Turtle Seaside’s unique Rematch Wi-fi is what I would name a good and reliable price range pad, and round what you’d count on on your cash. It appeared and felt surprisingly premium in its buttons, its responsive D-Pad, and in its many various designs.
Now, Turtle Seaside is again with the cunningly-named ‘Turtle Seaside Rematch Wi-fi Controller For Change 2’, which brings just about precisely the identical fully-licensed controller again to the desk. Besides! This time it is acquired a flashy new design that includes Mario (by no means heard of him) and a few flash semi-translucent grips. Oh sure. Far more importantly, although, it is also acquired itself a ‘C’ button. Sure, that bizarre little button that I’ve by no means used. It has a type of!
I jest, after all. I am positive numerous persons are having a good time with the chat capabilities and whatnot on Change 2, and this revamp offers us a controller, nonetheless in the identical price range ballpark (£54.99), that appears like a pleasant different to the dearer official Professional Controller 2 from Nintendo if £75 is out of your value vary.
I alternated between the Change 2 Professional Controller and this new Rematch for my assessment of Mario Tennis Fever (as they’re the one C-button-wielding pads I personal, and that is the way you do science, you see) and clearly the massive distinction right here is that lack of rumble help. It is a type of issues I actually wrestle to do with out these days, particularly when you possibly can really feel the distinction in pictures and energy. However taking this omission as a given, I have been principally impressed by the remainder of each the construct high quality and the general really feel of this pad.
It is acquired stiffer face buttons than the Professional Controller which really feel good in their very own means – very responsive and agency, there is not any mistake in urgent them and no mushiness. They seem to be a good match for a sturdy D-pad that sits up properly from the controller face and clicks by means of its factors extra noticeably than the dearer Professional. It is private desire with a number of these items, however I do admire having the ability to really feel each level being reached so I do not ever must verify my bearings as I play, particularly in combating video games.
By way of weight, as it is a USB-C-charged affair with no detachable battery, and given the dearth of rumble tech in there, it feels very mild. Once more, I am truly an enormous fan as a result of my wrists are manufactured from haunted mud, however it does really feel barely ‘cheaper’ (as a result of it’s?) than the Professional.
Talking of the battery, the official particulars inform me you get 40 hours on a single cost, and being that I’ve performed a whole assessment recreation with it and only one different pad, and with no recharges required, I am gonna go forward and say I undoubtedly acquired 30+ hours out of that single cost to date.
The TMR sticks really feel nice, as anticipated, the house and screenshot buttons are well-placed simply above your menu buttons, and that all-important ‘C’ button takes centre stage, as a result of why would not it? I must also point out that I really like the massive crimson clacky additional buttons on the again. They really feel rather less primo than the dinky little hidden ones on the Professional Controller, however they’re much simpler to search out and to inform that you have pressed on them in any respect. The Professional is just a little mushy on this regard.
In your palms, the Rematch is larger on its rear facet and barely flatter on the entrance than the Professional, which makes for a greater grip general for me, and between the 2 I even have to provide this pad the nod for its triggers. I really like the form of those, as they flick upwards somewhat than tailing off like those on the Professional, making them simpler to search out blind and, effectively, they simply really feel extra ‘trigger-y’, which means your finger stays on there and would not begin sliding when issues get intense in Stardew Valley or what have you ever.
Different issues of be aware. You should use this controller together with your OG Change. There is not any 3.5mm jack. Boo! However there are movement controls smuggled in to sweeten the deal. Hooray! Effectively. Type of hooray.
My greatest subject with this completely first rate controller, you see, is that for only a little bit additional money, you may nab one thing higher. Should you’re on a super-duper strict price range, or just should have this design in your assortment, issues are completely different, however contemplating this one is retailing at £54.99 on the official web site and I might decide up the superb 8BitDo Professional 3 for much less with just a little looking out, it will get sophisticated quick. The Professional 3 offers you TMR sticks, Corridor-Impact Triggers, and rumble help. You see the problem. Even in case you do not just like the Dualshock-apeing type of the Professional 3, there’s additionally the Final Wi-fi/Bluetooth 2 to think about, which once more I can discover on-line for related cash proper now.
This controller cannot get up the console, and it additionally has no rumble/amiibo-scanner as well. So, while you get a pleasant licensed pad that feels nice, seems nice, performs nice, and has acquired that C-button, it is attainable to get options with different bells and whistles for cheaper.
Should you love the livery or if that C-button is a should on your amazingly social gaming life-style, then it is a very stable pad, as long as you can also make do with the omissions I’ve famous.
