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{{quote|"This Calamity is, well, quite calamitous. Everything that anyone has ever feared, revered, or held dear in the wizarding world — people, things, even memories — have been stolen and displaced, tossed about across the world. We've got to return what is lost, and quickly. The Statute of Secrecy is in danger of being broken."
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''[[Harry Potter: Wizards Unite]]'' is an [[Augmented Reality]] game for [[iOS]] and [[Android Games|Android]] devices, created by [[Niantic]], in collaboration with WB Games and Portkey Games. Like its predecessor from the same company, ''[[Pokémon Go]]'', it combines GPS location and a game world map along with the ability to set game events against a background image taken with the camera in the player's handheld device to provide an immersive experience overlaid on the real world.
The story is deceptively simple: a great Calamity has struck the Wizarding World -- a spell has been cast that has scattered evidence for magic and wizards throughout the Muggle world, complete with guards and protections to make sure that evidence is not removed. Dramatically understaffed, the Ministry of Magic recruits a massive team of volunteers they call the "Statue of Secrecy Task Force", whose job is to track down all traces of the Wizarding world and break them free of their protections, then return them to their proper places. Your primary contact at the Ministry (and the leader of the Statute of Secrecy Task Force) is
And as you progress what seemed like a simple, if vast, attempt to undermine the Statute of Secrecy is not as simple as it initially appeared, and the suspected culprit just might be the victim of a frame job. But if that's so, who's really behind the Calamity, and why did they do it?
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* [[Augmented Reality]]: Well, yeah.
* [[Big Bad]]: Grim
* [[Character Class System]]: An odd one. Once you level up a couple of times you can choose one of three Professions: Auror (strong against Dark forces, weak against Beasts), Magizoologist (strong against Beasts, weak against Curiosities) or Professor (strong against Curiosities, weak against Dark forces). Each Profession also has a "lesson tree" in which to spend scrolls, spellbooks and restricted section books to improve statistics like [[Hit Points]] and various percentages like the chance to make a critical hit. Curiously, you are free to swap between them at will with little or nothing in the way of penalties.
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* [[Space-Filling Path]]: Averted. The game map is your immediate environment in the real world -- the only obstacles in your way are the ones that exist for real. There are no arbitrary blockages or [[Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence]]s to force you to go where the game wants you to.
* [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]: As soon as just a couple weeks after the game's release, some players were accusing Niantic of having done this to Penelope
* [[Symbol-Drawing Interface]]: Spells are cast by drawing the "wand movement" on the screen with your fingertip. How closely you match the glyph presented to follow, and how fast you do so, controls how effective your spell is. Fortunately the game pre-selects the correct spell to use for each encounter or combat exchange.
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