Cotton Rock 'n' Roll / Cotton Fantasy Review - Nintendo Switch

Review of Cotton Rock 'n' Roll (or Cotton Fantasy, as it'll be known when it arrives in the west), the final part of Success's 30th Anniversary releases celebrating the series.
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[@amr-OH]

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

[@then1533]

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!

[@danbrown9423]

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]

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.

[@hooksnfangs6006]

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]

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.

[@ultralance]

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

[@andrewbutler9533]

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]

PlayAsia has already confirmed this

[@andrewbutler9533]

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

[@JimEXP_]

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

[@dr.phil.pepper3325]

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.

[@wrena79]

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.

[@jasonblalock4429]

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.

[@segagirladventurespico]

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 ☆

[@Mingodough]

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

[@BalsticMaker12]

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

[@amr-OH]

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]

that makes sense - got the treasure magic

[@Covnam]

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

[@philmason9653]

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

[@justinharvey5391]

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

[@peace4myheart]

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

[@SPM_STG]

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]

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.

[@futureskeletons66669]

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

[@gamer-fe2xp]

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

[@ShmupsOnSwitch]

Check out my latest video...

[@DiddleDeets]

thorough intelligent overview. excellent work.

[@felipek.165]

I hope they port the Dreamcast Cotton to Switch.

[@PiroKUSS]

And PC.

[@ThomasJeff1898]

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

[@titi64230]

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

[@ShmupsOnSwitch]

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.

[@christapp7481]

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]

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.

[@sifujedi4895]

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

[@TetsuoIronMan]

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]

it's up on Amazon now

[@Maikeru722]

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

[@ZaddyZavid]

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

[@Maikeru722]

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

[@droogsurgeon1440]

I just preordered it

[@hibachimk240]

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

[@johngavalas74]

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]

Wait Starfighter Sanvein?

[@Konami2k]

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

[@Mingodough]

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

[@DieselJT]

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]

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

[@PiroKUSS]

I hope this comes out on Steam.

[@prodoomer3166]

Looks really good!!

[@StrikerXL_BE]

Did you get the physical version from Japan?

[@ShmupsOnSwitch]

Yes! Arrived nice and quickly too.

[@Snake-sg7yc]

@@ShmupsOnSwitch Hello :)

[@TheFrenchy82]

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

[@panochaberta1248]

Lol i'm on the leaderboard

[@jeanphimomo4333]

Great review And first