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=Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (PC, PS1)=

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (known in Europe as The Philosopher's Stone) is an adventure game published by Electronic Arts based on the novel by J.K. Rowling.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Impressive graphics for the time it was released.
 * 2) Rather decent voice acting.
 * 3) On the computer, PlayStation, and Game Boy Advance the cutscenes are narrated like it's from a book.
 * 4) The Game Boy Color in particular follows the plot of the book very well.
 * 5) The way how you do spells in the PC version are impressive.
 * 6) The combat, puzzle-solving, and platforming are pretty nice.
 * 7) Amazing soundtrack, composed by Jeremy Soule.
 * 8) Given these games tend to be longer than movies, this one includes material adapted out of the film, this includes Peeves.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The aiming of spells in the PC version is awkward, and Harry's movement is tank-like since you can't aim spells and move at the same time nor strafe by default.
 * 2) Although the graphics of the PS1 were impressive, they aged poorly.
 * 3) In the PlayStation version, there is an (understandable) lack of an autosave feature, so the player must find a "Save Book" to save the game if they want to. The final section of the game, however (a very long and tedious section) hides these Save Books inside of secret passages only accessible by pressing an unprompted button while near the wall, leaving the player with no way to save unless they know about these.
 * 4) Some of the minigames, like the chess one, require a lot of trial and error to pass.

Game Boy Color

 * 1) Combat is incredibly slow.
 * 2) * There are also many difficulty curves that require grinding to circumvent them.
 * 3) While the music is impressive, its bleeps and bloops are grating.
 * 4) During Potions class, one of the ingredients you must find (boomslang skin) can be located in Professor Snape's office (on a tapestry); obtaining any other ingredient before this renders the boomslang skin unobtainable unless you look outdoors in the bushes, trees and long grass.

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