Hogwarts - Better than the Movies?

[@dh0073]

I had my theories, but you've solidified them completely. Harry Potter was the 2nd shooter that really killed Gandalf.

[@SmileytheSmile]

Britain was doing school shootings before they were cool.

[@lukehexter6214]

Harry is American confirmed. Pulled Gandalf right off that bridge

[@pgetheelderscrollsturkiye68]

gandalf ? :D

[@Shiodiodia]

@@pgetheelderscrollsturkiye68 yes old greybeard gandalf the wandering wizard

[@harrasika]

@@pgetheelderscrollsturkiye68You shall not pass!!!

[@zaidlacksalastname4905]

Fun fact: Hogwarts wasn't shot with a real sense of geography until the third (and best) movie, in which the director decided to make a layout to connect everything. He flexes this achievement with those birds flying to whomping willow cutaways. Ever since then, hogwarts had a consistent layout in the movies.

[@lukasg4807]

Why did they ever make the movies without having a clue how it all fit together?

[@Kaktanternak]

Yeah, and the marauder's map also keeps the layout somewhat consistent from what I've heard.

[@Schmogel92]

@@lukasg4807 because the books where not done and they probably didn't want to bother finalizing a design they'd have to change again once new details about Hogwarts came to light

[@DamnSmoker]

@@lukasg4807 In movies it doesn't really matter if it all fits together

[@bbbbbb3734]

the marauders map sort of required a layout to be made

[@achillesmichael5705]

In the books they explain that the womping willow was planted to hide the passage to the howling hut where lupin had to hide whenever he turned into a wolf. (It was approved by Dumbledore)

[@zaidlacksalastname4905]

It's funny that people who don't read the books think it's random. One of my favourite book series is one of the best selling but the movies just eroded the pop culture knowledge lol

[@normietwiceremoved]

Don't you mean the shrieking shack? 😆

[@nikolaivii5766]

@@normietwiceremoved I bet the OP read the series in a different language and is translating.

[@VarenRoth]

@@nikolaivii5766 "Womping Willow? Does he mean the Beating Platanus?"

[@achillesmichael5705]

@@normietwiceremoved yes I translated from german, I'm listening to the English audio books right now and it's really interesting to learn all the English names

[@Andrew-sl7tj]

6:15 bro just explained Neville's entire character arc using architectural references.

[@khursaadt]

In the novels, it is explained that only Albus Dumbledore, James Potter, Sirius Black, and Peter Pettigrew knew that Remus Lupin was a werewolf (later Snape also came to know this), and Remus and the other 3 marauders went to Shrieking Shack every full moon to conceal Lupin's transformation into a wolf. So, Dumbledore planted the Whomping Willow to safeguard the tunnel leading to the Shrieking Shack, so no student dared go there (of course, aside from Snape), and Lupin's identity would be kept hidden. Hogwarts Legacy takes place roughly around 100 years before these events, so it was a great decision to not include the Whomping Willow in the game just for nostalgia's sake.

[@LunnarisLP]

exactly this, putting it in the game would have been stupidly wrong. I thought it was common knowledge is was planted because of lupin, because it was even adressed in the movies wasn't it?

[@Kolateak_]

Could have been cool to have one somewhere on the map though, like the way north of the map possibly, as just one of the trees and not THE whomping willow Although I bet that coding that tree would certainly be a task

[@khursaadt]

@@LunnarisLP I don't remember it being mentioned in the movies.

[@AbrahamArthemius]

​@@LunnarisLP i don't think it was ever mentioned in the movies

[@Davesytb]

@@khursaadt the movies don’t mention a lot of things

[@SteveDice21]

Remember that unnecesarily convoluted plot point that explained the Elder Wand belonged to Harry because Dumbledore was disarmed by Malfoy and then Harry stole his wand so technically he beat him? It always sounded like bullshit to me. Now I know why -- because it is.

[@killer88327]

@@2kliksphilip destroying evidence ? i think we're on to something....i mean it can't be that rowling just did some bad writing right ? RIGHT !?

[@j377yb33n]

@@killer88327 or that harry grew up to be a slave owning fed.

[@digojez]

@@killer88327 probably a bad writing (or the movie adaptation screwed it up) but I'm no expert so my opinion is declined.

[@nigel9907]

@@digojez Speaking of bad writing, i always hated the animated hallows part of deathly hallows, it feels so cheap and not fitting...

[@512TheWolf512]

@@killer88327 well, correcting a pothole in a book is much easier than in any other medium. I don't think this was a cockup, it was intentional

[@bogdananghel9480]

in the begginning of the game you coldn't see thestrails flying your carriage, but when the dragon killed that george guy, they suddenly appear just like the movie explained, you can only see them if you ever saw someone die. cool detail.

[@slicey2703]

Yeah I thought that was well done too

[@EjayT06]

My jaw genuinely dropped at that lol

[@joparebr]

And I legit thought that was a visual glitch.

[@jormungaurd]

Yeah, the devs put in a lot of really cool details into the games, some of which didn't absolutely need to be included, but it is damn cool that they did.

[@coryloft8447]

That was such an intense scene and amazing way to start the game I thikk

[@HideorEscape]

I'm someone who is trying to recreate the whole Hogwarts castle in Source for CSGO. In the past I managed to recreate the deathly hallows version of Hogwarts but I had a lot of trouble figuring out the interiors. Now that Hogwarts Legacy came out I'm recreating the interiors like it is in the game. It won't be that detailed but more simple and up to Source Engine limits. I may never finish the map but will try.

[@kanegrainger9146]

Sounds cool

[@512TheWolf512]

Post a link to workshop and the source files. Someone may finish it in your stead if you won't

[@megaplexXxHD]

you can do it man! love seeing people put so much effort into a project.

[@omster_]

Not even on Source 2s map editor? Bless your cursed soul

[@wawawuu]

"Why don't wizards use guns"

[@qBeYcarpet]

Honestly the best part about the whole game is to find out and explore the whole hogwarts area

[@anasevi9456]

amen, their work sewing it all together was great!.

[@mattcollins3591]

It’s one of my favorite locations now in gaming. It’s so detailed, lived in and feels like a real place

[@theviniso]

It's really the only reason I was interested in this game at all. The castle looks gorgeous and being able to fully explore it is a dream come true.

[@jm52995]

I spent almost 3 hours exploring Hogwarts and hogsmead the first time I played it

[@johnwong5317]

Yup and the multiplayers mods will make Hogwarts a popular VR meeting and RP location.

[@lukeo5908]

I’d be interested to see a comparison between Hogwarts Legacy and the scale model of Hogwarts at Warner Bros. Studios in Watford.

[@Splarkszter]

One, a mostly compliant real building; and the other a piece of art that doesn't obey laws or physics.

[@HiddevanGelder]

and hogwarts from the lego games, the true Hogwarts

[@Kacpa2]

*Hagrids Legacy

[@Orthodoge]

Hogwarts legacy is more whimsical and tacky, the scale model(to me) has a better design and feel. More gothic and Romanesque and less Disney

[@ewanb1086]

@@HiddevanGelder but doesn’t it work of old Lego game rules so “no open world” unless I am forgetting something which I could I played them over 7 years ago That game was good tho a bit underrated if you ask me

[@acoldite2035]

The Whomping Willow has significant story purpose. It was planted when Remus Lupin arrived at school, so that he could use the place underneath it to hideout when he transformed into a werewolf and no other student would accidentally stumble upon him. It wasn't planted even when Molly and Arthur Weasley attended, and it's mentioned pretty explicitly in the story. Maybe perhaps they could have had some workaround to still keep it in the game, but still, the story checks out as to why it's not there.

[@ParaLizard_]

The skits in this video are so good. Well done Philip, you had me cracking up.

[@Finnishmanni]

What skits?

[@Jigsaw2533]

@@Finnishmanni 6:03 as an example

[@Vantavimeow]

I always thought of Hagrid as the gatekeeper to the forbidden forest so splitting him from it sounds weird af

[@zandr4449]

He isn't in the game this since it's set 100years before. So it's kinda possible Hagrid had the hut moved

[@cheasepriest]

pretty sure he's the grounds/game keeper of hogwarts.

[@NickJerrison]

@@zandr4449 Nah, Hagrid is so fucking badass that he decided to move the forest instead. After all, we clearly see his hut right next to the bridge in PoA.

[@mauritsponnette]

@@NickJerrison so it's more like the forbidden forest is in the wrong place in the game? 🤔

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

@@NickJerrison forests grow...

[@evilltig0074]

10:12 the astronomy tower in the movies is directly over the courtyard, in the games its shifted to one side slightly

[@thecoolerwaxenboss8860]

Loved the use of ICARUS when finding out where Dumbledore died

[@NSchulmeister]

Great video as usual Philip. Could you make one comparing the insides of the castle? In your previous video i saw some of it, without the comparison with scenes from the movie of course, as you showed here, but i bet there is a lot more to see. And in your video format it is really fun to watch.

[@Wasthere73]

Want to add on to the game devs acheivement, they not only had to make a hogwarts exterior consistent across 8 movies and 7 books, but also the interior AND not make it boring or illogical to walk in. Its one thing making it look cinematic for camera. Making it playable is another beast.

[@tgiacin435]

That should really be the definitive version of the castle. I’m still iffy with the grand staircase, but everything else is basically perfect

[@batt3ryac1d]

Philip you can free cam for better angles using nvidias ansel thing just hit alt f2

[@theseanie9958]

i feel like the game did a good job combining the book's source material, the best visual bits of the movies, and their own creative liberty for gameplay purposes

[@tgiacin435]

Yeah, It’s honestly everything I was hoping for pretty much. Not much of a fan of the whole starting as a fifth year, but it does make sense, and it would be kinda hard to fit 7 years into a game. Now if they do the main Harry Potter games, then it would be easier. Plus imagine playing a level depicting Kreature’s tale.

[@kossi200]

If i remember correctly, the castle is kind of a "living" thing. The layout changes with time or something like that.

[@DxBlack]

No, walkways would change location and where they led, staircases would go to floors you weren't expecting, yadda yadda, but there was never any indication of it adding to itself, as that would cause issues with traversal that would just leave most parts of the building inaccessible and/or impossible to navigate.

[@kossi200]

@@DxBlack Theres Pottermore and other sources that specifically say that its not just the stairs moving but the whole castle is changing.

[@Splarkszter]

That's the lazy way of saying the didn't care about structural/layout sense.

[@GHOSTTIEF]

@@Splarkszter this potter fabs forever making excuses and reaching

[@melissas4874]

@@jim-wr3lp "Whimsical" as you say is actually a writing technique (lazy or not) to explain away inconsistent things like this in advance I would say.

[@dragonstryk7280]

I do have one issue with the game as I'm now 30 hours in: You spend almost no time IN Hogwarts. It really does feel like we could've had room for Quidditch if we'd sacrificed some of the collectibles strewn about the region. For instance, the Merlin Trials have no impact on game or story, they just exist TO exist, really. Yeah, there's technically a small story to kick it off, but there's no story after that. It doesn't affect anything, and that is just bad design. Overall still love the game, but feel like it could've focused more on the school.

[@LycorisLilyP]

That's really my only beef with the game as well. I would've loved to have the game feel slightly more towards a game like Persona, where I would have certain classes each day of the week to go to at set times, then either obey the rules at night and just go to sleep or risk sneaking out and around the castle with the prefects about. It annoyed me a bit that after the first mission where you get access to the prefect's living area, never again is there any consequences for Wandering around the castle at night.

[@sc_enjoyer]

Well I wasn't going to click this video but FUCK ME IS THAT A RED ARROW IT THE THUMBNAIL?? SAY NO MORE I'M IN!!!

[@KingLich451]

🔝

[@Petch85]

The "game world" in this game is so good. I have walked around for hours now, and I still prefer to walk over fast travel.... Not many games I can say the same for.

[@tgiacin435]

Same, I will fast travel if I’m really far, but I just love running around the castle. It’s so weird too because it’s familiar yet new at the same time

[@MemeMan69]

Would you continue this video maybe for the inner part of Hogwarts? Would be interesting how this compares and where the chamber of secrets or the room with fluffy and so on is.

[@WyvernDotRed]

5:55 indeed, I visited the castle where that was recorded on a holiday, no Hogwarts behind it. Funny how it's still exactly as it was in the films, I didn't quite recall the scenes when I was there.

[@kelzanlienbre4642]

do a video comparing it to the old video games! prisoner of azkaban and half blood prince had pretty cool hogwarts maps

[@ln108]

Flandrew did a pretty good job on his channel. He does a lot of game comparisons that I feel are well done. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqacgoKarN-ZiLs&ab_channel=Flandrew

[@sonicfreak04]

the community was correct about the whomping willow, it wasn't planted until the 1970s when remus lupin was a student at hogwarts. and it was planted because it covered the secret passage to the shrieking shack where professor dumbledore arranged it so lupin can go there on the night of a full moon and stay there without hurting anyone.

[@wizzardajp]

If you look behind Hagrid’s Hut in the POA shot, there actually is a small lake/swamp there, just blending in with the rest of the background. This was a real body of water on location where they filmed

[@bennycaustic5102]

I just realized this game would take place roughly in the same time period as Red Dead Redemption II Which I find very strange

[@magicdog9523]

Crossover time?

[@Matticitt]

the hello google in bing asking for hagrid's legacy made me lol also "grabbing their shaft" 😂

[@Satchel456]

There are some documentaries on the film series where they mentioned that the layout of Hogwarts had to be changed for almost every movie. As the series went on they finally kind of fine-tuned the layout, but it's notably different between say the first and the fourth movie.

[@TJBPlays]

Theres a guy on youtube called 'Build it with Ben' who does a full breakdown on all the castle changes in the movie. A lot of it was down to not knowing certain things in the castle would be added in later books.

[@Casperr]

Really puts a convincing new spin on the magic bullet theory

[@TeaBurn]

It's a good thing that it's in the canon lore that Hogwarts is ever-changing much like the Grand Staircase moves about constantly, due being designed to act that way with ancient magic by the "Architect of Hogwarts" and Rowena Ravenclaw who devised the initial floorplans. Even Hagrid's hut was considered a part of Hogwarts since classes used to be taught there. That, and the fact that a lot can happen over a hundred years.

[@dutch_bullet]

Its insane how they managed to transform the books and games into a game map that's makes sense. Been reading the art book and it's great to see how they make it so authentic and still put there own spin on it.

[@tgiacin435]

I love running around the map just looking at everything. I avoid using the floo network inside the castle. This makes me want to see this as the hogwarts in the new series. And/or remakes of the original games, but this time be more book accurate

[@dhmisstuff7493]

The astronomy tower in the movies is aligned with the centre of the courtyard but in the game it was shifted to be on the far back wall above the DADA block

[@fiskfisk33]

8:38 when *_who_* gets pwned?

[@fawful94]

He who shall not pass. 😂

[@elliots4370]

This has to be one of your best videos what a treat

[@FloppyCDdrive]

The best comparison video out there! And just fun to watch. Love your content.

[@conagher]

I've really enjoyed playing Order Of The Phoenix back in the day, and I think it might be the first one to actually feature fully traversible Hogwarts environment, I remember seeing some devs interview where they would boast about creating this lore-accurate map. I'd be very interested to see it compared to Hagrid Legacy. Just saying.

[@johnnyguitar8067]

The map layouts are very similar.

[@gghs9162]

Hagrid's legacy? 😂

[@jmal]

​@@gghs9162 There's no Hogwarts without Hagrid.

[@tgiacin435]

The first three games were pretty much open world, but order of the phoenix did have the most movie accurate map, same with the half blood prince, but hogwarts legacy managed to combine all the elements into basically the definitive map

[@makulatura5830]

Fun fact: Hogwarts in Hogwarts Legacy is a recreation of the Castle based on the books, not the movies😊

[@danielhall6354]

it clearly is based on the films as well

[@tgiacin435]

@@danielhall6354yeah, but that’s more the visual aspect.

[@danielhall6354]

@@tgiacin435 so it's not only based on the books...

[@tgiacin435]

@@danielhall6354 I know, visually it takes cues from the movies, but the layout is more closer to the books like the ladder to the divination classroom, and the main entrance and the front drive

[@mustafafndk1869]

it would be super helpful if we were able to use lumos just like revelio while we were on our brooms. it just gets too dark sometimes. Also not being able to see your beneath and have to push Ctrl button is hella annoying.

[@Tera-plex]

Yeah hate the whole beneath thing.. also you can't look up, hopefully that's something that gets fixed.

[@kujalanville]

Hey philip! In case you intend on taking more screenshots from this game. I believe the game supports Nvidia Ansel so you can freecam around with full res textures and without the player character in the way :D Awesome video as always!

[@halicarnassus8235]

0:25. The Books stated that the floorplans and lawns of Hogwarts change. Rowena Ravenclaw made sure that even the outside grounds are not finite. Just like by example, how the trophy room could be at the top of the Grand Staircase in Hogwart's Legacy in the late 1800s, yet be under the Great Dining Hall come Goblet of Fire which took place in the Early/mid 1990s.

[@philas3294]

I am happy they went for having both the boathouse and underground harbor at the same time.

[@USMC-Goforth]

Hogwarts legacy designed their castle so well that times I felt like I was playing Elden Ring.

[@leondrews1]

If you look north of Hogwarts you can find a hut, that looks way more similar to Hagrids hut in the movie right next to the forbidden forest. Maby that is supposed to be Hagrids hut.

[@tgiacin435]

I think that was originally a storage hut, but Dumbledore converted it to an actual house when Hagrid became gamekeeper

[@rjd1922]

3:10 The funny thing is only first years take the boats across the lake; everyone else rides carriages around it. Presumably it's only done to build suspense for the first years.

[@TheGhostFreakz]

I mean, you could have used alt +f2 to get the freecam functionality from nvidia photo mode in order to circumvent the awkward camera mechanics.

[@Nightmare78hAlo]

There's also the additional fact that the devs took more notes from the books when making the castle plus sprinkling in some of their own design elements. This game's Hogwarts is more close to kind what the books tried to describe. A more 1:1 design of Movie Hogwarts would probably be the one from the Half-Blood Prince game, whos entire focus was to just recreate the castle as close to the movie design as perfectly as possible . With the movies you also had the issue that it had a lot of different directors working on it and good luck telling a director that he or she should keep in a decision a previous director made, cause to them it won't match up with their "idea" or "vision" fully, this was especially notable with the Goblet Of Fire movie where the director considered the previous directors as more of a competition that he needs to somehow one up, which caused that to be the worst Potter movie (well alongside the big fact the director also didn't fully read the book and kept complaining it was too big for him)

[@orimoreau3138]

lmao as if

[@jupa5263]

Dumbledore was an inside job. Ah no wait, very interesting theory :D I watched the movies a lot but I never noticed how often the castle and it's layout changed. Thanks for the interesting video.

[@Garrison64]

The Astronomy tower is supposed to be near the front of the castle with a clear view, looking down , of both the front entrance and Hagrid’s house as described in Order of the Phoenix. There are drawings of the book castle to be found online and they don’t really match up with the movie castle in many ways. But even the movie castle changes to fit each story as you demonstrated.

[@Craze4war]

You can actually use Nvidia Photo Mode (Alt+F2) to get better camera angles in-game / shots that don't show your character.

[@PureRok]

@@freedmfe8934 Only games that have Ansel support.

[@NOVAKMovies]

@@freedmfe8934 Nvidia drivers hooks into the game and can do basically anything they please unless stopped by an anti-cheat.

[@benjaamin]

@@NOVAKMovies Good example was the smoke glitch a few years back in CS, where with the right Nvidia settings you could make smokes basically transparent

[@B0nd3n]

in the movies i think they tell you they moved the willow tree

[@manofman9622]

Glad u covered this.

[@kushalrc5356]

The Whomping Willow was planted the same year that Lupin arrived at Hogwarts (c. 1971) to disguise the opening to a secret passage from Hogwarts to the Shrieking Shack. Lupin would go through a hole in the Willow’s roots every month and through a tunnel to transform into a werewolf in the Shack where he couldn’t hurt anyone. The Willow was so dangerous that it kept other people from entering the passage and encountering the werewolf. The game takes place in the late 1800s (approx. 100 years before Harry Potter timeline). This all adds up and is correctly represented in the game.

[@MrArteez]

NEXT THING YOU'LL SAY IS THAT VOLDEMORT IS THE GOOD GUY. (like please do, I loved the wacky conspiracy section, good job haha)

[@KangaRooTube]

No gandalf landed outside the court yard. He was then resurrected as gandalf the white. Then he died of old age shortly after in the courtyard on the way to average himself. 😅

[@anarhi17]

I was making Hogwarts castle for my 3d modeling project and boy was it frustrating to see the original castle design change in every other scene...

[@mingledspringle]

i'm surprised you didn't bring up harry potter and the order of the phoenix and half blood prince games, they too had fairly realistic renditions of hogwarts (HBP was a slightly expanded and modified one but mostly similar to ootp) that actually do manage to nail most of the movies stuff in a realistic map. when I play the game, I think that's what I'm really going to focus on, how did they use the games maps and what changes did they make? i do vaguely remember never seeing a lake and being a bit weirded out. now that I try to think about the lake, it would roughly be placed exactly where it seems to be here, behind hagrids hut (although I imagine it to be further away a bit) but it's still surprisingly close enough to what I can imagine it as. pretty neat.

[@ded5351]

This is exactly the map peeping content I expected from you, good vid! (and obviously, try to ignore the flavor of the month drama down here)

[@FoXMaSteR001]

0:40 and "at the school of wizards" in french, lol

[@AiGeneratedWaluigi]

Silly French

[@MoctorDac]

5:58 I visited Alnwick castle in the north of England absolutely ages ago, and on the way there I was told "it's where they filmed Harry Potter!" so you can imagine the disappointment of 12 year old me when I arrived to a castle that wasn't the splitting image of Hogwarts, when in fact it was just the section where they filmed some of the flying lesson scenes. It's a shame really because Alnwick castle is a lovely place, and has a huge garden full of sculptures and paths. There's also a locked poison garden - Tom Scott made a video about it.

[@amaryllis0]

Oh yeah, the poison garden was sick. I went there when I was young and hyperfixated on Harry Potter, and I remember being excited at the mentions of wolfsbane

[@reneljubarskij3214]

the only disappointments for me was the absence of diagon alley (hoping for DLC to expand the world and some new quests - they would be dumb not to use such opportunity, since i'm most likely not the only one who would pay for it easily), and the fact, that forbidden forest is not next to hagrid's hut, which seemed weird as hell to me

[@AtomToast]

Have you played the older Harry Potter Games too? How do those layouts match up?

[@SammEater]

I like how the entrance to Griffindor's house in the game is the one used for the Philosopher's Stone movie, instead of being in that one room with the moving stairs from the Prisoner of Azkaban movie.

[@johnny5805]

It would be interesting to know if the game's interiors are actually inside the game's exteriors ? Or if they are just instanced in a far off out of bounds area of the map ?

[@NickJerrison]

I can't prove it 100%, but at least SOME areas indicate that they are indeed connected: The quest markers, when viewed from the outside on a broomstick, match up with where they should be on the inside; When using Revelio on a broomstick next to some doors that have locks on the inside, you see those locks on the other side of the door; Some interior areas have proper windows that you can see through, and at least those areas match up 100%. So, either they are VERY good at hiding it, or they really did stuff the interiors actually inside the interior and tried to match it as closely as possible.

[@Furious321]

The minimap and the ability to stand in doorway thresholds suggest the rooms are located within the castle. I guess the only way to know for sure is some kind of noclip utility.

[@Revalopod]

the interiors seem to be properly interior, but they also need to be loaded sometimes because sometimes the doors won't open for a second or two and there's a loading symbol

[@gaming4K]

if you renovate you can also add a second track.

[@XKCDism]

thank you, as someone who only watched the movies this also really bugged me

[@sphereron]

I was waiting for this video but wasn't surprised it first came from you. Well done

[@ThaElyo]

Philip mate, Hogwarts Legacy has Nvidia Ansel support *flies away*

[@HotEmeraldX]

Fun fact: when you first enter Hogwarts in the Gameboy Color version of Chamber of Secrets, Dumbledore tells you that there has been a grand renovation during the summer break, which explains why the layout is different from the Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone.

[@tripp4222]

Gandolph never got killed by snape error in narration at 10:16 lol nice try i know my Dumbeldork when i see him :D

[@saturated3821]

The devs did an amazing job on the layout and matching to books and movies. The only gripe I have is that the girls' bathroom that hides the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets is supposed to be on the second floor! I actually looked for it when I first played (and was getting very confused on what is even considered 2nd floor in the castle, but it sure ain't the dungeons...).

[@VandergriftMoefies]

Fun fact: They actually already did a digital recreation of Hogwarts in the games based on the 5th and 6th films. It was a big marketing thing at the time and from my memory, those were extremely accurate. But since HL takes place way before the movies, I remember seeing the devs mention that they took creative liberty. So that why it doesn't look 100% like what Hogwarts looks like in the movies.

[@gabrielandy9272]

they have similar issues still because the movie layout changes and is not always teh same.

[@VandergriftMoefies]

@@gabrielandy9272 True, but it was closer to the films and especially is 1 on 1 for the 5th and 6th films' version of Hogwarts.

[@tgiacin435]

I also look at it as different depictions because the HL version is more accurate to the books. Though I do give credit to the PS2 games for making fully realized versions of the movie castle. But I always felt kinda underwhelmed when comparing the movie castle to the descriptions in the books

[@isychia4947]

My question is, where is the labyrinth from the goblet of fire?

[@isychia4947]

@@2kliksphilip no way 🫠 I’m going to spend hours looking for it now cause I’m bad a directions

[@isychia4947]

@@2kliksphilip 😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲 that was a good one.

[@isychia4947]

@@2kliksphilip also I found two! One at a ruined mansion by the ocean and one near Hogwarts that appears when you read an old journal 😄

[@CatsT.M]

I actually Do know the layout of Hogwarts, purely because of a Minecraft server that built it, REALLY good map. And, honestly, this game's outside-of-Hogwarts is pretty similar to the Minecraft map..........ODD! Probably just used the same reference material though................................................or I just have a terrible memory. You know, even in the book I am pretty sure Hagrid's hut is near the Forbidden Forest...or, atleast that is what I imagined.

[@CurtisFaded]

The Whomping Willow was moved after the second movie to hide the secret path to the Shack. To help hide Lupin's identity as Werewolf.

[@willti123]

Awesome. Now make a second Video. I bet there are more location Referenzes in books and movies. Hogsmeet and the secret Tunnel for example.

[@redwaldcuthberting7195]

I think they had access to the model used in the film. The Hogwarts seen from the arrival on the lake in the first film is a practical miniature. I think according to behind the scenes on Goblet of fire was the first fully digital Hogwarts.

[@ibnu7942]

my man used bing to google whomping willow

[@antoinepersonnel6509]

After some exploration of Hogwart, this is not the boathouse the students enter from, they enter the one that is under it, I can't really remember clearly but IIRC, when they arrive just afte the boat, they immidiately go trough clean stairs inside where Malfoy is taunting Ron, and it kinda match it with the way they arrive from that subterrain docking station, the page you collect there (the basement boathouse, not the outside one) clearly state that first year students arrives from there :).

[@DrDeDeDe]

I can't believe it. A 2kliksphilip video that isn't about upscaling or AI.

[@Heavenira]

wow, i never read/seen any of the Harry Potter films/books, and you've kept my interest throughout. well done :)

[@AkimboTimbo]

I think they made it better for most parts in Hogwarts Legacy. Except for the inside of the Grand Staircase. Don't like that it's a round spiral stairs, and in the movies they're more straight and in a square. Which actually doesn't make sence if the stairs is round on the outside though :P

[@SoraRaida]

This has an easy explanation. It's just easier to code moving staircases that are fixed in places, but appeared while someone is close to them, instead of straight staircases that keep moving at time intervals. Also, people would complain a lot! Imagine having to wait for the staircase to stop while the place you're trying to go isn't that far, and you have to keep waiting and walking to multiple places

[@LilOleTinyMe]

@@SoraRaida eh. I would prefer the trouble. The moving stair cases feel iconic to me with amount of camera shots we get swooping in between them

[@jmal]

​​@@LilOleTinyMe They actually tried that in the _Order of the Phoenix_ and _Half-Blood Prince_ video games. The common complaint is that just because it's accurate to the movies it doesn't mean it's a good gameplay mechanic, as it ruins pacing and tends to glitch out, especially when it comes to NPCs.

[@yttermedia]

8:34 Gandalf!?😏 Great video bro!

[@Blap7]

"Miss McGonnagall, a second Avada Kedavra has hit the Professor"

[@XaoFakeNick]

"[Gandalf] gets PWND"... "[Hagrid] Legacy"... I know these were intentional and made me laugh. Thank you.

[@azure5584]

Holy shit, seeing 2klik cover something entirely new and, for it to be this of all things, warms my heart!

[@butcheryandbroth]

Typing "hello google" when searching on bing is such a power move.

[@termiguin1]

The only thing I don't like is that hagrids hut is so far from the forbidden forest. Pretty cool game map otherwise

[@TheJALOBE]

The main reason that the castle is more geographically consistent from the third movie is that they stopped filming on location after the second film. The first two films were largely filmed in Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, and Durham Cathedral. They were originally going to film the Great hall scenes in Durham Castle but there was a scheduling problem. After the filmmakers allegedly fell out with the duchess of Northumberland, they decided it would be cheaper to film everything in a studio near London so the third film onwards don't have the real castles.

[@tabs8231]

The ending is brilliant!

[@BlackKyurem14]

You kind of forget to mention the fact that both, Hagrid's Hut and the Forbidden Forest have moved in the movies. In the first 2 movies, Hagrid's Hut was right next to castle, basically next to the castle walls, before being moved further away from the castle. And same goes for the Forbidden Forest, which had its borders right next to the castle. In the game, they explained the situation with Hagrid's Hut, by having both huts. One right next to the castle and the one further away from the castle. So Hagrid basically just move into the other hut... As for the Forbidden Forest... Yea, that thing just moved again and is now even further away from the castle

[@augstn]

thank you so much for teaching us about your country's history philip!!

[@lord_egg]

If I have one thing that I really want to see in the new series, it’s the use of this castle with NO changes.

[@solal_ww]

The thumbnail isn't very readable, you may want to change it to maximize your CTR... Keep up with the good content anyway

[@nizzleprizzle9783]

I never really thought of the games castle being the same as the movie one ever. Interesting thought process

[@hagridmary]

Really enjoyed this; I've always wanted to see Harry Potter related content from you, please do more!

[@juliajuanafernandaalvarez1456]

I really love the game version, it´s like a perfect mix of the different movie versions with some own designs but still very true to how Hogwarts should be and it keeps the warm and homely feeling of the first films. I really love spending time there, it´s just so gourgeus.