The history of Harry Potter will be very present in the design of Hogwarts Legacy.
Because it is an open world game, Hogwarts Legacy will allow Explore Hogwarts Castle like never before and visit places never seen before in a video game from the Harry Potter universe, but this does not mean that all known locations of the school will be accessible within the game. one of them will be the chamber of secretsone of the most famous and mysterious places in Hogwarts present both in the books and in the Harry Potter movies.
built by salazar slytherinthe Chamber of Secrets is where the basilisk lives that in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets terrorizes the school petrifying the students by order of Ginny Weasley, alienated by Tom Riddle’s diary, alter ego of Lord Voldemort. Here is where one of the most remembered scenes of the saga takes place, when Harry Potter fights the Basilisk to rescue Ginny, as well as being visited again later during the Battle of Hogwarts. Stories that take place one hundred years after the time line told in Hogwarts Legacy.
Hogwarts Legacy art book leaks new details
The Avalanche team seems to have thought through every detail of Hogwarts Legacy to fit the original story of the Harry Potter books, which is why, as the game’s recently leaked official art book reveals, the Chamber of Secrets is not will be available at Hogwarts Legacy. The objective is not cause contradictions with the events of the books by JK Rowling. You cannot enter the Chamber of Secrets because if you could, you would have to kill a basilisk and it would be a contradiction to the events of Harry Potter.
“Unfortunately, there were some issues with this and it was decided not to include it,” says one of the Hogwarts Legacy designers about the Chamber of Secrets. “We definitely didn’t want players to think they could kill a basilisk that was still there in 1992 (when Harry Potter meets it in the second book in the series).”
Hogwarts Legacy will be released in stages. The next Feb. 10 It will be available for PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC, on April 4 for PS4 and Xbox One, and on July 25 for Nintendo Switch. Take a look at his latest cinematic trailer.