Dragon Quest Slime Controller
Inexplicably no longer produced, but available at absolutely astonishing prices on eBay, is the unfathomable Dragon Quest Slime Controller, made by peripheral stalwarts HORI.
Made in exactly the shape of a Dragon Quest Slime, despite just how obvious that it’s wildly inconvenient for play, I’ve never so strongly wanted a device I would never want to use. The whole thing was so intensely, clearly never intended for regular gaming use that it came shipped with a bunch of flat cardboard to build into a treasure chest on which it can be displayed.
To actually use the Slime as a controller, you have to flip it upside down, where two analogue sticks and the usual Switch buttons are hidden, rendering the entire device the most impressive presentation of style over substance.
Still, it’s a tragedy HORI no longer makes this, as $400 is perhaps a little more than I want to pay for a controller I’d never want to actually use.
