The aesthetic quality is pretty nice, and I've already taken the liberty of opening it up and moving the black buttons to the left side. A word of warning, the snappy tabs that are on the buttons might not come back out after you push them in (as I did with a flat-head screwdriver). This was remedied by me using a butter knife to pull them back out, but still...I don't suppose snap-in buttons should do that, so I recommend only popping these guys out when you purchase new, better buttons -- just in case.
The stick is probably the most meh part, as the spring is much too loose for my tastes, and all the motions feel a bit stiff. This is my first time using a square gate and for the most part it feels good, you can really find your angles. But yeah, stick would be the first thing I replace on this bad boy. The buttons also had scuffy scratches all among the surface, but I don't really care too much.
I guess it never dawned on me how small Japanese sticks are, all these happ competitions and perfect 360's must have spoiled me with the giant shafted, super tight spring action. It'll take some getting used to for sure. But yeah, pretty dope nonetheless.
edit: So I decided to move the quick disconnects over a row, so that a-b-x-y would be in the middle, and left bumper/trigger would actually be on the left. This was all fine and dandy until one connector wouldn't come off, I kept pulling and then the entire micro-switch tore off, ball bearing fell out and all that. So I wouldn't recommend even pulling those tabs out if I was you. Luckily there's 8 buttons on this thing, just switched the black over to MP-MK.
Note to self: Get good buttons asap.
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