Killing these guys convinces the fairy to join you and helps to further empower your projectile attacks. Some enemies will drop power-ups but the ones you really want are the enemies that have a fairy circling them. This time though, they only grant experience when picked up. The experience system that powers up your attacks is still in play, along with magic crystals that enemies drop. Now there’s a bomb button for your bombs rather than one attack button for both your bomb and projectiles. Your attacks have also been separated as well. At the start of the game, you’ll choose your magic load out, giving you three spells to use that you can swop between. The magic system has been changed up as well. That said, the game reuses many sprites from the first game, including background elements, which make it feel like more of a redux of the first game, a remake in its own right. A side-scrolling schmup, Cotton 100% does make some changes to the game’s systems that help it stand out somewhat from the first game. Once again, as Cotton, you’re on your way to find yourself a Willow treat and defeat evil along the way. Mechanically and stylistically, the game is similar to its predecessor. To be clear, both of these games are standalone releases but for this review, we’ll be taking a look at both of them with a final score that speaks for each release.Ĭotton 100% is the follow up to Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams – or Cotton Reboot! if you’ve picked that up already. A remake of the original Cotton game – you can check out our review here – which paved the way for the following two games in the Cotton series to be released in the West, specifically Cotton 100% and Cotton Panorama. The stories themselves are also usually wacky and nonsensical as the games are really just about having fun while aiming for high scores.īack in July, Cotton Reboot! was released. The game mechanics are the same as its more renowned sibling, but the cute-em-up genre distinguishes itself by having cute characters and enemies for you to blast into oblivion. The Cotton series – which began in 1991 and was never released or officially translated for the West – is a sub-genre of the schmup genre, known as a “cute-em-up”. Welcome back to the world of Cotton, a game series focusing on the shenanigans of a pint size, sweet-crazed witch who will destroy anything in her path to get her hands on said eponymous sweets, known as Willow.
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