A port of Cotton 100%
Cotton 100% was released in 1994 and is based on the original Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams. It offers a stunning and fresh new look with the more vibrant color palette of the Super Famicom. Experience the beautiful and authentic Cute 'em Up action from the 90s in all its glory and charm!
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I've been gaming for over 30 years. I spend all my spare time on gaming websites reading reviews, news, forums or documentaries. I like to think I have a great general knowledge about videogames old and new, even niche ones. Yet until last year I'd never heard of Cotton. To find out the series has like 8 games since 1991 that had passed me by was truly a pleasant revelation.
Many of them have now been ported as well as new games so figured I'd dive in with one at random, I chose Cotton 100% which is the second game in the series, originally released on Playstation and the SNES apparently. I'm not sure what version is supplied here but I'm guessing it's the SNES one. As far as ports go it's extremely barebones. It does have some quality of life features like rewind, cheats and save states but that's literally it. The challenge mode is literally the game without these as it was originally released and even has two identical sets of trophies for the standard and challenge modes but that's it.
The game is pretty fun though, a horizontal side scrolling shoot 'em up or 'cute 'em up' as I have vomit inducingly heard it called. That naming convention aside it genuinely was a nice change for something so colourful and whimsical instead of all the sci-fi shooters like Gradius, Arrow Flash, Musha and Eliminate Down I've played this year. The game attempts a story and while the early 90's scenes and art have their charm it's otherwise utter nonsense about Willows and Candy. This version just stapled some subtitles below without even removing the Japanese is how budget the release is but it's fine, not a single person cares about the story anyway. Literally not one. Even the original writers.
Gameplay wise this game is a pretty easy affair but I've had a crap week at work so it was a perfect chill experience. Cotton picks up crystals and kills enemies to level up powering her main attack. She collects fairy comrades to bolster her fire power and has a range of magic spells to choose from.
In addition. These spells can be selected in sets at the start of each level a bit like in Gradius and depending on the selected spell type the fairy minions will change attack formation around you.
That's pretty much it. There are 7 levels, each with two bosses, an easier mid boss and an end level boss. You can beat it in under an hour but if you go for the platinum it will take 2 or 3 playthroughs.The visuals are pretty cure though nothing spectacular, ok sprites mostly kept pleasant by colour and art. It's got a pretty great upbeat soundtrack with some really good songs but the quality here is crackly and sometimes pops. Port issue or like it in the original? I really don't know.
Will definitely try some of the other games after enjoying this. I hear Panarama Cotton plays like Space Harrier, pretty crazy change.
+ Short relaxing fun.
+ Easy to pick up and just play.
+ Cute art and great music.
- The sound quality is poor.
- Barebones content.
Many of them have now been ported as well as new games so figured I'd dive in with one at random, I chose Cotton 100% which is the second game in the series, originally released on Playstation and the SNES apparently. I'm not sure what version is supplied here but I'm guessing it's the SNES one. As far as ports go it's extremely barebones. It does have some quality of life features like rewind, cheats and save states but that's literally it. The challenge mode is literally the game without these as it was originally released and even has two identical sets of trophies for the standard and challenge modes but that's it.
The game is pretty fun though, a horizontal side scrolling shoot 'em up or 'cute 'em up' as I have vomit inducingly heard it called. That naming convention aside it genuinely was a nice change for something so colourful and whimsical instead of all the sci-fi shooters like Gradius, Arrow Flash, Musha and Eliminate Down I've played this year. The game attempts a story and while the early 90's scenes and art have their charm it's otherwise utter nonsense about Willows and Candy. This version just stapled some subtitles below without even removing the Japanese is how budget the release is but it's fine, not a single person cares about the story anyway. Literally not one. Even the original writers.
Gameplay wise this game is a pretty easy affair but I've had a crap week at work so it was a perfect chill experience. Cotton picks up crystals and kills enemies to level up powering her main attack. She collects fairy comrades to bolster her fire power and has a range of magic spells to choose from.
In addition. These spells can be selected in sets at the start of each level a bit like in Gradius and depending on the selected spell type the fairy minions will change attack formation around you.
That's pretty much it. There are 7 levels, each with two bosses, an easier mid boss and an end level boss. You can beat it in under an hour but if you go for the platinum it will take 2 or 3 playthroughs.The visuals are pretty cure though nothing spectacular, ok sprites mostly kept pleasant by colour and art. It's got a pretty great upbeat soundtrack with some really good songs but the quality here is crackly and sometimes pops. Port issue or like it in the original? I really don't know.
Will definitely try some of the other games after enjoying this. I hear Panarama Cotton plays like Space Harrier, pretty crazy change.
+ Short relaxing fun.
+ Easy to pick up and just play.
+ Cute art and great music.
- The sound quality is poor.
- Barebones content.