Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

In the fourth part, a new problem appeared - the developers decided to break the plot into levels, depriving the open world. In the menu, the player is “plunged” into a visually beautiful pensieve of memory, which takes him to different points in the narrative. It seems like an interesting idea, but in reality it turns out that there is no freedom as before. Even traditional cards have disappeared - instead they are opened with photos with stills from the film. Such decisions led to the fact that the game finally lost its “face” and became only a product accompanying the film, like school pencil cases. Even flying on a dragon, fighting Voldemort and other delights of the Triwizard Cup are not pleasing.

I left a review here for the first part of About Potter and intentionally skipped the second and third games, because they are the same as the first, but with some improvements and modifications. But this game just goes to hell. Seriously. The game came out around the time of the boom in movie-licensed games. The game has enough problems. There is no such thing as a plot; they couldn’t even get the film into it somehow. The game is almost isometric with poor controls. It’s simply impossible to describe how terrible it is there. The end result was a crooked, unfinished piece of advertising for the film.

This isn't a bad game. Just a sad grind of shields. And considering that you are kicked off the level for collecting one large shield, then you get tired of it. You can play more than one, but it doesn’t save the game. Maybe on PSP, while playing on the road somewhere, you can farm. But this is not interesting for pocket platforms. The plot is even faster and more messy than in the PC version of Part 3. The levels are the same. Except for flying from a dragon and fighting He Who Must Not Be Named. They're not particularly interesting. Flights in other parts were more pleasant.