really was blown away by how much is in this package. easily one of the most varied and great feeling shooters of recent memory

Excellent review.Will be picking this up on steam when it arrives. It also seems that the cotton guardian force Saturn tribute is coming to steam and , according to city connection, they have managed to improve the lag and will be patching the switch version at the same time.Sounds hopefully like good news for all cotton fans!

Jesus, I got this as a Christmas trip to GameStop and on the ride home was thinking "Man I'd love to find an Umihara Kawase game for Switch," just thinking other Japanese titles starting in the 16-bit era. Watching this review as I eat and decide whether to play this or Cotton Reboot first, my jaw dropped seeing Umihara in the cast. Holy hell. lmfao

Reboot! was my introduction to the series and I played a ton of both it & Rock N' Roll in 2021. Hopefully there's more to come. The scoring systems in these games may not be the deepest or most refined, but I find them very intuitive and engaging. And if Success is reading this, I would love to see a new Psyvariar as well....

@ShmupsOnSwitch

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing while playing the Psyvariar stage. Would love to see a new entry and judging by this, they've got the ability to revive old series in a respectful but refreshing way, so I'd have a lot of faith in them doing a good job.

Success went all out with Cotton in 2021 and their finale with Rock 'n' Roll was a banger! Scoring is simple but handled very well with the character variety. Ria was definitely made for Extra Hard difficutly!

@ShmupsOnSwitch

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I feel like maybe I hadn't played enough of the extra hard difficulty when I made this review. It's actually worthy of a bit more discussion as it makes things really different to play.

This looks wonderful. I've preorder the physical, looking forward to its arrival.

Great review, can't wait for my copy to arrive

thorough intelligent overview. excellent work.

Never been a huge fan of Cotton even though I am especially partial to shooters however have to admit I’m considering picking this up. Also congratulations on a thoroughly excellent review.

Great review as always! Glad it's coming to the west (hopefully in physical form that's not just a limited run). Big fan of reboot, so this does appeal to me.

@NodakSavage

2 жыл бұрын

PlayAsia has already confirmed this

@andrewbutler9533

2 жыл бұрын

@@NodakSavage thanks! I've since preordered Cotton Fantasy, but its delayed until July. No biggie, as I have a huge gaming backlog anyway.

Hi i have the sfc cotton 100 % i was looking for a video on all the cotton games on the switch. This looks great! I subscribed ☆

I was on the fence about getting into Cotton. As a novice shmup player, I really enjoyed Cotton Reboot with the Sharp X68K version being my first 1cc! I can’t wait to get Cotton Fantasy. I love the graphics and looks like good ol Cotton fun, my favorite cute em up

What I really liked about Cotton 2 was the seal and combo system. It's a little bit sad to see, that they completely dropped the command inputs and went more into the bullet hell direction.

I tried Cotton for the first time this year thanks to the rereleases (100% and Panorama) so now I'm looking forward to this new game.

Got my copy last night (bent a bit unfortunately) but I gotta say I love it. The soundtrack was a highlight didn’t expect it to be that amazing. This game kinda feels like a Darius burst type of game. Like how there’s many characters with completely different mechanics and scoring is easy to understand but hard to master. I really like the game, glad I got the collectors edition because again my god that soundtrack

Can't wait to get my hand of the physical copy from SLG. Looks to be a lot of fun.

Thanks for the review :) Any concerns over performance differences between the PS4 and Switch versions?

I just preordered it

Spent a fortune on Japanese imports this yr, so I'll hold out for the the Fantasy version. This looks fantastic.

Nice! This looks promising! I've been developing some interest in the series lately, but haven't tried any game yet. Do the jewels behave like twinbee's bells? Because I didn't like that at all :/

@ShmupsOnSwitch

2 жыл бұрын

Kind of. You can shoot them to change colour, but usually, instead of pinging away from you like in TwinBee, they ping up in the air so you can catch them.

Looks really good!!

It’s a based, fantastic game. It is said that some of the members were former Treasure guys.

@amr-OH

2 жыл бұрын

yeah there's a few members from Fil in Cafe and Treasure, tho tracking down which ones is kind of a crap shoot because of how inconsistent developer credits are to find

@DiddleDeets

2 жыл бұрын

that makes sense - got the treasure magic

Excellent test ! Wich cotton game on switch is the best for you ? This one , the reboot, one other ? Thanks !

@ShmupsOnSwitch

2 жыл бұрын

Hard to say the absolute #1, but it's definitely between this and Cotton Reboot. Both are excellent. This has the variety of the different characters, Reboot has the benefit of both the original Cotton itself and the heavily reworked Reboot version as wel as a separate time attack mode. Personally, I'd say Reboot still maybe just edges things, but you can't go wrong with either of them.

Looks great, I'll be sure to grab that one once it gets a EU release :)

Good to know it’s in English, might purchase the physical of Amazon Japan now instead waiting months for a limited run / strictly limited or whoever version 😩

@ShmupsOnSwitch

2 жыл бұрын

I always go for the Japanese physicals if available. Amazon Japan's shipping isn't any worse than most of the limited companies, the site's usable in English and the games ship on release date then usually arrive in under a week.

Excellent review definitely on my list, will it get a physical release....?

@TetsuoIronMan

2 жыл бұрын

It has a physical Asian release with English on the cart, unless you mean an English specific cart, in which Iimited run games is releasing a physical as well

@NickkTran

2 жыл бұрын

it's up on Amazon now

Was the Amazon Japan character a preorder bonus, or just an Amazon bonus that you would still get if we ordered the game from there today?

@ShmupsOnSwitch

2 жыл бұрын

Not really sure, to be honest. I think you have to order their own special edition.

You should look at and review Arcade Archives GunNail. It's an awesome shooter!

@ShmupsOnSwitch

2 жыл бұрын

Check out my latest video...

Damn I want to play this game. Why it take sooo long the game to come in Europe?

Waiting for playasia economy. The wait hurts but not as much as strictly limited waiting

What was the name of the game it's one of the ships in the game where there's a timer it's the game you mentioned right after you said psyvariar

@johngavalas74

Жыл бұрын

Wait Starfighter Sanvein?

I hope this comes out on Steam.

Do you think they'll add a 2 player mode?

@ZaddyZavid

2 жыл бұрын

So weird they don't have 2 player..do they have?

@Maikeru722

2 жыл бұрын

@@ZaddyZavid only the arcade version has a two player mode.

I hope they port the Dreamcast Cotton to Switch.

@PiroKUSS

2 жыл бұрын

And PC.

@ThomasJeff1898

8 ай бұрын

I'm going to say this. Your wish might be granted.

Did you get the physical version from Japan?

@ShmupsOnSwitch

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! Arrived nice and quickly too.

@Snake-sg7yc

2 жыл бұрын

@@ShmupsOnSwitch Hello :)

Lol i'm on the leaderboard

I love Cotton, I really do.... but the graphics here... ouch ! It reminds me of a bad flash game on a smartphone....

Great review And first