WB Games has announced Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions, a “fast-paced, competitive multiplayer” game, which is a “complete, standalone Quidditch experience”. It will “engage players in the sport of Quidditch and other broomstick adventures alongside friends”. Limited playtest signups are live for the time being. The game’s developer, Unbroken Studios, is best known for the maligned and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:recently delayed 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Suicide Squad: Kill the J🗹ustice League, which has an uncertain fate. According to the studio, Quidditch Champions has apparently been in the works for several years, which explains why the fictional sport was left out of entirely. Prior to the game’s release, WB had made it abundantly clear that there would be no Quidditch in Legacy, but rumours were still circulating given that there were Quidditꦬch uniforms and flying mechanics in the game. Some players said they felt Quidditch was tangibly missing from the gameplay mechanics and were holding out for DLC. Turns out WB wasn’t lying when they said there were no plans for Hogwarts Legacy DLC – it was a whole separate game.
This isn’t the first time a standalone Quidditch game has been attempted. Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup was released in 2003 for the Game Boy Advance, Windows, Playstation 2, Xbox, and GameCube to mixed reviews, with criti🥃cism for its “sluggish controls” and “shallow gameplay”. It felt very much like an arcade interpretation of Quidditch, but the graphics were good for the time and ಞit was playable, if mediocre.
It’s hard to know what Quidditch Champions will look like and how it’ll be gamified, especially as you can play both solo and in multiplayer, and it requires an internet connection. It won’t be like anything we’ve seen before, but I do wonder how the rules will be interpreted. It’s long been a point of contention among Harry Potter fans that the rules of Quidditch don’t make sense – it’s a sport written to spice up a series of children’s books. It’s weird that one person can win the game instantly by catching the golden snitch, matches can last for days, and there are flying cannonballs that children can whack in th💛e direction of other children, causing them serious physical harm.
People have long argued (mostly on Reddit) that the sport doesn’t need to make sense because it’s a representation of the absurdity of tꦗhe Wizarding World. It’s unfortunate that they&ꦡrsquo;re now making a video game that is going to expose exactly the flaws that the fictional game has, and people are going to eat it up anyways.
If only we could all grow up and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:stop consuming Harry Potter content as if the memories of our childhoods depend on it. I find it especially poignant that real-life Quidditch has been rebranded as Quadball because the organisation doesn’t want to be associated with JK Rowling’s transphobia. We should all have the same aversion to bigotry, but instead, people are going to run to buy a video game of a broken sport. My advice: go play FIFA instead. At least that game will make 🧜sense.