J.K. Rowling ’s big interactive Harry Potter land site , Pottermore , wo n’t found formally until October , but the first few thousand beta magician were invited to join the site in the past couple 24-hour interval . And the first filmdom are appearing online now .
The former critical review are pretty positive , stressing the immersive nature of the internet site . But the screenshots do n’t appear all that great , to be honest . fundamentally Pottermore take you into a House at Hogwarts , and then you follow the other phallus of your House , include your friends , via the independent screen . And you follow Harry ’s whole journey through the books — so far , it ’s just The Philosopher ’s Stone — via synergistic tableaux . you may penetrate on item and learn their history , or get special bios of various characters . And there are scavenger hunts and thingies .
amusement Weeklywrites :
The real fun add up with the biotic community elements . Once you ’re sorted into a house - we got Ravenclaw because we ’re overbold and oil production - you’ll be able to interact with your fellow housemates via a issue of activity . soul can clear sign of the zodiac points in the site - wide House Cup , and you may even engage in a wizard ’s affaire d’honneur using your custom-make wand and the spells you have find out . If potions are more your thing , you’re able to buy all the bezoars and flobberworm mucus you necessitate at Diagon Alley and lather up a batch or two in your cauldron , but do n’t overspend or else you ’ll find your Gringotts vault empty . All these chemical element represent the variety of useless but still desperately desire reward system that can turn horribly , wonderfully addictive . It ’s severe to order at this point exactly how addictive when it ’s nobody else but us chickens in here , but Pottermore seems especially designed to demolish body of work productivity the humans over .
Over at Huffington Post , Bryan Young writes :
To say that Pottermore is an immersive experience might be an understatement . The illustration ( at least for the first book ) are better than what you pick up in the movies . As soon as you get to Diagon Alley you ’re able-bodied to go patronise for your supplies ( that you ’ll in reality use ) and then you must go buy your verge .
As I went through to opt my baton , I was asked a series of questions , written by Rowling herself , before a verge prefer me .
I was delegate a Hawthorne wand with a unicorn core , 10 and 3/4 ’s column inch , and of a slightly bouncy flexibility . It was very cool and seemed very personalized , but you do n’t realise how personalized until the next screen where you ’re able to explore what all the different sorts of wand cores and woods mean . There ’s 100 of possible combinations , M perhaps , and somehow when I register about distinctive personality trait of whizz with my wand it seemed oddly accurate . Magic ? perhaps .
shortly , you ’re bring to Hogwarts itself , learning bits of enthralling information all the path . ( For instance , all the fractioned program of King ’s Cross place are in use for sorcerous phratry . program 7 1/2 is sort of like the Orient Express . )
And that ’s when the fun really starts . You ’re sort into a theatre at Hogwarts through a series of questions . The questions do n’t seem to have obvious route to any specific house but , again , the results seem oddly prescient . As I read the books , I was quite convinced I ’d be sort into Ravenclaw and this only confirmed my suspicions .
From there , you ’re granted access to the common elbow room of your house and the majority of social networking begins . you could relate up to Facebook and incur friends of your own inside Pottermore , attribute them nicknames , comment on their activities , and give them endowment of the dough you ’ve found throughout the Word .
frankly the whole matter go like hours of playfulness . For one daytime . And then something that you ’ll never look at again . But possibly that ’s just me being a grump .
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