It lands several years after the depiction of goblins in the extended series of Harry Potter books and movies elicited criticism. And it’s also received positive reviews, sitting at 84% on Metacritic, a review aggregate site. It provides an immersive experience, creating hype among fans who are hungry for a wizard simulator that makes the player feel like they live in that world. While there have been Harry Potter games in the past, this is the first major studio video game from Avalanche Software, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. On Twitch, the popular video-game streaming platform, the game reached 1.2 million concurrent viewers at its peak, the most views ever achieved for a single-player game. The criticism does not appear to have significantly impeded sales of “Hogwarts Legacy,” which has become the best-selling game on Steam, the world’s most popular vendor for computer games. Rowling’s views on transgender people, which LGBTQ rights groups have called transphobic. Others have taken issue with “Harry Potter” author J.K. Some who have had an early look at the game have echoed longstanding concerns that the creatures’ prominent hook noses, and their role in the “Harry Potter” universe running the wizard bank, Gringotts, teeter on the edge of an antisemitic stereotype that Jews control the world’s banks. The narrative of the game centers on a goblin rebellion in the 1890s, about a century before the fantasy books take place. ( JTA) - When people enter the world of “Hogwarts Legacy,” the blockbuster video game that was officially released on Friday, they will find themselves immersed in the fictional universe of “Harry Potter” - and face-to-face with an alleged antisemitic caricature.
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