Harry Potter and the Philosopher's / Sorcerer's Stone PC Game - Nostalgia Review
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If anyone needs help getting the first three Harry Potter games to run on Windows 10, I've made a video that explains why they don't work, how to get them to run, and other useful graphical fixes! czcams.com/video/mDL3IUeo_wo/video.html
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Thank you so much!
There is a really involved speedrunning community for these games, so if anyone has further proplems go check it out. Those pepole really know the games
What about the new Windows 11 Phil 😀
@@jaja8951 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
bruh harry potter 1-3 pc went hard af. then 4 came around and they messed em up real good
true
It got better with 5 and 6 (6 even brought back the open world gameplay of the original 3)
But it all took a shit on 7
@@morgonfr33m4n1337z 5 nd 6 didnt have jelly beans or wizard cards though, which, honestly is what made the first 3 games so fun for me. Not sure why, but the pick up sound for the beans in the first PC game is like ASMR to me.
@@JrKengu Games 1 and 2 are ASMR for me!
@@HeirofAzaran yeah the jelly bean pick up sound from the 1st game is the best.
Maybe I’m not nostalgia blind and this game is actually really good. It still looks amazing, the sound and music is fantastic, and the level design is really great. I miss this game, it’s something special.
It makes me wonder if somebody has made or will make a spiritual successor of sorts to these old HP games. Seeing the success of the Spyro and Crash Bandicoot remasters, my guess is that it's a matter of time.
@@PurpleLightsaberAlex I kind of want EA to make a Harry potter game which is kind of like The Half Blood Prince (because it has realistic visuals and the real Hogwarts castle) but like so it for the whole series
the fact this is a 20 year old game, made for children, and based on a book/film franchise, and is so much better than many of the micro transaction riddled, unfinished games that get released today, really says something...
of course the music is fantastic, it's jeremy soule.
Fun Fact: The composer of these games, Jeremy Soule, later composed the music for The Elder Scrolls series, specifically Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim.
And Kotor.
Never heard of that, sorry.
@@hatandhoodie_ kotor is probably meant to be Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, which is a pretty well beloved RPG.
@@NightNinja1998 I love how you can feel Jeremy Soule's touch in all these soundtracks and they still feel unique.
@@PurpleLightsaberAlex big time, and they are just as iconic to me as the movie's scores, to where I was kinda bummed they got replaced after Goblet of Fire
The lighting, sound and music made this simple game come to life.
The Filch stealth mission is definitely the level that gave me the most anxiety! Almost had a few heart attacks myself 🤣
I watched a play through of the game a while ago and I had a nightmare after watching it where I was trying escape from a laughing filch. That’s how you know you made a good game, when you cause pure dread in someone 20 years after playing the game
I'm here to confess I have not completed this game because I dipped out at this section.
@@pazz1239 I can understand why! Lol
wow, the part about how the game looks blew me away, you are so good at delivering the atmosphere
The section in the restricted section of the library is probably my favorite chapter in any HP game.
Agreed!
it is a credit to how good this first ever Harry Potter game was that it still has the most iconic level in any HP game - the Sneak Up/Down from the Tower past Filch and Mrs. Norris is just 🔥
I remember playing this on my windows 98. To this day, I still don't know how I found all the secrets on the first shot and got the secret ending. But the Norbert mission was IMO a pain in the ass.
Finding out that the first 3 Harry Potter games on PC used the Unreal Engine was like one of the most mindblowing things as a kid. Made me love them even more.
This was exactly the hit of nostalgia I didn't know I needed. Can't wait for Chamber of Secrets!
even though i played this game quite a few times i never really noticed that ghosts dim the candles when passing by them
wonderful review, really in depth and quite fun to watch, you just earned a sub .i will look forward to your next video :)
Thanks, I actually never noticed it either until I played it to record this! I find new secrets with these games every time...
I think what made me the saddest was that once you end the game you can't replay :( so if you missed stuff too bad. They fixed that in chamber of secrets, but I have a soft spot for the 1st game castle design
how was it fixed in the second game??? its been a while since i played it, does the game let you keep exploring the castle after you do the final level??
@@JrKengu exactly, you are still able to continue your Hogwarts exploration after beating the game in the second one
This was my first game that i've ever played in my life. And I fell in love with it right away. This game holds the most Nostalgia for me. I fucking love it.
I still remember going into the library and seeing the game on the self and wanting to play it so bad and going back home and playing it nonstop for days on end! I miss the past.
I find it quite interesting that this one actually feels darker and a tiny bit scarier compared to the second game considering its actually the other way round with the films.
It unintentionally has some traits that horror games often make good use of.
Anyone else think so?
Why I haven't seen this comment earlier? Same here!
I think it goes down mostly to music. While there are few peacful or epic tracks, most of them are somewhat ominous. Heck, the music used at the start of Piotions class was later used in Chamber of Secrets (both game and the level)!.
Not to menton there is a lot of long quiet moments, when you go through the level listening only to background noise.
@@Ajzan1 I suspect some of that is also unintentional in the first game because it isn't quite as complete or refined as the second game would later be.
@@Veyron722skyhook I agree. There are many times where BG music feels like it was thrown randomly for no reason, like Hogwarts theme or that jingle that plays on two occasions when you cast Lumos spell in sneaking lel. With the latter I think originally this jingle was supposed to play every time you cast Lumos. That would explain that this spell challeng is so Silent.
I argue Chambers is way scarier
@@tompor561 How so?
I fondly remember playing this game on my dad's shitty laptop which could barely run the game at all... but it ran and I was happy! This was the height of the Harry Potter craze back in 2001/early 2002 when the first movie came out and Harry Potter merchandise was literally everywhere. But it was a more than solid game and did a really good job at capturing the atmosphere of the books and movies.
I was in 1st grade when the movie and game came out. It was a magical time of my life. I'm glad they didn't rely solely on the movie but took inspiration from the book as well and made the game more special in its own right, not just another video game adaptation.
Won't lie, the graphics do look nicer on the PC version. Which I've never played. Only ever played the PS1 version, which I'm expecting to be getting some time in the next couple of days. Then I think I played Chamber of Secrets on the GameCube. Which I learned about Peeves through this game as well. Which I never noticed in any of the movies.
Loved this. I've always quite enjoyed the linear aspect of this game, I really liked seeing how different parts of the castle connected up to each other as you played through different levels. Plus it was nice knowing that in every section you always had the tools to find every secret, it was just a matter of exploration. I'm not sure what the modding scene for this game is like, but I'd love to see something that links up all the level geometry together.
Maybe that's not as big as Skyrim or Minecraft modding community, but here on YT are few people who made custom levels using PS/SoSt and CoS models. There is even a channel that helds project on restoring the first game with unused content.
the filch library task is the most exciting thing ever. I've played it countless times and it doesn't stop being good
First game I ever played, and one I still remember and come back to. My favourite part now are the levels where you're sneakign opast Filch, which is weird cause I used to find them terrifying (I was about 8 at the time).
Also, I still think this game did Quidditch the best (out of the main series entires - never played the world cup game) because of the free-flight - I hate how every other game locks you to following the Snitch, unlike here where you actually have to chase it down yourself.
I do wish there'd been some form of free exploration like you get in the later games, cause there's no real sense of progression when every area has to be designed for the spells you have when you reach them - the closest it gets is the Venomous Tentacula being something you can only avoid on the way to Herbology before learning Incendio.
Thanks for link in the description box! This game is a classic for me and I think EA should release the classic HP games on Steam so we don't have to go through all this trouble to get it to work on Windows 10. I like your review of it by the way!
I think the licencing around getting it released nowadays is probably not worth the money or hassle for EA unfortunately :/
Early Unreal Engine games just have that immersive, otherworldly feel to them.
8:30 I really appreciate that you mentioned the ghost vfx on dungeons. it really used to scare me as a Kid.
I loved the early HP games the first three were so good! I watched a ton of videos during quarantine reviewing and replaying them but somehow just found your channel! For sure subscribing and can not wait to watch the rest!
This game is one of the best games to have ever existed in my life ^^
great vid! the three games for pc are still some of my favorite games of all time. the filtch level in the first one cemented my love for stealth games and the overall atmosphere and bizarre secrets (like the non sensical secret passages of the weasley twins) have stuck to me to this day. i'm not a harry potter fan anymore but i would highly recommend these to anyone
I love that you put into words how the atmosphere and aesthetic sets the mood for the story of the game. I remember playing this game as a kid and getting so immersed in it. I would get a cold chill to the bone when the Bloody Baron passed by and almost blew out the candle light with his cold essense you can literally feel, especially with the dark soundtrack theme. Jeremy Soule is a composing genius, being able to set off the mood of any environment, making you feel both anxiety and peace with his works. This game was a gem of it's time and I'll always feel nostalgia for it too
CZcams knows exactly what to recommend me!
Nostalgia right in the feels!
I remember I use to be so scared of the stealth mission in the library as a kid. Also I use to speed run this game back as a kid when speed run wasn’t really much of a thing lol. The amazing thing was I finished the game so many times that I had to reinstall the game because you have 6 save slots in the game at max if I remember correct.
Haha I remember first playing the library section and being scared to death of Filch, and I have a vivid memory of me playing whilst my younger sister watched, and it was the Very First Room where I tried to pass Filch and he heard me, so of course chased me. As a child, I didn't know that if I kept running I would have lost him.
Instead, I screamed "ohmygodohmygod I've been caught!!" quit the game and leaving my sister very confused XD
And then, we never finished the game as children. We got to the Quirrel/Voldemort fight but then couldn't figure out what to do after the pillars XD so we just started a new game and did it all again.
@@abisnow1843 Last fight with voldermort was a pain in @ss as a kid. You have to align the pillers right so you can throw them on Voldermort and stun him. Then you had to use the mirror to deflect attacks as well lol. Also if you timed it right, you could deflect his attacks with your spells as well. But it was too hard.
@@AliFOJ5 yeah, we could never figure out what to do after he destroys the pillars. I even asked a classmate who told me if I span the mirror a bunch of times the pillars would grow back 😂 still couldn't win.
Contrast to Chamber of Secrets where we managed to beat the game. I mean, it still took us years to beat everything like the gold wizard card challenge, the challenge speed runs and stuff, but AT LEAST we beat the basilisk 😂
@@abisnow1843 loool I dun know about you but I use to increase my health bars in HP2 and use to jump from the top floor of moving stairs area to check the fall damage 😂. Most funny shet about Baslik fight was the way you just charge up your sword to throw projectile attacks towards it if we were actually using a wand. I remember the baslik use to do some kinda yoga dance to dodge the attacks just to annoys us even more 😂. Whats more weird is, every single Harry Potter 2 game has a different kind of final boss fight with baslick. Like they couldn’t figure out how to design the sword fight lol 😂
@@AliFOJ5 yeah, i remember that 😂 the basilisk would let you get away with hitting him in that first phase and then he got wise and dodged it 😂 my favourite thing about that last fight in HP2 was when you go down the corridor towards the face of Slytherin, and there's a save book, but when you touch the save book all of a sudden there's this huge wall behind you so you can't go back 😂 i used to try and stop that from happening but nope, didn't work.
i always did think it was wierd that every port of the game was different but i kind of like that in a way? it's a different experience for everyone, but the PS1 and PC ports at least have similar dialogues and stuff, which made my experience watching someone play the PS1 version strange because some of the lines were the same but different in context 😂 like the troll chase. In the PS1 version that's after the sneaking down the forbidden corridor bit, and Hermione is IN the bathroom and fine when you reach her, but the PC version where Ron SAYS she's locked in the bathroom but you get chased by the troll, run to the bathroom, lock it in, and then you realise you've locked Hermione in 😂
This game my favourite as a kid and still and still holds up completely, the restricted section still is one of my favourite levels of all time
Apart from the score which I truly love, I’m also still amazed what a good job the textures do. The game is so low poly but they hide it pretty well. They give so much detail to the levels.
Great review! I too love playing this game every now and then for a big nostalgia kick. I never noticed the fires on the wall blow with the breeze when the Bloody Baron goes by, I'll look out for that next time! Loved games 2 and 3 too. Not 4 though, I was so gut wrenched when I bought it in 2005 and there wasn't a spell challenge for me that I returned it haha
Thank you!! ❤️ 4 can go to hell 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
You gave me the nostalgia, I remember playing the Harry Potter games for countless hours... Damn those were the days.
I remember back when i played this game, by god, i was completely hooked. I would say there were two games that lead to my love for both Sci-Fi and fantasy, Halo: combat evolved and Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone on PC. It may be outdated now, but these games will forever be ingrained as crucial components of making the person i am today. I think perhaps the music itself played a huge role in the immersion i felt playing them, halo being arguably the most notorious of the two but the Harry Potter one being absolutely magical as well. Damn, if only one could relive past moments of ones life again for the first time...
Halo CE is so good and one of my faves too! 😍😍
I am so glad more people are looking into the PC games of Harry Potter, these PC versions were great when I was a kid, such a shame I can't install my discs anymore cause my new PC tower has no disc drive :(
I was 6 years old when I finally complete the game. Thanks to take me back to those memories! Great video :)
This upload and giving aesthetic to the whole game was an amazing idea. I just happen to pass the game in 1 day and seeing this after..gives the nostalgia another good boost to refresh memories I just relived
Love these videos. The first 6 Harry Potter games were some of my earliest childhood games. Especially the second one holds a special place.
I have fond memories playing this in Swedish together with my mother back in the day! She enjoys the puzzle elements in this game!
Are we just gonna ignore how there would be no way for Quirrel to survive snapping his own neck?
I think he did the same in the ps1 version
I remember my PC struggling to run this game and making the spell tracing a stressful time but man I sure loved this game.
I loved that in the games, the magic is highlighted with color and sparks. Makes it look, and feel magical.
7:18 is my favorite scene in any of the Harry Potter games. It's so beautiful. I always wanted to live there when I was a kid.
this videogame series totally was part of shaping my love for castle free roaming in games, the visuals and aesthetics>>>> especially in the 2 first ones
Ah, what a walk down memory lane, feel really lucky I was able to play this as a kid, a truly magical experience) Music of course ties it all together.
Running from filch in the library is the source of my childhood trauma
I like to think of it as resiliance training and character building
I almost cried watching this, I wanna go back in time!
Thank you so much for this!
Brings back memories of playing this game when I was a kid. Game still looks good now; I wouldn't mind playing it again. It's crazy how they were able to include quidditch gameplay. Soundtrack composed by the same guy who did Skyrim; easy to tell in hindsight.
Great review bud! These games deserve to be talked about especially with the atmosphere and soundtrack being as good as they are. Looking forward to your next video! 👍
Soundtrack honestly one of my favourites, especially that of the second game, so good!
One thing I like about this game is that, by not having the proper open world hub, they nailed the idea of ever changing Hogwarts. Like Dumbledore said at the beginning: there are secrets that can be reached at certain point of the game, because later they won't be accessible but also changed into something else.
Nowadays, in more polished game, it would be done using PC's internal clock and, if the game is connected to the Internet, time limited events... Actually, Hogwarts Legacy could do just that.
I love this game. I started to think Professor Sprout was Hyacinth from Keeping up Appearances. But it wasn’t.
My siblings and me always got stuck at the jump and run section in quirrels task with the stones hovering over the void. After turning off autojump it was possible, but we didnt find out about that for so long ):
Great review Phil! Believe it or not this is my favourite Harry Potter game next to Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets for the PS1! I think it’s mainly for it’s nostalgia this was the first Harry Potter game I ever played including the first three for the PC and including chamber of secrets for the PS1! Hey this game isn’t perfect it does have glitches and flaws with its gameplay but the graphics for the Hogwarts design and the imagination and the colours and the designs is magnificent and mind blowing especially the masterful soundtrack/music and for it’s first game it does incredibly well it’s a lot of fun! Far from perfect would I say it’s one of the best? Yes and no but it’s a childhood game of mind that I hold dearly to my heart!
I can't wait for you to get to the third game. So glad that CZcams recommended your channel to me. :-D (I also subbed, great review :-D )
I loved the third game as a kid.
It's unfortunate that I can't enjoy it much today...
I always loved the first three Harry Potter games for PC.. I play them to this day at least 2 times a year.
I like that those three games get a bit more attention lately.. I also still hope for remakes :(
What I must admit: I'm from Austria, so I played the games in german language.. I did lately also try them in english and tbh.. The Voices just don't fit for some characters.. The german voices are so much better and fit very well.. Best example in this game for me is Filch for some reason.
Anyway.. Nice video, hope you'll do even more about Harry Potter.
I still remember being in PC World with my mum when I was very young, buying my first ever PC “because it was blue” and getting this game with it.
I spent a lot of time in the later years playing with the engine cheats finding secret areas and messing with the world. “harrydebugmodeon” or “harrysuperjump” I can still remember.
when i was a a kid i always thought there is some secret locactio from where fred and georde come, and you can access it if you try hard enough somehow, and i alwas though theres like a huge secret net of shortcuts, pathways to secret hogwarts locations etc, which is hilarious consdering the small scale of a game.
Fun fact: Filch is Gehrman from Bloodborne
love your Spyro tee, bro!
I died when you called the gnomes "potato looking creature's"😂😂😂
I will forever be in your debt for making these vids thank u
Marilyn and her friend are like the best characters in the whole game
I enjoyed this review I like your style !
Just bought the first 3 games for PS2 and downloaded them for PC as well. Gonna go through all 6 and experience my childhood again, yay!
enjoy!
this game was a hugeee part of my childhood, it's crazy it still looks so pretty
I would love to see them redo the ps2 version of philosopher’s stone, and chamber of secrets. Just update how the game plays, and do all 7 books. I just want to see deathly hallows done in the ps2 cartoony style
I loved this game and I love re experiencing it with you
Where do you find the early PC games
This was the very first game I've ever played on pc, I think I was around 4 or 5, got stuck on the part where you run from the Troll, it's a shame i never finished it
If only some great game developers recreated the game for 2021
Love this game so much, it is a meaningfull part of life and I'm happy so much to save ot in my memories of childhood. Thanks for letting us have a time of nostalgy man, good video
Yesterday I started playing this one for the first time in years, after playing CoS recently.
1. While in CoS WASD + mouse controls work perfectly, here are a nightmare. I need to use old method of arrow keys + Ctrl and Alt. Good thing this one doesn't require that much of a quick reacting.
2. If I could made reboot of this came, I would just merge most of the levels together into one big map, which part you are gradualy unlocking and can come back later. Like, imagine coming back to Sprout's garden after learning Incedio and being able to finally beat local tentaculas. Or being able to practice flying again in-game and beating your recordand gain more points
Elder scrolls arena's controls are even more horrible
Arrow keys to move
Move your mouse to attack
Shift + J to jump forward
Omg used to play this game so much as a kid, peeves used to scare me though.
Yep, that's the game who turned me into a Hardcore pc gamer.
recently played this, really was a lovely trip down memory lane. bis game
5:54 Flesh eating plants seem like a normal thing tbh considering that there is a giant snake that freely roams the walls of Hogwarts and eats children.
Lololol so true
And (in game) challenges where you can die if you fall
And a werewolf as a DA professor (best professor ever tho)
Just the soundtrack ... literal chills. D:
when i think of old games of the early 2000s i think of operation flashpoint cold war crisis/resistance.. harry potters 1 2 and 3 and conflict desert storm 1 and conflict desert storm 2 back to Baghdad
Please make more videos you’re hilarious omg
I grew up on this game. took me years to beat it though
Jeremy Soule? Should’ve put two and two together. Now I know why the KotOR music sounded so familiar. 😂😂
06:40 another fun note is, I'm pretty sure this is the first time Harry actually talks in the game! At least in the Dutch dub (which was hilariously bad and a whole new sort of entertainment in its own right) that was the case.
This brought back all the mems!
When i was a young kid my dad bought me the set with the first three games and i still remember that i thought that Peeves was really creepy. And i had nightmares of him after playing through the games. Still enjoy them though.
I’m hp1 Fred and George takes your beans like gnomes but gives you a wizard card tho
Wow this game looks gorgeous, maybe even better than the second one. It was crafted with love.
i believe this was my first ever game this and chamber of secrets and gta 3
God damn it, you deserve thousands of subscribers.
I remember my disc was broken and the game always crashed at the troll scene deleting my savepoints and forced me to start over from the beginning. We tried so many times but it always crashed
That's such a sad memory haha
The Filch stealth quest was my most favorite part of the game. Sad that you can collect only up to just under 700 beans through the course of the game (without the use of cheats and buying any wizard cards). After the mentioned quest is done, there're no more beans for the rest of the game 😔
Isn't there like
a chest in the forbidden corridor
and another chest in that part where you have to jump on platforms to reach quirrel?
I think they still have a few beans in it
(Before that room where you have to flipendo some blocks)
I knew something was off when I saw ppl talk about this game. They always refer to the ps1 version, not the PC version which Is clearly visually superior.
SOMETHING that is mentioned here only for few secs, and nowhere else is the Quiditch!!!! It has the best game mechanics in all of the harry potter games!!! Even a stand alone quiditch game, it didn't had a free roaming snitch! I was obssesed with catching that sneaky little bugger!!! So much fun!!!! :) :)
How do I get this to work on pc today. I have the discs for 1-3. But can’t seem to get it work
For those three, windows 10 no longer supports the CD key checking feature, so the game never runs as it can't get past that. What you need is an exe file that bypasses the cd checking feature. Check in the description, I posted a link to a website that helps with the first two games, or alternatively go to oldgamesdownload as they have what you need.
The first game I played was the Chamber of Secrets. Then I bought the Philosopher's Stone.. which turned out to be fully in Polish... Not sure what happened there. :))
This is the second game I ever played
I used to play this Harry Potter version when I was really young, I wish I could play it, but I don’t know how it run it properly in a modern computer
Hey, do you know how I can get any Harry Potter game on pc via download or something? I don't have a cd port on my pc. Thanks
myabandonware and oldgamesdownload are good websites that have old games that aren't for sale anymore, give them a look :)
Great game! Too bad they had weren’t allowed much reference from the film when being made. Hopefully one day it’ll get a fan remaster!
If people would ask me what games made me a gamer, I would go with Tiny Toon Adventures & The Flinstones on Sega Genesis, GTA San Andreas & Need for Speed Underground 2 on PS2. And of course Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone on PC. I rember playing the first Harry Potter game at an old friends place that was located at the farm who had an old PC with Windows 98 or 2000 OS. I had so much fun playing Harry Potter on PC that I even beat Voledmort on my first try, while my older sister & her friend had troubles with that. Plus, I really can't get the games theme song out of my head. If people would ask me about the most memorable gaming theme songs, then the Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone PC games theme will be on that list.