In 1997, the first part of the Harry Potter series of novels, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was released, and ms. J.K. Rowling, at the lowest point of her life, inadvertently glimpsed a small wizard wearing tattered round glasses on the train, and it was this eye that gave birth to one of the most popular magical worlds in the world for teenagers and even adults.
The decade-long writing ended in 2007 with the death of Voldemort, the biggest villain in the series. But this did not bring Harry Potter to a halt, but rather set off a magical frenzy, with countless book critics and emperors of detail eager to tear every word apart to see what secrets Rowling had hidden in the book.
In 2001, the harry potter and the philosopher's stone movie was released, and Daniel Radcliffe and other stars accurately reflected the sentient beings in the magical world in the minds of the vast number of wizarding fans, and the popularity of "Harry Potter" did not cool down with the passage of time, but rose all the way.
During this period, fandom, paintings, handmade, peripheral products and even books with Chinese characteristics were born, and folk Hogwarts alumni also shared their experience of attending Hogwarts in their own circles, which at first glance is really true. Even more, he organized the book's classic project "Quidditch" competition.
On March 19, 2020, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" announced its re-screening, and with the blessing of 4K HD and 3D technology, this news is like a drop of water inadvertently dripping into the boiling oil pot, instantly igniting the enthusiasm of Harry Potter fans around the world.
But even there are reviews, why have you almost never heard of the Harry Potter series of games?
The famous American Electronic Arts, also known as EA, is a controversial high-quality and stable production company in the industry.
EA's reputation is so poor that almost every player has heard of at least one production team or project that has been mixed up by EA, but players have heard more about EA's high-quality games, just like the Battlefield series and Titan 2.
In the face of a menacing wave of magic, EA has no reason not to earn a handful.
In 2001, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was officially released, in which sandbox game was still heretical, the game adopted the current "canned sandbox" mode, that is, to give players a semi-open open world, but you can only run the main line, if you still don't understand, then look at "Assassin's Creed" before "Assassin's Creed: Revolution", or "Mafia 2" to understand.
Unfortunately, after the release of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", it did not trigger the magic frenzy of the game industry as EA expected, but it was sunk in the sea, and EA was also very puzzled, obviously the whole world is "Yuga Dim Leviosa", why is only the game circle?
In 2002, EA went up again, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets came out, this time EA made enough money to promote and added a large number of decryption elements in line with the original book.
Unfortunately, the game is dead again.
At this point, EA was completely puzzled, and began to get used to standing at the top of the market overlooking the game industry where EA had suffered such a blow - of course, they will get used to it later - EA did not accept defeat in 2004 and launched "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", this time even more bleak, EA even confiscated the capital back.
Unfortunately, the dismal sales of these three games and the long age of these three games have not allowed me to find the right real camera screen. This is where the old days of the Harry Potter series of games ended.
In 2005, EA's iron head came up again, the game "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" was released, but this time EA seems to understand, most people do not seem to have seen or indulged in Rowling's novels, but prefer movies, that is too easy to do, we EA love to save trouble, the cover directly moved the movie poster, the game content follows the movie, laboriously design a sandbox you do not buy, then all follow the plot.
The game even creatively proposed the "multiplayer cooperative breakthrough" setting, which is very popular even today, and Far Cry 5 was launched because of the deliberate cooperative play plot in the early days of the game to lead players to shout "fragrant"- although it later collapsed, but that was a problem later - it can be said that the "Harry Potter" game from the old era gave EA hope of success.
But can it really succeed?
A series can come out to the fourth part is already a relatively rare existence in the industry, if you can still maintain the heat or explosion in the fourth part, then we must have heard about it today.
The 2007 game Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the fifth in the series, yes, it was developed by EA, and I honestly suspect that EA is always a fan of the novel.
After 3 years of precipitation, the quality of this seat has indeed risen a notch, whether it is the graphics or the level design, it has reached the standard of excellent games at that time.
Unfortunately, we have left almost no information in this seat.
Maybe the movie is too good, maybe the game is not so good, in short, I can find the information is just a few pictures, the Harry Potter series of games like a fusing stock in recent days, suddenly died.
In 2009, EA shot again, and the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince game was released.
I won't say how miserable the game is, you can't even find a game poster, only a dozen stickers and a few guides, so I can only rely on my brain to guess the content of the game.
And as a work released in 2013, the graphics and operation are really not a star and a half worse than the assassin's creed 2 in the same year, which makes me believe that this game is not for players to play at all, but is played by fan executives who coax their own family.
In 2010, this EA's magic run ushered in the end, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" was released almost simultaneously with the movie, and I don't know whether the game is really doing well, or the player gave the end of the series a face, in short, this time, EA finally recovered the cost.
EA listened to players for the first time, and EA made a high degree of restoration of classic scenes in movies and novels. Stiff movements? change! Struggling to aim? change! The shortcomings of the upper part have been drastically modified in the lower part. The end of the series finally won a sparse applause.
In fact, EA also quietly released the magical sports game "Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup" in 2003, which is also the most well-known game for the majority of players, the game has no fire, this time really can not rely on EA.
Rowling herself has serious problems with quidditch's rule design, which is fatal for competitive sports games, not to mention putting this set of rules on the head of the game.
And this game also sank with the old "Harry Potter" series.
In the face of the big fat meat of "Harry Potter", Warner, as a pork seller, is naturally hungry, and under the impetus of "All Things Are Lego", Lego Batman and Lego Lord of the Rings have achieved great success.
This time, Warner held out his hand to Harry Potter.
What EA could not have imagined was that it was LEGO Harry Potter that defeated EA for 10 years.
Released in 2011, LEGO Harry Potter was divided into grades 1-4 and 5-7, with low-cost small productions, no long runs, and no fancy spin-off games.
Not only does EA not understand, I can't figure it out either, and the only explanation may be that EA is really doing so badly that it doesn't even have a normal level.
I've emphasized more than once the impact that mobile devices and the web bring to traditional games, and Harry Potter games are no exception.
In 2018, Harry Potter: The Mystery of Hogwarts was officially released, but it was Chinese mainland locked, but Chinese players can still download it on the Google Store through scientific Internet access.
This time the game does not tell the story of Harry Potter again, but the green years of Harry's elders.
The player-playing freshman will spend seven years at Hogwarts, meeting old and familiar friends, including Nymphadora Tonks, and studying and exploring with them.
The game uses the old-fashioned stamina system, almost any activity requires stamina, but because the stamina recovery is very rapid, the upper limit of stamina is very small, resulting in the use of physical strength may not be able to complete half a lesson, want to quit and reluctantly, feel that there is no ten minutes anyway to have physical strength. If the sister has completed the class content within the specified time, then it will be restarted.
The content of the game is also very boring, only click on the screen to consume physical strength, click for a day or two, maybe there is a plot.
The game itself has no freedom to speak of, and players can only complete their studies according to the rules, repeat the life of three o'clock and one line every day, eat and sleep and study.
Soon, the game also lost.
With AR technical support, accompanied by the wave of outdoor pokémon capture for the whole people, Harry Potter: Wizarding League was launched on March 17, 2019.
This seat is also a mobile game, and it is also locked in the area of China. As we all know, the AR game lock zone also means that this area does not even have a map, so even if the quality is good, we can only watch the wizards overseas happily go out to catch magical creatures.
However, the players in this scene have not yet transformed into lemon people.
Because the Pokémon trend has gone by too quickly, the fat houses are still willing to lie at home and play games, and the Wizarding League has disappeared.
Today, the Harry Potter series has accompanied readers, viewers and even players through 20 years of ups and downs.
But I still haven't received my owl email.
Everyone feels that they should have been chosen by God, and when we admire works of art, we often put ourselves in it, and some people even imagine themselves as a more miserable character like a mutton fat ball.
But whether the character is miserable or great, they were chosen.
The kids who were chosen in Digimon weren't us, and the geniuses in Slam Dunk Master weren't us. Although they know that they may not be able to wait in this lifetime, many people still imagine the chaos of the digital world in 1999 and the steam train to and from Hogwarts in 1991.
But as we lived a three-point life at Hogwarts, the game was quickly deleted by us.
To put it bluntly, we are just envious of the friendship and romance of love that is beyond reproach.
Like Slam Dunk Master, Rowling is not a wizard, Andahiko Inoue is not an athlete, and their worlds have flaws of one kind or another.
But we don't want to be basketball players or wizards to appreciate their works, do we?
In most people's eyes, whether it is "Slam Dunk Master" or "Harry Potter", this is just a book of youth, we learned to be brave from the book, learned how to love, this is the author buried in the most precious wealth in the book.
20 years on, my owl may still be on the road, it will get lost, but it will certainly have set off long ago.