Salt Lake City — In an effort to create a more immersive experience, Hogwarts Legacy 2 will allow players to customize their avatar’s stance on transgender rights, sources confirmed.
“The biggest component of this exciting new feature comes in the form of the Delores Umbridge Sliding Scale of Transphobia. While building their avatar, players can now use a slider to customize the transphobia of their player,” said Lead Developer, Nancy Djalma.
“Your choice of the scale will create branching stories that create a unique experience and ensure replayability. This marks a massive improvement in customization. For instance, based on this choice, players’ Patronuses can range from Seahorse to Ann Coulter.”
For fans who consider themselves progressives, the game actually offers a third bathroom option, The Chamber of Secrets, ensuring total privacy. Players can also choose to change the House they were sorted into at any time during the game, in case they feel they were wrongly assigned by the Sorting Hat.
While some of the sequel’s changes garnered praise, others drew ire. The game’s development team hopes the changes draw in an untapped market of, older, wealthier, fans to the Potterverse.
“For fans whose views mirror those of the world’s creator, the sequel has plenty to offer. For one, players can gerrymand a majority of students to band together to outlaw certain body changing potions until a student reaches year 7.” said UI Designer Brian Lovejoy, “You can even protest it. Really exciting stuff.”
Another exciting feature is players having the option of joining Hogwarts Clubs, like the Trans Exclusionary Ravenclaw Feminists, or T.E.R.F.s.
Some fans have taken to social media to voice their thoughts on the change. ““Why, just why?” questions Sarah Burke. “Hell yeah brother” wrote Rodney Smith. Another Legacy fan, Graham Riggle, showed his concern for online gameplay. “Won’t this update cause unnecessary interplayer conflict?” asked Graham on X..
The developers have thought of that too.
“Players who max out their transphobia scale can simply take their avatar to The Room of Requirement where they can step into the 1950s and role play traditional gender norms until the bad feelings go away,” said Developer Pat McClure.
As their launch time nears, developers are back to work, outlining a DLC that would allow players to destroy their Hogwarts Legacies by sharing their opinions online.
