Main Review
Build quality
The build quality of this mouse is pretty amazing! The base is made out of actual metal and while I don’t know exactly what metal it is it feels really sturdy when pressed on and bumped around.
The sides of the mouse are made out of a glossy plastic that feels solid too, one thing to note is the side plastic does attract a lot of finger prints.
The top of the mouse and the main buttons are made out of a rubberized texture that feels extremely nice in the hand.
All of the buttons feel great too. The scroll wheel has noticeable clicks when rolling and all of the other buttons feel perfectly fine too without being unusually loud. You definitely won’t have to worry about any buttons wearing out for a while.
Overall build quality is pretty amazing and with things like the metal base, braided cable and gold-plated USB plug this mouse feels much more premium than its price point would have you believe.
For being one of the most well-made mouse’s I’ve personally used I give the build quality 5/5 I really have no complaints on this aspect.
Lighting
While the Harada mouse does have lighting it, unfortunately, doesn’t have ant sort of programmability for them.
The side G7 button simply turns the lighting off or onto a breathing animation with red lighting.
While I would have liked to see some sort of color options or animation options what lighting the mouse does have actually looks pretty good.
Lack of customizibilty aside I like how the lighting was handled on the mouse. The lighting running up the side of the mouse looks really clean while the underside lighting provides a nice under glow during gaming.
Overall while looks are one of the least important aspects of a product to me I do like the lighting here but user choice for the colors and animations would have been a great thing to see.
I give the lighting a 4/5 for looking great as is but needing customizability.
Software control
This is the only area of this mouse that I have any real complaints with since there is no software included from X2 wich made customizing the buttons a hassle due to having to find a third-party application to customize the added buttons.
They state in the instructions that you can use included Windows software but after some research, I found out that Microsoft got rid of the ability to customize mice buttons with the Windows setting meaning I was on my own to find software that works.
ultimately I ended up using this to get the added buttons up and running but it would have been nice to see some first party software from X2, or at the very least updated instructions explaining how to customize the buttons with an officially endorsed third-party software.
Since I can’t really rate something that doesn’t exist I’m not rating this aspect but it was the only negative experience of using this mouse.
Usage in games
I’m not a pro gamer so I may not be able to point out the pixel to pile differences of various mice during gameplay but this mouse performs exactly like a great gaming mouse should.
It does feature a A9800 sensor wich some people on the internet say has issues with acceleration in other mice but I personally didn’t notice any issues or differences when compared to my G602 mouse so the company that makes the A9800 may have fixed it or it just isn’t that noticeable unless you are specifically looking for it.
During most of my testing I played the original Bio Shock with a couple of games of PUBG thrown in and it worked great, I still am a terrible PUBG player but I never felt like I lost because of the mouse.
The Harada has preset DPI settings ranging from 1200 all the way up to 8200 so If you like playing with a high sensitivity this mouse will work perfect for you. I do wish they gave you the option to customize the DPI settings though since 1200 may be too high for some competitive players especially while sniping, I never had any major issue with 1200 being too high during my gameplay but it is a little difficult to be extremely accurate at that setting in some games.
Overall the Harada is a great mouse for the price and it works great in games while feeling almost exactly the same as my more expensive G602 during gameplay.
The only negatives I have are the lack of completely customizable DPI settings since you’re locked to the pre set 1200/2400/4800/6200/7400/8200 choices and the fact that the lowest DPI of 1200D is too high for extreme accuracy in some games.
I rate this aspect of the Harada mouse 4/5 for being great in almost every area of gameplay except when a low DPI is needed.
Now lets move onto the Final thoughts and conclusion!
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