The greatest casualty of the constant genre hopping was that Prisoner of Azkaban was the last turn-based RPG in the series. I would have loved to see books 4 - 7 in that style.

@Oxmosh

Жыл бұрын

I only played the first and loved it, didnt even know there was a 2nd and 3rd. Time to get busy

@MultiJET24

Жыл бұрын

The greatest crime is that the Harry Potter series on the GBA weren't released as RPGs in the same style as Prisoner of Azkaban

@willlindell8904

10 ай бұрын

I'd love to see somebody make fan games in that very spirit.

@FranciscoJavier32423

6 ай бұрын

Oh no you just destroyed myself, I was looking for an RPG for a ds

@deusexmaximum8930

2 ай бұрын

Order of the Phoenix for ds was a turn based rpg

God I loved prisoner of Azkaban on GBA. I’ve even played it as an adult and I frankly feel it holds up. Fun but short game.

@purpleheart3000

Жыл бұрын

I would use up the save spots so I could listen to certain music tracks. My favorite was the Lupin fight music, and I'd open the fight and let it idle till my battery ran down. I'm so glad the composer put the entire soundtrack on KZread for us to listen to.

@Heksu99

Жыл бұрын

I never had GBA, but I had it on emulator and played it through few times. It was good fun

@aamirrazak3467

Жыл бұрын

I think prisoner of Azkaban was like peak Harry Potter game movie and book

@Morgorath30

Жыл бұрын

Replaying it currently. It really does holdup. My only real complaints is the lack of a run button, and my need for faster text.

@DoratTheKiller

4 ай бұрын

​@@Heksu99Same

Good work to all the voters! I have great memories of the GBC/GBA trilogy, the first RPGs I ever played. Glad to know other folks enjoyed them so much as well.

@quickman2663

Жыл бұрын

I agree, this was a really fun video. All the Harry Potter videos were fun to watch.

@aamirrazak3467

Жыл бұрын

@@quickman2663 agreed I really enjoyed taking a trip down memory lane with the Hp vids

I had both philosophers Stone and Chamber of Secrets for GBC and to this day those games are still some of my favorite games that i have ever played. The amount of detail that they had for a GBC game at the time was insane, you could lose yourself just exploring the outside castle looking for ingredients or spending a lot of time dueling other students in the 2nd one to upgrade spells.

Prisoner of Azkaban on GBA was absolutely a favorite of my library as a kid and still holds up today. I wish they had kept doing the RPGs, especially in that Golden Sun style from PoA.

I just love your videos so much man. I usually don't like tier list or comparison type reviews but these harry potter videos led me to your channel and they're absolute masterpieces. I feel the reflect the comforting vibes i love about the original playstation harry potter games. thank you for making these! :)

Chamber of secrets on gameboy color has some of my favorite music ever. The titlescreen, the burrow, diagon alley, the Hogwarts music, the battle music, all absolutely amazing.

@purpleheart3000

Жыл бұрын

I actually didn't know it had music for years. My mom had turned off the background music because she found it annoying, and I didn't know how to check the settings at that age. I'm glad I know about it now that I'm older, but it still feels almost odd that there's music lol

I'm surprised 'GBA Prisoner' is ranked higher than 'GBC Chamber'. It's an okay game in its own right but it's missing a lot of details that made its predecessor such a charming, fun experience.

@purpleheart3000

Жыл бұрын

Definitely a lot less detail. It's a hard call for me because I dearly love both, but I think it comes down to whether you like rpg or free turn fights. Bit like comparing apples to oranges, and I don't know if I could choose one as better.

@fictionalmediabully9830

Жыл бұрын

@@purpleheart3000 Even the battles themselves have design flaws not present before. It's not clear how Petrificus Totalus works on enemies weak to it, and magic runs out in a flash, resulting in some clunky pacing. When I first played it, I felt mildly underwhelmed but couldn't elaborate on why. That is until I watched a video by Farlands Design Den and it all began to make sense. I should reiterate it's a perfectly fine game. If anything, it's a miracle it turned out satisfactory considering its unpleasant development cycle.

@goranisacson2502

Жыл бұрын

@@fictionalmediabully9830 Huh, did GBA Prisoner go through development hell? Did not know that. But I presume it's along the lines of "you have to develop this game along the same time-frame as the previous games but for more advanced hardware, with shinier graphics and we're not gonna give you more money to help make that process any easier"?

@fictionalmediabully9830

Жыл бұрын

@@goranisacson2502 There's an old internet forum about the Harry Potter Game Boy RPGs, and someone by the name of Dreamwriter was a staff member who worked at Griptonite Games. According to the developer, making 1 and 2 for GBC was one of the best times making games but was quickly followed by the worst time making games, which was 3 on GBA. When asked why developing 3 on GBA was the opposite, the response was this. (- We were micromanaged to death by the publisher on that one. They specifically asked for the GBC Potter team to make that game, and we designed our dream game, taking everything we learned from Chamber of Secrets and amping it way up, taking full advantage of the powerful new hardware. To be honest, we over-designed it, to be sure, but still, without interference we could have made a really kick-ass game. But the publisher didn't trust us to make quality GBA art, seeing as we had come from GBC development. To make a long story short, halfway through production they made us throwaway all the existing background art, replacing it with a new style they came up with, and because the background art changed, we had to change our sprite art to match, and now all the scripting had to be redone, since backgrounds and characters were different sizes/shapes from before. With only half the time to now make a full game, we had to cut many, many features, and to release it as a decent game we had to work crunch mode for the rest of the project, including weekends and holidays, while the publisher had reps in our office micromanaging it all. Not fun. -) On the whole, it's disappointing the team weren't able to fully realise a role-playing Prisoner of Azkaban game. I know a lot of fans like to say EA treated Harry Potter games better in its early years but the reality is Harry Potter games since the beginning have always been made to be cash grabs. Fans should be grateful that the Chamber of Secrets story was derivative of its predecessor because that meant developers only had to iterate on the Philosopher's Stone game and call it a day. Starting with Prisoner of Azkaban, it was becoming obvious EA was more concerned about making a profit than creating a quality game, and it became especially apparent once Goblet of Fire came out and the game series started going through significant gameplay shifts, which is absolute hell for developers trying to meet a tight deadline. A shame but it is what it is.

@goji3755

Жыл бұрын

I definitely prefer GBC Chamber to GBA Azkaban. Azkaban's leveling feels less grindy and the combat has fewer difficulty spikes, but Chamber feels more fleshed out overall, and the minigames are more fun. It also really bothers me there's no real sense of time passing in Azkaban, with many events that should be happening days, weeks or even months apart seeming to happen within hours or even minutes of each other on the same day. Chamber definitely helped you get a sense for time marching along as the events unfold, in no small part due to the charming little the hourglass, sun/moon and calendar page transitions between chapters. GBC Chamber feels like a full school year, GBA Azkaban feels like a very eventful weekend. Reading the dev's account of the development on the two games, it's little wonder why Chamber feels like the superior title. It absolutely sucks anytime the big wigs step in and force you to change basically everything halfway through your allotted development time.

Been looking forward to this one! Love your content, Flandrew :)

Glad to help give you a year's worth of content to work through, I can't wait to watch it

Thank you for the hard work putting these videos together!

Whoa! Thanks for including my super intelligent and insightful comment about the GBC Philosopher’s Stone!

I appreciate you and the content you've been putting out! I hope your dive into 2023 goes smoothly and that you get some time to enjoy yourself as well!

@aamirrazak3467

Жыл бұрын

Agreed flandrews content really is well crafted and great I especially enjoyed his Star Wars and HP and gta videos! One of the most undeterred YT channel imo

Thank you for all your hard work and great content for us fans. You are appreciated 🙂

Your series had me going back and seeking out the console Harry Potter games I missed as a kid but always wanted to try out. I grew up on the GBA games (1,2, and 4 specifically but later played 3 via emulation) and liked Chamber of Secrets the most but I did like a lot of what I played in Sorcerer's Stone. I also liked the fact that you could get a reaction from people when casting spells on them in HP1 and the castle was much more populated and had a better layout than the simple tower design of the other games. Chamber of Secrets had the music, the graphics, the dungeons that were short/sweet, and the overall atmosphere made it my favorite. I wasn't a big fan of Prisoner of Azkaban switching it up and turning it into an RPG like the first two on GBC - seemed a bit backwards to me.

this is great, only note i might make is in future it might be worth having the votes ask for a whole list or top 3 in order to get a clearer range of why the lower ones are lower rather than just "least voted as best"

You seem like a really genuine person, I hope you find much success

The GBC games were so freaking good, they really felt like old school adventure RPG's like cronotrigger especially chamber of secrets on the GBC... Literally the best handheld RPG harry potter game ever made... Although yes I did really like prisoner of Azkaban on the GBA too because it just looked better.

So many videos to be excited for, can't wait!

Love you video dude very nostalgic and love your art keep it up brother.

Great video. I can safely say this is the best video about the Harry Potter games. You got every ranking right. Good thing I feel that same as the fan base. Because the Harry Potter games are what made my childhood awesome

Hey Flandrew, I am happy your channel is getting bigger but don't forget about your supporters from the very beginning. And great video buddy

Definitely excited for videos on all the games mentioned, you will defo b v busy

Great video! Thanks for the work. Subscribed!

Oohh My man! Keeping my weekends crispy! Love the work man keep it up!

Yes! All the videos! Every idea that was presented at the end would be fantastic for you to cover. Your videos are fantastic and have brought me endless joy

I'm loving the videos! I wish that you had showed your own personal raking at the very end, just to compare to the polls. Keep up the good work!

I'm glad to see the Harry Potter GBC games ranking so high. Then again, they are the only Harry Potter handheld games I've played though. Still, I thought they are nice JRPG-styled games.

Amazing content, man! Keep it up!

I absolutely agree with the ranking! Thank for the video!

I loved PoA and didn't even knew they had a similar rpg for CoS on gbc, I'll definitely try that now thanks to your videos

You got a subscriber for life, man!

First vid I’ve watched where the top 3 is the EXACT same as my top 3! Y’all have such good taste lol Great video!!!

You know, I just noticed that the only Harry Potter games I've played were the Griptonite Trilogy - Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secrets on the GBC and Prisoner of Azkaban on the GBA, and it's quite heartwarming to see them taking the top slots on this list. I agree with the #1 spot going to PoA gba, the combat is much more balanced and leveling up is far less grindy, using spells to interact with the environment is a fun addition and the overall world design and artstyle makes for a fine presentation, balancing the movie character designs and aesthetic with just enough artistic flare to make good use of the GBA's limited graphical capabilities. Personally, though, I PREFER Chamber of Secrets GBC to Prisoner of Azkaban GBA. PoA was good, sure, but I always got a weird sense of time compression while playing it, like the story was severely stripped down in a way that makes it seem like events that should have been happening days, weeks or even months apart are all taking place on the same day, and the minigames were disappointingly few in number and rather uninteresting compared to what Griptonite gave us with CoS. Chamber of Secrets definitely feels much longer in a good way, like it's more fleshed out, and you get a better sense of the school year passing by with hourglass, sun/moon and even calendar page transitions between scenes, as well as certain rooms of the castle being decked out for Christmas and Valentines Day which I always thought was a nice touch. And it sports a wider variety of minigames which are always a fun diversion for when you need a break from the level grind.

"I know what I'm doing for the next year" Good for you man, keep 'em coming! I didn't know this is something I wanted to see on KZread but I'm glad to have found it!

It’s a very solid tier list imo. I’m so happy to see the GBC and GBA RPG games in the top 3 spots, I really enjoyed playing them at the time and they were some of the first RPGs I played. A really good effort from the developers.

Keep the Harry Potter videos coming! There's something really special about them ✨🪄

Damn i don´t know which of your channels i love more: this one or the alt history one

Ooof, I look forward to the lego harry potter vids! :D

I was waiting for this one, this confirms my love for PoA on GBA, but this also has me wanting to play the GBC versions of the first 2 games right away, since I seem to have missed out on those!

I really enjoyed this series. Even though I unfortunately never really had the chance to play many of these games I really appreciate the detailed breakdowns of these games. I think prisoner of Azkaban was when Harry Potter peaked imo, also I’d love to see more Star Wars and Harry Potter game videos!

I've couldn't agree more, thanks for this video, I remember when i played all of them as a child

HECK YEAH IVE BEEN WAITING ON THIS ONE!

i would love to see a sims video from you there are so many different versions and ports of those games that i am genuinely curious about what you think about all of them

And this is where living in this universe with no time machine is so cruel. So so much amazing content coming our way and we have to wait D: I NEED a Flandrew of my favorite games ever, KOTOR!

Thanks for these harry potter videos.

Thank you flantonio I grew up with the Gameboy color games and it was my favorite way to explore Hogwarts, it gave Hogwarts the mystery that it had in the books, you never knew what was around the next corner, and there were tons of secret passages. My disappointment was immeasurable when I got prisoner of azkaban for console and it wasn't a turn based rpg with tons of dialogue from everyone..

I had the philosophers stone on gbc as a kid. It actually lets you go shopping with a shopping list on diagon alley in the beginning. As a kid I was totally enchanted and sucked into the game world by that, awsome stuff!

I'd be happy to watch your comparisons no matter what they're about.

Where are the lego ones.

@gallifreyanknight1355

Жыл бұрын

Above all of them

@WH250398

Жыл бұрын

The console Lego Harry Potter games are just awesome. Love those. The handheld games I consider very mediocre. I have 5-7 on the Vita and lost interest about fifteen minutes in.

@venimifatum

Жыл бұрын

You're gonna have to cover the "Lego Creator: Harry Potter" 1 and 2, then. Those were fun.

I just found your channel after listening to the HP console games video. It makes me really happy that the only HP games my parents bought me as a kid were S ranked. They may have never played them, but they bought the best! =D

Philosopher’s Stone on GBA was my first GBA game, and I was obsessed for months.

9:40 Yessssss :D Thank you!

8:00 I can imagine the statue saying: "Stupid Potter, you made me look bad"

@hanezutchins2786

Жыл бұрын

We interrupt this program to bring you: Harry Potter! Starring Harry Potter! Neglected as a pup, he was found by Hagrid who lives in the middle of the grounds with his dog Fang! But creeeepy stuff lives in magical Britain. It's up to Harry to save his new home!

This reminds me. I recently the PC version of A Series of Unfortunate Events. And guess what? It was made by our good old friends at KnowWonder. I even saw Chris Vuchetich's name in the credits. If I'm not mistaken, it was made around the same time as PoA and used the same engine and similar elements. I think you should check it and the other ASoUE games.

Such nostalgia. The only one I’ve played was chamber for gameboy color because we were soo poor at the time. My grandpa saved up money saving cans while on disability to get me a hand me down gameboy. Was my first ever handheld game. It brings back so many memories

I loved the PSP versions when i was younger-absolutely blew my mind when compared to many of the other titles available at the time.

The GBC games were.such a surprise back in the day, they have so much more dept than any of the console games, good memories.

This is so funny haha. I used to play order of the phoenix on the GBA nonstop, it’s probably one of the games I’ve beaten the most. I used to beat it multiple times on long car rides! I loved it haha

Wolverine origins!!! You remembered (unless others asked for it too) - my hero!

Ah, what a nice tier list, I totally agree.

Harry Potter (the first three were released as a compilation known as the Harry Potter Collection) was the first GBA game I played. I didn't play GBA until around 2009 through an emulator.

Goblet of Fire for The GBA was a really polished game with nice visuals and lots of content on GBA. And the DS version added even more extra content. The PSP version was not.

@darinstaley1993

Жыл бұрын

If you like that game try out The Chronicles of Narnia: Lion and the Wardrobe. It has similar graphics and gameplay.

I loved that prisoner of Azkaban game, it was so well made❤

omg, i met my best friend while playing the GBC version of philosophers stone when it came out. We used to play it between classes and after school all the time. Holy shit, i'm getting old.

Love these vids, Flandrew. They take me back to simpler (for me) times. Wouldn't watch a Hogwarts Legacy vid though if you paid me―Quidditch World Cup is the final stop for me on the HP Train. Would love to see you cover greater franchises hereafter. *TERFs ain't got no friends!*

@johnnyguitar8067

Жыл бұрын

An SJW 🤢🤮🤮

@chompythebeast

Жыл бұрын

@@johnnyguitar8067 TERFs really be like "oh no, a person who doesn't hate trans people like I do! I am superior for now hating them as well!" TERFs also ain't got no friends and never will, cuz trans folks stay winning :-*

I loved GBC Chamber as a kid. Glad that its one of the top three.

aah goblet of fire for ds, the game my mom came home with one day probably finding it in a sale bin love that game

I would def switch 1 and 2. The epic dueling club side quest in COS in gbc is more than enough to put it over the narrower POA on GBA

I'd really like to see you go throw the Lego Harry Potter Games, since they have different versions on the DS.

Would you ever consider doing every Lego game in general? I know it's a MASSIVE project but I would absolutely love to see your take on it, it's such a long lineage of games.

Hey where's the link to this poll? I enjoyed seeing how the votes changed since the release of the console tier list and I put my vote in as well. I would like to do that with this one too!

I agree with this list almost completely

Had an absolute blast playing prisoner of Azkaban on GBA so glad to see it top. Shame that the only other HP handheld I played was Goblet of Fire on the DS

Completly expected. My favourite game of those is the first! Most of my childhood was with it!

I absolutely loved the PS and CoS GBC games as a kid! I didn't even know the same dev worked on the PoA game for the GBA but I never had a GBA anyway.

As you mentioned the Harry Potter Lego Games I instantly thought of those really old Lego creator Games. As a kid I wanted them so bad. Now I am glad I didnt waste my time on them

Good stuff! And it looks like there's a lot to look forward to. Though I do feel uneasy about the prospect of Hogwarts Legacy getting coverage, given how the success of any new 'Wizarding World' project hugely benefits Rowling, who is dedicating her fame and pop-cultural influence into being the figurehead of a hate movement. If you review the game despite that looming over it, I hope that you'll at least include a disclaimer about it.

Wish they would stick to the RPG formula more often, the classic RPG ones showed to be a pretty nice base for other HP games, specially on handhelds.

I really love Chamber of Secrets for GBC, I get it on Christmas an replayed it once and again

Im playing the Sorcerer's stone right now. It's awesome 2 hours so far ❤

Glad to see we can all agree that the griptonite rpgs were easily the best of the handheld games. I remember being so excited for PoA on gba after having played the first two on gbc and it didn't disappoint. Really felt like the same leap as going from NES to SNES.

I am not surprised at all the GBC games got so high, and the GBA Prisoner of Azkaban got first. My cousin had TPS, I had TCOS, and one day I even replaced their batteries to get them to last longer. I recall fondly how we always 100%ed them. I found Prisoner of Azkaban later on, and it was just a great RPG all around.

The only Harry Potter game I ever played was CoS on GBC. It was the last GB game I ever got. I remember the day I bought it and staring at the box driving home from the shops (it was an hour and a half drive and I didn’t bring my gameboy) When we got home I rushed to get my gameboy and realised I’d leant my GBC to my friend and he leant me his OG Gameboy instead. Anyway, eventually I got to play it and I lost count of how many times I beat it. I loved it. So glad it ranked to high.

Prisoner of Azkaban honestly still holds up as one of the best games I’ve ever played. I still to this day play through it at least once a year, and it’s still as much fun as it was the first time back in 2004. Fighting Lupin, flying Buckbeak, going for high scores on the boggart and cracker pop mini games… I’m getting my GBA out.

@Jordan3DS

Жыл бұрын

I replayed it so many times as a kid, it and FFVII are the two games that got me into the RPG genre!

Awesome video

It's gonna be a busy year for our friend Flandrew

I totally agrre that the 3 rpgs were amazing. I had bought philosopher's stone and chamber of secrets for the gameboy color both on the respective releases and played i don't know how many hours because i loved them both. Then I don't heard of the Advance Version of the prisoner of askaban. Years later in 2008 I think I saw the game at my back then girlfriends home. I tried it out and felt in love with it. I guess she didn't got it back for a long time.

I only played DS Half Blood Prince, hence why I voted there. As a kid, I thought it was great, with the spells system, decent soundtrack, and all that. I'm not sure how it holds up today however. Maybe I should fish it out.

So glad POA ended first, it truly is one of my favorite video games ever. The graphics, the music, the combat system and the presentation of the story made together a fantastic game ♥

Look, I understand why people would prefer GBA Prisoner to GBC Chamber, I really do. The GBA has greater graphical capabilities than the GBC, and it does take advantage of it. The character sprites are nicely detailed, the Mode 7 battle screen is cool, and like every other version of Prisoner, it brings the aesthetic closer to the movies than ever before. And the latter point is kind of my issue with it. GBC Chamber and Philosopher were odd and trippy, but they had undeniably unique interpretations of Hogwarts that were packed with wacky visuals and lots of hidden surprises. There was always something to see or find, and secrets everywhere you look. You could visit rooms that we never see in the books or movies but make total sense to be there, like Muggle Art and Music classrooms! The character animations were detailed and bursting with personality, and the writing was quirky and whimsical. Harry himself got to be the Sass Master he was always meant to be since the devs were working mainly with the books; always a quip or a snark for just the right situations. These games were just so... full of life. Prisoner had almost none of this. Unique animations were far less common, for one, and the dialogue became much more direct to the point of being flat and dull. Although the maps were technically very good, I think the world design suffered severely from sticking closer to the movie version of Hogwarts. Prisoner's School has lots of empty brown hallways leading to nothing, hidden items all in plain sight in chests that randomly litter the hallways, no interesting things to see or find. Totally watered down. The graphical upgrades and overworld spell puzzles just weren't worth it to me. The magic was gone. To me, Chamber of Secrets GBC will always be not only the best handheld Potter game, but to date the best Potter game *period.* There'll never be anything like them again.

The GameBoy Colour version of the philosopher's stone, played it for many many hours. Completed it three times.

Thanks for the great video! Anybody knows what’s the legal situation regarding the games? Getting remakes someday is probably impossible, right?

7:50 honestly shocked and disappointed you didn't use one of the battle themes. They're amazing...

I love your videos lol

Can you do The Chronicles of Narnia video games next?

I loved the GBC version of The Chamber Of Secrets.

GBA hits me with that nostalgia like none other, but darn if those PSP graphics aren't insane.

I'm glad to see my favorite one was number one. "Well, I know what I'm doing for the next year." 🤣

love clicking on a video the moment its uploaded and seeing all the flaws lol