Harry potter and the half blood prince pc game master potioneer

#Harry potter and the half blood prince pc game master potioneer series
#Harry potter and the half blood prince pc game master potioneer psp

It's basic and very easy, but at least comes with the charm of zapping well known Hogwarts students until they pass out. Players select from either a straight attack or a high arcing attack, and can also reflect incoming attacks. Dueling pits players in a in a one on one magic battle. Dueling and Quidditch are the two mini-games that don't link to item collection, and are also occasionally required. It's faster, easier, and honestly nearly as much fun to just run between rooms collecting the items you need than to have to sit through a game of Skittles (which is like pinball, but without bumpers, or being fun). So about halfway through the game, the mini-games become useless. Harry can cast spells, by swiping on the touch screen with the DS or flicking the analog nub on the PSP. Players use spells to collect the fetch quest items out of bushes, bookcases, spider webs, suits of armor and other objects around the school. The only spells Harry seems to know are ones to find random junk people see to be losing all over the school. Exploding snap is a basic card matching memory game, but the cards flip around a lot, because they're enchanted. Gobstones is marbles onlyвЂ¦ no it's just marbles. Oh, and most of them are really non magical. The mini-games are in there solely to collect items needed for all the fetch quests. The only thing Harry ever seems to use spells for is collecting trading cards and butterbeer. You used spells to fix objects and extinguish fires.

#Harry potter and the half blood prince pc game master potioneer series

Granted the previous Harry Potter game was a series of chores, but you were at least doing things. What is even more baffling is how big of a step backward this game is. That's+super+interesting+Fay,+but+I+have+a+Dark+Lord+to+defeat. Maybe right under the 'Swap Items' button there could have been one that said, 'I'm the Boy who Lived you tool, I don't have time for this!' Sorry to geek out on you Muggles, but this is Harry flipping Potter, here! The Dark Lord returns and is trying to kill him, the prophesied savior of the magic realm, and the video game version of his story is a string of meaningless fetch quests? The developers could have at least given me an option not to accept these inane quests.

Hey remember that part in the book where Harry ran all over school, finding Luna's shoes? Or when he had to play a game of marbles so that he could give them to that Hufflepuff girl? No? Oh that's right, because stupid stuff like that didn't happen. Horcuxes, curses, memory flashbacks, insight into Voldemort's past, some cool battles. The game comes out weeks before the film, so it's likely people will be playing it before they go see the movie. I understand that the only people playing this game are likely to be fans of the book and movie. Unfortunately by cutscene I mean shot of every character standing still like a mannequin while you get to read word bubbles. Nearly every major plot point happens via a cutscene. Yet, 90 percent of this game seems to take place in the unspoken sections of the book. There was a reason JK Rowling didn't write out every detail of Harry and gang's day to day lives: school is boring. As an adventure game, you'd think Half-Blood Prince would be very story driven. Some random things like none of the staircases moving make it feel kind of static and non magical, though. Neither looks particularly great, but the school is pretty well done.

#Harry potter and the half blood prince pc game master potioneer psp

The DS one went for a cel-shaded look to the character models, while the PSP one fully rendered theirs. The games are nearly identical in terms of gameplay. Harry explores nearly all of Hogwarts, running around the halls and staircases that make up the school. The handheld versions of the game are adventure titles. If they don't die of boredom they'll Avada Kedavra themselves. If I ever take an Unbreakable Vow and have to kill somebody, I'll give them a handheld version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.