The upcoming action-adventure game, Hogwarts Legacy, is a highly anticipated and much-awaited delve into the wizarding world of Harry Potter, allowing players to engage in a magical open world, learn spells and incantations, battle monsters, fly on broomsticks, and much more. Harry Potter video games are revered and have a storied past, beginning with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in 2001, and continues with the upcoming Hogwarts Legacy.

Harry Potter video games are known for their magical feel as well as for their distinct hit of nostalgia as players are taken back to when they first saw the movies or read the books. Fans find something wondrous in seeing Hogwarts and its grounds, Hagrid the groundskeeper, the students flying around on broomsticks, the great hall, the classrooms, the dungeons, and a myriad of other things that take fans back in their memories of the books and movies. And in Hogwarts Legacy's open world, players will get to engage with these things on an even bigger scale.

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One of these familiar features is that of the house crests, or the badges that represent the four class houses at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry: Ravenclaw, Slytherin, Gryffindor, and Hufflepuff. Over the years, these crests have gone through many design changes in the video games, adding and subtracting elements, as Redditor thepotterlegocy depicts in this image comparing the crests of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone to those of Hogwarts Legacy. The crests in Hogwarts Legacy are more pared-down, simple, and refined, bereft of the names of the houses and less colorful.

Two things are clear about the redesign. First, the designs are much more updated and fitting for newer graphics processors, allowing for more crisp and clear images. Second, the developers are very aware that their consumer market consists of fans of the Harry Potter franchise and most players will already know which mascot belongs to which house: Ravenclaw's eagle, Slytherin's snake, Gryffindor's lion, and Hufflepuff's badger.

The new house crests follow details about house-specific gameplay in Hogwarts Legacy, promising players that each house should provide a completely fresh and unique experience, allowing for maximum replayability. This will prove to be a welcome feature as fans are used to engaging in house-specific gameplay with things like Pottermore.

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is a vast, magical universe chock-full of wonderful and fantastical creatures and characters that are just waiting to be discovered by fans and players when Hogwarts Legacy releases. Players can look forward to role playing as either a Ravenclaw, Slytherin, Gryffindor, or Hufflepuff Hogwarts student as they traverse the world and revel in the magic.

Hogwarts Legacy is coming Holiday 2022 to Nintendo Switch, PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.

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