You'll have to work hard to succeed — there are 29 different objectives to complete, as well as obstacles and enemies to avoid. The game was released as a trio, with separate versions for Game Boy Advance, Microsoft Windows, and home consoles (released on PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube). The Game Boy Advance version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was developed by Griptonite Games, [9] under the creative direction of Phil Trumbo and with J. Once all of the player's health has been depleted, they're sent back to the very beginning of the level, despite the fact that many levels are at least 10 to 15 minutes in length when being solved for the first time. Unique to this Harry Potter game, all characters have their own unique quotes for whenever they get hit by a spell.

In some segments, Harry partakes in the game of Quidditch, in which he flies on a broomstick and must locate and catch a Golden Snitch fluttering about the arena. The game can best be described as a puzzle platformer loosely based on the film version of the first Harry Potter book.And as you attain experience points for Harry, you can upgrade spells and improve Harry's strength so he can take on new opponents. Frank Provo of GameSpot was very positive about the GBA game's recreation of the novel; saying "The main thing to keep in mind is that Prisoner of Azkaban on the GBA offers a fun way for Harry Potter fans to step into the shoes of their favorite wizard-in-training and experience firsthand everything that happened in the third installment of the series.

Boss battles too can be frustratingly difficult, but conversely players seem to be overly rewarded for the simplest of tasks, with 50 house points given simply for attending class and learning a spell. In addition to playing as the titular character Harry, the game also allows the player to control Hermione and Ron, as well as fly Buckbeak, and control Harry's pet owl, Hedwig. The game may be short and easy, but it's also thoughtfully designed and genuinely entertaining, and KnowWonder deserves credit for that. Assuming that Snape is trying to obtain the Philosopher's Stone for Voldemort, Harry, Ron, and Hermione pass through the trapdoor and traverse obstacles put in place by the school's professors, but ultimately only Harry can proceed. Baker criticized the broomstick's excessive speed, which made turning difficult, and Kim said that the Quidditch sequences were too infrequent to affect the game's feeling of repetitiveness.As with the Playstation version of the game, the story skips straight to Hogwarts, giving a storyboard version of the first third of the book. This effect lasts until you switch spells once more or enter a different room, though this effect is impossible to apply to Lumos' colour. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. What if you could leave the nonmagical world of the Muggles behind and enrol in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry? One night, while secretly obtaining ingredients for Snape's class, Harry happens upon the Mirror of Erised, in which he sees his parents.