History VideoGame / HogwartsLegacy

** Although this time frame is within some of the pre-established characters' adulthoods, there are only four canon characters present: Professor Black, and the ghosts, Peeves, Nearly-Headless Nick, Professor Binns, and Sacharissa Tugwood. Even then, Black is only ever seen in his portraits in the books and died the year before the first ''Fantastic Beasts'' movie is set, while Sacharissa Tugwood only appeared on a chocolate frog card beforehand. The professors at Hogwarts are not the established academics of the era that fans would be more familiar with such as Armando Dippett or Bathilda Bagshot but rather original character.

** In the Room of Requirement, the player can created Hopping Pots, which first appeared in the "The Wizard and the Hopping Pot" story of ''Literature/TheTalesOfBeedleTheBard''.

** Although this time frame is within some of the pre-established characters' adulthoods, there are only four canon characters present: Professor Black, and the ghosts, Peeves, Nearly-Headless Nick and Professor Binns. Even then, Black is only ever seen in his portraits in the books and died the year before the first ''Fantastic Beasts'' movie is set. The professors at Hogwarts are not the established academics of the era that fans would be more familiar with such as Armando Dippett or Bathilda Bagshot but rather original character.

** Although this time frame is within some of the pre-established characters' adulthoods, there are only four canon characters present: Professor Black, and the ghosts, Peeves, Nearly-Headless Nick and Professor Binns. Even then, Black is only ever seen in his portraits in the books and died the year before the first ''Fantastic Beasts'' movie is set. The professors at Hogwarts are not the established academics of the era that fans would be more familiar with such as Armando Dippett or Bathilda Bagshot but rather original character.

* SlaveMooks: The Unforgivable Imperius Curse is a learnable spell in the game and can be used in combat to brainwash enemies into temporarily fighting on your side.

* WideOpenSandbox: The scope of the game's map features much more land to explore beyond the Hogwarts grounds, with mountains, wilderness, caves, dungeons, and tiny wizarding hamlets dotting the countryside for the player to explore.

* BoringButPractical: Two of the Unforgivable Curses ironically fall into this category, namely Crucio and Avada Kedavra. These spells purely rely on flat damage and don't do anything fancy, such as PlayingWithFire, flinging enemies around or transforming them into objects. However, all Unforgivable Curses break through enemy shields, allowing the player to fully rely on them in all combat situations.

* CoolButInefficient: Avada Kedavra. Yes, it can kill almost anything in one shot aside from the FinalBoss, for obvious reasons, but it also has the longest cooldown of any spell in the game.

** The location of the Forbidden Forest doesn't match its placement in the books or the films.

* SavageWolves: The wilderness surrounding Hogwarts has wolves called Mongrels that will attack the player.

* SuspiciouslySimilarStubstitute: The Thornbacks are this for the Acromantulas of the Forbidden Forrest as giant spider enemies, since the latter would not be introduced until the 1940's.

* AdaptationalDeviation: In its previous appearances in the ''LEGO Harry Potter'' and ''Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery'' games, the Chinese Chomping Cabbage appeared vertical with a jagged mouth carved near the base like a jack o' lantern. In this game, they actually look like a cabbage plant with tooth-like protrusions in the center.

** Acromantulas can be encountered even though it's established they were introduced to the area by Hagrid as a student about fifty years later.

The game was released on UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS, and PC on February 10, 2023, with cross-gen ports for UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and UsefulNotes/XboxOne released on May 5[[note]]after many, ''many'', '''many''', '''''many''''' delays[[/note]], and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch on November 14.

** During Natty's quest "A Basis for Blackmail" you can hear how Harlow's men stole from Agabus Philbert the book of poems her deceased wife wrote before passing away and that he had bound it in silver to gift to her as a birthday present (that she was never able to receive). You can find this book in the Ashwinder den and return it to him after the quest is over. You won't receive anything in return and there's no marker indicating it, it's just the right thing to do.

** Conjuration spells cannot be used outside of the Room of Requirement; Prof. Weasley states this is because of spells blocking their use in the rest of the castle due to safely concerns; however, they also don't work outside of Hogwarts.

** Despite the game taking place in the late 1800's, an NPC student mentions Wolfsbane Potion; in ''Prisoner of Azkaban'', set in 1993-4, Lupin mentions that the potion is a "recent invention" and that it was not available when he was a student at Hogwarts from 1971-8.

* SomeDexterityRequired: On PC, default keys for broomstick flight have faster flight mapped on Shift and flying lower mapped on Ctrl, which makes speeding while go down very unconfortable finger combination as one finger must remain on W at all time (to go forward) and A-D are required to turn. The keys can be remapped, though.

** Despite the game taking place in the late 1800's, an NPC student mentions Wolfsbane Potion; in ''Prisoner of Azkaban'', set in 1993-4 Lupin mentions that the potion is a "recent invention" and that it was not available when he was a student at Hogwarts from 1971-8.

** Despite the game taking place in the late 1800's, an NPC student mentions Wolfsbane Potion, which wouldn't be invented in canon until sometime between Lupin's time as a student at Hogwarts (1971-8) and ''Prisoner of Azkaban'' (1993-4).

** Despite the game taking place in the late 1800's, an NPC student can be heard talking about Wolfsbane Potion, which wouldn't be invented in canon until sometime between 1978[[note]]The year Remus Lupin graduated from Hogwarts, since it wasn't available during his time as a student[[/note]] and 1993[[note]]The year Lupin started teaching at Hogwarts, when it was available[[/note]], suggesting that unless this is an oversight, the potion was invented about a century earlier in this continuity.

** In the "Minding Your Own Business" sidequest, you have to navigate your way across a giant wizard's chessboard by avoiding squares where the pieces on the board can capture you. However, you can simply use revelio to reveal the squares you have to avoid for the benefit of players who don't know how to play chess.