With such a great universe as source material, OotP could have been a lovely game. But it`s ultimately boring.
The same goes for the latest game from the HP universe. The castle is great, and beautiful... it`s definitely large and I can surely lose myself in it... but I don`t feel any motivation behind doing so. I mean sweeping floors and re-building statues ? And after that I get some stinkin` orbs ? What is this ? "Harry Potter and His Pitiful Attempt at being a Hogwarts cleaning Lady" ?
The pace is really slow and if Harry would have been always busy cleansing Hogwarts, when people were not believing him that Voldemort returned, then he would have been a total moron. Where are the schemes ? The snappy interactions between characters ? Even duels, who are supposed to be exciting are ZzzzZZZzz, because you`re never quite sure what exactly are you doing there.. you just twist that wand and hope something cool comes out..
I really hate the development team that was in charge of this game... They took great artistic direction and totally pooped over it with bad ideas gameplay wise, while totally ignoring the seriousness of the story. Too bad.