Hogwarts Legacy fans are constantly arguing over the nuances of the game, and it isn’t very often when players decidedly agree on anything. For a game that is geared toward teenagers, there’s a lot of violence in the game. And there’s one brutal fact about the beloved Harry Potter-based RPG that pretty much all players have accepted.
According to fans on Reddit, there’s a far worse character that makes even the most ruthless Harry Potter villain himself look as harmless as Hagrid. The character in question is you, as a matter of fact, the main playable character in the game, who fans point out is “worse than Voldemort,” and even borderline genocidal when it comes to taking out enemies in Hogwarts Legacy.
Hogwarts Legacy Fans Agree On One Brutal Fact
“The King Von Of Wizards”
Hogwarts Legacy is technically a teen-friendly game, and while there isn’t any over-the-top blood, guts, or gore included in the experience, there is absolutely no shortage of violence. While many aspects of the game have been debated by fans over the years, there’s one indisputable fact about your character, which is that they’re absolutely ruthless.
As gluestick3000 points out, “The amount of goblins you kill should constitute ethnic cleansing,” and when compared to He Who Must Not Be Named, he says “Voldemort killed maybe 20 people.” Players like epidipnis agree, saying “you break into people’s houses, steal their stuff, and they pretend like they don’t even see you. They’re too afraid to say anything,” which is unquestionably more terrifying.
Fans have embraced the main character’s brutality, with LHPSU saying, “[Voldemort] murdered six people to make horcruxes. I murdered six people before breakfast. We’re not the same.” They’ve even gone so far as to mock the villain’s wherewithal, with IndianaCahones saying, “Voldemort is overrated. The noseless “lord” lost a fight with a baby,” and Lucifer2695 saying the main character in Hogwarts Legacy “would never lose to a freaking baby.”
Maybe Voldemort Wasn’t So Bad After All…
While Voldemort is played up in canon as one of the most evil and corrupted souls in the HP universe, there’s no question that the main character in Hogwarts Legacy goes above and beyond anything Harry Potter‘s nemesis has ever done in terms of the ruthless slaying of goblins and bandits.
Overall, you might want to reserve your judgments about the dark lord, all things considered, and there’s no doubt the next Hogwarts Legacy game will bring back an equally relentless main character capable of the same atrocities. Hogwarts Legacy 2 is currently in the works, and while there’s no specific release date, it’s expected to arrive as soon as this year, if not 2027.
Hogwarts Legacy
- Released
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February 10, 2023
- ESRB
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T For Teen Due To Blood, Fantasy Violence, Mild Language, Use of Alcohol
- Developer(s)
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Avalanche Software
- Publisher(s)
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Warner Bros. Interactive
- Engine
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Unreal Engine 4
