so its a seamless experience, but thats a small difference in quality of how open/seamless it feels, it doesn't change the genre.

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curl-6 on 14 November 2023

Played through the first hour and a half.

It's one of those cases like Witcher 3 where yes the cutbacks are obvious, but at the same time it's impressive given the sheer gulf in power between PS5 and Switch, and at the end of the day the core experience is preserved even if it's not pretty.

On a system with many "impossible" ports, this may just be the most "impossible" of them all. And yet, insanely, against all the odds, it works. It may look low res, but it's still Hogwarts Legacy, on a 2017 portable platform, and that's crazy.

I really enjoyed the game on my first playthrough on PS5, and I'm still enjoying it second time round on Switch.

If you prefer portable play or don't have an Xbox/Playstation, it's worth a buy.