Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets PC Game - Nostalgia Review

[@PhilOfGlimmer]

If anyone needs help getting the first three Harry Potter games to run on Windows 10, I've made a video that explains why they don't work, how to get them to run, and other useful graphical fixes! kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3WvZHyLmtSSrdE

[@daffy5396]

Also about the game not being particularly challenging, if you look in game files, specifically in documents were you'll find a file called user.INI, you'll find a line of text that says Difficulty=DifficultyEasy. This is actually a line of code where you can change the game's difficulty by replacing the word Easy with either the word Medium or Hard. I'm currently playing the game with the difficulty set on hard and so far there are four noticeable changes: 1: Enemies seem to deal more damage to Harry 2:the spell learning minigame is sped up by a significant margin 3: in dueling the Spells cast by the opponent travel faster (almost as fast as a bullet might I add) 4: The basilisk is even tougher than before since it has more health and its venom travels faster

[@PhilOfGlimmer]

@@daffy5396 Woah this is the first time I've heard about this! This is so cool!

[@Mugen_Koda]

@@PhilOfGlimmer Figured it was worth mentioning as well, but something that brought about loads more playability for me was finding out about the debug mode settings and noclipping about the school, increasing and decreasing the game speed, level select, and more. If you go into one of the config files in the My Documents files for the game, there's a setting around the lines of something like bDebugModeEnable=False and if you set it to True then that'll do the do. As far as I know, all of the first three games have it with I think some limitations and differences here and there. Might be interesting to do a video going through the differences and things you can do with it between the games if that suits your fancy. I'd love to see it myself at least. Nonetheless, love what you're doing man. I just picked up these games again so to see you doing this kinda thing on your channel is awesome. Keep it up.

[@PhilOfGlimmer]

@@Mugen_Koda I did actually mess around a bit with noclipping through everything and its super cool seeing the levels like that! and some of the hidden parts.

[@klaudiagrob]

Do you think you will play Hogwarts Legacy?

[@isiragxl8289]

I liked the first three games. I loved how the games were their own interpertation of the books instead of copying the films. Which started happening with the fourth game. The first three however, just magical. I still have the physical copies of them all. The soundtrack alone was just magnificent.

[@eoincushey3601]

the composer went on to compose for skyrim

[@Suenami89]

YESS! this! 🙌🏻

[@Suenami89]

@@eoincushey3601 no wonder i love both soundtracks

[@hammerite6418]

@@eoincushey3601 my favorite game of all time and my favorite childhood game only makes me respect Jeremy soule more

[@kevinfromsales9445]

I've noticed each game is different depending on the platform. For example this game on PC looks and plays way different on Gamecube. Which are the best versions of the original trilogy?

[@evancodsworth2]

I remember being terrified of the Skurge challenge as a kid. I’d always ask my grandfather to sit next to me so I’d feel safe.

[@alexandergunn5143]

Same! Peeves gave nightmares for months haha

[@thedumbanimator25]

@@alexandergunn5143 me too in a level where we have to find a bicorn horn there is a part where we have to use flipendo on four blocks to form a path which has red green blue and yellow doors there on the left side of those flipendo blocks whenever i opened the chest there it just made me scared cuz peeves did a jumpscare man

[@thewachannel4537]

@@thedumbanimator25 You're actually referring to the Quest for the Powdered Bicorn Horn located in the dungeons, the Shredded Boomslang Skin you had to find in the Greenhouses!

[@badgyver100]

I always remember the Peeves apparition as the first heart attack of my life 😂 And that ghostly terrifying laugh that occasionally sounds... 😖😨😰

[@thedumbanimator25]

@@thewachannel4537 yes😂

[@MarilynsBeetlePincers]

BEST Harry Potter game of all time, full stop! Every time I replay it I like to focus on something different about the gameplay which makes it feel like a fresh game each time. My most recent playthrough I was determined to get as few house points as possible and lose the House Cup. Did you know if you walk in on Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration class you can lose house points?? Found that out only this year! I kept walking in on her until my points went to zero. I ended the game with 70 points for Gryffindor and Slytherin had like 680 points. I was so upset when we won the House Cup anyway lol

[@PhilOfGlimmer]

* dumbledore awards Gryffindor a billion points to make up for McGonagall taking them all away *

[@MrKlausbaudelaire]

Something I loved in the first 3 PC games of the franchise was the feeling of continuity by keeping spells like Lumus, Alohomora and Flipendo throughout the three games. It really made it feel like a single continuous universe rather than three games that happened to follow one storyline and helped expand Hogwarts and the exploration without relying on brand new gimmicks but just polishing pre-existing ones. I'll NEVER forget spells like Lumus, Flipendo, Spongify as long as I live. Also, the pause menu theme is HEAVENLY!

[@gonzaloc4711]

I find it amazing that this game is almost unanimously regarded as the best in the series. It's so memorable.

[@EuroMIX2]

This game makes the first one look like an unfinished beta by comparison. Being able to freely explore Hogwarts is just such a huge improvement by itself, not to mention the controls.

[@PhilOfGlimmer]

Yeah it's like this one is what they were going for with the first one but didn't quite get there yet

[@TheBreakingBenny]

We're basically playing Unreal 1 in baby mode, if we're being super nerdy and technical.

[@vegitoblue2187]

tbh the story felt better in 1 esp the filtch part

[@elephant35e]

Lots of things are better about this one. Being able to freely explore Hogwarts as you said, lots more secrets to find, being able to throw gnomes around, the game letting you know when you found a secret (first game tells you how many secrets are in an area but doesn't let you know when you've discovered one), longer story, house points actually being useful, wizard cards being more than just fun collectibles, students' mouths moving when they talk, students' faces being better designed, etc.

[@manjackson2772]

It's so weird how in the first one they went out of their way to remove strafing. It's not just that they unbound the keys, you can rebind them with the ini files, but they recoded it to be another pair of turn buttons

[@DBZking119]

the soundtrack of this game is so iconic that almost every harry potter game used songs form it going forward

[@DBG2k]

Probably my favourite game as a kid! Great video!

[@playoff97]

You can tactically downgrade to sorcerer's stone

[@MGB_2024]

Hogwarts is like a weird non-place in these games. It's not always like the one in the film, and certain areas seem impossible. How are there challenges under (or in) the castle? Why, in the first game, would certain areas change when you come back? Even the bonus bean room seems nonsensical, and there are loads of strange secret areas. Even the makeup of the rooms is strange - why are there platforms everywhere, and why do they move? Occasionally, I still dream of rooms like those in these games. There's something really uncanny about them.

[@PhilOfGlimmer]

You're actually so right!

[@clivi1039]

Actually, this was the design with every platformer this company developed. I noticed this when playing HP 1,2 and 3 and confirmed when played the much less known A Series of Unfortunate Events game.

[@Blisterdude123]

It's a quirk of game design. The locations in this game, as with others, are designed to 'be' game spaces. People don't live in game spaces, they're not world spaces. Hence the 'uncanny' feeling. They might look like world spaces, but they're explicitly designed game spaces. But you're right, it does prompt a strange feeling. Because something you recognise, quite clearly, doesn't look completely right.

[@nameless3777]

When I played this game, I spent a lot of time looking for ways to get it to glitch out. - On the way to Hagrid's hut, you can climb up the sides of the path. The trees on top have no hit boxes, so you can walk through them which will take you to an open field that extends to the border of the map. -There's a toilet in the girl's bathroom that spawns gnomes. It's supposed to spawn a finite number of them which when reached, will no longer allow you to cast spells on it. If you place a gnome behind the toilet so that a spell aimed at the gnome hits the toilet instead, you can spawn an unlimited number of gnomes. -You fall faster than the speed at which a spell travels. If you're falling and you cast a spell on a gnome, you can pick the gnome up before the spell reaches it. The spell will start circling around your arm until it runs into something, you throw the gnome, or it goes too long without hitting anything. -If you have potion ingredients and a gnome walks near a cauldron, you will start making potions even if you're nowhere near one. -If you are one bronze wizard card short of a new stamina bar and you die right in front of one so that your falling animation causes you to fall backwards onto the wizard card, you will crash the game.

[@hernandez4871]

Omg i did the first one too! I always wondered if there was anything behind those trees up there so I jumped till i was able to go up. Also i have a little memory that this game had a glitchy part where you were walking on a chess board like ground in the middle of nowhere. I have no idea how did i got there but it happened a few times, does that happened to you too?

[@haltingprecipitation]

re: the 2nd one, i remember using the same trick to get unlimited jellybeans and potion ingredients! specific toilets spawn jellybeans/flobberworms/bark once. but if you throw a gnome into those cubicles, position them behind the toilet, you get to cast flipendo for infinite profit :)

[@AD240pCharlie]

Similar to the 2nd one, there's an armor in the Skurge challenge located close to a Lumos figure, so if you place yourself so that you can target the figure with Lumos from beside the armour it will keep hitting the armor. And since the game thinks it means you're casting Flipendo, it can give you infinite beans.

[@karlhnedkovsky5214]

Dude, this game is my childhood! I freakin' adore this game! I used to play this, when I was about 6 with my aunt! I loved to mess around with all the spells (especially Spongify), and searching for all the secrets with her. Here's a few hidden things I found out, when I picked up and played this game again recently (Super glad I did), and messed around with the ghost cheat in debug mode: 7:29 Funny thing: If you cast Skurge on Peeves as soon as he comes out of any chest, you can clip him through the floor and make him fall out of bounds! I love doing that! XD 16:04 Fun fact: The door to the Forbidden forest is always open at night, because the game treats night schoolgrounds as a separate area, from the daytime grounds! If you use debug mode and ghost through the locked door to Hagrid's hut right after the whomping willow, you can just simply enter the forbidden forest and be on your way to Aragog, skipping a large portion of the game! Though sadly by doing that, you essentially soft-lock yourself, as the game does not give you the spells you're supposed to know at that point, meaning you can only cast the spells you know at the start of the game. You can ghost your way through to Aragog, but since you don't know Rictusempra, you've reached a dead end, and need to restart the game! (I find these types of hacks and glitches fun and interesting, so I wanted to share) 17:01 Similar to the forest, the loading trigger for the chamber of secrets is always active. As early as your first day at Hogwarts, you can go up to the third floor and ghost through to the girls bathroom, followed by ghosting into the loading trigger in the sink, which is active, and will transport you to the chamber. Just like in the forest skip, you have only the starting spells, so you'll have to ghost through most of it, but you CAN reach the final boss and beat it, since you fight him with the sword of Gryffindor. Effectively skipping the entire game! (Let's see how fast YOU can beat the game!) 19:29 One final tidbit: House points don't really matter in this game, unless you want to go to the bean bonus room. At the end of the game, Albus will always pronounce Gryffindor as the winning house, even if you try to earn the least amount of points on purpose. (LOL) Hope you enjoyed these little tidbits, have fun and peace out! 😎

[@PhilOfGlimmer]

That's so cool, time to banish Peeves forever

[@Ajzan1]

I know this comment is old, but I wanted to add that in debug mode you can press a F# key (I forgot which one) to unlock all the spells early. I used it to discover all of the secrets in the hub areas at once. The real soft lock can happen if you go to Potions classroom before the game ulocks it and open the chest containing mucus and the bark needed for potion making tutorial. Its script requiers you to open the chest first, collect materials and then go to the cauldrun nearby. If the turial starts and the chest is already open, game/ Snape will still order you to open it and stop you from going to the cauldrun, even if you have all necessary items and thus you are stuck here forever.

[@Ajzan1]

Out of all of this KnowWonder trilogy. the second one feels the most polished. Story is an actual plot with good pacing and not just the glue that keeps levels together and Harry has personality and contributes to the story. All 3 have cut content, but CoS still feels complete without it.

[@silverwings9276]

It's like the first game on steroids, it's not controversial at all to consider it the best of the bunch.

[@Ajzan1]

I really hope Hogwarts Legacy will be just as whimsical as the first three games and not grounded in realism like OotP onwards.

[@PhilOfGlimmer]

Same, I really hope it captures that magical feeling of exploring Hogwarts!

[@Ajzan1]

@@PhilOfGlimmer Me too. They nailed Hogwarts in OotP, but also could do more. No secret areas and interesting collectibles. It's clear their main focus with that game was on physics engine and motion controls.

[@GigaWh4tt]

They need to put the diagon alley song from this game in Hogwarts Legacy somewhere.

[@elephant35e]

@@Ajzan1 Exactly how I felt. Hogwarts Legacy with a map as big as OoTP (or bigger!) plus secret areas would be AMAZING.

[@Ajzan1]

I'm sorry for another comment, but I wanted to share one more observation. Apparently in this game's universe Gilderoy Lockhart was meant to be obsessed with Bertie Bott's beans. 1. In the demo version of this game (stylized like DADA spell challenge) you can cast Flipendo spell on GL's statues. Not only they will give beans but also say in Lockhart's voice some witty comments about this treat. 2. Out of all accessible classrooms in this game, Lockhart's has the most collectable goodies, including balcony filled with beans.

[@silveirona]

This game was not only one of the first games I've played, but also was one of the first games to be dubbed in Portuguese, which means that my 7 year old self could UNDERSTAND what the characters were saying! I didn't have to guess what I had to do! AMAZING

[@Kaidauren2]

The game looks so good here, wouldn't believe it's from 2002

[@LordMangudai]

The lighting effects are honestly top notch for the time.

[@atrudokht]

@@LordMangudai yeah, I love the colors, so vivid for such dawn of PC technology

[@thewachannel4537]

I agree that Harry Potter and the Chamber Of Secrets PC Game is the best out of the first three for many reasons 1. There are MORE Wizard Cards that you can collect in this game- #1- 25 Wizard Cards, #2- 101 Wizards Cards, and #3- 80 Wizard Cards (and even if you miss a Wizard Card in the 2nd game, you can always buy it from a student that sells cards in exchange for Bertie Botts Beans unlike the 1st and 3rd games where you'd have to start the game over if you miss one in order to collect it) 2. The Chocolate Frogs- In the first and third games, the Frogs only sit or hop up and down in one spot, but in the second game, the Frogs try to hop away from you, making it a little more challenging to collect them, you can either force the Frog into a corner or walk backwards into it to pick it up. 3. You have more health in the 2nd game than you do in the 1st and 3rd games, each time you collect 10 new Bronze Wizard Cards, you would be given another bolt of stamina for a total of 6, max. 4. I love the Gnomes, especially in the 2nd game where if they attack you, you won't lose any health and you can still get your beans back by casting Flipendo on a Gnome. 5. The Dueling Club which you can use to increase your stash of Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans. There are many other reasons, but I'll just leave it at that.

[@jaredbenge577]

These games really need a remaster/re-release

[@titleAzure]

1-3 Harry Potter games are the best 🥰 I am still playing these games now and then

[@ezioauditoredafirenze5531]

Did you seen trailer for new Hp game hogwarts Legacy ? It will relese for ps5 next year

[@thewachannel4537]

So am I, although i only have the first 2.

[@HydraTower]

@@ezioauditoredafirenze5531 Not just Playstation fyi, for those interested.

[@The_Shadow_Emperor]

Did you know that at a certain point in the game, you can enter the Transfiguration classroom to find McGonagall in the middle of a lesson? She will be cross with you for interrupting the class and threaten to deduct House Points if it happens again. It's a good way to bring your total down to zero if you want to see Slytherin win for whatever reason. :) On a related note, I never understood why Lockhart is the one who teaches you Spongify. What does turning carpet into jelly have to do with the dark arts? Seems like something more up McGonagall's alley.

[@PhilOfGlimmer]

Ooooh I think I vaguely remember coming across McGonagall doing a lesson once before, I'll have to try make that happen again!

[@Black-Swan-007]

@@PhilOfGlimmer It triggers when you're supposed to go to learn Diffindo. I've never gotten it to trigger any time before or after, only right before that Herbology lesson.

[@PhilOfGlimmer]

@@Black-Swan-007 thanks for the info!

[@Black-Swan-007]

@@PhilOfGlimmer No problem! It's definitely worth seeing!

[@kated442]

This was my favorite game as a kid. I’d play it over and over, doing enough of the plot to unlock all the spells then hanging around the castle for as long as I could before finishing it up. There was a glitch in the hidden area behind the hedge/wall at the right side of the grounds where dropped beans wouldn’t refresh between areas, so I’d gather them up and let the gnomes attack me until the floor was covered in them. Sometimes I’d get a bean “stuck” in the geometry and it’d follow the camera.

[@PhilOfGlimmer]

Wow I'll definitely have to try out those funky glitches 🤩 and honestly if I could live in Harry potter CoS PC game Hogwarts forever I would

[@xpeh_nonagewb]

I remember that bean glitch. Once it's "stuck" in the textures, you can't get it anymore, no matter what you do, even if you reach it. That bean just hangs up there and can be seen through all the textures, even if you're far in the other room.

[@zoeh179]

The gold wizard card challenge was just the best.

[@elephant35e]

As a kid I was so excited to see what was behind the silver wizard card door, and was so happy to see that it was a gold wizard card challenge. I had been wondering where the gold wizard cards were for so long.

[@retroz1lla]

This game was such a big part of my childhood and the very first 3D game I ever played. I still remember feeling like the worlds biggest hacker when I found the debug mode. 😆 Just the overall style, the cartoony visuals and the music (my god the music!). Even if it looks old today, this game was a masterpiece.

[@sneakyninja2883]

I don't know why but as a kid I used to be really scared of the gnomes in this game.

[@Suenami89]

Me too! And understandably so. They pretty much rob you lol

[@sylvyboi]

I was more terrified of those imps than the basilisk itself as a kid 😭

[@WMAAFfrea]

Me too, bud!! They made really creepy noises, still hate hearing them and/or playing against them to this day

[@sgtsongbird]

Bc they're scary lol, they're creepy as hell and they literally mug you at every opportunity

[@elephant35e]

As a kid I was scared of opening chests with Peeves in them. For one of my first playthroughs I hardly opened any chests because of him.

[@GopalChatterjeeezioisgod]

Having played the game for over hundred times now, whenever I see anyone posting such a beautiful review of my favorite pc video game of all time... It fills me with immense joy and nostalgia. Thank you for this. ❤️🙏👍

[@Mathroy]

Agreed! I played the first 2 HP PC games so much as a child! I just wish EA would only Remaster and sell them on Steam so they run on Windows 10 without the need of a fix, and also with higher resolution... One can hope.

[@xpeh_nonagewb]

I remember feeling disturbed by seeing the messages on the wall on the 3rd floor, near the Moaning Myrtle's bathroom, as a kid. After once seeing it in a nightmare, I started completely avoiding that area. I was just hanging around outside of Hogwarts to stay as far away from that corridor as possible. But felt relieved when I saw these messages were gone after I beat the game. Lol Besides that, that was the game that got me obsessed with the Bertie Bott's beans, let alone just collecting them in the game 😂 I even messed around with gnomes until all the Hogwarts premises are flooded with beans. P.S. Feeling jealous of everyone, who played the Debug mode. I never had any luck activating it 😫

[@naninanini1485]

As a kid I was always disturbed by the creepy music that starts playing in the areas where someone was petrified, so I also avoided the area near Myrtle's bathroom. The music also plays at one part in the beginning at the whomping willow. Still creeps me out today😄

[@xpeh_nonagewb]

@@naninanini1485 same here. Recently, I decided to play this game again and managed to replace that creepy music with something better. Still haven't figured out how to replace the message textures with something less disturbing though.

[@naninanini1485]

@@xpeh_nonagewb I kinda love creepy stuff now, so I hang around there a lot whenever I replay the game :D

[@AlfonsoSRT]

Also there's a really creepy song that plays when you approach.

[@nootnoot-2]

That area is so creepy, I couldn't even look at it as a kid. The movie didn't scare me, but the bloody wall in the game was kinda traumatizing 😅 just replayed it and luckily the music in the game isn't working, but it's still creepy and I am still a little bothered by the bloody wall

[@Lessgoquaxly]

I remember falling down from the highest stair, but was unable to die because I land in front of the twin associate and they instantly trigger conversation. Everytime I cancel and was was abt to die it trigger conversation lol

[@zmr3352]

I think something similar happened to me with one of the spongify tiles in the main staircase. I kept bouncing up and down dying then coming back to life repeatedly cause I kept triggering a conversation with a student for a wizard card.

[@JonnyHarris15]

I loved this game as a kid. But am I the only one that was (still am) terrified of the snails. Especially after the Diffindo challenge, when the little shits wouldn't stay in their traps. No. Just me. Okay.

[@xpeh_nonagewb]

They will also start to chase you much faster as the game progresses. Dealing with them in the chamber of secrets quest was a horror show.

[@JonnyHarris15]

@@xpeh_nonagewb That too

[@Fresca64_]

Thank you for this review. The first three Harry Potter games for PC remain some of my favorite games ever. I played all of the other ones to some extent too, but they didn't hit in the same way. However, Order of the Phoenix has a section at the higher floors where the menu music from this game can play and I think I about cried when I first heard it.

[@umamiballad8639]

Thanks for the trip down memory lane! I played Games 2-5 as a kid but 2 was the one that's always stuck with me. Appreciate you pointing out the little details that made the game work - the lighting, the sound effects, the soundtrack. I never noticed any of that as a kid, but they made the castle feel a lot more mystical and alive than the low-poly graphics could do alone. Hearing that menu music just instantly took me back.

[@supersnow17]

What I loved most about this is its freedom. You went at your own pace. You could spend an hour exploring everything inside and out before going to your next class, the game never/rarely ever stopped you from doing so. Plus you could always re-do a specific magic trick's staging area to find any missing cards/beans.

[@drew8235]

To be honest, considering how bad EA has become, we're kind of lucky we that we got so many different versions of the first three games, almost all of which are amazing. We got solid adventure games on PC and then PS2/Xbox/GC, excellent RPGs on GBC and GBA, and honestly the PS1 games are good in their own right, even though they get a lot of crap from people lol. It's a shame the GBA versions of 1 and 2 were not so good. =/

[@thesidneychan]

The portable versions were RPGs and within that genre, including the music, they were some of the best on that system. There was a lot of passion put into these games in their respective platforms. Then Prisoner of Azkaban came along and it was the start of the shitter.

[@baru0chan]

i was so disappointed with the fourth game (and every game that came after that). the pc game franchise peaked with the second and third game, though the third one is strangely way easier than the second.

[@abisnow1843]

I remember preferring this as a child because I preferred the freedom of being able to cast spells while moving :D also I... never knew that you were supposed to use that secret passage to escape the Slytherin common room. I didn't know you were supposed to stealth it. I just used to RUN. One time I accidentally trapped myself in that weird water feature room? where the chest was? They couldn't catch me but I couldn't escape XD I always thought it was kind of weird that all the students in the Slytherin common room saw Harry running out, even calling for Snape, and yet when I escaped they just kind of... let me live on in this existence. No kind of punishment XD

[@anniegunnarsson934]

I played this game a ton when I was a kid and this video gave me so much comfort. Thank you so much for your work, this certainly put a smile on my face!

[@emilyquinn5047]

I love that it is pretty much just a Harry Potter themed Ocarina Of Time Clone. And my favorite game of all time at that.

[@gerritdeman6410]

I made the same comment on another video which reviewed the first three PC Harry Potter games, but I'm really curious if other people know about this so I'll post it here as well: In the Chamber of Secrets PC game there's a really funny sort of bug in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom that allows you to summon an infinite amount of gnomes (or get an infinite amount of resources). Basically all you have to do is the following: climb on the toilet that only opens when Moaning Myrtle floats above it, which allows you to jump towards other toilets with closed doors. Casting flipendo on these toilets will cause them to spawn things like beans or a gnome depending on the toilet, after that the toilet becomes useless. However, if you take a gnome and put it behind/next to a toilet, you can infinitely cast flipendo on the toilet by aiming at the gnome behind it. You're kind of tricking the game into thinking the flipendo was cast on the toilet instead, which allows you to summon an infinite amount of gnomes when you use this on the gnome spawning toilet. I remember me and my younger brother accidentally finding this out when we were like 6 or 7 and we just completely lost our minds. Needless to say we turned the entire second floor of the castle into one giant gnome infestation, although the frame rate wasn't very happy about that. :p

[@PlumbobMillionaire]

Wow I played this a lot as a kid and never knew you could knock the opposition seeker unconscious! Did you also know that you can see Hagrid's character model outside the Dursley's at 1:23

[@PhilOfGlimmer]

oh my GOD i've NEVER noticed that before that's amazing!

[@Codraroll]

Oh wow. I wonder if that was done as an Easter egg or as a way to create a shrub without having to make a separate model for one single use.

[@Gilsworth]

There's a secret room that can only be accessed with console commands! It's right behind the girl's dormitory in the Gryffindor common room and there are plenty of beans strewn about and a timer that counts down! This is one of my favourite childhood games and the best Harry Potter game by far, I still never knew this until fairly recently!

[@cdstar25]

I can't wait for the third game review. It's my absolute favorite PC HP game. I've 100%-ed it so many times. 😀 Also, that was a great review, you've touched on everything about this game. Even the fact that gnomes turn mushrooms into beans, which I did not know for years of playing before I randomly discovered it. Great job. 😉😁

[@thesidneychan]

I played the first game on the PS1, but Chamber of Secrets on the PC was my most favourite, and most memorable. I didn't appreciate that you couldn't Flipendo everywhere, nor the fact that it was missing the Whomping Willow boss fight that was on the PS1- but my god, this game had such memorable music (The hogwarts grounds music is still playing in my mind all these year later) and a breadth of wonder and exploration that I played it many times. Hogwarts was always a good fit for a Metroidvania design. The color and art design is so good that it holds up pretty well in 2021.

[@thesidneychan]

I remember saving just before the Slytherin room, and then when the Polyjuice potion wore out, I tried seeing how many Slytherin kids I could collect to chase me. My friend laughed and said it looked like Harry was leading a bunch of school kids.

[@tbirdUCW6ReAJ]

I remember that always happening to me.

[@WilbertBeltman]

The "stealth" section in the slytherin house isn't really that stressfull, I just ran back to the entrace and never got caught xD

[@Hermione222]

I wasn't able to beat that part for YEARS! LOL

[@hernandez4871]

@@Hermione222 Me neither! I was stuck on that part for so long, then my cousin came and he just ran out from the place without a hitch, i was like wtf XD

[@atrudokht]

There's probably a secret passage (behind the bookcase), use it and no Slytherin would throw tantrum

[@Tania-vs7tk]

What a nostalgic trip back to my childhood! I played these so much, especially 1-3 and 5. And now that you mentioned them I just connected that the tree creatures from this were bowtruckles!

[@PhilOfGlimmer]

I might have a look at 5 at some point!

[@HydraTower]

There's a secret level in this game if you're interested. You find it by turning on noclip and going through one of the Gryffindor common room doors upstairs.

[@princepeterwolf]

BY FAR my favorite HP game! Hands down one of the best, if not the best, pc game I've ever played. It's just so immersive and magical. I always found all the games that followed not as memorable.

[@Fahad-369]

Can't believe you upload this video on 2020, that's last year. It's really Jolly and tear-jerking for me as I played the game at like... 9 to 12 years old. Been like uh... 3 years for me since I played this game. How times goes, this year will make it 4 years. God bless my father. The man has introduced me to so many entertaining things. I had an amazing childhood being alive. Brings tears... I even listen to the Original Soundtracks of this game. I can even play it now if I wanted to. God bless everyone, it feels so darn good. Being united together by a franchise and series made a long time ago. You got another supporter bro.

[@SinageSounds]

This was my favorite Harry Potter game - it seemed bigger than the first one and a bit more interesting to explore than the third one. I loved collecting the wizard cards! Btw, really like your channel. I love how smaller channels take less known games to review :)

[@alexc8461]

There was a bathroom on one of the middle floors, with toilets in stalls that could be hit with Flipendo to release various things - one contained a gnome, which you could knock out and put behind a toilet and keep casting Flipendo at to get infinite gnomes. I remember having hundreds running amok on the Grand Staircase...

[@voidhunter2800]

Ah chamer of secrets, one of my childhood favourites. Though curiosly enough though i haven't done the research to verify this. Chamber of secrets was made before philospher's stone, as i have been hearing in recent years.

[@LordMangudai]

Great video and a fun trip down memory lane. You did a really outstanding job playing the right music from each level whenever you were talking about them, even stuff that wasn't on the soundtrack album like the Harry-as-Goyle music which is just so fun and weird as hell.

[@And-lj5gb]

As a kid with arachnophobia, I could never finish this game, because those spiders and spider webs were way too creepy.

[@PhilOfGlimmer]

Omg

[@Savelion]

Same 😭 my older sister used to kill them for me but now I have to play solo so I have to quit halfway through the polyjuice quest 😢

[@Kjwippy]

This game brings back so many memories and it's so cool to see all this love for it still strong after so many years. I recently was able to replay them and while they definitely feel different than when I was a kid, they still had the same old magic that made me dream of this wizarding world. Thank you so much for going into the details of this game, and the ones like it, and really showing just how magical they are. They were a very special part of my childhood and it's nice to see others give it so much appreciation and love.

[@cawre]

This was a great nostalgia review! Definetly my favourite game as a child. It was nice to re-watch some of my favourite moments. I remember those imps stressed me out as a kid. And those snail shrieks are going to haunt me forever. What a game.

[@andrewsharpe7630]

I vaguely remember playing this one when I was a kid. Some of the footage looks familiar, but I remember this one a lot less. Damn, wouldn't mind playing this one again as well!

[@Nonyuhbusiness]

Fun fact if you put it on debug mode there’s a secret gryffindor challenge you can access via the common room 😊

[@calebzombie]

My favorite memory of this game is throwing the gnome behind a toilet and casting a spell at him through the toilet. The spell hits the toilet, which would otherwise stop dispensing beans after a couple straight hits.

[@Asaylum117]

Ironic how much Chamber of Secrets got the most attention, when it comes video games. It is said that it is the best Harry Potter film & I heard that the console versions of Chamber of Secrets are really good. And the PC version looks fine. I originally played Harry Potter games on PC, so that's where my adventure for the games began. Altough I never played Chamber of Secrets on PC unfortenatly.

[@lunaluvya]

I was obsessed with these games growing up. Thanks for bringing back the nostalgia.

[@glarcier4398]

I remember throwing a gnome into one toilet. Somehow, he could spawn millions of Beans.

[@lynnae052]

Yeah, in moaning myrtle's bathroom right?

[@bradleyh7582]

I got this game as a Christmas gift and played it through probably 10 times, including in other languages. I would just open the pause many for the background music. So good!

[@stormrunner9435]

One of my absolute favorites as a kid. I spent hours playing with my twin brother. One of us would control the walking the other would control the wand. We actually got really good at it. May he rest in peace. I still have the games and I still go back to them. Though it is just not the same without my twin brother. Still, it brings back memories of better times with him.

[@abisnow1843]

also I am in love with the in game continuity with Marylin and her brother XD

[@PhilOfGlimmer]

It was actually Marylin that opened the Chamber of Secrets, she's the heir of Slytherin #confirmed

[@parsatayebi7652]

0:09 always scared me as a kid lol

[@skylex157]

an year too late but i will leave a comment, watching your vids brought back some memories of harry potter 2 so i went and installed the game and 100% completed it in half a day with a nap and lunch in the middle turns out even the worst parts of the game weren't as bad as i remembered when i was 8, also, the battles seemed so much harder when i was younger, like, they are easy, most of the times i got hit, i was doing weird casting a spell and quickly changing to expeliermus to repel, i'm glad i found your channel and i could revisit such a wonderful game

[@Blixthand]

I played this so much as a kid. Also played the Game Cube version A LOT. It's crazy to me that there were so many different version of this game. PC, GBC, GBA, PS1 and GC/PS2/XBOX, and there were some minor diffrences between the "main" console ones as well. I did have the PS2 version as well, but never liked it quite as much as the GC version.

[@PhilOfGlimmer]

It's mad to me that they made so many different versions 🤯 I had the PS2 one too I think, haven't played that in ages, I remember there being a gnome tossing bit at the beginning at the burrow that the PC didn't have I think?

[@Blixthand]

Yup, gnome tossing, and you had to fight a bewitched laundry machine gone haywire. You also got to play through diagon alley where you had to find stuff Ginny lost. And a lot of nightly stealth missions looking for books or spells or items. One of them involved Neville being trapped behind a tapestry, and instead of calling someone able to help, Harry had to sneak out of the castle in the middle of the night and go to the greenhouses to find a spell book with difindo in it.

[@thesnesgeek]

Did you know while the pc version follow the movie there are two minor but major differences. 1: the deathday party is completly removed which means that Harry hears the voice for the first time when he exits the potions class. 2: Ron doesn’t tag along with Harry upon leaving for the Slythering common room.

[@PhilOfGlimmer]

Haha I always found it funny that Ron and Hermione didn't take the polyjuice potion and leave Harry to deal with it by himself, also the way they act surprised like "Harry?" after he changes to Goyle 😅

[@thesnesgeek]

@@PhilOfGlimmer Yes, that is true. They deserved an Oscar for that performance.

[@Ajzan1]

Actually, Harry hears the voice for the first time on his way to first DADA lesson. After potions class is the second one.

[@thesnesgeek]

@@Ajzan1 Ah, that's it. I had forgotten about that. This game moves pretty fast and keeping track of everything that happens can be kind of difficult.

[@dcstudiosiphone3029]

“You’re passin up a hard bargain, but have it your way.”

[@PhilOfGlimmer]

They say, when I already have 43 wiggentree bark and 137 flobberworm mucus

[@Black-Swan-007]

This game is my FAVORITE game from my childhood and I still play through it a few times a year just for kicks and giggles. Watching this review put me in the mood to play it again, which is fitting, as I just finished running the first game again a couple of weeks ago. Thanks, man. ^^

[@camhardaway1748]

grew up on this game, used to play this with my grandma so it will always hold a special place in me. damn i need to play this again.

[@eugeoyes513]

Grandparents are the best

[@MrMattaiusify]

The pinnacle of the Potter games

[@victormeireles1023]

I loved this game, I remember I got it around the same time my father gave me shrek 2, also for pc. The best part for me was realising that I had reached the chamber of secrets and was almost over, since I had never finished a game back then

[@Barrie96]

Yea this was a fun game. A step up from the first PC game. Love that you can actually explore the castle. Even though they kind of copied the same assets as the first game, they still improved some of the problems the first one had. One of my favorite Harry Potter games for sure

[@parthdeshpande6767]

I swear i felt this game realistic when i was a kid...but now it just hits different

[@rumorsaretrue9415]

this game is forever engraved in my memory. i remember crying over that snail level when i was 5 bc it was creepy to me at the time lmao. the ps2 version is also decent. im still forever looking for another game that matches this game's magic atmosphere

[@Ajzan1]

Let me guess, it was the one with walking tentaculas?

[@rumorsaretrue9415]

@@Ajzan1 it's those orange snails

[@Ajzan1]

@@rumorsaretrue9415 I'm sorry. ^^ I've read "small" instead of "snail".

[@rumorsaretrue9415]

@@Ajzan1 i loved that level w the green stuff though

[@hussainmemon5139]

I grew up playing the pc version of the first 3 games. Replayed chamber and azkaban so many times. I tried the ps2 versions when i was older but I personally didn’t enjoy them as much - don’t think they aged as well as the pc ones imo

[@Crafty555]

The only one who disliked this video Is probably a person Who didnt like this game as a kid

[@vinnyfromvenus8188]

this game is ICONIC! I've played it to death as a kid, so much fun. In fact this video inspired me to maybe get my old CD and play it again :D

[@Irthiza]

I saw your video today and installed the game immediately. I am back being 12 in the summer of 2005, I am grinning with tears on my eyes. Thank you sir.

[@ejpowerboy]

13:40 so nostalgic

[@crivyeller9845]

Totally forgot I played this game as a kid, but I do remember being very invested into the gameplay. I think I got as far as right before entering the chamber to begin the basilisk fight, but just never played it again for some unknown reason. Kinda want to rebuy it for the nostalgia

[@Loregasmo]

I’m proud to say that Hogwarts Legacy has dethroned Chamber of Secrets but also built and expanded upon the same formula that made it so fun and nostalgic. Hogwarts Legacy is made with the upmost respect and love; nothing but pure, raw fun that the gaming industry has been lacking for years.

[@L0NEwolfzer]

Great video! This was the first game I ever beat. I was probably 7 years old or something. Great memories and omg the music was incredible!

[@Haver040]

It makes me kinda happy to see that this game was actually pretty damn good, all things considered. I played it a square ton and I absolutely adored it!

[@Varoon1]

Pluck a hair from his unconscious body before heading back to Hermione's biochemistry lab LOL!

[@WolvenBolt]

Oh my god I never knew that's what mimblewimble did! mispronouncing your next spell, wtf! XD

[@Casketkrusher_]

Nostalgic games, played the PS1 version of HP 1 and 2 a lot. For stuck on the PS2 version of HP 2 back then.

[@BEZERKSTUDIOS718]

The gnomes used to scare the shit out of me as a kid because they were the first enemy in a game that chased me

[@uryuu300]

I loved this game. I recall when I would carry gnomes during the spell challenges, and any chance I got to bring them along xD The music just kindles so much happy nostalgia.

[@KynsonMitchell]

Hey king! I just wanted to say that all of your videos are great, and the editing is especially *really* funny! I'm surprised you don't have more views/subs, but (knowing from experience) that stuff takes a long time. I can tell (also from experience lmao) that you put a ton of time into your videos, and it will pay off eventually! I'm excited to see what you make next!

[@ionlydidthischanneltocomme859]

I used to love this game as a kid. Finished over 5 times and still loved playing it every time

[@georgeb9991]

I didnt think that there would be any reviews of this game but I was wrong. Love your video and also editing is so great.

[@bayronhicks3132]

Did you know that completing the spell challenge with more time that the max give you 50 points more? I didn't have a clue until i finish Spongify.

[@Suenami89]

I miss this game. I want to play it again now lol. Also, I wondered if anyone else besides me liked to stay on the pause screen sometimes just to listen to the music. This game and the sorcerers stone were wonderful and some of my favorite games as a kid.

[@xpeh_nonagewb]

Ngl, I found the Diffindo challenge music more relaxing lol

[@LiveHedgehog]

It's quite fitting that the best way to do the Duelling Club minigames is to spam Expelliarmus.

[@blackneon15]

Damn the pc version is WAY better?? I love the GameCube version but wow

[@Wolf8457]

So nice to see a modern video about one of my favourite game of my childhood! Also was so pleasant to hear a review and walkthrough of this game. So nostalgic. Great video and a wholesome English voice! Sounds so amazing to my Russian ears :D

[@escobar8617]

Thanks for this review me and my bro used to spend hours playing this and simply amazed with the amount of freedom this game provided.