The concept is cute and the humor is great, but the gameplay is thin. The combat is trivially simple in all modes, which makes it a two-to-three hour romp from start to end. I expect that the various collections were intended to make for more of something to do, but since the game doesn't seem to handle tracking them possible without Steam, they might as well not exist. Its just not enough game for $10. If it goes on sale for 70-80% off, then maybe.
If you're a fan of Harry Potter, then you can expect the same sort of simple fun that the Lego $FRANCHISE games offer, and this is probably a game for you. If you're considering the game for the "100% hunting" completionist drive that made games like Lego Batman and Lego Indiana Jones so fantastic, it's less compelling. The character tokens make completion extremely grindy, and worse, the game can be very buggy, and it's apparently possible to permanently lock yourself out of getting certain blocks, character tokens, etc. My rating reflects my membership in the latter group. Not a bad game, but know what you're getting into.
The premise is amusing enough (Anyone else reminded of Chicken Boo from the Animaniacs?), and the first couple of puzzles are pretty sharp. Unfortunately, the clever physics turned annoying when I spent 20 minutes trying to get an aquarium ticket into a little slot. That's apparently the limit of my sense of humor.
I admit, I didn't get very far into the game. The game itself saw to that: Once you've left the obligatory destroyed-hometown-cum-combat-tutorial, you've got a few quests in your journal and once possible destination city. Unfortunately, all of those quests are of the "Go see <Some NPC>" variety, and the city you enter is chock full of NPCs, none of which give you any indication of who you're looking for (the "speech bubbles" on some NPCs sometimes mean they have a quest for you, but more often, just some random exposition. After two hours of fruitless searching -- which netted me three more "seek the NPC" sidequests - I just couldn't be bothered anymore.
I could have loved the game, but the camera just hates me. Swiveling around at the worst possible time, combined with wonky auto-facing just makes some of the more "intense" combat scenes almost unplayable: making you attack the wrong baddie, trying to flip over instead of away from those annoying double-spear guys, and making sure you jump in the wrong direction when you're jumping away from collapsing floors... Most of the time it's not too bad, but having to do the same long fight half a dozen times or more ("Daybreak", e.g.) stops feeling fun.
