Hogwarts Legacy 2 Has a Big Decision Regarding School Supplies

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Hogwarts Legacy 2 Has a Big Decision Regarding School Supplies
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Hogwarts Legacy’s successor has a lot to consider about how it will want to tackle story and gameplay. Story and gameplay will and should affect each other, and in a Hogwarts Legacy sequel it will be interesting to see what spells, potions, or plants carry over as well as what open-world action-RPG features are debuted or iterated on. This will all depend on the story’s context, such as whether players are once again a student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry or not, much less what year of schooling they’d be entering into.

Hogwarts Legacy’s protagonist has a decent amount of customization afforded to them, which is surprising due to how scripted they are. They needed to be an ancient magic-wielder and also a late fifth-year entry into Hogwarts, for example, so that the character would be old enough to experience grueling challenges and confront a complicated story from a place of nuance and maturity. A big part of Hogwarts Legacy’s gameplay loop fully embraces the protagonist’s unorthodox situation, too, by bestowing them with a Wizard’s Field Guide. Now, it could be quite difficult to imagine a Hogwarts Legacy sequel without this vital tome.

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Hogwarts Legacy has a full vault’s worth of content it could likely adapt in the future and one dashed feature should find its way to the sequel.

The Wizard’s Field Guide is Hogwarts Legacy’s Backbone

The protagonist’s schooling and the faculty’s commendable efforts to help catch them up to other fifth-years is completely dependent on the Wizard’s Field Guide in Hogwarts Legacy. Players attend classes normally for their initial lessons, and thereafter they only meet with professors to complete designated tasks that are monotonous and gamified to unlock additional, optional spells.

It’s mildly unfortunate that classes aren’t attended routinely—perhaps a job for a sequel dedicated to Japanese-inspired RPG social simulation features—but the Field Guide is more than capable of shouldering the work for players, at least those who wish to see its percentage completion increase with each new challenge tier and its associable rewards unlocked. Some challenges are more meaningful in gameplay than others, such as Merlin Trials crucially unlocking additional gear inventory capacity, and the book also makes for a more charming in-game menuing UX, even if tabbing through all of its assorted pages is more of a chore than anything.

Hogwarts Legacy’s excessive Field Guide pages then compile a comprehensive lore ledger and bestiary that Hermione Granger would probably be terribly envious of, and a sequel not having its own Field Guide would make UI, lore-gathering, quest-logging, and every other feature possible much different in terms of presentation.

Hogwarts Legacy’s Field Guide is as Immersive as It is Educational

One of the most immersive ways the Field Guide is incorporated literally into gameplay is when players track their objective and a magical golden line flutters out that players can follow to be guided to their selected quest. Players can also follow the mini-map’s functionally identical dotted line, but having an in-game magic feature to follow, especially while the protagonist cradles the Field Guide in their arm, is wonderfully immersive.

This way, Hogwarts Legacy shares a bit of DNA with Dead Space and its own revelatory guidance system. Players have little use for this feature in the Scottish Highlands where players can fly around freely. But, not unlike the USG Ishimura in Dead Space, Hogwarts Legacy’s eponymous school can be a nightmare to navigate without assistance and a quest tracker embedded in gameplay so fluidly is a massive boon that a sequel will hopefully take note of.

Players can, of course, always abuse Hogwarts Legacy’s Floo Network, though even the floors and corridors between Ignatia Wildsmith’s abundant Floo Flames can be labyrinthine.

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