Hogwarts Legacy: Tired of VF? We explain how to play in VO (and VOST)!

news Hogwarts Legacy: Tired of VF? We explain how to play in VO (and VOST)!

You just bought Hogwarts Legacy: Hogwarts Legacy and you want to play it in the most immersive conditions possible that match the original atmosphere, namely in English? At first glance, it’s not that easy: if your console is set to French by default, The game starts in Molière’s language, but most importantly, no in-game option allows you to change the language of the dubbing.

A small problem for the game avalanche softwarealthough it can be adjusted relatively easily.

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Which version of Hogwarts Legacy are you playing? the latter bases the language of the text and voices of the game on this setting on your system, This means that if your console (PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series) or PC is set so that the games launched on your system are in French by default, Hogwarts Legacy will therefore launch in the full French version. It means that Not only the game texts, subtitles and menus will be in French, but also the dubbing. Of course, if you switch your system to English, you can have the original dubbings… but all lyrics will also be in English. That doesn’t help fans of the “VOST”. (Original version with subtitles) who prefer the original dubbing with subtitles (and menus) in French.

Fortunately, it is entirely possible to circumvent this situation. Yes, It is entirely possible to play in VOST at Hogwarts Legacy,

However, this requires a little trick that is far from obvious and that the game published by Portkey Games will absolutely never tell you, although it would be very handy! On PS5, the trick takes place outside of the game and consists of Press the Options button on the Dual Sense controller when on the game icon, then select Manage Game Content. From there you access your potential extensions and other additional content, but also… the language packs, here called “language data”. All you have to do is download the language you want to use dubbing for in the WB Games game, then restart it to enjoy it without changing the system language.

What about Xbox and PC?

unfortunately, it seems (at the moment?) not possible to play in VOSTFR (original version with French subtitles) on PC and Xbox,

according to our tests: we can only change the language of the system to activate the English voices, for lack of an option directly integrated into the menus in the game. Or, this change also includes the conversion of all texts (menus and subtitles) to English, and that’s probably not what you want. We will keep you informed as soon as a solution is found.

More tips and tricks will be available very soon in our complete Hogwarts Legacy walkthrough, which we urge you to arm yourself with as if it were the most prized spellbook in the Hogwarts library!

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