Top critical review
3.0 out of 5 starsGood, but not great
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2020
First off, I got this controller back in July. I had used a standard DualShock controller for the past 4 years and this was my first "pro" controller. First impression, it's big. It feels weird holding it in your hands at first and as someone that plays a lot of FPS games, it was somewhat difficult to reach the L1 and R1 buttons. You get used to it and of course, that varies based on hand size. It doesn't have hair stop triggers like Scuf controllers do, but you can remap the triggers to act as hair stop triggers. Everything else on the controller feels really smooth and comfortable, every button click feels like a mouse click. The buttons on the back felt comfortable after about a week of using the controller, though I don't have any experience using paddles/buttons so I can't compare it to other controllers. Now, after about a month of using it, I noticed I would get stick drift on the left thumbstick. I really wanna emphasize that I am not a button masher, I don't press down super hard on my thumbstick or any of that. It wasn't a big deal because I found that I could unplug the controller for about 3 seconds and then plug it back in and the stick drift would be gone. But here we are now in September and the left thumbstick is horrible. It moves on its own at this point and the only solution now is to buy a whole set of thumbsticks, which is gonna cost about $40. There are also times when I have tried to type out a message to someone and the cursor stays stuck in the middle of the screen (It's usually stuck on the letter "G" and won't let me spell anything out). Overall, the controller is good. However, it is frustrating paying about $180 for a controller that now needs parts replaced after only 3 months of use. (Again, not a button masher, never had an issue with stick drift on the daulshock that I had used since I got the ps4 back in 2016).
