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Keeps getting better & better

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 18 / 18
Date: June 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If one were to compare this game to Sorcerer's Stone or Chamber of Secrets, they would agree that this is much better.

POSITIVES: 1)Secrets are still challenging, but a little bit easier to find 2)You are required to find everything before completing the game. This is much better than the Sorcerer's Stone where the game just ended and you didn't have a chance to try and finish gathering cards or finding secrets 3)Virtually impossible to die. Instead of losing lives in challenges and going back to the last place saved, you are simply moved back to the position right before you fell. 4)Gamemakers were much more generous in beans, pumpkin pasties, and cauldron cakes

NEGATIVES: 1)Hippogriff riding presented quite a challenge and probably the most difficult part of the game. You are required to fly the hippogriff through a course for 5 levels. Each level progressively harder than the last. The 5th took quite some time to accomplish.

All in all, I gave the game 5 stars because it presented enough of a challenge to be stimulating, and enough story to be entertaining. Strongly recommend this one. The price is great too.

Lacking past quality

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 12 / 21
Date: June 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I have been a avid fan of the harry potter series, and of the games and movies. This product, however those not do well to in any way present the material provided in the books, and in the movie.

the first gba game i felt was fine, even though i did not like the lack of control.

up until now they had made game boy color games, that you have more control, and how much effort you put into the game decided how easier it would be. this was a combat based system similer to pokemon were you battle to level the charactors.

while i was disappointed they stopped making the game boy color games, i still played the prisoner of azkaban gameboy advance version.

i was over joyed when i saw that they had combined the two games into one.

this is were it turned bad. The game was lack 85 percent of what was in the books. here is a list of key things they left out that are extreamly important to the plot of prisoner of azkaban, and the remaining series of books.

~You never fight a dementor, you just play a silly little game instead.
~there is no history what so ever of the mauradors who are completly left out.
~there is not mauraders map.
~No quidditch.
~No professor trawlany and no divination class.
~The end of the game in the shirking shack those things that have no explanation, such as how would lupin know peter was there also if there was no mauraders map.

this game took me only about 3 hours to complete, which those not say much, as the gameboy color games tended to take a a day for me to complete the first time around. the past games offered more gameplay then this one did.

i recommend you not waste money on the GBA version. you would get more enjoyment out of the PC or console versions, and they provide more for you to enjoy, even if they are a little more advanced gameplay wise.

BEST GAME EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: June 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Harry Potter And The Prisioner Of Azkaban for GBA is the best game ever. It is just like the movie andis very graphicto make the Charecters look real.

it's okay depends on what you are looking for....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: June 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

if it is a game that you are saving up your $ for:... don't get this... cause im like now to have my GBAsp and i finnished it in seven hours and secsounds so if you are looking for that i would give it two stars...

if you have a lot of$ and are jus looking for fun...:
this is THE game for you! this game is fun and i could not stop playing it! i was like constantly on it! in my bed, while watching tv, secretly playing it in my classroom!if that is what you want the it would be five stars!

if you are looking for quality....:
this is an OK game.... good music...
but really bad graphics!!(...)!
like this is a disgrace to the GBA title! so for that i would give
three stars!

i give this game four stars cause i don't like the graphics but other than that it's all good!

This game is cool

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 14, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Well, first I thought that this game would be the same as last year's chamber of secrets gba game but this game is way cooler. The story follows the book and movie pretty closely, and there are cool spells to use. Plus I like being able to play as Hermione (finally!). One of the funny things is that Hermione's special skill is when she gives 'lectures' during fights -it looks funny! Also she can repair things. Ron uses stink pellets, and Harry uses wizard cards to battle the creatures. The music is great, and the action is very fun. You should totally buy this game!

Not always the best

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: June 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is not as good as chamber but better than sorcerers the graphics are very..... bad.And ya I hate fighting things in this its just like Game Boy Color Pokemon thing.

WOW!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: June 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game was MUCH better than I expected. The graphics are quite realistic and the movements of the characters are as good as some of my PC Potter games. The game controls are simple and one can learn them in a very short amount of time. Azkaban is challenging, yet lots of fun. Some disappointiong I found out about this game is that some objects can only be moved in certain directions with your wand and that even if you have SP, it's hard to see what's in the dark corridors, and in the battles you have to mostly depend on luck. But overall, this is a MUST HAVE for any Harry Potter fan. So if you like Harry Potter a lot, have a GBA and are reading this review.............BUY THE GAME!! ^_^

cool

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: June 21, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I LIKE THE GRAPHICS AND THE SOUND IS GREAT!!!!! but I have not found how to get to the fifth monster book yet. PLEASE POST A REVIEW TELLING HOW.

Disappointing

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 13
Date: June 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are much improved and the music is great. The story line is minimal with a lot of stuff left out. I finished the game the first time in about 7 or 8 hours and then it just ended. When I continued playing, I finished in about 3 hours and then as the party got stronger (leveled up), the game goes quicker and quicker. I was disappointed since the first two were more challenging and followed the story line. Fun to have and play, but once you're done, you're done.

Very nice RPG; even more if you are a Harry Potter fan.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 32 / 34
Date: June 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This GBA game is a very well done RPG rendering of the omonimous Harry Potter book.

You control the wizardly trio (Harry, Ron, Hermione) in the quest to unveil and defeat the traitor that caused the death of Harry's parents.

The story starts out with a well done and useful tutorial: while on the Hogwarts Express you have to try to capture Ron's pet rat (or whatever kind of rodent it actually is).

The story then unveils in Hogwarts. You can explore with your party the various chambers of the academ, visit locations you are familiar with either from the movie or the book, and make many pleasent encounters with notorious Hogwarts characters.

Combat is turn based and all members of the party have their own special powers. Furthermore, you get 17 spells you can learn and find in the game that will enhance your party's power and there are a lot of in game items with which you can buff up your characters' defenses and main game characteristics.

Overall the game is a very nice RPG, very simple and charming. Graphics is ok, as the overall quality of the game. Expect to play for no more than 20 hours though. Replay value is not that high, as you will be able to retain all the levels you accumulated in the first game (monsters instead don't improve at all).

Bottom line:
This is a very nice Harry Potter game. I love how EA transformed it in a complete and simple RPG. I strongly suggest any Harry Potter fan to buy this.

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