Highlights

  • Quidditch should be included in a Hogwarts Legacy sequel, offering a more cinematic and engaging experience with broomstick combat mid-flight.
  • The violence and danger inherent in Quidditch can be represented unapologetically in the game, adding intensity and thrill.
  • Broomstick combat mechanics could be incorporated, including the ability to shove or kick opponents and requiring skill checks or QTE struggles to stay on the broom, adding immersion and potentially cutscenes for healing and treatment in the hospital wing.

If asked, Quidditch would almost definitely be the feature fans demand most from a Hogwarts Legacy sequel. That’s a fair assumption based on Quidditch being highly requested for the original, with a lot of fans disappointed that broomstick flight in Hogwarts Legacy never amounted to actual participation in the sport. It now seems likely that Hogwarts Legacy’s lack of Quidditch could have been a consequence of Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions’ announcement, though that does not mean a Hogwarts Legacy sequel couldn’t or shouldn’t feature Quidditch itself.

That said, it would now need to be fairly distinct from how Quidditch Champions plays and it would be great to see it tackle features of the sport—even features that the novels or movies touch upon—to make it more cinematic and engaging. Hogwarts Legacy didn’t ever become too drastically dark or grisly, for example, but it was surely a more mature take on the IP that took on some surprisingly horrific tones. If this maturity and graphic nature were to extend into Quidditch gameplay, Hogwarts Legacy’s sequel would be exceedingly entertaining with broomstick combat mid-flight.

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Hogwarts Legacy Can Represent the Unapologetic Violence of Quidditch

Quidditch hasn’t ever been depicted as a completely safe sport with its ingrained rules and roles on the pitch potentially allowing for players to be severely hurt.

If this wasn’t true, then surely bludgers wouldn’t be allowed on the pitch for dedicated players to hit at one another. That’s a dangerous enough premise as it is before malicious motives are tossed into the mix, and Harry Potter has shown how this can be used to one team’s advantage while opponents may need to leave the pitch on a gurney and head straight to Madam Pomfrey’s infirmary.

Even Hogwarts Legacy, which doesn’t include the option to play Quidditch, states that the sport was canceled at Hogwarts that school year due to an injury, despite this eventually proving to be an over-exaggeration. Of course, there have also been many instances where Quidditch was represented wholesomely, and obviously if it was that perilous no students would be that interested in willingly trying out for their house’s respective team only to receive bludgers to the face and opponents slamming into them regularly.

Hogwarts Legacy Could Give Broomstick Combat Cinematic Finishers

If it’s to be believed that most Quidditch players can get away with such violence on the pitch, it would make the sport extraordinarily thrilling in a Hogwarts Legacy sequel if players could shove or kick nearby opponents to a violent effect, let alone ricochet bludgers between them. Like how Star Wars Jedi: Survivor has a cinematic grapple QTE with Cal and a stormtrooper shoulder-to-shoulder on speeders, it would be incredible if Hogwarts Legacy’s Quidditch locked players into QTE struggles with opponents trying to knock them from their brooms.

Being knocked off could be part of this mechanic as well, having players tumble downward and needing to succeed a skill check or QTE to summon the broom back beneath them before they hit the ground. It might be too punishing to remove players from the match if they were to hit the ground, but adding another level of immersion could see a cutscene play out where the protagonist is being mended and treated in the hospital wing.

This could lead to players going back out on the pitch after their magical and instantaneous recuperation, or maybe on harder difficulties players must restart the match from its inception. Either way, this sort of combat could distinguish Quidditch in a much more interesting way, especially if broomstick combat could then extend to open-world encounters where dark witches and wizards might try to intercept the player while mid-air.