Players would have been punished or rewarded by a morality system that never made it into the final version of the game.
Hogwarts Legacy was one of the biggest releases of 2023, perhaps only surpassed in that time by The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, but you can always ask for more, especially from big productions. In the case of the game based on the Harry Potter universe, many gamers were struck by the fact that there were no moral consequences indiscriminately using the Unforgivable Curses that can be learned in-game, it seems like that wasn't the original idea.
This emerges from a publication made by the dataminer GrandTheftDiamonds who discovered a point file system in the game where players could be punished for various actions.
The human relationships brought to Hogwarts Legacy
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According to this, anything morally wrong in an educational institution would affect the player with this system, deducting points for the house the player is in, just like it happened in the books or movies. . Since when the line of crime was crossed using the Unforgivable Curses and even murdering other people, the consequences would be more severe and bring appearances of certain figures of law, it is unclear whether it would be Dementors or Aurors of some type.
The other side of the coin is that apparently the inhabitants of Avalanche Software had planned to include a reputation system which measures the interaction between the main character and the rest of the characters in the story. It could have consequences as visceral as love to hate.
Gabriel Fuentes
Translator and localizer of video games passionate about retro titles and simulators. He's never let go of a controller since he was given an Atari 2600.
