LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (2010)

Story: The story is the same as the one in the movies but adapted to remove any more adult themes like murder generally in a funny way fitting for the child demographic it was meant for. I appreciate that they did pick the main parts of the movies for the levels while the additional detail put in the world building to make the world alive and progressing as you play through the years. The cutscenes were simple but funny though I wish maybe more character development was shown through them.

Music: Not much to say about this other than it had the main themes of the films as well with quite fitting background music. Though I feel like more could have been done with this.

Gameplay: Probably one of the better aspects of the game was the progression of getting different characters with unique characteristics and spells as you progress through the years making the main puzzle solving aspect of the game fresh. Though slightly irritating in the aspect of some things were locked off due to not having the spell making you having to come back later.

Collection This was very fun and varied having gold bricks, students in peril, character tokens, red bricks all with their own benefits to collecting. I appreciate the red bricks help unlock "extras" which made 100% the game possible through the detectors and studs multipliers but there are a few glitches with the studs sadly. And with all the gold bricks you get to play an extra level which was about the time when Harry was a baby which was a nice touch though confusing to put at the end of the game. As for extra levels the 10 prior extra levels were good puzzles but seemed extremely lazily put together like the free build mode but ig it was just an extras so I can forgive them for that. Though no tracker for students in peril was criminal and kinda forced me to use the internet because I was going insane LOL.

Overall: I would say how they portrayed the story in a funny child friendly way was superb and that the game mechanics were greatly done with the spells and character specific abilities. Music was done to the standard I had though maybe a little more could have been done like a more varied soundtrack. As for the collection of the aspect, it was done in depth and often had me discovering new aspects of the world. I missed going through the main story but the bugged trackers and no trackers for students in peril are probably my biggest gripes with the game.

8.45/10

Joguei na versão de PS4 após comprar a coletânea LEGO Harry Potter. Com toda certeza, é um dos meus legos favoritos, ficando atrás apenas dos Star Wars de PS2.

A mecânica que ele trás com as magias, Hogwarts "totalmente" livre para ser explorada, Aulas para aprender magia e a campanha são extremamente formuladas, não deixando o jogo enjoativo. Como qualquer jogo LEGO, é preciso pegar todos os Golden Bricks, Red Bricks, Personagens e etc. E particularmente, isso fora bem fácil (tirando o fato do meu save ter bugado com o último Student In Peril e ter que reiniciar o jogo, mas ok).

O jogo deixou apenas a desejar na questão da remasterização, há alguns problemas gráficos e bugs de texturas, mas nada que atrapalhe, entretanto, comparado com o Harry Potter 2 (anos 5-7), há um péssimo trabalho feito. Mas é um jogo divertido para qualquer idade, recomendo!

Played the PC version.

The game itself is fun, especially in cooperative with a friend but man the bugs and crashes are too much sometimes.

I think that the game crashes or has a really bad bug every 20 minutes. I really don't know if it is a problem with the PC version or the console version are equaly bad made.

I have to restart the game 5 times to get the controls to work. The controls freezes so many times. You press pause and the control freezes and you can't do nothing to fix it except to close the game and then open it again.

Even has a really bad bug that make you getting stuck in a stage in the year 3 because of a problem with some statues. You have to manually edit the configuration file in your PC.

But if you can ignore all that, the game is good (at least for a lego game) and has good replay value due to the unlockable characters and skills that make you replay the leves in order to get the 100%