#joy-cons

Here's something fun I've doodled over the course of the year but never shown - the Con-Joys! Sort of a silly take on making Switch Joy-Con gijinkas(?)! Since the controllers can snap into one holder together, it made sense to me that they could be like robo friends that ConJoin together...!

Joy-Cons

basically just joycons but using the gamecube’s weird button layout and c stick

now normally i’d really like these and buy them in a heartbeat because i love the gamecube controller

but they fucked it up

look at the control sticks there

if you look at the control stick on a regular gamecube controller, you’ll notice there’s an octagon shape around the stick, like this:

the reason it has these is to help align the control stick with one of the 8 directions you’d normally use in games without free movement. i use gamecube controllers for games like wandersong or that link’s awakening remake because they use an 8-directional control scheme. like if you've ever played a game and keep going diagonally when you’re trying to go up or right, you can see why this would be useful

now look at the sticks on the joycons.

you see the octagon there?

look at the angle it’s at

imagine trying to point the stick, say, upwards. when you do that, it hits a wall... and your stick is redirected away from the direction you want to go

it baffles me that they turned like 50% of the reason i like the gamecube controller into a downside