new game plus feature?

[hybrid palm]

is it possible to change your name of your character and their gender per se on a new game plus? just wondering if I should just make a new plea through entirely so I can know and save some time of going through the game in case you cant

[wet vigil]

No, there is no NG+ feature.

[hybrid palm]

I remember reading online that they added it?

[wet vigil]

Whatever source you read was wrong or fake, then.

That's not a feature of the game, that's not something the devs have ever publicly discussed adding, that's not something a game like this really needs.

[hybrid palm]

I mean the only reason I say it would need new game plus, is so that you can tackle harder difficulties since normal on its own is already like hell difficulty on Doom

normal difficulty is more like Max difficulty on most other games

mostly because enemies are literally 100% more aggressive than the lower ones before normal, they literally don't have any times where they're not attacking on normal for what I've experienced

in fact you spend more time using protego on normal difficulty than you do actually fighting

[wet vigil]

That's highly subjective, I started out playing Story mode and now I prefer Normal, since I've actually gotten used to playing the game. If you're struggling try lowering the difficulty until you get your sea legs.

[hybrid palm]

well I say it's way harder because of the fact that you're not even doing enough damage because you're too busy blocking and countering 90% of the fights

maybe it's different for me because I'm on switch

[wet vigil]

It takes getting used to if you're not familiar with the combat style that Legacy has.

[hybrid palm]

I mean it's combat style is actually really basic, because you can still use damage only spells with the help of the Maxima potion so you don't need control spells for combat or force spells to break Shields

[wet vigil]

A brute-force strategy is certainly one way to do it

[hybrid palm]

I honestly don't like using non-damaged spells because I'm a damage only kind of player when it comes to combat, i like stealth the least and controlling the battlefield almost as less as stealth

[wet vigil]

Anyways, NG+ is really only designed for detailed exploration games that have things like areas and collectables that you can't access in normal gameplay because they're only accessible with later-game items/skills. Like The Last of Us, for example; there's a Firefly pendant hanging in a tree in an area where you haven't been taught how to throw things yet, so you can't knock it down to collect it. That's where NG+ comes in.

[hybrid palm]

I see I don't quite think New game Plus should be exclusive to that kind of thing, I think it's is meant mostly for a universal utility instead of very specific utility, at least it wasn't originally meant for specific utilities, as far as I know the idea of New game Plus was to give you an edge in all aspects of the game so that it kept the game replayable and interesting

otherwise a game wasn't very interesting because you couldn't play it on higher difficulties if you couldn't carry over your stuff

realistically speaking, only huge sweats are able to tackle games at high difficulties if they can't carry over their stuff from preview as playthroughs, Skyrim being a prime example of that

[wet vigil]

The game is designed to be playable as it is, at all difficulty levels, to cater to each player's specific preferences. If your strategy is giving you this much trouble even on Normal, may I suggest adjusting it.

[hybrid palm]

I mean, it's not my strategy that is causing me difficulty it's the inability to carry over my levels and gear that I have acquired that makes it hard

if I don't have the spells that I'm accustomed to, especially on higher difficulties it won't be very possible or likely at all, and doing it on that difficulty you require them would prove even worse of a problem

[wet vigil]

Except that's not something you're supposed to be able to do, so that hardly counts as an issue.

How long have you been playing???

[hybrid palm]

so you're saying you're not supposed to use the spells you like?

[wet vigil]

Not all at once from the very beginning, no.

[hybrid palm]

I mean if you're on a lower difficulty sure, but if you're doing the max difficulty or the one before Max difficulty then that should be something you can do

because that just makes the player now want to put the effort in to reacquire everything if they can just keep playing their other playthrough

[wet vigil]

You're not supposed to be able to chug a Maxima potion and then fire off a Confringo-Diffindo-Bombarda combo at level 8. You shouldn't need to.

[hybrid palm]

but you wouldn't be doing that on New game Plus

you would be starting with the level you have from your last playthrough when you beat the storyline and everything, carrying over your traits and levels and your gear, to replay a new playthrough a different way but on a higher difficulties

the point of New game Plus isn't so you can be overpowered straight from the start, the purpose of New game Plus was intentionally for being able to tackle higher difficulties on fresh playthroughs by having access to what you've already acquired

therefore maximizing the replayability in keeping the player interested in wanting to play the game more

and giving more overall enjoyment of the game

[wet vigil]

Except that's not what Normal/Hard are supposed to be for. If you feel like you need NG+ in order to tackle Normal mode, let alone Hard, then dude, I'm sorry, but the problem is you.

This is not the kind of game you're trying to think of it as.

It wasn't even made for hardcore gamers like ES or BG or whatever. It was made for Harry Potter fans, it's story-driven, not gameplay-driven.

[hybrid palm]

well neither is doom, you think it's a really hard game even on low difficulty for most people they think it is, but it's really not because you can do whatever playstyle you want on there on any difficulty, which is what Hogwarts legacy needs to be able to pull off

and even though it doesn't have new game plus, when you beat a mission you can use cheats when you replay it, therefore being that form of New game Plus

[wet vigil]

I'm afraid 'refusing to adapt to something as simple as the spell colour system' is asking a bit much as far as allowing for playstyle versatility goes.

[hybrid palm]

I mean I just don't think the player should be forced to play the way the game wants them to play instead of the way they want to play it

[wet vigil]

My brother in Christ you bought the game you wanted

[hybrid palm]

it kind of does wrong by the player

[hybrid palm]

and I honestly regret buying it even though I got it on sale. was it worth 20.99, yeah but I wouldn't charge any more for it

and I'd probably make all the DLC free including the dark arts stuff

and I bought it because it was advertised differently than what it was actually on the eShop

[wet vigil]

Differently how so??

[hybrid palm]

I mean the graphics aren't even the same as what they are advertised on the trailer for The switch version, the trailer for The switch version shows the same graphics as the other platforms on the eshop, but when you buy the game and play it the graphics and visuals are very heavily downgraded, so downgraded that it's more down greater than other switch ports

and even then it's not fully open world as hogsmeade and such are cut into different zones, and even then it's not even a solid 30 FPS

Hogwarts is its own map zone, hogsmeade is its own map zone and then there's the world map which is the Highlands

[wet vigil]

I'm afraid I am unfamiliar with the full differences between the Switch and PC/heavier console versions of the game.

[hybrid palm]

on the eShop it explicitly shows footage of it being one unified map

like you can't even fly into hogsmeade and land because you have to land at the entrance to hogsmeade bridge to enter hogsmeades zone

[wet vigil]

You can't do that anyways, Hogsmeade is a no-flight area.

But anyways, the point of this entire conversation. No. NG+ is not a thing here. It will never be a thing here. You are free to play it however you wish, but you will have to deal with that fact. Good luck babe.

[hybrid palm]

still, hugs meat is its own separate zone from the other two world zones, Hogwarts Castle being another zone in its entirety, and the rest of the world map which is anywhere that isn't Hogwarts and hogsmeade

if the eShop was truthful about what the game actually differed from the console versions I probably wouldn't have even bought it

[wet vigil]

Are you using speech-to-text??

[hybrid palm]

yeah, it's way faster and I don't mind typos so yeah

[wet vigil]

Are you able to teach it how to recognise non-words

[hybrid palm]

unfortunately no, it's a low-end Motorola stylus model, bought from Walmart for like 200 bucks, it doesn't even have a lock screen feature to put a passport on my lock screen