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The Gryffindor Gazette

First look at the Half-Blood Prince Nintendo Wii video game

by Wendy on June 28th, 2008

One of the best videogame sites out there, Kotaku, has gotten their hands on a preview of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince game on the Nintendo Wii. Here’s the important stuff:

[You’ve] got a bubbling cauldron and a desk full of ingredients like little vials, bottles, leeches and caterpillars, and symbol-based instructions for each step of the potion-making scroll up in a little wheel to the screen’s right. A potion-making sim was a first for me, and I exploded the thing a few times, but it was mostly pretty fun, especially when you can tilt the Wii remote to spill a beaker’s contents into the cauldron and then make a stirring motion to whirl it up until the color changes. It’s all timed and ranks your precision, which was pretty fun…..He was playing Draco Malfoy and I was Harry. We faced off at either end of a long room, and you hold up the Wii remote to charge your wand for a powerful attack (leaving you undefended), or simply shake the remote in your opponent’s direction to fire off a series of quick bursts.

You use the Nunchuk to move side to side, and swinging both Wii remote and Nunchuk across your body causes you to produce a deflection shield that can send your opponent’s projectiles right back at him. Shaking both produces a special attack that can knock your opponent down or stun him.

Hopefully, they’ll do better graphics for the characters than in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix; I love playing that game but the faces, OMG! I laugh out loud every time Harry starts talking because he looks so strange.

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