I like cool collaborations because it’s usually the important thing to delivering a few of the funkiest wanting tech and peripherals round. Or generally the worst ones. Razer is one model identified to ship a bit of every with trendy and cute collabs just like the Kuromi assortment and brilliant gloriously ugly ones just like the gear themed after a Minecraft Creeper. The model has not too long ago introduced its latest collaboration with a new Pokemon lineup and I gotta say, these are extra creeper than cutie.
The lineup contains a keyboard, mouse, headset, and mouse mat all plastered with faces of the starter Pokemon from the Kanto area. All of the peripherals sport the identical sticker model onslaught of Charmander, Bulbasaur, Squirtle, and Pikachu faces all stacked on prime of one another. It’s an explosion of yellow, orange, blue, and inexperienced, on what would in any other case be boring black peripherals. While I’m a giant fan of something however boring, I’m unsure this was the reply.
The keyboard is the fullsized Blackwidow V4 full with quantity pad and themed alt and area bar keys. It even has the devoted scroll bar just like the V4 Pro. The faceplate of the board seems to be prefer it’s been coated with a single sheet of this starter face contact, and that is about it. It’s nearly distressing taking a look at it and seeing all these trapped infants wanting again at me, asking if they will come on my parentless journey all over the world with me. The vibes simply appear off on this aesthetic.
Thankfully the mouse has some enhancements. This time we’re handled to a Wired Cobra, with that very same face packed design on the left and proper mouse buttons. The predominant physique is a strong Pikachu yellow, as are the scroll wheel and facet buttons accenting themselves properly towards the black. I nonetheless do not adore it, and I believe I’d really feel unhealthy mashing down on their candy little faces all day, however there’s promise right here.
The Kraken V4 that is been reskinned in Pokemon livery is a little more just like the mouse. It carries over that black and yellow Pikachu aesthetic over the principle physique of the headphones, solely displaying off these creepy faces on a portion of the scarf. I’d must say that is simply one of the best wanting piece out of the entire package, and the faces do not look as distressed as they do all crammed on a flat object. It additionally seems to be quite a bit just like the headset used within the much less globally out there Pokemon collaboration the model has accomplished.
But that brings us to the Gigantus V2 mousemat that’s, you guessed it, coated in these faces. It’s high-quality, however so far as aesthetic decisions go this nonetheless reads extra as a large number of Pokemon to me than a contented assortment. It’s very doubtless that every one the starters I launched in Pokemon Go to be floor up into sweet have really gotten trapped on this mouse mat and at the moment are judging me for eternity.
I perceive I’m an grownup, and it is a collaboration extra aimed toward children but it surely would not must look fairly a lot prefer it. At first look this all seems to be like gear that got here in a present bag at a carnival the place I received swindled out of all my hard-earned cash for a gold painted magikarp. We know Razer can ship cool Pokemon gear, just like the candy Gengar stuff that came out in China, we simply are but to see any of it come to the west.
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