Hogwarts Legacy has had rumors about a sequel, although nothing has been officially confirmed yet. But that hasn’t stopped requests from being made about features that should or shouldn’t be included in a sequel, should one end up being made. Many features that would benefit a sequel to Hogwarts Legacy could use similar ideas from other games as a foundation.
After learning about Hogwarts, it’s difficult to imagine not wanting to explore its halls and secrets as a wizard. However, Hogwarts Legacy left a lot to be desired when it came to this aspect. Hogwarts should’ve felt like a hub when wizards returned between adventures, and didn’t really leverage its status as a famed place of magical learning for Hogwarts Legacy‘s gameplay. As such, the sequel needs to borrow these features from other games.
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10 Morality System To Account For Player Choices
Mass Effect
Right now, there are little to no consequences for using Unforgivable Curses and becoming a dark wizard. So, the sequel should borrow the morality system from the Mass Effect games to add weight to making good or bad choices. This can open up different dialogue options, and even be used to change how NPCs interact with the main character. Hogwarts Legacy has very little reactivity to player decisions, and a way to make it seem like there are real consequences of becoming a dark wizard is needed in a sequel.
9 Dating Can Make NPC Interactions More Important
Dating Sims
Not necessarily to the extent of dating sims, but even some kind of relationship mechanics would be a welcome change in a Hogwarts Legacy sequel. A fifth year student would be high school age, and that’s a time that can be filled with drama. But right now, there’s not much of a reason to talk to NPCs outside of quests, much less ask a student if they want to go grab a butter beer together and chat.
8 Survival Meters Can Make Exploration More Immersive
Sons Of The Forest
While it’d make the sequel a bit harder, having meters for hunger, thirst, and sleep as seen in games like Sons of the Forest could add an interesting new dynamic while making the game more immersive. This would make returning to the dorms essential, instead of completely unnecessary, which is the current state of the dorms in Hogwarts Legacy. It’d also force more interaction with the world if the character needs to find ways to keep their meters filled, and add more strategy to staying alive and at full power when taking on quests.
7 A Party System Could Make Combat More Interesting
Classic Harry Potter Games
In the old Harry Potter games on PS2, Xbox, and GameCube, there was a party system that could be a great addition to a Hogwarts Legacy sequel. Naturally, this was used to swap between Harry, Ron, and Hermione so that each of their abilities could be used to get through puzzles and fight enemies. However, this could allow the fifth year student to bring allies with them into battle, which can be used in combat to make up for their own weakness with the same party system.
6 Interactive Stores To Bring A Hogwarts Legacy Sequel To Life
Baldur’s Gate 3
There are some shops that allow for the purchase of useful items, like Wiggenweld potions, all throughout Hogwarts Legacy. However, Hogsmeade doesn’t truly feel alivewhen a lot of the shops aren’t that interactive, especially when compared to all the stores the party can come across in other RPGs like Baldur’s Gate 3. By letting shops sell even frivolous items that don’t have a lot of usefulness, like candies or buying a butter beer at the Three Broomsticks, the world would feel more alive.
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5 Rested Buff To Make Common Rooms & Dorms More Useful
World Of Warcraft
When characters in World of Warcraft spend time in a city or inn, they earn rested experience, which doubles the rate at which they gain experience from monsters. The sequel to Hogwarts Legacy could provide a similar buff that’s gained from spending time in the student’s house common room or dorms, making them more useful than they currently are. Alternatively, this could be replaced with a damage increase buff or a boost to speed when flying on a broom, if an experience boost doesn’t fit as well with the mechanics of a sequel.
4 Dorm Customization For Added Personalization
Animal Crossing
The Hogwarts Legacy house common rooms might feel more alive compared to other areas since there are always other students hanging out and chatting there, but the dorms overall leave a lot to be desired. One way to make the dorms feel cozier and more useful would be to implement an option to customize them, much like the way Animal Crossing allows rooms to be customized. This would add a new side activity and increase immersion for a sequel at the same time.
3 Social Systems To Give NPC Relationships More Depth
The Sims
In The Sims, each Sim has a social panel that shows their relationship with other Sims. This gives them an idea of how much other Sims like or hate them, which also decides which interactions are available with those Sims based on the relationship score they have. Adding a system like this to the Hogwarts Legacy sequel wouldmake the NPCs feel more alive, and it’d give the new student a reason to interact with their classmates outside of quests. It could also be the foundation of a more in-depth social system where NPCs interact differently with the new student.
2 Exams Can Make Good Use Of Hogwarts As A Setting
Persona
In Persona games, the characters are all students, and their Knowledge skill can be raised by taking exams in the classroom. Since Hogwarts Legacy takes place in a school and focuses on students, adding exams to the sequel makes perfect sense, especially since Hogwarts Legacy‘s school aspect is severely lacking. Completing an exam successfully could give a buff that boosts the effectiveness of related spells as an incentive to participate.
1 Passing Time To Keep Students On Schedule
The Legend Of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask makes use of a time system that puts Link under pressure because he has three days to stop the moon from hitting Termina, but he also has the tools required to manipulate time and complete his tasks. The elements of this system that a Hogwarts Legacy sequel should borrow would be the actualflow of time and having events, such as classes or interactions with NPCs, set at various times. This provides immersion, the feeling of life, and reasons to both use the dorms with night falling and talk to other students for events.
It makes more sense for the flow of the story to have a Hogwarts Legacy sequel instead of DLC or expansions, and it would likely be a better use of the developers’ time and resources. However, there’s room for improvement to make a sequel better than the original. But it helps that there’s no shortage of features from other games that can be used as examples of features that would greatly improve a sequel to Hogwarts Legacy.
Hogwarts Legacy
Set in the 1800s in the Wizarding World universe, Hogwarts Legacy is an open-world action RPG where players get to live out a student’s life in the hallowed halls of Hogwarts and beyond. Aside from Hogwarts, players can also travel between iconic locales such as Hogsmeade and the Forbidden Forest. Starting as a fifth year, players will pick up more advanced spell casting and potion crafting and discover both friendly and antagonistic magical beasts across the entire Harry Potter universe, as they follow the path of light or darkness on their own wizarding journey.
- Franchise
- Harry Potter
- Platform(s)
- Xbox Series X , Xbox One , PlayStation 4 , PlayStation 5 , Microsoft Windows , Steam
- Released
- February 10, 2022
- Developer(s)
- Avalanche Software
- Publisher(s)
- Warner Bros. Games
- Genre(s)
- Adventure , Action RPG , Open-World
- ESRB
- T
