Genki Force Field 2 Review: The Ideal Grip Case for Switch 2?

Genki’s Force Field 2 mightiness conscionable beryllium the the perfect grip lawsuit for the Switch 2. While its handles don’t adhd a ton of other grip, the wide bundle confers a phenomenal level of convenience and portability, portion inactive protecting my as-of-yet unscathed Switch 2. And with tiny perks similar crippled cartridge retention and a MagSafe ring, this could good beryllium my caller go-to Switch 2 accessory for solo travel.

Keeping with Genki’s sleek, understated-but-stylish branding, the Force Field 2 encloses the Switch 2 with a brace of semi-transparent, dark-grey pieces. The backmost covers the Joy-Cons and the console itself, with small, rounded handles adding a brace of tiny grips to the console successful handheld mode. And alternatively of attaching each grip to the Joy-Cons, this lawsuit attaches its Joy-Con covers to the backmost sheet itself, with hinges that drawback connected and disconnected of the controllers portion they are attached to the tablet.

This setup makes disconnecting a Joy-Con 2 from the console easier and much convenient compared to detaching a grip that’s attached to each controller individually, which comes successful useful for for tabletop and rodent mode play. Folding unfastened each grip reveals yet different businesslike plan idea, with a crippled cartridge retention slot that cleverly utilizes each handle.

The backmost sheet that anchors these folding grips to the console itself snaps connected tightly to the tablet, hugging it tightly capable to descent into the authoritative Switch 2 dock. It’s benignant of a choky fit, but it shouldn’t scratch your surface oregon anything. It besides leaves abstraction for the Switch 2’s improved kickstand. But my favourite diagnostic for the full lawsuit – speech from the extortion it offers, of people – is close supra that kickstand slot.

MagSafe? On my Switch 2 case? It's much apt than you think.

The MagSafe ringing situated successful the mediate of the backmost sheet unsocial makes this lawsuit good worthy the cost. The Switch 2’s artillery beingness earnestly kneecaps its portability; adjacent if you’re not playing successful 1 agelong session, it’s ever a bummer to click connected your Switch for immoderate time-melting Balatro connected a abbreviated formation oregon bid thrust lone to observe that you forgot to afloat complaint your console. Here’s wherever the MagSafe ringing comes in: it allows you to connect a portable artillery to your Switch without needing to tether yourself to a USB larboard oregon outlet.

Genki conveniently sells a slim, almighty portable charger (which besides works wirelessly with devices similar smartphones) that snaps onto this magnetic ring, and ships with a well-shaped, male-to-male USB-C cablegram with right-angled ends, letting you complaint the console with minimal interference to your playtime. You tin besides usage different MagSafe chargers. In summation to Genki’s portable charger, I’ve besides utilized different MagSafe chargers, similar 1 of Pitaka's Aramid Fiber powerfulness banks, with large results. However, I needed to usage a antithetic USB-C connector, due to the fact that its placement and plan were made for Genki’s proprietary charger.

The different fractional of the lawsuit comes with considerably less bells and whistles, serving arsenic a elemental screen designed to support the console, including its surface and controllers. It snaps to the console with the different fractional of the lawsuit attached, providing a smooth, rounded screen that envelops the console to beryllium flush with the remainder of the case. It’s a smooth, sturdy, protective obstruction that doesn’t connection the aforesaid suite of flashy features arsenic the different fractional of the case, but doesn’t request to. It could usage its abstraction much efficiently, with much crippled cartridge retention successful the abstraction betwixt the surface and case, though it’s by nary means a dealbreaker.

The afloat lawsuit adds little than an inch to the Switch 2 successful total, too, keeping everything slim and low-profile, making it casual to store and pack. Even with Genki’s astir half-inch-thick portable charger connected the console, it’s inactive beauteous slim and casual to propulsion into your bag.

Charlie is simply a freelance contributor for IGN. You tin scope them via Twitter oregon Instagram astatine the grip @chas_mke.