Hogwarts Legacy’s new trailer shows the dark side of siding with Slytherin

Hogwarts Legacy, fresh from Warner Bros.’ announcement of a three-month delay, got a new trailer to kick off Gamescom 2022 at Opening Night Live on Tuesday. This latest trailer highlighted the difficulties of dark magic being used in open-world Harry Potter adventures.

Developer Avalanche Software will let players befriend Slytherin student Sebastian Sallow, and face the choice to embrace or reject the Dark Arts “as you uncover his family’s mystery through his companion quest line,” the Hogwarts Legacy’s new trailer description says. Trailer shows a companion quest featuring Sallow and gives hints at the hard choices players will need to make to either engage in dark magic or not.

Hogwarts Legacy This movie takes place in the 1800s. It is 100 years after Harry Potter enrolls at this famed wizarding school. You can read the entire story here. Hogwarts LegacyThey are, however, a fifth year student and learn advanced magic while making friends and fighting fierce rivals.

Avalanche Software, Warner Bros. initially planned for a launch in the holiday year 2022. pushed Hogwarts Legacy to Feb. 10, 2023 to give developers “a little more time to deliver the best possible game experience.” Hogwarts Legacy The game will launch on the PlayStation 4 and 5 as well as Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Xbox PC. It is not known when the Nintendo Switch version will be released.

Although the game is part of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling was not involved. Hogwarts Legacy’s creation. The announcement was immediately followed by a celebration Hogwarts Legacy September 2020 last Warner Bros. Games distanced the project from her in light of Rowling’s public, and transphobic, remarks on gender.