Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Genre:

Adventure

Year:

2001

Developer:

KnowWonder

Publisher:

Electronic Arts

Perspective:

3rd-person, Platform

Theme:

Detective / Mystery, Fantasy, Puzzle elements

Harry is a simple boy, an orphan whose parents were killed and left on the doorstep of his new parents. As the boy grows, he discovers that he is not ordinary and that he has some special abilities. He doesn't know why or how, but he gets turned on when the invitation to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry arrives. He decides to accept and travel to school. That's when you get into the game and let yourself be guided by the yet unknown world of magic.
As soon as you get to the school, you make friends and enemies and find out that the school is divided into two parts, good and bad. You get among the good ones and you gradually gain their respect and admiration with your skill. You go through hours of magic, from simply moving objects, unlocking locks with charms, levitating, shrinking things, animating things, to flying on a broomstick. Each hour has a vast maze of rooms where you have to use magic, look for magic stars and magic cards and collect some crystals. As for the obstacles, they are mostly a combination of skill and logic, where you have to press something and then jump over while you have to watch out for enemy ghosts, gigantic giants, or dangerous plants. So to put it somewhere, it's an arcade-like action, colored by a story, humor, magic and danger.