10 Things The Hogwarts Legacy Definitive Edition Should Include

Hogwarts Legacy transformed the magical and wonderful wizarding world into a surprisingly enjoyable open-world experience that took the world by storm and proved that single-player games are well and truly alive. It offered fans and newcomers to the Harry Potter franchise a chance to explore the hallowed halls of Hogwarts as well as the vast surrounding areas. However, while it was immensely enjoyable, it was missing a handful of crucial features to make it the very best Harry Potter simulator.

Fortunately, the rumored Hogwarts Legacy Definitive Edition is supposed to add 15 hours of extra content to the base game, while also improving it in a number of ways. So far, the added content has remained a mystery, although new storylines, activities, and side content are allegedly coming in the Definitive Edition. However, for it to truly be classed as the “definitive” version of the game, it must include these important elements.

10 More Classes

The Ability To Attend Classes Outside The Main Story

While Hogwarts Legacy’s main story and plethora of side quests have their fans, there are a lot of players who believe it should have leaned more into being a school sim. As a result, more optional classes became a highly-requested feature for Hogwarts Legacy, especially as they would naturally add a significant amount of immersion to the more school-sim aspects of the game. This could involve players attending classes with it just offering a quick cutscene showcasing them studying alongside their fellow students.

Alternatively, it could be a more involved affair, with a simple minigame to complete, much like how Bully handled its classes. For example, classes could contain some kind of quick-time event or a series of questions that culminate in a quiz à la Persona 5. However it is handled, more classes in a game named after and centered around a famous wizarding school feel like an absolute must.

9 Minigames To Play

Gobstones And Wizard Chess Are A Must

While Hogwarts itself is a lot of fun to explore, with plenty of fun distractions to entertain the player, one thing Hogwarts Legacy is sorely lacking is minigames. Of course, it’s packed with puzzles and collectibles for the player to engage with, but the inability to sit down and play a round of Wizards Chess or Gobstones with other students is a shame. It feels like a missed opportunity to have fun bonding moments with the more prominent side characters, as there’s nothing like thrashing a friend at Wizards Chess.

Minigames would definitely help flesh out both Hogwarts and the open world, as they could involve some kind of tournament, with players needing to hunt down the best Wizards Chess players across Scotland, starting with Hogwarts. Alternatively, it could just be a fun simple minigame located in the common rooms for players to engage with whenever they feel like winding down.

8 More Companion Missions

More Time With The Companions Would Be Great

The companion missions in Hogwarts Legacy were easily some of the best in the entire game, with Sebastian Sallow’s missions being a highlight for many players. They felt more mature and fleshed out than even the main storyline, let alone the plethora of other side quests. However, once they’re over, there’s little the player can do to interact with those characters they’ve just been on a thrilling adventure with.

The Hogwarts Legacy Definitive Edition needs to add more ways of interacting with the companions, including new missions. This could be a handful of missions with each current companion, or even finally introducing a Ravenclaw companion with a whole new set of quests to complete. Regardless, it’s important to make it feel like they’re not throw-away characters once the player is done with their missions.

7 The Ability To Sleep

Finally End The Protagonist’s Insomnia

One of the most bizarre missing features in Hogwarts Legacy is the ability to sleep. While it may seem like a minor exclusion, it’s a fairly immersive feature that would have gone a long way to not only encourage players to utilize the common rooms more but also offer a more realistic way to skip time. Players can’t even interact with the beds in Hogwarts Legacy and don’t have a designated space in the common room either.

While there are mods – including the wonderful Emote with Any NPC – that allow players to interact with beds, the Hogwarts Legacy Defintive Edition should make it an official feature. It’s a small addition, but one that would go a long way to ensure that players feel completely immersed in the Hogwarts Legacy experience. The ability to customize the player’s specific part of their dormitory would also serve to make it far more immersive.

6 Enhanced Common Rooms

More Activities For Players To Engage With In The Common Rooms

Speaking of common rooms, players need far more to do in them in the Hogwarts Legacy Definitive Version than they do in the base game. Common rooms are one of the best parts of Hogwarts itself, and they’re also one of the few things that separate each house. However, there’s practically nothing to do in each of the four common rooms other than wander around and look at the students interacting with one another.

It’s a genuine shame, especially considering how much effort went into creating them in the first place. Adding minigames like Wizards Chess to the common rooms would make them feel far more immersive and worthwhile, as well as potentially more secrets to discover and a way to interact with the students there on a deeper level. Perhaps special events could happen in the common room that players can only experience if they visit it at certain times of the day. There are plenty of potential ideas when it comes to improving the common rooms.

5 Prefects At Night

They Should Be Wandering The Halls

In the base version of Hogwarts Legacy, players could wander around the school grounds at night with absolutely no consequences. It’s a bit of an eerie experience, as all the other students disappear when it gets dark. Naturally, players want to rectify this, as canonically, there are prefects wandering the school at night to ensure that no students are sneaking around.

Of course, prefects have been at the top of many Hogwarts Legacy fans’ lists for must-have additions. It would make sense for the Definitive Edition to add them, especially as modders have proven they work in Hogwarts Legacy. It would make trying to complete side quests during this time a lot more stressful, but perhaps there could be secrets added that can only be accessed at night, encouraging players to be a bit rebellious.

4 A Better Dueling Club

It Should Be More Than A Handful Of Easy Missions

The dueling club in Hogwarts Legacy, known as Crossed Wands, is one of the more unique pieces of side content in the whole game. It sees players tackle progressively harder groups of students alongside a companion to see who can become the champion of the Crossed Wands club. They are relatively fun missions, but they end far too soon. The player can get them over and done with relatively quickly, with the rest of the game featuring absolutely no dueling club missions.

It’s a shame this potentially engaging piece of side content ended up just being a short quest chain as opposed to a more permanent fixture. The ability to continue battling students to try out the various new spells that had been unlocked would have been incredible. The Hogwarts Legacy Definitive Edition should, at the very least, add harder fights for late-game players to enjoy.

3 More Dynamic Open World Activities

Hogwarts Legacy’s Open World Is A Little Shallow

Hogwarts Legacy’s open world is filled with a handful of fun distractions, including short and simple side quests, goblin camps, collectibles, and the many infamous Merlin Trials. However, while there is plenty of content to enjoy while exploring, it can often feel a little hollow. That’s not to say it’s bad, but it never feels as engaging as other modern triple-A open-world titles.

Hogwarts Legacy Definitive Edition needs to add more dynamic and varied content to the open world to shake things up. While that doesn’t mean ditching the Merlin Trials completely, it could include stumbling across unique side quests as opposed to just finding them from vendors. It could also mean having emergent magical events happening while out exploring, much like how Dragon’s Dogma 2 handles its open world.

2 More Penalties For Using Dark Arts

The Player Should Be Punished For Using Dark Arts In Public

A morality system is just one of the many features a Hogwarts Legacy sequel should include, but it’s unlikely the Definitive Edition will add it to the base game. It’s too big of an addition to expect what is essentially DLC to add. However, greater consequences for practicing Dark Arts spells could be implemented, such as having the students comment on it while the player explores Hogwarts, or having the ghosts gossip about how a student has been caught casting Dark Arts spells.

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10 New Spells Hogwarts Legacy 2 Must Include

With the announcement of Hogwarts Legacy 2, the developers have a chance to add some of the most iconic spells missing from the first game.

The Dark Arts are incredibly overpowered in Hogwarts Legacy, so they need some form of negative effect associated with them to make those who wish to avoid them feel justified in their decision. This has to be more than simply having long cooldowns, as otherwise, every player will choose to unlock them as there’s no real consequence for doing so. Making them slightly less viable or having it be a genuinely bad thing to unlock them needs to be implemented in the Hogwarts Legacy Definitive Edition.

1 More Ominis Gaunt Missions

Give One Of The Best Characters More Screen Time

One of the most obvious storylines for the Hogwarts Legacy DLC is a deeper exploration of the fan-favorite Slytherin Student, Ominis Gaunt. As a member of the infamous Gaunt family – which includes such wizards and witches as Voldermort and Salazar Slytherin – Ominis has a tragic backstory that is only slightly discussed in the base game. Fleshing him out further would be an amazing thing to see in the base game, especially as the sequel is likely to switch to a different time period in which Ominis may not feature.

More missions involving Ominis that see him discuss and deal with his trauma would be an interesting inclusion and would help make his inclusion in Sebastian’s storyline more interesting. Ultimately, just having more Ominis in Hogwarts Legacy would be a plus as he’s such a unique character. It’s fair to say that Hogwarts Legacy Definitive Edition would be so much better if Ominis played a greater role.

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Harry Potter: Hogwarts Legacy

Platform(s)

PC , Switch , PS4 , PS5 , Xbox One , Xbox Series S , Xbox Series X

Released

February 10, 2023

Developer(s)

Avalanche Software

Publisher(s)

Warner Bros. Interactive

Engine

Unreal Engine 4

ESRB

T For Teen Due To Blood, Fantasy Violence, Mild Language, Use of Alcohol

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