A video has surfaced online which appears to show an unreleased Harry Potter RPG set to release on consoles.
The game is reportedly a third-person, open-world RPG which centres around a character who has earned a late acceptance into the famous Hogwarts school. You play as a new fifth-year student, with strange events materialising at the school soon after your arrival; together with Professor Elezar Fig, you must set off on a journey through familiar Harry Potter locations - as well as some new, never-before-seen areas - to discover the mysteries behind these events.
This information comes directly from the video's uploader, RastaPasta, who has shared the details of the game's events in the YouTube video's description. A Reddit user under the name VapeThisBro claims to be the person behind the video, stating that they managed to sneak the off-screen footage during a focus group at Warner Bros.
You can check out the video for yourself below.
It's worth noting that the visuals appear to be at PS4/Xbox One standard, and you can just make out Xbox controller buttons being displayed at the top left of the screen for command inputs. Naturally, it's unknown whether this game will end up on Switch or not, but we imagine that the footage shown here may not accurately represent what a Switch build might look like.
We've actually known that Warner Bros. has been making a British-themed 'AAA' RPG for a while now, with a job advertisement giving the game away last year. The job was actually for Avalanche Software, a studio owned by Warner Bros., and - as you may be aware - Warner Bros. owns the licence for the Harry Potter franchise. This Harry Potter RPG is also reportedly set within the 19th Century, which just so happens to be slightly before the events of the recent Fantastic Beasts series of films.
As ever, we encourage you to wait for official confirmation before believing this to be 100% true, but the signs certainly point towards its authenticity. Would you like to see an open-world Harry Potter adventure on Switch? Let us know below.
[source youtube.com]
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This sort of leak hurts everybody involved, and the legal ramifications will just set the project back.
I hope it was worth it for VapeThisBro and RastaPasta.
Well, whatever this is, I looks a hell of a lot better than that trash of a phone game.
Based on that video, I’d say it’s nor a Switch game.
This would be awesome!
Open world HP style will be incredible!
I know it is used a lot but if they make it with the quality of the Arkham games or the new Spider-Man and they will win the World!
They don't even have to put Harry and the gang in the game! Make it independent from the books!
I guess Rowling needs money for all her bathrooms and bedrooms, hence the recent resurgence in Potter things.
This comes from the developers behind the Cars games and Disney Infinity. And the publisher is Warner Bros., notorious for shoehorning micro-transaction into everything. It's a recipe for disaster.
Either way, I don't see it coming to the Switch unfortunately.
@SmaggTheSmug Nit sure about recent resurgence. Its never gone away. The books remain top sellers and the community surrounding is just as feverish. There is a new movie coming out soon. So of course, there's quite a bit more press then usual about Wizarding World related stuff
And being Warner Bros involved I bet they’ll conjure a F load of loot boxes :3
@UmbreonsPapa That's what I meant, more movies, more games, including on mobile, re-release of LEGO Potter, a new board game from Knight Modes, and now this. It's not quite Pottermania as it was when the books were new, but more than in the last 5.
Oh my god?? Last time I've felt this excited for the series, JKR was still not on Twitter.
God I want this so much.
Well, that looks pretty real. When it will come out, I don't know because it would be a great tie-in with the new Fantastic Beasts movie but if WB was going to do that, it probably would have been announced already.
@Tsurii Could very well be, but all I'm seeing is quite a lot of mixed reactions.
Either way, the gameplay is very different, and this looks like a very ambitious project. I want it to be good, because I'm a fan of the Harry Potter universe, but their portfolio doesn't instill a lot of confidence with me. Add Warner Bros. on top of it all, and it's going to be a big ol' wait & see for me.
fAkE nEw$
Looks good. Let's wait and see
@SmaggTheSmug Really? Two years ago we had Fantastic Beasts and Cursed Child launch... that was arguably a far bigger moment
If this is fake I'd be very impressed.
Do it’s like… Harry Potter Fable?
@bratzdoll "JKR was still not on Twitter."
Don't remind me of the good times.
It's been nearly ten years since the last official game with an open-world Hogwarts to explore.
Looking back at a video from Half-Blood Prince just now, there certainly has been a lot of improvements happening in regards to lighting and atmospheric post processing. Not to mention materials in general, and skin in particular.
@Pod Back when EA still had a heart.
At least it doesn't look like DHpt1. #neveragain
Yes. YEEEES!
But it better be done right....
Fantastic Beasts Monster Hunter Harry Potter world but within the victorian age world?
...
That would be kinda my dream.
Too bad it is not coming to Switch. Have to buy it for PS4
I hope that it comes to Switch. But not holding my breath tho.
@RupeeClock It was 100% worth it
@Wesjedker
Or the semblance of one, at least. :-/
im beyond excited for this, cant wait for the actual announcement
I’ll play as long as we can be in our correct houses.
Funny thing is, I've finished my binge-watching of the saga yesterday, alongside my lovely better half. It was weird to own a Wizzis collection before having seen all movies.
Yes, you've read that right. I had not seen a 17-year-old movie saga - nor read the source material, for that matter - with a 7-year-old resolution until yesterday!
Anyway, the open world approach is what I've been wanting to see ever since the GBA adaptation of the first game (I said I was new to the saga as a whole, not that I was uninitiated to the Philosopher's Stone) and its depressing bottleneck of an endgame (the last save point only allows to face the final boss after it).
Especially given the excellent spritework of this Diet Zelda of sorts. If you stumble across it, ROM or cartridge, give it a whirl, but beware - once you go down the dungeons and Fluffy is involved, the endgame will be one point of no return after another.
I'm not sure how I feel about this. It's interesting. It's a little late, I'm about a decade out of any Harry Potter hype at all, so I'm not sure how that works, and yet this could become another Knights of the Old Republic: Long out of its time yet somehow a better representation than the original film source was. It could foster new hype, so I'm cautiously optimistic.
@Octane I, myself am looking forward to Bertie Botts Every Flavored Bean Boxes for $9.99 to see if I can max out the skill trees.....
Hmm, looks interesting. We still get LOTR games. I'll give it a try.
How come there aren’t any Hunger Games games? You’d think it would be perfect with the battle royale craze right now. Sorry if it seemed off topic
Looks bad
Oh please let this be true. This is the kind of Harry Potter game I wanted from the beginning...
I'll reserve comment about the actual game, but do wonder if this is an actual leak or a PR move made to resemble a leak?
Hope this is true and would love to see it on the switch
@Rohanrocks88 Good Point 😂
Harry Potter is hands down in my Top 5: Best Books ever, so I'll buy it for sure, because the concept is pretty enticing.
On another note, J.K Rowling is just like Stephen King, an awesome author, but if you want to keep liking her, you should NOT follow her on Twitter lol.
@Octane that is why i'm keeping my guard up, they are notoriously known for micros, loot boxes and season passes, game is impressive though i'm a huge harry potter fan so i will keep a eye on this cautiously.
Hope it's not Rocksteady and they're working on a DC character.
Video has been taken down by WB!! I'd be willing to bet it's real...
@NEStalgia Fantastic Beasts is going to be a five film series, so this game will be out before that's done and over with. And they're probably closer to the game than the actual Harry Potter books/films, because just like Fantastic Beasts, this game reportedly takes place in a time long before the events of Harry Potter & friends.
This isn't coming to Switch. Give over.
@huyi Yeah, same here. I'll keep an eye out for it, but I won't get excited just yet. Besides, the leak also said it wouldn't be out before 2020 anyway. Probably next gen by the time it comes out.
I've been waiting for a good, big budget Harry Potter game for years. Can't wait to play this on my PC. That's IF Warner Bros. doesn't get greedy with this like they did Shadow of War and ruin it with loot boxes and micro transactions.
@Octane I forgot "Fantastic Beasts" was a thing. Oh joy. I liked the Harry Potter phenomenon when it started but it went downhill so fast with being "made for film" after a while. And then LOTR trilogy films came out and that kind of crushed any further need for HP
Still, the Hogwarts focus of this may not fit in so well.
@NEStalgia I'll bet you they're going to take a few nostalgia trips to Hogwarts in the films at some point
@Octane But of course.....
@AlexSora89
Oh pls, that is more or less the single worst game in the GBA's library.
Give the GBC version of the same game a spin, improvement in every factor except lack of digitized "flippendo" sound bites.
if so dont expect it for switch
This would get me to finally buy a PS4 (if it’s coming to PS4). RDR2 this month is also very tempting...
@SimplyCinnamon53 There's always Danganronpa, if that counts.
@Rubbercookie
The "worst HP game" award should go to Chamber Of Secrets, as far as GBA goes. Lots of improvement in the flying section department, but three times as many steps back everywhere else.
I'd love for this to come to the Switch, but I also like keeping my expectations reasonable....Provided this isn't an elaborate hoax or something to that effect.
The video has been removed by Warner Brothers...
Video is now unavailable because of Warner Brothers copyright....
That's confirmed it. It's real. Expect a true reveal very soon now.
@AlexSora89 You sir, have a point.
Blocked, so it is real!
RastaPasta and VapeThisBro. What's not to trust?
Woo hoo... so glad to have another open world game to play. Here's hoping they stuff it full of microtranactions. So many outfits and spells to buy.
HP is past now, the fanbase is dead, it's 2018 and people has already realised how stupid the whole concept is.
@Rubbercookie
About which comment? I kind of got off track here.
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