What an amazing concept. Harry Potter (favorite thing ever) + Wii (favorite thing sometimes). I'm ripping off the packaging at work hours before I can play. Mine includes one child movie ticket. What fan cares about HP so much as to buy the game, but has not yet seen the movie? Also what child is going alone. Boo. Whatever, Harry is mine!
The graphics are no less than absolutely amazing. Hogwarts is rendered in full, with lighting effects that stun. There are no load times as you run around the castle, entering different rooms. You're just in another 3D room. Everything in the castle works they way its supposed to - the moving staircases, which are annoying. The paintings that talk to you for far too long before letting you in. You feel Harry's frustration as he interacts with these things.
So that's all well and good, but there are some factors that are irking me. Harry really only has four points of view: straight, back, right, left. This is a major blow to game play. It's really quite difficult to position harry in front of an object that is not in one of those four pre-set locations. Even more difficult to aim your wand at something and move it fluidly. A lot of wandwork seems blind, and the game seems to compensate for your lack of aim by guessing what you want to do and letting you do it.
It doesn't feel nearly as tight as Zelda as far as game play. But I continue to give it a shot, since I love the story.
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