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3.4
A good game to kill time, given you have enough storage for this game. If you are looking for a rpg where you can fight alongside harry potter or a rpg with a strong storyline, this is not for you. Warning: Long review ahead! Made it way too detailed lol
STORAGE: A whopping 4.20 GB for all the 3D graphics and live 2D cgs and still lags at times rip Phone would heat up constantly when playing this game, it's a rather demanding game;; also the game is only available in Chinese currently, so yeah;;
GAMEPLAY: This is a card-based rpg game where the player uses a set of cards (spells/summons) to beat the enemy, nothing groundbreaking but it's fun enough imo. They had a system where 4 different players live in a dorm together but that instead made many vacant rooms with only one player (maybe stuff some NPCs in the dorm instead that we can make friends with so MC isn't completely uninvolved with what's happening??) Also, the part where they introduce some new mechanics like the duel club felt a bit forced. The character creation menu is rather limited with only 4 different selections for each category (excluding some side choices inside the categories) but I think the creation options are better than Hogwarts mystery and you can choose from 3 different owls too:')
{Gacha wise} No compulsory 10 pulls unfortunately, but 1 ticket gets you 5 spell cards/companion and tickets are pretty easy to get, complete 5 daily missions for 1 ticket, very f2p-friendly. Plus you can buy discounted packs(1 per day) with gems where you can have a higher chance to get SSRs. Gems are fortunately also pretty easy to gain and save up enough for 5 maximum pulls for 25 cards. There are of course a few micro-transaction elements like battle pass, certain clothing pets etc but overall I don't think it affects the game progress a lot. With that being said, the gold (SSR) card rate is rather low, but SR rates are pretty good, plus even with an all R deck you can still win with proper strategy so not a big problem. (There's a guaranteed gold after 40 pulls so at least they have a net!)
{Gameplay modes} There are quite a few minigames in this game: Dueling club, Classes, Ball, Quidditch Pitch, Forbidden Forrest, School Records.
--Dueling Club--
3 types of duels, single, pair and triple but the third game mode is prbly too much for everyone so it always takes a long time to find a match. Nothing much to say, it's just an arena.
--Classes--
For classes, we have Defence against the Dark Arts, History of Magic, Care of Magical Creatures, Charms and Divination.
2 minigames for DatDA (catch all cornish pixies & Transfiguration), 1 for HoM (HP knowledge quiz), 2 CoMC (protect pumpkins from gnomes & Fight buckbeak), 1 for Charms (fight against Trolls), 1 for Divination (Redraw the sample drawing in 30 sec and guess what your party members drew) Each minigame requires a different tactic so it's pretty interesting to experiment different method(full offense, assist, summoner etc) Also, I love that there are different classes each day. Hope there are going to be more classes in the future! Would be a waste to not use potions, herbology classrooms etc :')
--Ball--
As a rhythm game lover, I find this a bit lacking due to the unfortunately unavoidable lag in higher levels and really few song choices (6 only) it's not that hard to get full combo even in the highest difficulty (5 stars) after being slapped by the glitch levels in Cytus lmao the detection is not as good as I hoped it would be since I had several notes that went undetected even though I clearly tapped it. But this is not a rhythm game so I'll give it a pass, hopefully the detection and lag would improve later on. Playing high difficulty on phone is a nightmare, I highly recommend using Ipad if you have one, not to mention the phone heat up quite quickly. Also, the notes are really hard to see at first due to the light yellow color and sometimes the notes would pop up in margins, making it hard to notice.
--Quidditch--
Frustratingly fun, your speed depends on your broom so you either use the free basic broom for the lowest speed or buy the fastest broom using gems, I prefer not to waste my gems here cuz it's kinda not worth it lol You have to dodge people on the track and score, it's a bit frustrating when you just got 1 hp down because the rush gage ran out and you just happened to stop right in front of an obstacle. Also, the fact that the goalkeeper moved to your target right when you pressed to shoot rip my luck is terrible
--Forbidden Forrest--
To conclude, it's just exploration with a pinch of story while fighting with different tactics in various levels. It's fun but it gets a bit plain when the dialogue never changes, maybe a few more variations?
--School Records--
It gets more and more frustrating in later levels. This is a combination of fighting, with a sprinkle of side stories and puzzle-solving. It was interesting at first when it doesn't require grinding through the whole fight, yes I'm looking at you school record 43, you in particular suck a lot) There is also another book within the school records that throws back to HP's original stories featuring the trio (mainly only HP) like finding the secret chamber, fighting Tom Riddle etc. There isn't much important story regarding the current main cast aside from Lottie and Daniel, every story bits are short fragments of the main cast's daily life at Hogwarts.
{Events} So far I've only experienced one event: the chocolate frog event where you collect chocolate frog cards, after collecting a sufficient amount, you will be rewarded an event-themed profile frame and a SSR spell card. Not time-consuming to do at all, you have to complete the same 4 missions every day during the event period until you have enough thought (log in/1, find a certain npc/1, participate in club activity at 9 pm/1, party up with your friend to duel in duel club/1-4: duel once win or lose, you'll get one no matter what, win 3 fights to get the other 3) So yeah a very f2p and non-grindy event. Looking forward for other different events!
STORY: Had flashbacks of pokemon sword and shield plot lmao where the player is not involved at all and only has the perspective of a bystander-- please be noted that only adult hp will appear here and so far he doesn't have a major role in the main story yet. (Haven't seen any other OG cast yet too)
At the start of the game, hp's VA quickly narrated the beginning of hp and the pacing felt really weird to me?? And suddenly it jumped from hp's pov to when MC received a letter from Hogwarts and then to the character creation screen??
This is a new original plot that takes place after harry potter's stories so you have teachers randomly mentioning the trio using this spell to do this do that yada yada-- You get the point. The side characters' reactions were a bit weird sometimes but overall very mediocre story. After going through a bit more of the game, I can safely conclude that there is in fact, only 20% plot in the game, the story is so minimal that I almost forgot there was a storyline;v; The characters were, well, also mediocre, they're there I guess, we don't get to have more side stories about them or have any bonding stories aside from the main story(which ended quite early on) and the snippets of their daily lives which sucked. Wish there were more to these characters cuz it could be pretty interesting if they could expand on these characters and let us interact with them more (like maybe RNG based incident that triggers a side story??)
ART: The live2D arts are mostly good, the 3D graphics/models, however, left something to be desired. Aside from small matters like lagging or clipping, the character models sometimes react really weirdly like MC was in a fight and she (i chose female protag) giggled happily as the enemy charged at her?? And some movements feel really awkward as well. There are also a few typos in the subtitles rip-
SOUND: Overall decent, nothing special or original, it sounds good enough and it works so yeah
VAs are good enough and I highly appreciate the main story has a voice-over!
TL:DR-- It's a pretty fun game with diverse game modes to enjoy but I highly recommend you to play on Ipad if you have one since I have experienced multiple crashes and occasional lags on phone (severe lags/glitch for ball, if you want to play 5 stars at the ball, it is highly recommended to play it on iPad, my phone lagged so badly during 4 stars and I couldn't even see half of the notes in 5 stars) and that concludes my review, ty for reading it and I hope it helped you:D
Update: They have a global official site now!: https://www.harrypottermagicawakened.com/global/
Also just a small complain: The game support is very unresponsive so be prepared you will have to solve everything yourself! :^D
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3.6Love the visual but it is Chinese version,use vpn for outside hk,tw,china,I need to translate it n it looks so hard sometimes,cuz google translate isn't always right..I play it everyday,but only take 2-3 hours in a day,cuz it's kinda a little bit boring n repetitive quests,4 things i dislike from this game,first when i am at forbidden forest,n fighting,other players can out/off,if they don't want to play so don't accept my invite,they only want the rewards,but no effort,so irritating!!!and 2nd the storage is wooowww 15gb WTH!! it is mobile game,n new game until 15gb,it is really sucked!!how about next next n next update,how big of storage should i spend for it??hope global version isnt like this,not spend more storage..3rd drain my battery so fast,the last is potion shop only refresh material not potions n the material such as white flower for battle (i forget what's the name) it was very limited only can buy 1 time everyday n at forbidden forest shop only 3 times u can buy it for a week,they are not enough,hope they give everyday like everyday daily log in reward Hahahaa sorry,and i hope not only at quidditch they also give 2 helper players,but i want it when dance in the ball too,actually in club,btw dancing 5 stars at the ball woow my hands are not robot n i think my hand will get tremor,and it is very lagging on my phone,even with 4*..note:i can't type long text on chat message,can u not limit it?! and i hope u can change the rule about change our id name,it took 30 days oh no it's so long day!!
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