tends to mess up in lessons - and that's about it. If you collect enough LEGO studs (the game's currency) over the course of the level, you reach 'True Wizard' status, which presents you with another Gold Brick.Įach of the character's have different abilities - Harry is awesome at flying broomsticks, and can talk to snakes, Hagrid is as strong as they come and can pull the chain/switch things without the need for a strength potion, and Hermione has the brains to work the bookshelves and open secret passages - and her cat Crookshanks can dig stuff up. These include using the levitation spell, Wingardium Leviosa, to rescue various students hanging from chandeliers, to releasing Ron from a plant's clutches in Herbology, to rounding up ingredients to put in a strength potion in Snape's class - these spells you learn in these lessons are then put to use in the story levels, and in and around the Hogwarts castle.ĭispensing with Deoxys in Lockheart's class - just one of the lessons you'll be attending.Īfter a brief holiday in LEGO Indiana Jones 2, the collectibles make a triumphant return - each level has 4 Hogwarts house crests, as well as Red Bricks and characters, and 'Student's in Peril', who needs your help - finding and completing any of these objectives award you with a Gold Brick at the end of the level - there's a total of 200 to find over the course of the game. Lessons basically involve having to repeat the same spell a set number of times, before you've 'learnt' it, and a little icon appears on the spell selection wheel (accessed by pressing and holding the c button). The levels themselves are more varied too, as -much like in the books/films - you'll need to go to lessons to learn spells, as well as the more traditional LEGO get-from-one-end-to-the-other-whilst-collecting-stuff-and-beating-up-bad-guys story levels, which are based on key moments from the books/films, such as the fight with the mountain troll in the girls toilets to entering the Chamber of Secrets through Moaning Myrtle's bathroom, to locating Harry in the Forbidden Forest. LEGO Harry Potter takes place in the much more open-plan world of Hogwarts castle, and you'll find you need to do more wondering around to get from level to level - but you don't need to worry about getting lost, as Nearly Headless Nick (Harry, Ron and Hermione's house ghost) is always floating towards where you need to go, leaving a trail of 'ghost studs' for you to follow. Therefore, I knew what was coming and what to do in places - but if you haven't seen the films or read the books, you might struggle a bit in places, seeing as, for example, you might not realise you're supposed to be retrieving Neville's Remembrall from Malfoy, and you'll just end up flying round aimlessly. First things first, I have never seen a Harry Potter film, bar about ten minutes of the first film, although the number of times I read the earlier books is probably into double figures.

Magic icon mean harry potter game lego