Summary
For fans of theHarry Potterseries, the open-world experience ofHogwarts Legacyis a dream come true. However, while the game attracts a variety of players, including individuals who usually don’t game, more hardcore gamers might want to experience a greater challenge.
Thankfully, by choosing certain settings and options or even by applying self-imposed rules, players can makeHogwarts Legacyharder for themselves. Players can also mix and match the following suggestions to their liking, and how far they want to goin pursuit of a challengeis up to them.
1Play On The Hardest Difficulty
Hard Mode Makes Combat & Puzzles Tougher
While it may seem obvious, it is worth pointing out thatHogwarts Legacyhas four difficulty settings, and players looking to challenge themselves will want to pick the hardest difficulty. The four default settings are Story, Easy, Normal, and Hard. On Hard mode, enemies will deal and absorb more damage, and players will also have to time their Protego spell better.
Players who have already started their journey at Hogwarts need not fret, as the difficulty can be changed at any point during the course of the game. This doesn’t even matterfor achievementsas, unlike many other games,Hogwarts Legacydoesn’t have an achievement for fully completing the game on the hardest difficulty. Hard mode also makespuzzles in the gamemore difficult.
2Turn Off The Minimap
Players Will Have To Learn The Layout Of Hogwarts Themselves
One of the simplest ways to makeHogwarts Legacyslightly harder and simultaneouslyimprove immersionis to turn off the mini-map. Without a directional guide, players, just like new Hogwarts students, will have to learn the complex layout of the castle and the surrounding countryside.
This option adds difficulty to even the simplest of quests, where players are tasked with fetching a specific item or even just attending class. Instead of mindlessly following a waypoint, players will have to pay more attention to their surroundings, which, given the beauty of Hogwarts, they will appreciate even more.
3Play As A Morally Good Witch Or Wizard
Avoiding Crime & Powerful Dark Spells Makes The Game Harder
Byrole-playing inHogwarts Legacyas a morally good witch or wizard, players will actually make the game harder for themselves for a number of reasons. First of all, by not looting corpses or ransacking village homes, players won’t have as much money to buy better equipment or gear and will have to find more ethical forms of income, such as helping people with quests.
Secondly, it would be unbecoming of a witch or wizard with outstanding moral fiber to usedark magic such as the Unforgivable Curses. As these spells and a few others, such as Confringo are extremely strong in the game, sticking to non-lethal spells and talents will make combat harder.
4Use Mods To Increase The Difficulty
A Wide Range Of Possibilities For PC Players
Players on PC can download specificmods forHogwarts Legacythat make the game harder in numerous ways. For example, these mods may increase the damage dealt by enemies and make them harder to kill. They might also increase the costs of certain items in order to make it harder for players to progress.
Some of these mods may even increase the spawn rate of enemies, meaning players will always be challenged further when venturing into the Forbidden Forest and beyond. If veteran players want to push themselves further, then many of these mods come with the ability to tweak most of the settings to a desired difficulty.
5Don’t Upgrade Gear
With Basic Gear, Players Will Deal Less Damage & Take More
After finishing The Elf, the Nab-Sack, and the Loom quest, players will be able toupgrade their gearto provide more defensive or offensive capabilities. However, when players do this and eventually max out their gear, they can become rather overpowered.
In order to make the game harder, players can impose a rule on themselves that they are not allowed to upgrade their gear. As the concept of upgrading the combative power of clothes isn’t really established elsewhere in theHarry Potterseries, this decision is also arguably more immersive.
6A No Death Run
One of the hardest fan challenges that players can try forHogwarts Legacyand many other games is to attempt a no-death run. The premise is fairly self-explanatory, but players should also not reload any saves even if they make a mistake, and if they do die, they must start from scratch all over again.
This challenge is certainly not for the faint-hearted, and only the best players will want to try this on the hardest difficulty.
