Hogwarts Legacy players can skip all Alohomora lockpicking puzzles in the game. Hogwarts Legacy features a variety of spells, some of which are used in combat and others that are used more for exploration and puzzle solving. For example, Lumos is used to light up dark rooms, while Wingardium Leviosa is used to re-position objects. Alohomora, meanwhile, is how Hogwarts Legacy players pick locks in the open world Harry Potter action-RPG.
Once Hogwarts Legacy players get Alohomora, they are free to pick all Level 1 locks they come across in the game. By collecting Demiguise Statues and turning them in to Gladwin Moon, Hogwarts Legacy players can upgrade Alohomora and earn the right to pick Level 2 and Level 3 locks. Anyone interested in fully completing the game will have to pick an absurd number of locks throughout Hogwarts castle, Hogsmeade, and the surrounding countryside, and doing so can become quite tedious.
Every single time a Hogwarts Legacy player uses Alohomora on a lock, they are forced to complete a short puzzle where they have to rotate the left and right sticks to specific positions. This puzzle is incredibly easy and there is no real difference between the Level 1 lock version of it and the Level 3 lock version of it. Essentially, this means players have to complete the same exact puzzle dozens of times whenever they find a lock, and it's safe to say many would like to skip the process completely. Luckily, there's a way to do just that. By switching one's difficulty setting to Story mode, players will have the option to auto solve the Alohomora puzzles by pressing Square on PlayStation and X on Xbox.
How to Skip Alohomora Puzzle Locks in Hogwarts Legacy
- Set difficulty to Story
- Press Square on PlayStation/X on Xbox when doing Alohomora puzzle
Of course, changing the difficulty setting in Hogwarts Legacy comes with some drawbacks. The big thing is that it will trivialize Hogwarts Legacy combat encounters and make fights less fun, so players will want to hold off on doing this until they're focused specifically on hunting down Demiguise Statues or treasure chests to get 100% completion.
Luckily, there are no difficulty-related achievements/trophies in Hogwarts Legacy that players will lock themselves out of getting by changing the difficulty to Story. Hogwarts Legacy actually doesn't lock players out of any content at all throughout the game, which is something that's earned quite a bit of praise from the game's community. Hogwarts Legacy lets players play the game the way they want to play, though perhaps a future update could make it so players don't have to take the extra step of choosing to auto solve the puzzle.
Hogwarts Legacy is out now for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X with PS4 and Xbox One versions coming April 4 and a Switch port dropping on July 25.
