What even IS this?
Unfortunately, like many divorces, one parent has their shit together and the other one clearly doesn’t.
The Switch default controls are, in a word, terrible.
I started the Dam level and figured I’d find my bearings as I explored.
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The left stick looks and moves forward and backward, and the right stick strafes and looks.
The D-pad also strafes.
Either shoulder button aims down sights, but only the ZL button fires your weapon.
The ZR button, the one you’d traditionally imagine firing a gun, does absolutely nothing.
The B button reloads and opens doors and the A button changes weapons.
X looks up and Y strafes left, for some reason?
I briefly cycled through the other control options, but they were all different flavors of bad.
The core problem seems to come down to the ZR button simply being off-limits for button mapping.
Frankly, I don’t want to know.
The real question is why you would even try.
The buttons are mapped to the places you would imagine they would be mapped to.
I changed my weapon by tapping the Y button.
I aimed down sights and shot using the correct shoulder buttons.
Compared to the Switch port, it’s Call of Duty.
There is aweird, backwards hacky wayto get modern(-ish) controls into GoldenEye 007 on Switch.
It may not be as accurate to the original, but it feels correct.
No extra work or hoops required.
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