Even if you’re in the middle of a scorching summer, there are games that remind you of other seasons, and with a story that follows Cotton as a broomstick riding witch, PS4 Ripartenza in cotone! conjures up images of moonlit autumn nights. It’s Cotton’s sweet tooth, and love of candy wrapped WILLOW, which persuades her over seven stages to awaken the morning light from demons who’ve created eternal darkness — with a setting in this horizontal shmup that’ll be magic during Halloween.
This retro remake’s entrancing Arrange Mode’s 2D visual style is like a cross between the anime charm of Servizio di consegna di Kiki con il design del mostro dentro Hotel Transylvania, so its kooky spookiness does for cute-’em-ups what Kid Dracula fatto per i platform carini.
An elaborate scoring system means this single player horizontal shmup has risk-and-reward gameplay as you either collect crystals to gain EXP and magic levels, or shoot through them for more powerful diffused shots — although picking up a black crystal is worth a whopping 10,000 points. There’s subtlety in defending with the fairy Silk’s support satellites, which feels like carefully positioning to block attacks with the Multiple power-ups in Gradius.
Yet, even without save states, progression in Cotton Reboot! is accessible to shmup newcomers due to approachable difficulty options, and once you’ve beaten the 35-minute main game, there’s replay value in unlocking new characters, and practicing techniques in two or five minute Time Attack modes to strive for online rankings.
Piacevolmente, lo sviluppatore Rocket Engine ha incluso anche il porting per computer giapponese X1993 del 68000 dell'originale del 1991 Cotone coin-op per gli appassionati di retrò e pixel art che vogliono tornare al classico gioco di Success. L'affascinante colonna sonora arrangiata è anche una vera raccolta di talentuosi compositori giapponesi di fama mondiale di Fantastic Night Dreams, e puoi sbloccare l'ascolto dei brani alterati e una demo della storia nell'opzione del menu Visuale e sonoro. Anche se Zona Fantasy è stato rilasciato prima di Cotton, e se Parodio is arguably better known in the cute-’em-up subgenre, Cotton Reboot! is a Success-ful retro remake to bewitch you into being sweet on the Serie in cotone.
