Harry Potter fans have been looking forward to Hogwarts Legacy for years now, and the wait is nearly at an end. While Hogwarts Legacy is without a release date at the time of this writing, it's still scheduled to launch at some point later this year. In-depth gameplay videos and impressive trailers have been shown off for the game, so now it's just a matter of the release date being announced.
While Harry Potter fans wait to learn the Hogwarts Legacy release date, they may want to take a look at a cut-scene of the game that was shown at the Autodesk Vision Series. This cut-scene is rather brief, but it does show an interesting story development that will apparently happen during the game. In it, the player character and a fellow Hogwarts student see a trio of wizards pelting a hippogriff with spells. As it turns out, the Hogwarts Legacy player character knows the hippogriff and wants to save it.
The Hogwarts Legacy player character attempts to follow their classmate through a pair of massive doors, but they're locked out. They then decide to find another way around, with the camera panning over to show a potential way forward. It's a relatively brief cut-scene, but it does seem to indicate that the Hogwarts Legacy player character will have important relationships with the magical beasts they meet during the course of the game's story.
For those who may not be entirely familiar with Harry Potter lore, a hippogriff is essentially a combination of an oversized eagle and a horse. A hippogriff named Buckbeak plays a key role in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and it appears the hippogriff in Hogwarts Legacy will similarly play an important role in the story. However, fans will have to play through the game themselves to know for sure.
Again, the Hogwarts Legacy release date is currently unknown. However, an Amazon leak has suggested that the Hogwarts Legacy release date will early December. That has yet to be verified, but such a release date would make sense. It would make sure that Hogwarts Legacy is out just in time for the holiday shopping season, plus it would put a little distance between the game and other heavy hitters launching at the end of the year, like God of War Ragnarok and Pokemon Scarlet and Violet.
Hogwarts Legacy has one big advantage over those games, though, and that is the fact that it is a multi-platform title. Hogwarts Legacy is coming to Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, and PC, so Harry Potter fans will be able to check it out regardless of their platform of choice.
Hogwarts Legacy is in development for PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.