I don't get why people get so worked up about it. He's just one guy on the internet, where you can find a ton of differing opinions on anything in seconds. The unique selling point of his stuff is to try and be funny and make bizarre extreme analogies, he pretty much does it to everything.
I play quite a few Nintendo games, have probably bought a couple of dozen first party games over the years, including the first two Kid Icarus games, and I also found the control scheme to be really poor, no matter which variant I use.
My off hand wasn't precise enough to shoot with the stylus (I'm left-handed), nor is it particularly comfortable to target using 4 buttons as a replacement second stick. That way also clearly isn't as fast or accurate as it would be using the stylus in my primary hand, which is what right-handers are able to do.
Seeing as it's 15 years after Lylat Wars worked fine with one analogue stick, I'm mystified as to how it got through quality control, and how they thought adding a stand was a suitable fix for a handheld game.
I play quite a few Nintendo games, have probably bought a couple of dozen first party games over the years, including the first two Kid Icarus games, and I also found the control scheme to be really poor, no matter which variant I use.
My off hand wasn't precise enough to shoot with the stylus (I'm left-handed), nor is it particularly comfortable to target using 4 buttons as a replacement second stick. That way also clearly isn't as fast or accurate as it would be using the stylus in my primary hand, which is what right-handers are able to do.
Seeing as it's 15 years after Lylat Wars worked fine with one analogue stick, I'm mystified as to how it got through quality control, and how they thought adding a stand was a suitable fix for a handheld game.