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If you want a 6-button layout controller to enjoy your favorite fighting games then I can ultimately recommend the Hori Fighting Commander Octa for enthusiasts despite its drawbacks, even if it's more reminiscent of gamepads from the 90s than up to modern standards of the day.Try Double Commander and you won't be disappointed. The price hike is likely due to being one of the console's first third-party controllers, and that's a rate that's likely to be reduced by sales, as we've seen from the Xbox-licenced one already. You aren't getting a particularly high build quality here, though, and I would argue that PlayStation gamers aren't getting anything special to justify that $10 increase in MSRP. It isn't particularly expensive either, at $49.99 (Xbox) and $59.99 (PS5), coming in at, or cheaper than, those systems' native gamepads.
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(Image credit: Future / Aleksha McLoughlin) Should you buy the Hori Fighting Commander Octa?ĭespite my complaints, ultimately the Hori Fighting Commander Octa is a solid option for gamers looking to take fighting games a little more seriously on PC or their console platform of choice. While the stick is far preferable, there are times when you need purely digital input to make your plays, too, and Hori missed out here. After a while, it began to dig into the digit and was genuinely uncomfortable after several hours of play. Unsurprisingly, my biggest complaint is still the D-pad which I grew to like less and less the more my thumb was forced to flex between it and the octa-gate stick. It can be remapped to your liking but was still far from ideal for games like this.
Given that your R2 button is a fair distance away from where your thumb sits, blocking never felt quite right for me. While I did go through a fair few games in the Netherrealm Mortal Kombat titles, most noticeably X and 11, it's clear that the 6-button layout doesn't lend itself well to titles that utilize a block button. The Hori Fighting Commander Octa is built with your more traditional fighting games in mind, though. While not exactly 'true combos', I did notice my plays with Dragunov to be far more consistent, too.
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I was able to clear Ragna the Bloodedge's arcade ladder pulling off some half-decent air combos and keeping the rushdown in full effect with minimal stress. If you prefer your fighters a little more faced-paced then the low actuation here should be greatly appreciated.
The clicky and responsive feel of the face buttons made all the difference during more intense bouts in both Tekken 7 and BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger. (Image credit: Future / Aleksha McLoughlin) What's there is basic in every sense of the word and likely only to appeal to power users wanting to squeeze every drop of juice from the Hori Fighting Commander Octa.
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In truth, you're not missing much when forgoing the dedicated software altogether in all honesty. For those gamers on PS5, you'll need to hook up to a computer, make your changes, and then plug back into the console no ad-hoc option here.
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What's more, on PC and Xbox Series X, there's the optional Hori Device Manager companion app which allows you to tweak the sensitivity of the D-pad as well as remap any buttons with up to four dedicated profiles.
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As this is one of the first natively optimized controllers for Sony's latest system, there's a dedicated switch for PS5 and PS4 as well as PC. On the rear of the unit, you've got two dedicated switches one is for locking accidental button presses such as the start and share, and the other for toggling between platforms. This means you've also got the Dualsense's touchpad, share button, and start, as well as a dedicated mute button for plugging in via a 3.5mm jack, and corresponding settings toggle. The Hori Fighting Commander Octa has a specific variant optimized for both PS5 and Xbox Series X, our review unit is the former. While perfectly functional, this D-pad is on the harder and sharper side, providing no real satisfaction in use as there's no tactile feedback of any kind a real disappointment. Speaking of the D-pad, an essential component in the vast majority of 2D and 3D fighting games, it is far from the best that I've used.