{"id":117867,"date":"2020-09-11T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/09\/hardware_review_that_animal_crossing_pad_that_looks_like_tom_nooks_face_its_pretty_good"},"modified":"2020-09-11T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T12:45:00","slug":"hardware-review-that-animal-crossing-pad-that-looks-like-tom-nooks-face-its-pretty-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/11\/hardware-review-that-animal-crossing-pad-that-looks-like-tom-nooks-face-its-pretty-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardware Review: That Animal Crossing Pad That Looks Like Tom Nook’s Face? It’s Pretty Good"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Peripheral maker Stoga<\/a> has released a series of Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/a><\/strong>-inspired wireless controllers for the Nintendo Switch. These aren’t the first Animal Crossing-style pads we’ve seen \u2013 PowerA has its own options<\/a> \u2013 but they’re certainly the most adorable.<\/p>\n

The Stoga Cat (or “Stoga Animal Crossing Pad”, as some people are calling it) comes with motion control support and around 8-10 hours of play time per charge thanks to its 300mAh battery. The basic design is the same across all three pads, but it’s the brown variant which is the most interesting, because it looks just<\/em> like Tom Nook’s face.<\/p>\n

We were lucky enough to get sent one of these pads by Stoga, and we came away more impressed than we expected to be \u2013 especially as the rather cheap and nasty packaging the pad ships in did little to engender confidence initially. The pad is surprisingly dinky when compared to the official Pro Controller, but it’s still comfortable to hold and could be the ideal ‘travel’ option. If you’ve got massive hands, however, you might want to steer clear.<\/p>\n