The Razer Soma Chroma has a silly name, silly price tag, and sillily requires you bring your own battery to light the thing up

Razer Soma Chroma: One-minute review I've reviewed a lot of gaming chairs, sat my butt on plenty of seats promising the best of the best comfort, or ergonomic longevity (I'm convinced noblechairs wants my posture to last me until I'm 126 years old), and I've got to say, aside from possibly the AndaSeat Novis , this might be the most comfortable chair I've ever sat in.

At least, part of it is.

The seat base.

The fabric, the material, lovely; the base width, great.

The backrest? Right up my street.

But the Soma is a bit of an odd one when it comes to everything else it's trying to do.

And an even bigger issue is its launch day price tag.

It's $500/£500 (about $954 AUD), which is a lot, and yes, there's RGB lighting in this, but Razer doesn't include an integrated battery (or even an optional one at checkout), doesn't pack a long enough cable, and doesn't include an adapter.

The brand doesn't even include a cushioned headrest (you have to buy that separately).

For 500 bones, frankly, that's utter madness.

The RGB itself (two diffused strips that run alongside the upper part of the backrest) is forward-facing only, and you can't really see it when you're sat down.

It's not like a keyboard or a mouse, which is at least in your periphery, and needing your machine on with the cable hooked up separately if you opt to go without a battery bank means you'll probably spend about 5-10 seconds every session watching it just light up.

It's great for a streamer, sure, but even then it does feel more like an advert rather than something classy.

I had the lighting on for a day when I first got it for testing, then promptly unhooked the USB cable Razer graciously provided me with and never touched it again.