I didn't see a post about this, and it made me wonder if I'm the only one with this issue. I guess we'll find out.
I recently moved from the Console edition (Wii U, to be exact) to the Bedrock edition on Switch. The game looks better, has an infinite world, and features many other awesome things. There's one huge issue, though.
There's no option to swap the functions of the analog sticks. Most of you good people are probably used to controlling your movement with your left thumb, and your turning with the right one. I just don't feel at home with it. I have been using the left stick for looking around since the advent of thumbsticks, all the way back in 1997. Having used my left thumb for that for over twenty years and not once my right thumb, you can imagine that playing the game is extremely difficult.
It's not like I'm unable to do anything. It's just that I have to constantly concentrate on how to play instead of thinking about what I'm going to do next. Using half of my mental capacity on controlling the player so that I don't walk into a lava pit when I'm only supposed to look around sucks the fun out of the game.
Before you say I haven't just tried enough... I have. I've put dozens of hours into the game, but learning to play with reversed sticks is like learning to write with your non-writing hand. Sure, you can learn to write text that can actually be read but, to use this analogy, in order to get familiar enough with the control scheme to be able to take on Ender dragon and be victorious, you should master writing with your "wrong" hand so well that the text looks the same as the one written with your "right" hand.
The above analogy is very appropriate because whenever I try to casually write with my left hand (yes, I'm right-handed), you know, for fun, I tend to write from right to left, with the letters mirrored, too. The same applies when playing the Bedrock edition on Switch. I often turn the wrong way because I'm using the wrong thumb for turning.
Ultimately, the biggest issue is that much of my gameplay comes from my spinal cord: I don't need to think about it. Just mining mindlessly doesn't cause anything dramatic. However, when I'm facing something sudden, be it a creeper or some other monster appearing right in front of me, or digging through a block when lava gushes out from behind, what happens is that I react the way I would always do in any first-person game. The thing is that when the reaction comes straight from the spinal cord, I try to back away using the thumb I have always used for something like that. The result? I find myself staring at the sky or ceiling when the creeper blows up at my face, or the lava flow engulfing and killing me. Not my idea of fun, I'm telling you.
This long and tedious-to-read novel was just my attempt to explain why I demand that we get the option to swap the functions of the analog sticks, so that people like me, who have used our left thumb for turning for over twenty years, can actually play the game. The controls can be customized very extensively, but the one thing the customization direly needed isn't there. The option that is one of the most basic options in any first-person games. Being able to change the analog sticks around. I know this can be done, and I'm counting on you.
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