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THIS IS NOT HARRY POTTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 9
Date: September 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

THIS IS THE WORST GAME BOY GAME EVER!!!!!!

To start, this game has HORRIBLE GRAPHICS!!!!! Why is it that when you are in a "movie sequence", that you walk around like you have all the time in the world, and then when you control Harry, he move like he's about to miss the bus! Then, you see Moaning Myrtle, who looks like a chandelier! And what is with the music in hagrid's hut? It sound's like the theme song for "happy happy hagrid and his animal friends". Then, the music when you are anywhere else is a variation of the same Un-harry-potterish theme ever! Then it sound's like you'r getting abducted by aliens when you shoot a spell!

The storyline is HORRIBLE. It does not follow the story at all. Why is it that you take so much effort to get to aragogs lair, just to watch a little movie with Harry walking away, as calmly as possible to the car without a battle with Aragog? And why is Percy gaurding Fred & Georges shop? You'd think he'd just send a letter to Mrs. Weasly to tell her to punish them! Then, you have to "tickle" the painting of the fruit, to get to the "safer" passegeway to the shop, full of giant spiky bowling balls trying to kill you. Then, you have to go through "Prefect Palace" to get the potions book, to get you'r pollyjuice potion! How hard is it to find Lochart and ask him for one signiture? Also, the whomping whillow doesn't move ONE INCH. And what's all this stuff in Gringotts? I never remembered in the book that Harry had to battle fire breathing turtles, crossed treacherous bridges full of giant fireballs hitting him on the head, or carts full of jellybeans! In fact, I never read that Harry spent anymore time than five minutes in Gringotts! I also don't remember Harry having to dodge barrels falling from the sky, and find floo powder in the leaky cauldron!Or evil gnomes running around the grounds attacking people! But probably the most frustrating thing is climbing the stairs. And why do you only take to classes a year? I doubt the writers of this game even read the book or even saw the movie. I wonder how many people they hired to mess up the game?

What is with these locked doors? Why are some doors locked with giant yellow robot cogs and some by cut up devils snare? And then, of course, Dumbledores Office door is covered with glitter. Why not just make the doors LOCKED?

I think the makers of this game purposefully made it bad. Or mabey they were paying so much attention to adding another floor so they could have the "floor 6 bonus" to care?

So aggravating!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: May 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

It was really disappointed w/ it. You can't save unless you see a saving icon and the gringotts challenge is impossible. I would recommend this game to anyone who likes to get really frustrated.

It'll help u get to sleep cause it is so boring!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 9
Date: March 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is weak and it really is a waste of money. The graphics are ok but there is hardly any sound except beeps! There is no action,adventue or anything like that. It takes about an hour to complete if you're slow. The only good thing is well nothing!!! Don't buy this game cause it is a waste of your money.

It is bad

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: March 20, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I didn't like this game because of the bad graphics, lousy sound, laughavle voices and frustrating game-play. Usually, game-adaptations, while not all that, mostly follow the story closely, and only because of that was I interested. Well see, that's the entire nature of the problem; it doesn't. Not once in the game did I recall an actual scene from the movie.

Dear Customer I am the Great Harry Potter

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: January 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I am Harry Potter and I'd like to say that this is embarrassing and totally disgracful to me. I hate this game it does not act as great as I really am. Don't buy it or I might turn you into a frog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Believe it or not, the first one was better.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 15 / 25
Date: November 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

THe sad thing about this game is that the other one was much better. Better music and spell organization, as well as a better view. It is too short, and you only basically sneak around. For the duel with Malfoy, the Computer is in control, and Harry knew that Fawkes was in the Basilisk room.

A boring game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: April 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

While the graphics and size of this game are impressive for a GBA title, it is still an overwhelmingly bad game. First it is fairly boring, consisting mostly of going through long dungeon areas and flipping one switch after another. This gets pretty repetitive during the first dungeon in Gringott's Bank, but the dungeons keep coming throughout the game and all of them feel exactly the same. There is very little action to speak of. It's all about flipping switches, moving blocks onto switches, avoiding teachers and jumping onto platforms. Speaking of jumping, the game also has an awful control system. To give the game a 3-D look, everything is on an isometric diagonal view and most of the time you must move diagonally. Unfortunately the GameBoy Advance control pad is not really made for that much diagonal movement and it is very awkward moving Harry around. You can change the set-up so that Harry will move diagonally if you press in the easier Up, Down, Left and Right directions, but this just makes it more confusing. There are still other problems. You only get one save file, so if a second person wants to play, they must delete the first player's game. And there is no sleep mode, so you have to find one of the save points before you turn off the game or else lose whatever progress you may have made (not good for people who play in short stretches on the subway for instance). The music is okay, but really nothing special. Also I found it strange that you don't get to control the flying car in the beginning of the game. Maybe you will get the opportunity later in the game when escaping the spiders, but I doubt I will play it long enough to get there, it's just too boring.

yikes

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

i expected much, much more from this game. i thought that after harry potter and the sorceror's stone came out on gba, the makers would realize how horrible this game is. it starts off okay with a cute little intro to the game, but it just goes downhill from there. going up and down stairs is extremely difficult and quidditch is almost unbearable. there are many times when you have no clue what to do or where to go because there is no direction whatsoever. when i got this game, i expected a whole lot more. maybe the people who realeased this should have spent more time on creating a quality game instead of focusing on the quantity.

Not so good

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is fun for the first 20 minutes, but then it gets just boring. At the end of the game when you fight the basilisk, all it is is a worm that slithers in a circle, and you have to shoot at it with you wand to kill it. Overall, i thought that this game was a really disapointing game made from a cool book and ok movie. It may be kind of fun to play it the first time through, but i would never want to replay the game.

REVISE THIS GAME!!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: February 10, 2003
Author: Amazon User

My son got the game for the holidays, and really liked to play it until one part of the game. According to my 9 year old son, when you beat Peeves, he just stays where he is and keeps on trying to get you, and you're stuck in that part of the game. He thought it was so bad that he believed someone used a game shark on it when it was being made to mess up the game. He wanted me to tell everyone not to buy the game, unless they revise it.

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