Unless you’ve been using your Time-Turner to relive the same days over and over, the wait is finally over for Harry Potter: Wizards Unite (Free). Conjured by Niantic, the company behind Pokemon GO, a branch of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment dedicated specifically to making games about a certain Wizarding World, it’s an idea so full of potential that the only surprise is that it didn’t happen earlier: the Potterverse meets augmented reality.
Set after the main Harry Potter book/movies series, Wizards Unite enlists players to assist the Statue of Secrecy Task Force, a group of wizards and witches trying to prevent the Wizarding World from being revealed en masse to the world at large. You know, in case the many events that have already happened up to his point didn’t clue the muggles in already. Necessitating all of this is something called the Calamity, which has made some prominent magic-users disappear and entangled characters, items and even memories from throughout the Wizarding World. Part of your job as a Wizards Unite player is to combat the spells (called Confoundables) protecting these things (called Foundables, and you can blame Hermione Granger herself if you think the terminology is silly) and restore them to what’s essentially some kind of giant magic scrapbook.
Since nearly every person on Earth has some familiarity with Pokemon GO, many aspects of the game will likewise feel as though you’ve seen them before, but th...