Retro Style, Modern Comfort – Nyxi Warrior Review | Best GameCube Style Switch Controller? — Transcript

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1. 0:00This is the Nixie Warrior Bluetooth
2. 0:03controller for the Nintendo Gamecube,
3. 0:05Nintendo Switch, Wii, and PC. And I want
4. 0:08to thank Nixie for sending this out for
5. 0:10purposes of review. We're doing a quick
6. 0:12unboxing and then we're going to hop
7. 0:13into game where I'm going to play five
8. 0:15different games for you on the Nintendo
9. 0:16Switch. We're going to take a look and
10. 0:18see how this thing performs. Now, right
11. 0:19off the bat, the look of this controller
12. 0:22is a thing of absolute beauty. I love
13. 0:26the layout. I love both the familiarity
14. 0:28of the GameCube layout as well as being,
15. 0:31you know what, kind of procontroller-ish
16. 0:32as well. Like, it feels like a modern
17. 0:34controller, but with the sensibilities
18. 0:36of the Gamecube. One of the cool things
19. 0:38about it as well is it has these
20. 0:39switches on the back that will allow you
21. 0:41to toggle the shoulder buttons from
22. 0:43digital to analog inputs, which I think
23. 0:45is pretty great. Inside the package,
24. 0:46you're going to get this GameCube
25. 0:48dongle, so you can actually attach it to
26. 0:49the GameCube or the Wii to play it
27. 0:50wirelessly, which is really nice. And
28. 0:52it's also going to come with
29. 0:54customizable back buttons. So, there is
30. 0:56a plate on the back that is pretty easy
31. 0:58to pop off as you're going to see here.
32. 1:00Initially, it comes with this one on
33. 1:02here where you're actually able to
34. 1:03program these buttons to perform
35. 1:04different actions, but you can hot swap
36. 1:06this one in. So, it's just a flat bag so
37. 1:08you don't have to worry about it. And
38. 1:09you can see how quick it is to pop in
39. 1:12and pop out. It's pretty great. But
40. 1:14that's not where the customization stops
41. 1:16because there are also customizable
42. 1:18options for your joystick. So you can
43. 1:20hop swap out the hexagonal ports that
44. 1:23are around the sticks and the smaller C
45. 1:25stick and just put in the regular size
46. 1:27joystick and a standard circle around
47. 1:30the joystick itself. Now inside here are
48. 1:32Hall effect sensors which is really
49. 1:34nice. So it's actually got a really
50. 1:35really smooth control layout. It's super
51. 1:37easy to pop things in and out. You just
52. 1:40put them in, push it down, and put your
53. 1:42new collar on to make sure that your
54. 1:43joysticks are going to be held in place
55. 1:44where they need to be. Now, I will say
56. 1:47some of the games you're going to see,
57. 1:49this isn't an ideal layout for certain
58. 1:51gameplay types. Like, I was very excited
59. 1:53to get this and I was also very excited
60. 1:55because I got the Capcom fighting
61. 1:56collection in the same day, and I was
62. 1:58all excited to hop into a fighting game
63. 2:00and try them out. And that you you'll
64. 2:02hear me say several times, this was not
65. 2:04the ideal choice, and it really wasn't
66. 2:05because the layout for a GameCube
67. 2:07controller is a little funky. As you can
68. 2:09see, you do have that kind of kidney X
69. 2:11and Yshaped buttons around the A and B,
70. 2:14the enlarged A and the small B off to
71. 2:15the side, which is while one of my
72. 2:18favorite controllers of all time, it
73. 2:19does take a little bit of kind of
74. 2:21re-education for yourself as you're
75. 2:23playing to get back immediately into the
76. 2:25GameCube layout. Now, I wanted to show
77. 2:28this off here because we're going to
78. 2:29show pairing, how quick and easy it is,
79. 2:31as well as the actual configuration when
80. 2:34you go in to test out your button inputs
81. 2:36because I was curious to see how quickly
82. 2:38responsive this thing was. You know, I
83. 2:40have gotten some other controllers that
84. 2:42were a little bit lazy, a little bit
85. 2:44kind of sluggish in the way that they
86. 2:46worked. And I am such a big fan of
87. 2:48Nixie. I knew that wasn't going to be
88. 2:50the case here because like I I say later
89. 2:52on in this video, I actually have used
90. 2:54their Joy-Con attachments and those work
91. 2:56fantastically well, but I've never used
92. 2:57one of their standalone controllers
93. 2:59until today. And you can see exactly how
94. 3:01responsive this is. Like I am mashing
95. 3:03these buttons to see how quickly these
96. 3:05things are showing up and it's great.
97. 3:06And you can even see the D-pad inputs
98. 3:08here as well. But what do you say? Let's
99. 3:09hop into game now and let's take a look
100. 3:11at Capcom Fighting Collection 2. All
101. 3:14right, we're going to hop in a game now
102. 3:16and we're going to be using the Nixie
103. 3:18Warrior. And I can't think of a better
104. 3:19way to give a controller a real test
105. 3:21than by playing a fighting game. So,
106. 3:23we're going to hop into the brand new
107. 3:24Capcom Fighting Collection 2, which I
108. 3:26just got in the mail yesterday. Very
109. 3:28excited to check this one out. None of
110. 3:30these games are designed for a Gamecube
111. 3:31style layout. So, this this could be a
112. 3:33bit of a challenge. I don't know that
113. 3:34I've played a whole lot of uh
114. 3:38Capcom styled fighting games on a
115. 3:40GameCube controller, but we're going to
116. 3:41you know what? We're going to give it a
117. 3:42shot. Let's just play a little Capcom
118. 3:44verse SNK Millennium Fight 2. All right,
119. 3:47so L. Oh
120. 3:50boy, the Gamecube controller is not
121. 3:53great for fighting games. Always SNK for
122. 3:57my
123. 3:59groove. All right, who do I want to use?
124. 4:02We got to start with
125. 4:03Jokashi. We'll go with King
126. 4:08Sakura.
127. 4:10We'll do
128. 4:16uh yeah, we'll go vice. All right.
129. 4:19Fighting against my Shiranui of the
130. 4:20Shiranui school and
131. 4:27Ryu. All right.
132. 4:30Um the control is great. Uh it's just
133. 4:32not an optimal layout for a fighting
134. 4:34game. We're going to finish the round
135. 4:35out and then we'll we'll hop over to uh
136. 4:38we'll hop over to something else. This
137. 4:39was This was a poor Oh. Oh, that's going
138. 4:42to leave a
139. 4:44mark. This a poor poor decision by me
140. 4:49here. Okay. Okay. Okay,
141. 4:54Ryu. Okay. All right. Not uh not the
142. 4:57best start for uh not for the
143. 4:59controller. The controller is fine. Not
144. 5:00a great start for uh yours truly. Uh as
145. 5:03this was clearly not the right game to
146. 5:06go with. Uh, we're going to close that
147. 5:08out. All right, there she is. It's
148. 5:12Samus,
149. 5:16everybody. Such an iconic outfit, an
150. 5:19iconic character. Um, and just a a
151. 5:23fun, you know, like it's just one of
152. 5:25those one of those series where as much
153. 5:28as I I initially did not enjoy Prime and
154. 5:31I did not like the first Metroid, like
155. 5:33pretty much everything else is one of
156. 5:36those things where I just look at it and
157. 5:38I go, "This is Nintendo at their
158. 5:40absolute best." Everyone always defaults
159. 5:43to things like, and you know, and
160. 5:45rightfully so. It's one of those series.
161. 5:47Sorry, I I'm I promise I'm here. Uh,
162. 5:50it's one of those series where it's just
163. 5:54a a thing that it's kind of Nintendo at
164. 5:57their best, right? Like
165. 6:01it's so many people think of Mario and
166. 6:05Mario adjacent stuff and Zelda and you
167. 6:08know, rightfully so. Those are amazing
168. 6:10series, some of the best series ever
169. 6:12made. But for me, it's when Nintendo
170. 6:15kind of steps out of their comfort zone
171. 6:17and you get stuff
172. 6:18like like a Metroid or like a Star
173. 6:22Tropics, you know, where it's these are
174. 6:24games that didn't have a huge backing
175. 6:26behind him or some frequently feel like
176. 6:28they don't have a huge backing behind
177. 6:29them. And I know a lot of people are
178. 6:31going to laugh at me to to to say
179. 6:35something like that, especially
180. 6:36considering that, you know, Metroid is
181. 6:38one of their, you know, signature IP
182. 6:41series and certainly not uh certainly
183. 6:43not uh Star Tropics, but um you know,
184. 6:47when when I when I stop and look at the
185. 6:50things that Nintendo does, they so
186. 6:53frequently just kind of focus on stuff
187. 6:56like Mario, like Zelda, like Mario Kart.
188. 7:00This is a nice controller. One of the
189. 7:02things I'm really excited about though,
190. 7:03uh, with this is I I'm I'm looking
191. 7:06forward to trying this on the Switch 2
192. 7:08when it releases because it does have
193. 7:09those back paddle buttons. Um, not
194. 7:12something I typically use in games. It's
195. 7:14just
196. 7:16not I don't know. It's just never been
197. 7:18something I really care about, but
198. 7:20um I just think it's kind of cool that
199. 7:23they're there. Like it's nice to have
200. 7:24them as an option. I kind of want to hop
201. 7:26into something that I know is going to
202. 7:28give the analog sticks a workout because
203. 7:29these feel really nice in hand, but I
204. 7:32want to get them in game to see how they
205. 7:33are. And we're going to start things off
206. 7:34with we love Kodamari or we heart
207. 7:36Kodamari. I don't actually know which
208. 7:38one it is. I'm going to go with love
209. 7:40because we heart Kadamari just sounds
210. 7:41dumb. And there he is, ladies and
211. 7:43gentlemen, the king of all cosmos, your
212. 7:46father. Uh, and a cosmic up. That's
213. 7:50basically his whole MMO.
214. 7:54Oh, it's a coffee
215. 7:58bean. I must not have saved because that
216. 8:01is not my first ever roll
217. 8:05up or I played under a different
218. 8:08account. That's probably what it is. Uh,
219. 8:10so far so good. This feels really nice.
220. 8:12Um, oh man, Kyoza sounds good.
221. 8:16Uh, can you tell I'm playing this before
222. 8:18lunch? Um,
223. 8:23uh, so it it's it's a game that
224. 8:26it's, you know, if if it doesn't control
225. 8:29well, if it doesn't feel right, you're
226. 8:31going to notice. Um, and Mercifully,
227. 8:34this one feels really good so far, which
228. 8:36is a nice uh a nice thing. Like, it's
229. 8:39it's one of those franchises where
230. 8:42controls are so imperative to your game
231. 8:44success. like my PS2 controller started
232. 8:47to crap the bed uh when I was playing
233. 8:49Katamari and it was so noticeable that
234. 8:52uh something was wrong. Um because any
235. 8:55kind of drift, any kind of just poor
236. 8:58performance is going to make the game
237. 9:00miserable to play. Um but I'm I'm very
238. 9:04pleased. Yep. And you can jump just by
239. 9:05clicking the sticks. I'm very pleased so
240. 9:07far with this. This feels fantastic. And
241. 9:09you know, it's a fun game, man. Like I
242. 9:11just I love Oh, what? Come here. We got
243. 9:14a
244. 9:15cousin. Nice. We captured a cousin. Uh,
245. 9:19one of the things that is uh uh a kind
246. 9:22of a a landmark in every Kodamari game
247. 9:25is that as you play, you need to roll up
248. 9:27presents and cousins. Um, it's just
249. 9:30things to collect. You know, it's at the
250. 9:31end of the day, these are just
251. 9:32collectathon games. Like that is the
252. 9:34entire point of the game is to collect
253. 9:37things and roll them up and stick them
254. 9:39to your Kadamari as you play. Uh, it's
255. 9:41just a bizarro way to do it. All right,
256. 9:43what better way to test out the analog
257. 9:47or digital buttons on this controller,
258. 9:49which I I love that it's adjustable on
259. 9:50the fly uh than a racing game. And one
260. 9:53of my favorites on the Switch is
261. 9:54Slipstream. Uh I also love Horizon Chase
262. 9:56Turbo, but I just talked about that in a
263. 9:57video last week. So, we're going to play
264. 9:59a little bit of Slipstream here now. And
265. 10:01uh yeah, we're going to go for a bit of
266. 10:02a drive and see how it works. My car is
267. 10:05cooler,
268. 10:07though. Oh, this is this is super tight.
269. 10:09This feels really nice. uh especially in
270. 10:12those kind of claustrophobic corners
271. 10:13like that in those little alleyways that
272. 10:15we're driving through with the the
273. 10:16shrubs on each side. Uh it just it feels
274. 10:19good to have a responsive controller
275. 10:21going. Like not that my Pro Controller
276. 10:22isn't. My Pro Controller is fine, but uh
277. 10:25it is definitely showing its age. I've
278. 10:26had it since launch day and to have
279. 10:29something brand new with Hall effect
280. 10:30sticks where it's just you just kind of
281. 10:33glide into where you're going is is a
282. 10:35really nice feeling.
283. 10:37Oh, now we're going to rewind a bit
284. 10:40here.
285. 10:46As you see there, since I rewound and
286. 10:48ran out of my rewind meter, uh I was not
287. 10:50able to do so again when I crash into
288. 10:53the exact same spot as I did before. Um
289. 10:56I will say that is something you will
290. 10:58find you do very regularly in this game
291. 11:00is you crash into the same thing. Uh I
292. 11:03haven't seen this one yet. Let's go to
293. 11:04Akiyama and see how that level
294. 11:08is. Yeah. So, like like I was saying uh
295. 11:11before on those very
296. 11:13claustrophobic turns like I had there
297. 11:16where I wrecked out, it's nice to have a
298. 11:18responsive controller because I feel
299. 11:19like I'm able to correct a little bit
300. 11:22better. Um and like you know, like I
301. 11:25said, not that my Pro Controller is bad,
302. 11:27but it's definitely showing its age. And
303. 11:30it's something where for one, I'm
304. 11:31excited for the Switch 2 controller, the
305. 11:33Switch 2 Pro Controller. I've got one of
306. 11:34those pre-ordered. Um, so happy to get
307. 11:36one of those and give that a try, which
308. 11:38we'll be doing here in a couple of weeks
309. 11:41um when the Switch 2 launches. But yeah,
310. 11:45it'll be uh it'll be nice to see what
311. 11:47that one's capable of. Like uh
312. 11:49everything I've seen has said uh for
313. 11:52people that have actually had it
314. 11:53hands-on and tried it out. Oh, let's go
315. 11:55to Edinburgh. Uh have said it's a really
316. 11:59remarkable controller for the Switch 2.
317. 12:01um that the sticks are fantastic even
318. 12:04though they're not Hall effect. Uh or at
319. 12:05least they're not stated to be Hall
320. 12:08effect. I don't think Nintendo has
321. 12:10confirmed that they're not. They might
322. 12:11have. And if they have, I just didn't
323. 12:13see it. But
324. 12:15um everyone I know who has played it
325. 12:18hands-on and whose videos I have seen
326. 12:19that have played it hands-on say it's uh
327. 12:21an absolutely fantastic controller. Uh,
328. 12:25and the stuff that it does, uh, exceeds
329. 12:29what the original Switch 2 or what the
330. 12:31original Switch Pro controller was
331. 12:32capable of doing. So, that's pretty
332. 12:34pretty impressive. Um, I'm excited to
333. 12:38take it out for a spin. I'm I'm I'm I
334. 12:40just can't wait for that controller and
335. 12:41that console to get here. Uh, and I'm
336. 12:43curious about this controller as well to
337. 12:44see if I can pair it uh to the Switch 2
338. 12:46and see what functionality I'm going to
339. 12:48be able to kind of bring forward with
340. 12:49it. Especially having those back buttons
341. 12:52just kind of in place already. Um, I
342. 12:55think that's neat
343. 12:56and being able to have those there and
344. 12:58remap to them will be pretty cool. We
345. 13:01are officially in a race against time
346. 13:02for my camera dying. And I know I'm I'm
347. 13:04being an idiot here and just trying to
348. 13:06get as much done on one battery as I
349. 13:08can, but uh I like to have fun and this
350. 13:11is how I'm entertaining myself today.
351. 13:13All right, so we're going to hop into
352. 13:14Super Mario 3D Allstars. And since this
353. 13:16is a GameCube styled controller, why not
354. 13:19play a GameCube styled game? So, we are
355. 13:21going to give uh our fair shake to what
356. 13:25is actually one of my favorite Mario
357. 13:26games in Super Mario Sunshine. I know a
358. 13:28lot of people hate it. Uh, I think a lot
359. 13:31of people are dumb. Uh, because I
360. 13:33absolutely love this game. I I thought
361. 13:35the the look of the game was fantastic.
362. 13:37I thought the styling on the game was
363. 13:38amazing. I I really enjoyed the controls
364. 13:41and it's just one of those games that I
365. 13:43like. Uh, I'm going to start from jump
366. 13:45cuz it's been a long time since I played
367. 13:46and I do not know where I'm at on it.
368. 13:48Uh, so we're just going to start a brand
369. 13:50new game. Uh, and we will see how things
370. 13:53look on Isaino. And clearly I have not
371. 13:57played this much uh because I just kind
372. 13:59of tend to hop into my GameCube
373. 14:01original. Uh down the road we are going
374. 14:03to test this controller out on the
375. 14:05Gamecube. Um but I'm going to do that in
376. 14:07a separate video because this one's
377. 14:08already getting kind of long. Uh but
378. 14:10yeah, we're going to give uh our fair
379. 14:12shake with the Nixie Warrior Gamecube
380. 14:15discs and see how it performs. Oh, I
381. 14:18jumped in. I still like the water in
382. 14:21Mario Sunshine, man. I still think it
383. 14:23looks good. Like I I I am always
384. 14:26impressed by the water physics in
385. 14:28something like uh Wave Race uh 64 and
386. 14:31Wave Race uh Bluetorm.
387. 14:34Um what is that? Do
388. 14:37something. I think your friend is dumb.
389. 14:41I don't need to help you. All right,
390. 14:43let's go get
391. 14:45this. Let's meet Flood. Hi, Floody.
392. 14:50Power up. The power up is complete.
393. 14:54Glven. Glven. Uh-huh. Yep. Yep. Yep. EAD
394. 14:58is, I think, one of the biggest villains
395. 15:00in Mario. Now, I have a whole theory
396. 15:02about this because anytime there is an
397. 15:05issue, just magically, there's some kind
398. 15:07of Egad tech there to fix it out. He's
399. 15:09like the Lex Luthor of the Mario
400. 15:10universe. Uh, I I've thought about that
401. 15:12ever since um uh probably Luigi's
402. 15:15Mansion 2. uh when I kind of realized I
403. 15:17was like, "Wait a second. Anytime
404. 15:19there's something that goes on in any
405. 15:20Mario game that he's involved, uh
406. 15:23whether it's the Luigi's Mansion games,
407. 15:25uh this one here, where he's just
408. 15:26peripherilally involved with with Flood
409. 15:28here, or in the Paper Mario games where
410. 15:30uh his his stuff, uh not Paper Mario,
411. 15:33the Mario and Luigi games where his
412. 15:34stuff takes part or is is a factor is
413. 15:37like, why does this man always have a
414. 15:39solution to a problem that didn't exist
415. 15:41till his crap showed up? Um, I think I
416. 15:44think he is a
417. 15:53villain. This feels really good. I'm not
418. 15:55going to lie. Like I I forgot that they
419. 15:58don't really uh make use of the analog
420. 16:03stick on the Switch version of it, which
421. 16:05kind of stinks. But
422. 16:07um it's still fun. I still love this
423. 16:10game, man. Like it's just it's just one
424. 16:12of those games that to me is kind of a
425. 16:16signature Mario
426. 16:20experience and
427. 16:25splat.
428. 16:26Hooray. He has been defeated and now I
429. 16:30will be arrested. Also, I love Shine
430. 16:32Sprites. I like Shine Sprites better
431. 16:33than Stars. I don't know, man. I just I
432. 16:36think this game gets a bad rap. I think
433. 16:37people hate on it for no reason. I don't
434. 16:39know why. Uh, but I also don't love
435. 16:41Galaxy. Like, I I think Galaxy is good.
436. 16:44I like Galaxy a hell of a lot more than
437. 16:46I like uh Mario 64. I don't think Mario
438. 16:4964 is a good game. I think it's an
439. 16:51important game. I don't necessarily
440. 16:52think it's good, but I love Sunshine and
441. 16:54and I think a lot of it has to do with
442. 16:56the style. Like, I really like the
443. 16:57presentation. I like the look. I like
444. 16:59the sound. I like the gameplay. I just
445. 17:01like it and it plays really well with
446. 17:03the Nixie Warrior. All right, let's get
447. 17:05back to the camera now. We're going to
448. 17:06get back to the desk. Uh, I'm going to
449. 17:08write my thoughts down, uh, clean up a
450. 17:10little bit, and, uh, we'll recap my
451. 17:12thoughts on the Nixie Warrior. Okay,
452. 17:14final thoughts now on the Nixie Warrior.
453. 17:17Now, I'm a big fan of Nixie. I have
454. 17:19their Joy-Con connectors that look like
455. 17:21GameCube controllers, and I think
456. 17:23they're fantastic. Some of my favorite
457. 17:24Joy-Con connectors out there, and I
458. 17:27won't lie to you, despite the fact that
459. 17:28I love that, I was a little skeptical
460. 17:29about this controller. And while I
461. 17:31haven't put it through its entire paces
462. 17:33yet, I still do need to test out PC,
463. 17:35Wii, GameCube. For a Switch controller,
464. 17:38this thing is pretty choice. I did
465. 17:40really like it in Metroid Prime. I loved
466. 17:42it in Mario Sunshine. It is not an ideal
467. 17:45controller for fighting games, as I
468. 17:46showed with uh the Capcom fighting
469. 17:48collection, but I think for other game
470. 17:51options and other gameplay
471. 17:52methodologies, you're going to have a
472. 17:54good time. I am very curious to see how
473. 17:56this performs when the Switch 2 launches
474. 17:59so I can actually try it out using the
475. 18:01online GameCube library. Do you have the
476. 18:04Nixie Warrior? Let me know in the
477. 18:06comments down below. Do you like Nixie
478. 18:07controllers? Have you used any in the
479. 18:08past? I want to thank them for sending
480. 18:09this for purposes of review. They didn't
481. 18:12approve anything on this video. They
482. 18:13said, "Hey, we're going to send this to
483. 18:14you. We want you to do a review. Put a
484. 18:15video out on it." So, I did. Check links
485. 18:18in the description below if you're
486. 18:19interested in picking one up. Uh let me
487. 18:20know if you've used one before. If this
488. 18:22is your first time here, check out the
489. 18:23link on screen to see some more
490. 18:24controller reviews that I've done in the
491. 18:25past. And until next time, remember to
492. 18:27play more games, stay square, and take
493. 18:29care.