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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.

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.

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!! ^_^

Very Cool For The 3rd Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: September 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Hello, just last week I got a Gameboy Advance SP and 2 days ago I bought Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I am underneath the whomping willow trying to find Ron right now and this game is so fun. I love it. I get all eye-bogged playing it for hours on end.

The graphics are very cool from the spell casting to the hair on Hermione's head moving when she walks! Its all very well done. The color is awesome in this too.

But don't let me fool you into thinking its all cool "LOOKING"...the game play itself is very cool! You have to go through the 7 floors to do different things like go to class, run errands, look for people/pets and all along the way there are places to get "goodies" like items to put on the characters to help them along their journey i.e: cloak, gloves, boots, gloves etc...very cool. I have all items for Harry and Hermione already. (there are 6 available item slots)also potions to get too and don't forget the chocolate frogs and collocters cards! If you get all the cards in a specific category (there are about 10) you unlock special things which can really help..i needed it to beat a baddie!(if you can't find them along the way just buy chocolate frogs from Fred and George, they're cheap and you get loads of sickles!)

This game is just so fun! I cannot believe how into it I am (even though I am a HP fan). Well I guess that's enough to go on for now, I hope i didn't give away too much on the game. But it's really good and I would recommend it! I am 22 and my step-kids aged 10 and 12 play it too and it's fine for kids but I think the older person would appriciate it more. But like i said kids are able to do it and would have a blast especially if they've read the book or seen the movie.

GREAT GAME, you must totally buy it! You won't regret it. I swear! OVERALL: FUN, COOL-LOOKING, CHALLENGING.

Easy Pissy Tips

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: December 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

When you are ending and you are done defeating Malfoy. I suggest you to chose Herminone to get to Sirius. Herminone Is more easy to go through. Belive me, for I have played this game like 6 times already and Harry and Herminone are on level 52 already. It is great!

Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azakaban GBA Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: April 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Very good game, excellent quality. The game sticks to the book more than the movie does! Easiest to play when you start at the begining and work your way up to beat the game. I got the game a few days ago and already I'm on the part where you have to go back to Hogwarts when you come back from the Shrieking Shack. Some parts are tricky though and take a couple of tries to accomplish (i.g. Whomping Willow, Crabbe + Goyle, mazes, etc.).
The game is fun to play and can sometimes be addictive!!!!

really good game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: October 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I think this is one of the best GBA games I have ever played. It has fairly good graphics.
It does have one flaw. The monsters are way too weak. You retain your former level when you win. Overall I think it was a fun game.

Why did you bloody cut out brooms?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: February 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I realy love Harry Potter. I think It's safe to say I'm obssesed. So naturally, I bought HP3 on Gamecube and on GBA. I loved them both quite alot, but I always loved QUIDDITCH. I played the game and you don't even see a broom in the Gamecube version, and you see one broom in GBA and you NEVER ride it. It's all Buckbeak. Not that it's not an absolutly wicked idea, I do love to ride Beaky, but I was realy looking forward to Quidditch 3rd year. The GBA version was definatly fun, and I advise you to buy it, but before you do, If you have a Gamecube, PS2, or XBox systom, play it on there first THEN if you like that version buy a portable version (GBA or GBA SP)of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Signed,
Haley (Harry's Girl 4 ever)

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.

A Good Game....But Way Too Short

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 14
Date: December 04, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I recently ordered this game, and it just came yesterday afternoon. I have already finished it. Need I say more? The game leaves out many important plot line, never do you fly a broom or play Quiddich, never is the Marauder's Map mentioned, and never do you get to vist Hogesmade. Starting to get my drift? I only rated this game as highly as I did because the graphics are pretty good (for a GBA), and it was pretty fun while it lasted. I am not bragging when I say it took me about 5 hours to beat. I am a gamer who explores the whole game, not just following the plot line. If you haven't read the book or seen the movie, there is no way you will understand what is happening. There are really no puzzles to solve either, everything you have to do is extremely straight forward. Another thing I didn't like about the game was that events that could have been made fun and challenging were not. Let's take the example of the dementors. In the game, they turn this into an incredibly stupid mini-game that has no point whatsoever. This is also the case with flying Buckbeak and defeating the boggart. The replay value is also next to zip because you keep your level when you restart making you too powerful for the game to have any meaning. In conclusion, if you have a lot of money to spend, by all means get the game. If you don't and you are looking for a game that will last you a long time, this is definitly not your game.

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