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

I’m not saying Harry killed Dumbledore but I think the case should be revisited.

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.

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)

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Loved the use of ICARUS when finding out where Dumbledore died

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.

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

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.

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

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

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!!!

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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)

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.

Great video. I'm sending all my friends to watch it! Keep up the great work!

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Sir. A second Avada Kedabra has hit the wizzard.

That's why I love your channel... because of videos like this! p.s. BTW is this the maximum in game settings? Because I've heard this game being praised of looking awesome.

such a fun watch, glad you popped up in my recommended again!

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

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

The amount of dedication and detail in Hogwarts Legacy is absolutely staggering. I don't think the team could've done a much better job at building this world.

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

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)

Really puts a convincing new spin on the magic bullet theory

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.

The Whomoing willow was planted over the secret entrance to the Shrieking Shack, so Remus Lupin could go there and be undisturbed when he turned into a werewolf during his years as a student there. It would have been seriously incorrect for it to appear in the game as it was specifically stated in the books to have been planted in that year, which is the same year Sirius, James, Peter Pettigrew and Lupin join the school and that's years after the game takes place.

Good lord, this is beautiful. Watching this video made me drop a tear. So many memories

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.

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.

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.

Glad u covered this.

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.

8:34 Gandalf!?😏 Great video bro!

Your attention to detail is incredible Phil much love.

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.

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

Great vid :) Btw in earlier movies they needed to film on more actual (castle) locations because they didn't have time yet to build all the sets properly

That ending.... LOL, really great video!

The ending is brilliant!

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...

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

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

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

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

noticed all the discrepancy you pointed out too, great video

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.

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

What’s good about this game is just how accurate it is how they described it to the books

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.

The ending was hilarious, but the icarus blasting in the background gave me goosebumps anyway :D

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

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

Great Video! especially the ending!!! I love the game allready its so nice

The ending had me. I'd say their priority was the books (as it should be), whilst taking care to satisfy the few things that the unattentious movie watches might actually have noticed.

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

To me this has become the definitive layout of Hogwarts and its surrounding area. It's the only one to actually make any sense overall.

Another banger video philip, I'm impressed with the amount of work that went into this game! Can't wait to play it soon.

that fall not lining up at all was also the first burning question i answered for myself as soon as i got a broom

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

Really really enjoyed this vid (:

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

if you renovate you can also add a second track.

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

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 ?

Hogwarts Legacy has Nvidia Ansel on PC so you can use it to better lineup shots in the future as it's basically a photo mode, I think the default command for it is Alt + F2

You really gotta appreciate the developers attention to detail. So much has been faithfully recreated while also integrating book locations within it. I’m sure any Harry Potter fans dream was to be able to freely explore the entirety of Hogwarts unrestricted and now thanks to this game, we can.

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

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.

7:38 "Can't see what's going on, it's too dark" - Laughed my ass off. 🤣

6:52 it was planted to "guard" the secret entrance to the shrieking shack

6:15 incredible character development by Neville. Goes from being inadept to at least doing something to pro at dueling.

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

all my favorite areas are the ones where the music shines. the vivariums, obviously (the beach just barely edging of the forest for me), and the faculty tower hallway right outside the gryffindor common room is always fucking raging and i could legitimately just sit there and listen to any of those areas

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.

Excellent video. Loving the game so far.

I still think the best representation of Hogwarts was in The Order of the Phoenix game, this one is fairly good but it has a weird layout in areas like the stairs/hall before the Defense against the dark arts corridor and Greenhouses

4:35 you can see the slytherin common room windows just behind the viaduct(upper portion of the windows that is)....and i have to refer to the entrance courtyard...legacy happens to have both, the 'entrance antechamber house' as in first two movies and the courtyard from the later movies(left to right we have the great hall, antechamber and then the courtyard thus linking both versions from the movies and ditching the ridiculous one from the deathly hallows)

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 :).