It seems that, despite his protestations earlier this year, dear old Ponty just couldn’t keep away from the warm, chubby, sweaty embrace of The Portly Politico. We’re all too happy to take him back into our doughy arms.
Ponty’s breaking the silence with a powerhouse review of Hogwarts Legacy, a roleplaying game based on the beloved Harry Potter franchise.
I’m not a Potterphile—I was born just two or three years too late to be in the books’ key demographic upon their release—but I certainly appreciate magic and whimsy. That said, I don’t know my Muggle from a Hufflepuff (except that I am, apparently, both), so for all you people out there whose only frame of reference for the world is a series of children’s books about kid wizards, don’t persecute me for my ignorance.
What I do know is that this game engendered (no pun intended) a great deal of controversy upon its release because the series’ creator, J.K. Rowling, is a TERF—a Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist. That means that, while she loves all the feminist foolishness a woman of her age tends to believe, she still believes that men are men and women are women. For that, detractors decried this game as “violence against trans people,” because apparently we can’t separate a work of video game fiction—itself quite distinct from the original author’s work—from one’s personal beliefs, and because one’s personal beliefs are now deemed violence if certain mentally impaired individuals deem it to be so.
Well, there’s no use arguing with the insane. Ponty, however, does commit a bit of violence against Hogwarts Legacy from the other direction, though purely in an editorial sense. And before he gets to some of the bad, he does extensive yeoman’s work covering the good, too.
With that, here is Ponty’s excellent review of Hogwarts Legacy:
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