Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone Critic Reviews

It does feel a bit short, and some elements of the story are poorly told. But as simple, fundamental platform gaming, it's pleasant enough, and Harry's target lock is really very good.

But the core still involves lots of non-skippable cinematic sequences, a fidgety camera (and finicky controls), overearnest voice acting, and tepid platform-style action (any game where the first true action sequence takes place in a room full of crates set up for jumping puzzles is trouble).

Drastically inferior compared to the one-year old "Chamber of Secrets."

Two words keep this from being a great-playing game: menial tasks. The puzzles aren't clever, they're just silly, and oftentimes confusing because of the clunky controls and the sub-par camera.

Music and sounds are solid, but Harry Potters voice is like a cheese grater on the brain.

A weak follow-up to Chamber of Secrets that seems like an awkward fit for anyone who already owns last year's game.

Harmlessly addictive, if not wholly derivative. But it's great for the kids, and offers a satisfying, officially licensed Harry Potter experience.

When you're not being underwhelmed by Sorcerer's Stone, you'll be infuriated by it.

Isn't a remake of the PS1 game of the same name, but rather a conceptually similar reimagining.

Unless you're six years old and a mad Potter fan (who didn't play this game on PSone), don't go anywhere near this one.

The story is the most dated, the art assets re-used, and gameplay mechanics re-used, and all with a serious hit in graphic quality, a truth that really disappoints.

Running around Hogwarts is a curiously flat experience, and not helped by the chronically jerky frame rate.

Other than a couple isolated bits HP and the SS is a mess. And I didn’t play crap like this when I was a kid, at least not for long. I played Sonic. So there ya have it: Harry Potter is better than a Vomit flavored bean, but a little worse than Grass, and on a level with Booger.

But most unbelievable is the fact that there's almost nothing here I would classify as fun.