In Hogwarts Legacy, potions have a lot of uses, but players want to see more kinds of potions in a follow-up game.
In Hogwarts Legacy, players can make a number of magical potions, such as the defense Edarus potion, which turns the player character’s skin into rocky armor, and the healing Wiggenweld potion, which is very important. But in the Harry Potter series, there are a lot of other potions that Hogwarts Legacy could show in a possible spinoff. Overall, the open-world RPG game Hogwarts Legacy doesn’t have a huge number of potions that players can make or buy from J.Pippins Potions, so there is plenty of room for more choices.
Thunderbrew, which makes a storm that protects the player, is one of the best potions in Hogwarts Legacy. But there are some well-known Harry Potter spells in the game that are only used in cut scenes or aren’t there at all. Because there are only so many potions, there is a lot of room for new ones to show up in a possible Hogwarts Legacy sequel. Some of these new potions might be better than others.
Mandrake Restorative Draught
The shrill scream of mandrakes makes them some of the most famous plants used to make potions in the Harry Potter series. But mandrakes in Hogwarts Legacy only show up as battle plants, and you can’t use their leaves to make potions like the mandrake restorative draught that can reverse the effects of being turned to stone by a basilisk. But players can still use the screaming mandrakes to stop and hurt enemies who aren’t used to their loud cries.
Even though mandrake restorative drink has nothing to do with the story of Hogwarts Legacy, it could be added to a possible sequel if players meet new beasts like basilisks. It could also give the player more to do with mandrakes by letting them use the leaves to make a healing drink instead of a health potion.
Love Or Friendship Potion
Even though Hogwarts Legacy doesn’t have any romance, love, or friendship potions, Armortentia could be used in a possible sequel to add romance or other types of friendship. Even though love potions are against the rules at Hogwarts, they could cause a lot of trouble as a fun way to add friendly and funny romance encounters to the game, just like they do in the Harry Potter books.
A page from the Hogwarts Legacy Library Annex field guide can be found near a figure of Gregory the Smarmy, a medieval man who made potions. The page says that the ancient wizard made a potion called Gregory’s Ununctous Unction. When the potion is drunk, the person drinking it thinks the person who gave it to them is their best friend. It could be a great potion for making friends in battle or fooling people on quests.
Wolfsbane Potion
The werewolf tapestry room in Hogwarts Legacy is the closest thing to a werewolf in the game, besides the Dark Mongrel enemy NPCs. Adding werewolves to a possible sequel could add more enemies and potions. For example, players could make the Wolfsbane potion, which helps people with the lycanthrope condition keep their minds when they turn into wolves.
The Wolfsbane potion is also said to be hard to make, so in a possible werewolf-themed quest line, it could be interesting to make a potion that needs more ingredients or requirements. It could be especially interesting if players had to try to make the potion and gather its ingredients without getting caught so that the name of a potential werewolf companion or other important NPC character wouldn’t be revealed.
Veritaserum (Truth Telling Potion)
Hogwarts Legacy doesn’t have a morals system, so it doesn’t judge players for what they do and choose in-game. But a follow-up game, with or without a morality system, could add more dialogue options to give players a wider range of “good” and “bad” paths to choose from. Things could be made more interesting if players could mix dialogue choices with potions or spells.
For example, players who want to be dark wizards could use Umbridge’s bad use of the truth-telling drug Veritaserum to find out what other characters are hiding. Players could try out different moral choices by choosing whether or not to use these potions with magic like “Unforgivable Curses.”
Polyjuice Potion
Professor Black and the Polyjuice Potion make for one of the best parts of Hogwarts Legacy. Players don’t get to make the potion, though, because it’s part of a movie. In one of the funniest parts of Drift Boss, players can walk around easily in their new disguise, just like Ron and Harry did when they used the Polyjuice potion to turn into Crabbe and Goyle in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
The Polyjuice potion could be introduced in different ways in Hogwarts Legacy, and it could be fun for players to make the potion so they can change into a bigger range of NPCs. This could lead to some funny or exciting situations, especially if it lets players into secret places they wouldn’t be able to see otherwise.
Hogwarts Legacy is out now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. On November 14, a version for Switch will come out.
