Harry Potter's Zelda-Influenced Philosophy

Thanks to C+VG for their interview discussing the newly announced Harry Potter And The Sorceror's Stone with an EA producer, after this heavily rumored PS2/Xbox/GameCube update of the first book was officially announced last week. The game is summarized as having "..some stealth sections, some flying modes, but probably 80 percent of the time there's this sort of arcade adventure, it's almost Zelda-esque. We're not afraid to admit our influences." So unafraid, in fact, that they mention the Zelda series at least 5 times during the interview. There's already been a glut of Harry Potter games, most of which have been significantly different from one another - which ones have you actually enjoyed?

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The fifth book

[Idlechat]

I just wanted to mention that the fifth book really, really sucked. Most of it was good and enjoyable, until the end where you feel like the lovely Jo Rolling decided to hit you with a big hammer.

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I mean.. just because it's the end of the book doesn't mean you have to kill an important character, does it? It also gets quite silly that you notice how the various climaxes are magically scheduled to the end of the school year, all the time.

Re:The fifth book

[Lord Bitman]

You're on the fifth book and you haven't yet noticed that JKR is utterly suck about endings?
[nice build] [enjoyable scene] [good build] [great build] [climax] [stick a huge 7-page block of one person talking to explain everything else because the book is already twice as long as the last book and hasnt yet bothered with those "nice build"s for 90% of the story]

if they didnt bother to divide the books by year, it could be better for multiple reasons. The end of year four and the beginning of year five are linked enough that they should be together, not this bullshit. Then book 5 could have gone on longer and wouldnt need to resort to these fucking "explanation chapters"
Book 4 was definatly worse in that department, and book 5 was enjoyable when you ignore the end.