For instance, at the point in the game that involves getting ready for Slughorn's party, Harry invites Luna Lovegood to attend.
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE PC GAME KEEPS KICKING ME OUT IN GAME MODE SERIES
While the 360 iteration felt like a series of plot points strung together by mini-games, the DS version is all gameplay, but that gameplay is little more than running back and forth between a series of points to fetch items for forgetful students. Harry Potter's magical adventures are pretty much relegated to a series of mundane fetch quests in the DS version, which is the source of my overall apathy for the game.
I can't remember if the book was so lax on its villains, but that might be part of the reason why I had a hard time staying interested in the game there's just not a great deal of involvement from an antagonist until the end. You get the Death Eaters to a limited degree, but aside from Bellatrix, they're hardly featured in either the X360 or DS iteration. It's been a while since I read the sixth book, and I noticed that in this title, there is really zero involvement from Voldemort. Harry arrives at Hogwarts with his friends in tow once again, and you get the standard appearances of the cast mainstays, along with the underlying plot of who the Half-Blood Prince is and why Harry has managed to get himself mixed up in another adventure. The story adheres closely to the film, and while the dialogue differs from the X360 version I played, the overall plot points are pretty much spot-on between the two versions. I'm sure that there are all sorts of unwanted cook in the kitchen when it comes to the creation of a Harry Potter title, but it doesn't mask the fact that I didn't find this game to be that enjoyable, and while I'm sure there are fans out there that will be willing to excuse the boring gameplay, I couldn't get into this game for the life of me, even though I'm a fan of the film and book series. I realize that with licensed games, there's only so much freedom that a developer has in what it can do. At the same time, if the developers hadn't felt the need to adhere to such a uniform style of gameplay, I think we could have had something more interesting here. The DS version is definitely the worst, removing some of the more interesting aspects of spellcasting and wand duels and simplifying it (perhaps out of necessity for the hardware).
Playing the DS version of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in tandem with the Xbox 360 version kind of surprises me in the gameplay differences, but at the same time, both manage to take a pretty exciting and engaging world and dumb it down into a series of mundane tasks.
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