I've been enjoying Hogwarts, I'm not really interested in gear grind, but everything else has been pretty fun. I mentioned before that I got it really just to see Hogwarts and I've gotten that in spades. I've seriously considered just idling the game in Slytherine's common room while I read a book, it's cozy.
It's also interesting to see the influence Red Dead Redeption 2 must have had on it during development. There's about four times as much land around Hogwarts and Hogsmeade than was really expecting, and it's littered with dead wizards with tragic backstories, similar to RD2. It's also set in the same time period, but the Wizarding World's zeitgeist is as inconsistent as ever. I've never been a big fan of the world building in those books.
I think maybe people misunderstand what is interesting about Harry Potter, people don't want to be the next chosen one around which great events pivot. They want to be a student at a magic boarding school. It's not something you can easily gamble a lot of money on so I understand why it's not likely we'll ever get a 'Tom Brown's School Days but with magic' game anytime.
As it stand's its a decent entry into the canon of licensed games, it might become Harry Potter's Arkham Asylum, in which case we might get much better games later.
