From that moment when I first put my hand on it, I knew I had to get a new Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller.
In April, I was one of the first people to run with Switch 2 in a New York program. Although finally the new console was amazing to look closely, I couldn’t believe that Nintendo had finally added the feature I always wanted for his Pro Controller: the backback button again.
As someone who has been playing video games with a controller for 30 years, my right thumb has definitely beaten. That’s why, when possible, I like to play on a controller with a backback buttons or rear pedals. This allows me to avoid unnecessary stress on my thumb, but I have also found that it makes it much easier for me to play some games.
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Although the best Nintendo switch controllers have plenty of back button, this is the first time that Nintendo has added them to a controller of his first party. Similarly, the switch 2 Pro Controller is one of the most comfortable game pads I have ever kept with more payments.
Although after lifting 2 night launches and lifting the new pro controller, I quickly realized that Nintendo did not only add a backback button to the controller just, it completely changed how you use them.
If you are like me and use the Rimpel Back Buttons in each game, here you should definitely consider taking the Switch 2 Pro Controller for the Nintendo Switch 2.
Button -laying ramping
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Usually on the back -of -the -back buttons controller, the back often contains an extra buttons such as the PowerTa OPS with V3 Pro or with an 8 -fired ultimatic controller on the front. Press this button first to go to the ramping mode before you assign the controller’s back button. Although you will see that the Switch 2 Pro Controller does not have such a button in the back.
When this is the case, such as the Xbox Elite Series 2, you usually go to the menu of your console settings to assign your controller back buttons or in the back pedals. However, when I opened the Switch 2 settings menu and went Controllers and accessories And then GL/GR button settingsThere was only a video that told how they worked but at that time and there and there is no option to make a map on different buttons.
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The reason for this is amazingly easy. Unlike the buttons again on other pro -styling controllers, you cannot programs GL/GR unless you are in a game.
Although I want Nintendo to allow me to do this because I like to use the controller’s back buttons to navigate through a console menu and user interface, I came to appreciate the company’s unique and novel approach to assign the buttons quickly. In fact, now I wish both Sony and Microsoft follow it.
Done another again.
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So how do you recover the GL/GR buttons on the Switch 2 Pro Controller? Well, to do so, you have to open the game first. From there, you hold the controller House Button to bring switch 2 Instant Settings Menu
Down or off the option of turning off aircraft mode, you will see a section for Switch 2 Pro Controller GL/GR button. Then you just choose which one you want to re -create and press the button on which you want to make it a map on the controller and you have worked.
Not only does Nintendo regenerate these GL/GR buttons, it makes it fast and smooth, but the best thing is how you make them are saved on the basis of every game.
This means that when you can set them a special way for the Mario Cart World, you can make them fully map them in another game. Then when you switch between sports, the switch 2 automatically regenerates the controller’s previous buttons to see how you had them. No other controller nor console does this.
In the picture above, you can see that I map my cart to go to the Mario Cart world while the GL button has been mapped in X so that I can look behind me in the middle of a race. To date, I re -formed my Switch 2 Pro Controller button in such a way that this idea hit me to make a map of the controller’s right stimulus so that I could flow as well as perform tricks without removing my thumbs from analog sticks.
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I’m playing my switch 2 in dock mode with Switch 2 Pro Controller, so I’m using its re -back buttons in every game played so far. For example, in Donkey Kong Banana, which I recently reviewed, I have a map to jump the GR button and the GL button has been mapped on Y.
If you have seen a game play footage, you will know that Donkey Kong hit a ton of maize in the game. With the punch on the GL button, it has made it very easy for me to defeat the enemies but also to destroy the world around me because I am hunting gold and behemids.
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Before Donkey Kong Benza came out, I was working on my way at the end of the Tear of the Kingdom, which runs and looks better on Switch 2.
Here, I have also mapped the GR button in A because you use it for everything from talking to the characters of the game and talking to the world around you.
However, you often use new link capabilities that you choose from the wheel after pressing the left bumper or L buttons on your controller. Easy to pull this wheel and switch between capabilities, when I resumed playing tears on Switch 2, I map the GL button in L.
Ramping prospects switch 2 Pro controller are really endless as you can regenerate anything from facial buttons (A, B, X, Y) to its GL/G buttons to D-PAD.
Surprisingly, you can also regenerate the new controller button that brings the game chat over one of them. The same is the case with the capture button as well as with both Plus and the minus buttons.
Absolutely worth it but not your only option
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At $ 85, the switch 2 Pro Controller is definitely an investment, especially its price is higher than the most expensive game of the console so far. However, if you like to play in the dock mode, be a big hand or use the back buttons again as much as I do, I would say it’s definitely worth it.
The images certainly do not do the Switch 2 Pro Controller justice. Instead, this is the type of controller that you need to hold in your hands to truly appreciate. This is slightly lighter than Nintendo’s first pro -controller for the original switch, but it also feels thin and more balanced in your hands. At the same time, it now comes with the headphone jack and its two heads and black design also look too much.
If you do not have $ 85 to spend on a new controller but still want to experience using the backback buttons again on switch 2, there is another option. Nintendo’s Joey-Kon 2 charging grip price is less than half the price at $ 40, but after buying one and testing it yourself, you do the same way you reuse and use its GL/GR buttons.
It is worth noting that Joey 2 is significantly smaller than the GL/GR button on charging grip, such as the Joey Kuns buttons itself-Soach 2 Pro Controller. It was not going to break me at all, because I found them so easy to suppress and use them. If you are on a tough budget or even if your hands are younger, this may be a better option.
However, it is great that Nintendo has finally added back buttons to its first party controllers. Nevertheless, what affects me even more is that it brought a new method of novels that you do not need to reset by the way to regenerate them on the fly and whenever you switch between sports.
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