Despite all of its controversies,Hogwarts Legacyhas still managed to be one of the most successful games of 2023 so far, and with multiple ports releasing across the year, that success has only continued. And where there’s success, there’s a hunger for more of it, making aHogwarts Legacysequel seem extremely likely. ThoughHogwarts Legacywas a pretty great first outing intothe Wizarding Worldfor Avalanche, there’s a lot the developer could learn for a potential sequel.
WhileaHogwarts Legacysequelcould probably get away with just being bigger and better than its predecessor, with more spells, enemies, and missions, it wouldn’t properly surpass the first game if it didn’t make some significant changes. One of the biggest changes aHogwarts Legacysequel could make is its protagonist, and there’s certainly an argument to be made for a younger one in the potential sequel.
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The Argument for Hogwarts Legacy’s Sequel to Have a Younger Student Protagonist
Hogwarts Legacyput players in the school shoes of a mysterious fifth-year student that had been admitted to the school as a special case. Though players could customize their character’s appearance quite a bit and got to do all the wand-buying and class-attending that first-year Hogwarts students do, there was still definitely a disconnect for many players, with it feeling as though they had just been dropped into the middle of a story.
AHogwarts Legacysequel could remedy this quite easily by starting players right at the very beginning of their Hogwarts journey. Starting as a first-year Hogwarts student, players would be able to buy all of theirequipment from Diagon Alley, hop aboard the Hogwarts Express, and attend the Sorting ceremony in full. With a first-year protagonist, aHogwarts Legacysequel would also be able to focus more on its classes, an element that many fans wanted more of in the first game.
If players started as a first-year student, then aHogwarts Legacysequel could also expand its runtime dramatically, taking players through their entire Hogwarts school life. As players progress through the game they would hita new year at Hogwarts, with each one unlocking a slew of new classes for the player to attend, and extracurricular activities to participate in around the open-world, each one rewarding the player with new gear, spells, and mechanics. An overarching story could then tie the experience together, interweaving and progressing gradually over the course of the seven in-game years. This could potentially lead to a much more fleshed-out, natural-feeling story than the first game.
The Argument Against Hogwarts Legacy’s Sequel Having a Younger Student Protagonist
But while the idea of starting aHogwarts Legacysequel as a first-year seems to make a lot of sense on paper, there are a few drawbacks to that approach. The biggest drawback is that a lot of magic is restricted from first-years in the Wizarding World. IfHogwarts Legacy’s sequel wanted to stay true to the source material, then it could end up locking players out of the universe’s most iconic spells for the vast majority of the game. Another big drawback is that although players wanted more classes inHogwarts Legacy, an abundance of them in the sequel could easily end up being tedious if not handled with enough care. At the end of the day, the vast majority of players still want huge and spectacular magical set pieces in theirHarry Pottergame, and playing as a younger protagonist might not deliver those at quite the same level that fans expect.
Hogwarts Legacyis available now on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S, with a Switch version releasing November 14.
