Cotton Fantasy
May 20, 2022
Something sinister is in the making, the Willows are vanishing from Fairyland and the Fairy Queen asks Silk to seek the witch Nata de Cotton for help. For a lifetime all-you-can-eat willow supply, as she has an insatiable craving for them, Cotton is willing to help out her old friend …
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"After over 20 years, Cotton Fantasy was worth the wait as it&s;s bursting with enjoyable shmup gameplay set in a bubbly and very silly world. Plus, the fact that it features such a diverse-playing cast of characters is sweeter than …"
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92.0
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88.0
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73.0
"Cotton Fantasy: Superlative Night Dreams is a super fun and adorable shoot &s;em up with tons of crazy action, a variety of unique characters and beautiful-looking 2D stages to challenge, and is sure to keep you busy attempting to get …"
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70.0
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65.0
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70.0
"I was hoping for more content in Cotton Fantasy but I am excited to see the franchise be given new life through ports, remakes, and whole new games."
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88.0
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78.0
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64.0
"Cotton Fantasy is frankly my favorite Cute &s;em Up I&s;ve played in years. The different character playstyles caught me off guard and I fell in love with the title so quickly. In the gameplay department, it does very little long …"
Read original review"It’s a fun time, and it’s great to see Cotton back after so long. Trying to shove so many different gameplay styles for all of these guest characters was definitely ambitious and I applaud the developers for trying, but next …"
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98.0
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97.0
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96.0
"Cotton Fantasy is a lesson on how to present a franchise to a new generation while bringing back all the best things it had presented in its various titles. Adding guest characters was also a great idea to create different …"
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90.0
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80.0
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65.0
"The sheer variety of levels, choosing your own route, the differing playstyles, and the online leaderboards easily make Cotton Fantasy one of the best modern shmups available on the Nintendo Switch, with the lack of a dedicated Caravan Mode being …"
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65.0
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70.0
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45.0
"Cotton Fantasy: Superlative Night Dreams is a bit pricey for the time it takes to get to the end. However, it&s;s a shoot-em-up. It&s;s not about getting through a story, it&s;s about shooting baddies and getting a high score. Fans …"
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75.0
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90.0
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30.0
"All in all, Cotton Fantasy keeps the series tradition of providing plenty of eye candy and a pushover level of challenge that should please newcomers to the genre even though veterans might find themselves somewhat bored by the straight ahead …"
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78.0
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73.0
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79.0
"Cotton Fantasy is the new installment of the veteran Success Corporation franchise that champions the cute &s;em up subgenre. 22 years after his last Dreamcast adventure -bypassing the remake Reboot! and various ports released last year - of the witch …"
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60.0
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"Cotton Fantasy remains a game that is fairly consistent in style and comfortable to its origins, perhaps even too much so. The experience is challenging and the introduction of new styles of gameplay bring a fresh look to the series, …"
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96.0
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"Cotton Fantasy is a shoot’em up that works as an ideal entrypoint to the genre and also offers enough fun for those who already are veterans. With a variety of character options that significantly change the gameplay and a clear …"
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70.0
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75.0
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"Cotton Fantasy feels like the definitive Cotton experience. Taking aspects from all the games that came before it and creating an experience that is just a joy to play through with Cotton or with the varied characters available. If you …"
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72.0
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68.0
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74.0
"The game&s;s best design choice is how its variety of playable characters significantly alters the gameplay mechanics. Cotton Fantasy&s;s Producer, Shinya Nagatomo, told Issue 231 of Retro Gamer magazine that "It&s;s an all-star game with not only characters from other …"
Read original review"Cotton Fantasy nicely follows up on the reboot while also sticking too close to the formula, feeling like an extension of what the reboot was visually and in terms of gameplay."
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50.0
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"Cotton Fantasy is a shoot-em-up title celebrating the thirty-year anniversary of the Cotton franchise. With multiple playable characters and sixteen stages, I was excited to see whether I ended up enjoying my first experience in the franchise. Find out if …"
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85.0
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"There’s no doubt that the Switch has been a system blessed with some very strong retro representation, and a specific genre that has seen a lot of great titles come out of the woodwork has been shooters..."
Read original review"Cotton Fantasy is a great new entry in this classic shoot ‘em up franchise that should please any fan of the genre. It’s colorful, fun, and offers up a range of different playstyles thanks to the varied playable characters. My …"
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65.0
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40.0
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"Just like other games in the franchise, Cotton Fantasy is not meant to be challenging. It’s yet another cathartic power fantasy of a shooter, where you’re given an excessive amount of weapons to wreak havoc against some of the cutest …"
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88.0
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82.0
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68.0
"Cotton Fantasy is a great choice for any shmup fan or anyone new to the genre: the carefully balanced difficulty modes and option for unlimited continues mean that anyone can enjoy it, but there&s;s also ample scope for would-be experts …"
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78.0
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82.0
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"Cotton Fantasy is a beautiful love-letter to the best parts of an iconic, decades-old shoot-em-up franchise. The characters are cuter than ever, the shooting is funner than ever, and the wide variety of play styles and bonus stages to master …"
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92.0
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"Cotton Fantasy is ridiculously cute, colourful and charming. Shoot &s;em fans looking for a more relaxed game oozing with personality will have a blast playing through the 16 levels filled with candy and bucket loads of kawaii. I especially liked …"
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"Cotton Fantasy is a typical shmup at its core and follows the good old "shoot first, ask questions later" rule. It does not reinvent anything, it uses the best models of everything that came before in the genre and adds …"
Read original review"If you’re after a shoot ’em up that’s bold, colourful and offers plenty of replayability, you can’t really go wrong with Cotton Fantasy. For those new to the genre it will simply be fun working your way through its stages, …"
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65.0
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"Cotton Fantasy is an excellent tribute to the series and a beautiful gift for its 30 years anniversary, keeping all the magic of its legacy. A classic that continues to please both lovers of the genre and those who just …"
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"While staying true to the series that it extends, Cotton Rock &s;n&s; Roll / Fantasy brings so many different experiences in a single shmup that it may as well be a compilation release - and unlike the arcade versions, it …"
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