NYXI Wizard came in the mail today
Pros:
>Gamecube shape
>good d-pad and excellent sticks
>almost fully-featured, has wireless and wake-up support
>back paddles, bindable to macros and individual buttons
>comes with its own plastic brick to attach to for a Pro Controller like the dog head for joycons
>very easily replaceable stick caps and has optional smooth or octagonal stick wells
Cons:
>clicky shoulder buttons, no analog L/R (this isn’t a reasonable expectation for a Switch controller though)
>A button sits pretty shallow in the shell, not a problem but it’s not quite Gamecube
>the lighting on the A/B/X/Y buttons is dumb (can be turned off)
>the d-pad feels good but the d-pad button itself feels cheap
>Turbo functionality keeps it from being Smash tourney legal, if you care about that
>the more typical stick designs instead of Gamecube style rumbles my jimblies, especially when the Retroflag controller uses stick caps pretty close to OEM Gamecube
Overall I’m very pleased with this but the controller looks too busy because of all the shit they slapped onto it for additional functions, it ends up looking like that MadCatz controller parody from Billy & Mandy. I don’t really have any complaints that aren’t nitpicks and personal preferences. I could’ve done without turbo and I would have put the settings buttons on each joycon in a different spot, but I like that it affects the shape of a Wavebird controller.
8/10 and I’ll probably bump this up to a 9/10 after replacing the stick caps with OEM Gamecube ones, and see if I can’t replace the d-pad rocker with a better one and replace the face buttons with OEMs too.
