My wife bought it. I think it looks like a good game, a solid delivery from WB, but my complete lack of investment in the Harry Potter-verse prevents me from caring one bit. The whole controversy reminds me of many years ago when Orson Scott Card was being boycotted by some people because of his staunch anti-gay religious views. The difference is that back then I think people were still generally more aware of the fact that it was okay, perhaps even necessary, to separate the author from his or her works, or to read them in an informed manner otherwise; but that calling for a boycott and trying to suppress a work was still the greater evil no matter how well intended one might think they were.

Your comment about Breath of the Wild vs. Ubisoft style open world games makes me wonder, though. I could never get far in BotW, it just leaves me bewildered and annoyed at all the cutesy little Nintendoisms, but I've played and finished pretty much every Assassin's Creed except for the insanely large ones (Odyssey, Valhalla). I fail to see less soul in BotW than in AC....but I think not growing up on a diet of Nintendo probably makes a difference? Not sure. Maybe I just don't like the cutesy Nintendo style.
 

but I think not growing up on a diet of Nintendo probably makes a difference?

I didn't grow up on Nintendo either. The Wii was my first Nintendo console, the Switch my second. I didn't play any Animal Crossing before the Switch version. I did, however, play a lot of JRPG, so I don't mind the cutesy style.

I think the most important difference between a Ubisoft open world and Breath of the Wild is how in an Ubisoft-style game, the discoveries are explicit goals. You know you have to find 12 thingies in this section of the map, it is marked on your HUD, and you have some quest log with a percentage score of discoveries to make. In Breath of the Wild it only tells you how many thingies you *already found*, but not how many there are still to find, unless you look that information up elsewhere. You go to an interesting looking mountaintop, discover something out of place, solve a riddle, and voila, one more Korok seed found. You aren't told that there are 900 of them, you aren't expected to find them all, in fact you can't turn in more than about half of them for added inventory slots.

But I can see how somebody might prefer the more directive Ubisoft way with more indications on the HUD about collectibles and such.
 

I think I'm going to wait for a sale. I've grown to dislike Ubisoft style games over the years so I figure when I do play this I likely will never replay it so I might as well wait for an inevitable "definitive" edition arrives in the future with DLC and whatnot to make the most of the one playthrough I'll do.

Let us know if you run into any issues with the PC version.
 

I'm not interested in the franchise or open-world games in general (and I have unplayed games out the wazoo) so I'll be giving it a miss. But it looks pretty. And the combat is supposed to be good, which is far from always a given.
 

I rend to play Ubisoft with HUD stuff off when it is allowed (Ghost Recon for example lets you play in a more organic "find it yourself" mode" for example) but I can see what you mean about BotW. It may ultimately just be a stylistic/thematic difference for me....I like being the rogue pirate dude or the Medjay assassin in Egypt more than I like being a halfling/elf thing in a quasi-anime universe.

I've been warming up to the style slowly, though. Bravely Default II is a lot of fun, and its super cutesy, almost to a fault (the voice acting is so professional it doesn't match the chibi characters well at all).