That’s because Hogwarts Legacy has not been made with trans or non-binary people in mind. The Hogwarts character creator promises to be better (and not R-rated), but your placement in school still depends on picking between the binary option of witch or wizard – even though wizard is a gender-neutral word that encompasses witches as well as warlocks. The character creator also had what seemed to be a very giggling-schoolboy approach to body modification, enabling you to give yourself bigger nipples or style your pubic hair, but not change your body shape. Cyberpunk 2077 had a similar approach with a much more adult focus, but it didn’t do it particularly well: characters gendered you according to your voice, and the in-game trans representation was often as bad as the social media marketing. Trans and non-binary people haven’t exactly greeted the announcement with joy, and that’s partly because we’ve been here before.
"Perhaps instead of praising Avalanche for possibly including a more diverse character creator, we should be asking why it isn’t the norm."
Speaking to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, the unnamed insiders said that players will be able to “customize their characters' voice, body type, and gender placement for the school dormitories”. The latest headlines around Hogwarts Legacy follow reports that the development team is working to make the game more inclusive. But for some in this community, the Wizarding World doesn’t feel so safe anymore. Immersive, open-world games have huge appeal to any gamer, but they’re particularly resonant for LGBT+ gamers, for whom they can be safe spaces to escape to. And of course, there’s magic to learn and unleash. You’ll be able to customize your character – more of that in a moment – and as you progress through the world you’ll choose allies and enemies and make choices that will irrevocably change your path. The game world is large, including not just the titular school for wizards but also the nearby Hogsmeade village and the Forbidden Forest, and because it’s an open-world adventure no two players will have identical experiences. The footage we’ve seen so far suggests that Hogwarts Legacy is going to be a beautiful-looking game with well-realized characters and surprisingly scary monsters. While the reveals so far have been heavy on the cutscenes, what we’ve seen of the game looks great. The appeal of Hogwarts Legacy is simple: as an open-world RPG in which you play a Hogwarts student discovering magical abilities in the 1800s, it enables you to inhabit the Wizarding World in a much more immersive way than any previous game.
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Avalanche Software is the former Disney studio that made the Disney Infinity series – pretty good credentials for a studio tasked with developing an open-world Harry Potter game and its sequels. Given that background, the news that Avalanche was making a Harry Potter game was greeted in much the same way a drowning man greets a lifeboat.
But for some in this community, the Wizarding World doesn’t feel so safe anymore." "Immersive, open-world games have huge appeal to any gamer, but they’re particularly resonant for LGBT+ gamers, for whom they can be safe spaces to escape to. That criticism has also been levied at other HP games, such as the Pokémon Go-esque Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, which was described by Metro GameCentral as “depressing” because of its “constant desire to shake you down for cash”. Reviewing the iOS game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, the UK’s Guardian newspaper called it “a shameless shakedown… made borderline unplayable by its hyper-aggressive monetization”. Hogwarts Legacy was going to undo the often spotty reputation of Harry Potter games, which have often veered between flimsy film tie-ins and mobile cash grabs.
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