Hogwarts Legacy has stealth finishers, and they're more brutal than the killing curse

Hogwarts Legacy lets you be a right wrong'un in the halls of the magical school, which is humorous enough, but now that we've gotten a glimpse of the game's stealth finisher moves, we'll try to stay in the good books of the more morally flexible players.

Of course, there are different decisions to be made in over 100 side quests that determine the game's endings, and not all of these are going to be sunshine and rainbows. But it was the reveal that Hogwarts Legacy allows the Unforgivable Curses and encourages students to dabble in the Dark Arts Battle Arena to let these spells loose is... strange.

Explore the enchanting common rooms of Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw below:

Crucio, Imperio, Confringo and Avada Kedavra are in the player's arsenal, should they tumble down that particular path, and they're nasty ones. Yet, as per this preview gameplay snippet, there are less terrible ways to take your enemies out in stealth finishers, but I still wouldn't champion them. Take a look:

I believe that's Stupefy being used to lock the wizard within their own body and fall to the ground with a smack. As for the other, that might be the Levitation Charm to throw the enemy up and down in the air until they're subdued. An invisibility spell is used to ensure that these devastating attacks make their mark. I wonder - is there something similar to the NHS in the Wizarding World? Because they're about to be very busy.

As one of the most anticipated games of this year, Hogwarts Legacy is topping the charts in spite of the controversies that continually sully it. In the first instance, there are a fair few people that perceive the purchase of the RPG as an implicit approval of author J. K. Rowling's transphobic opinions. Avalanche Software clarified that it is only her team that it has collaborated closely with during the development of the game, but there have been objections to the game's storyline that features the quelling of a goblin rebellion.

Actor Sebastian Croft, who lends his voice to the playable protagonist, recently apologised for his part in Hogwarts Legacy after fans argued that it was hypocritical as he is an outspoken LGBTQ+ ally. "I was cast in this project over three years ago, back when all Harry Potter was to me, was the magical world I grew up with," said the actor. "I know far more now than I did three years ago, and hope to learn far more in the next three."