Hogwarts Legacy Review: Moe Gives It a 9.7 / 10

Hogwarts Legacy is the game a generation of Harry Potter kids had on their Christmas list for twenty years, finally delivered. You get the letter, you get sorted, and then the castle opens up: staircases moving, portraits gossiping, classes to attend, and a Scotland outside the walls that begs to be flown over on a broom.

Avalanche nailed the place, and the place is the point. The combat surprised me too: spell combos chain like a fighting game, plants and potions do real work, and dueling feels sharp. The story is a solid ancient magic mystery, but let's be honest, the star is the building. I spent hours just wandering the halls, reading the room.

My marks: the open world errands repeat, the gear system floods your bag with junk robes, and enemy variety runs thin late. None of it stopped me. A 9.7 from me, way above the critics' 86, and I will plant my flag there: as a place to live in for forty hours, almost nothing on this list touches it.

I spent hours just wandering the halls, reading the room.