Overview: Turtle Seaside Rematch Wi-fi Controller For Swap 2 – A Strong, Reliable Pad (If Rumble Is not A Should)

Turtle Seaside’s authentic Rematch Wi-fi is what I might name a good and reliable price range pad, and round what you’d anticipate on your cash. It regarded and felt surprisingly premium in its buttons, its responsive D-Pad, and in its many alternative designs.

Now, Turtle Seaside is again with the cunningly-named ‘Turtle Seaside Rematch Wi-fi Controller For Swap 2’, which brings just about precisely the identical fully-licensed controller again to the desk. Besides! This time it is received a flashy new design that includes Mario (by no means heard of him) and a few flash semi-translucent grips. Oh sure. Way more importantly, although, it is also received itself a ‘C’ button. Sure, that bizarre little button that I’ve by no means used. It has a type of!

I jest, in fact. I am certain a lot of persons are having a good time with the chat capabilities and whatnot on Swap 2, and this revamp provides 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 worth vary.

I alternated between the Swap 2 Professional Controller and this new Rematch for my evaluate 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 assist. It is a type of issues I actually battle to do with out these days, particularly when you may really feel the distinction in photographs and energy. However taking this omission as a given, I have been largely impressed by the remainder of each the construct high quality and the general really feel of this pad.

It is received stiffer face buttons than the Professional Controller which really feel good in their very own method – very responsive and agency, there is not any mistake in urgent them and no mushiness. They are 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 whole lot of these items, however I do admire having the ability to really feel each level being reached so I do not ever must examine my bearings as I play, particularly in preventing video games.

By way of weight, as it is a USB-C-charged affair with no detachable battery, and given the shortage of rumble tech in there, it feels very mild. Once more, I am really an enormous fan as a result of my wrists are manufactured from haunted mud, nevertheless 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 evaluate sport with it and only one different pad, and with no recharges required, I am gonna go forward and say I positively received 30+ hours out of that single cost up to now.

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 also needs to point out that I like the massive purple clacky further 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 a little bit mushy on this regard.

In your arms, the Rematch is greater on its rear aspect and barely flatter on the entrance than the Professional, which makes for a greater grip total for me, and between the 2 I even have to offer this pad the nod for its triggers. I like the form of those, as they flick upwards reasonably than tailing off like those on the Professional, making them simpler to search out blind and, nicely, they simply really feel extra ‘trigger-y’, which means your finger stays on there and does not begin sliding when issues get intense in Stardew Valley or what have you ever.

Different issues of notice. You need to use this controller along with your OG Swap. There isn’t any 3.5mm jack. Boo! However there are movement controls smuggled in to sweeten the deal. Hooray! Effectively. Form of hooray.

My largest subject with this totally respectable controller, you see, is that for just a bit bit further money, you might nab one thing higher. When you’re on a super-duper strict price range, or just will need to 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 may choose up the wonderful 8BitDo Professional 3 for much less with a little bit looking, it will get difficult quick. The Professional 3 provides you TMR sticks, Corridor-Impact Triggers, and rumble assist. 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 comparable 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 received that C-button, it is doable to get options with different bells and whistles for cheaper.

When you love the livery or if that C-button is a should on your amazingly social gaming life-style, then it is a very strong pad, as long as you can also make do with the omissions I’ve famous.

It is received a C-button
Sturdy and well-shaped, it is a comfortable and light-weight pad for prolonged play
Seems nice with a slick semi-translucent design
TMR sticks are fab
Programmable buttons on the again are at all times a pleasant contact
Movement controls make the lower
Triggers have a pleasant design, D-pad and face buttons really feel good and durable

There are different, extra feature-packed controllers accessible round this worth level, or decrease
No rumble or amiibo assist is a sore one

Good 7/10