First off, for anyone looking to play this game, you need to essentially patch it before playing. Otherwise it will be a buggy and crashing mess. To prevent most bugs/crashes, do the following: - Go to your speaker properties (sound -> speakers ->properties -> Advanced) and change the default format to 16 bit 48000 HZ. This game does not work well with high quality sound. - Open 'run' (just type in run in the search bar) and type in appdata. From there go to Roaming -> WB Games -> Lego harry potter -> Pcconfig. In the pcconfig change the value of 'desireddynamiclightquality' from '2' to '0'. - Turn off FSAA ingame and turn Vsync on. Other settings shouldn't matter that much. My game crashed a total of 3 times while getting 100% in this game. 1 crash was before patching and two after. Crashes only seemed to happen in the Hub world (Hogwarts) when an action is spammed or a high pitch noise is created by something in the game. Multiplayer apparently also causes bugs, but i don't have any experience with that because i played solo. That being said, i still enjoyed the game. Pros + Graphics are alright for a lego game + Lots of Lego humor + Hogwarts as a hubworld makes feel the world more lively + Relive the movies to some extent (some content or story do seem to miss though) + Gameplay is pretty good + Good price for the amount of playtime you get out of it (if on sale) + Level builder (if you're into building digital blocks of lego) Cons - Bugs and crashes - Lots of characters but only a few have special abilities - Collecting all 167 character tokens can get a little grindy at times - Some puzzles actually make you question yourself (obvious solution seems too obvious for adults) - Bossfights except the one on year 2 are a letdown or too easy - Stud multipliers being able to get fairly early ruins the feeling of saving up for a certain character All things considered, it's still a pretty good lego game. Pick it up on a sale to get your money's worth.
