{"id":129701,"date":"2022-11-13T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-141028"},"modified":"2022-11-13T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T05:05:00","slug":"tactics-ogre-on-switch-apparently-supports-mouse-and-keyboard-controls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/13\/tactics-ogre-on-switch-apparently-supports-mouse-and-keyboard-controls\/","title":{"rendered":"Tactics Ogre On Switch Apparently Supports Mouse And Keyboard Controls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2b3d90770cc77\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2b3d90770cc77\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Tactics Ogre\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2b3d90770cc77\/tactics-ogre.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA3Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2b3d90770cc77\/tactics-ogre.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Tactics Ogre\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Square Enix<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This week saw Square Enix release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/tactics_ogre_reborn\">Tactics Ogre: Reborn<\/a> on the Nintendo Switch and multiple other platforms.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t already got around to playing this one, here&#8217;s another reason why you should check it out. As highlighted by user &#8216;solwhitehorn&#8217; on the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/NintendoSwitch\/comments\/ytfq63\/tactics_ogre_reborn_mouse_keyboard_are_supported\/\">Nintendo Switch subreddit<\/a>, the game actually supports mouse and keyboard inputs.<\/p>\n<p>So if you don&#8217;t feel like playing on Joy-Cons or a Switch Pro Controller, you can use this method instead:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I found it strange that the keyboard shortcuts were displayed in the config menu. While nothing is written on the box, plugging a usb mouse\/keyboard works directly and you can play the game this way as it was the PC version. I also tried a usb dongle for a wireless Dell keyboard\/mouse combo and it works no problem&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Tactics Ogre\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9c7c9148c461d\/tactics-ogre.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9c7c9148c461d\/tactics-ogre.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Tactics Ogre\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/NintendoSwitch\/comments\/ytfq63\/tactics_ogre_reborn_mouse_keyboard_are_supported\/\">via Reddit \/ Square Enix<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Surprisingly, this isn&#8217;t the first time Nintendo Switch has controlled keyboard and mouse inputs. Earlier this year, id Software and Bethesda added support for this control method as well:<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/nintendolife.com.ssl\/nintendo-switch\/related-articles:122140 @ 2022-11-13T06:21:25+00:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p>You can learn more about this latest Switch release in our Nintendo Life review:<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/nintendolife.com.ssl\/nintendo-switch\/related-articles:140198 @ 2022-11-13T06:21:25+00:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Have you tried out this control method yet? <em>Comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Square Enix This week saw Square Enix release Tactics Ogre: Reborn on the Nintendo Switch and multiple other platforms. If you haven&#8217;t already got around to playing this one, here&#8217;s another reason why you should check it out. As highlighted by user &#8216;solwhitehorn&#8217; on the Nintendo Switch subreddit, the game actually supports mouse and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}