Great news for shoot 'em up aficionado as Beep has officially confirmed it is working on a brand new Cotton franchise reboot – heading to multiple platforms including the Nintendo Switch. While there isn't much information about this new entry at the moment, the company has revealed it will be based on the X68000 Japanese computer home conversion of the first game in the series, Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams.
For those unfamiliar with the Success-developed series, it consists of horizontal shmups (with the exception of the technically impressive Sega Mega Drive outing, Panorama Cotton) and has the player controlling a titular witch named Cotton and her fairy companion Silk, while navigating colourful yet increasingly difficult levels that usually end with huge boss fights.
Are you a fan of the Cotton series? Are you looking forward to once again taking control of Cotton and mowing down wave after wave of cute enemies with your lethal magic? Cast your incantations in the comments section below.
[source beep-shop.com, via gematsu.com]
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Nintendo Life: Today is May 20!
....dude its 6PM on the 19th...
Wow! Super interesting--I wonder if we'll see any of the later games.
And if companies wanna port 68000 games to Switch, may I suggest Cho Ren Sha?
I see this was caming. And is good news it is conformed.
@PBandSmelly NintendoLife is located out of England. Not everyone on the Earth uses PST lol.
Your wrong @PBandSmelly it's 8pm May 19. I'm looking at the clock right now. But don't fill bad i still look for games/demos on Eshop as soon as Nintendolife says their available. And i know their 6 hours ahead of me and therefore not available here yet. At least twice a month i do this.
@PBandSmelly it's been 20th May for 11 hrs in South Australia pal!
@PBandSmelly Is 09:45 AM in Asia just now!!
I'll be waiting for the boobies
Aleste, Strikers 2020 and now Cotton, and I’m sure I’m missing one or two others. Good times. I’d love to see a new Twin Bee but Konami would never do it
Why are they not porting the arcade version?
Well, hopefully I can cross off the PC Engine Super CD-ROM verison off my backburner wish list. And hopefully this could lead to ports of Cotton 100%, Panorama Cotton, Cotton Boomerang, and Rainbow Cotton (even though it's horrible).
In the words of Jason Bateman: "Word Cotton."
@PBandSmelly Currently 03:42 on the 20th up in Glasgow! Stayed up for Game of Thrones... wish I hadn’t have bothered.
Looks classy in a good way.
Cotton?.. might have to pick this one.
@NinChocolate What Aleste? I didn't hear that Aleste is coming to Switch! That's great news
This is awesome! I hope Parodius Da! or some other Parodius is next!
@NinChocolate I looked it up and found the nintendolife article about M2 developing a new Aleste game that will likely come to Switch this year. That's some great news I missed last year!
This is amazing news!! Cotton 2 and cotton boomerang were Incredible. Very pricey to get now especially boomerang
@alpha5099 Cho ren Sha is fantastic, i run it in an acade cabinet.
@60frames-please Yeah i'm not sure if this is happening, not a single thing has been heard since that initial announcement. I sincerely hope it does, but it's very quiet.
Great news! I've been wanting to play Cotton on the Neo Geo Pocket Color for years, but it's nowhere near affordable. Interested in a new game, but how about porting the old ngpc one to hold us over?
The Sharp X68000 a Machine I would love to own. Incredible piece of kit:)
This is good news, but I’d have preferred a collection with all of the games in the series so far. Cotton 2 and Cotton Boomerang on the Saturn were awesome.
The Cotton series is a real mixed bag. The original arcade game (ported to the X6800, PC Engine, and Neo Geo Pocket) is decent but unremarkable.
There's a Super Famicom sequel called Cotton 100% which is again pretty standard stuff. Then came the ultra rare MegaDrive Panorama Cotton, which is technically impressive and a solid game.
The series then went 32-bit with Cotton 2 and Cotton Boomerang (the latter is a variant of the former). This is in my opinion the best Cotton game by far. The series ended with the pretty weak Dreamcast effort Rainbow Cotton.
If the series is remarkable for one thing, it's that they're all rare and very expensive to buy. As games though, they're mostly not worth playing. Only the Saturn version is a genuinely great game.
@TossedLlama How astute
Love me some Cotton on the Saturn, so will definitely be picking this up if it's good.
Why bother with this game when Buck Bumble already exists on the N64?
NO WAY. I have such a huge collection of these games. I never would've thought they'd make it to Switch. I have a lot of faith in Cotton 2 and Boomerang showing up if this one is going to be on the eShop. I love these games and having a more convenient way to play them at home beyond their console of origin will be amazing. I will pre-order every single one of these.
Awesome news, being a Switch-owning shmup fan keeps getting better!
A reboot, eh?
Looking forward to which form that might take. The franchise certainly looks cute and challenging.
@Paperboy
looks at prices for the various versions
Holy sh....
I owned the clam shell NGPC version along with the TGCD one as well.
Anyway, fantastic game and I will be getting this version!
@masterLEON People really shouldn't be so harsh on Rainbow Cotton. Yes, the one big flaw of how the whole character always recenters in the middle of the screen (as opposed to Star Fox better system where the aiming reticule centers in front of the ship) damages the game a lot. But otherwise it's really good, with great stage and enemy design, outstanding graphics (which also aged well) and good music.
Lol, i'm literally defending a game with bad controls...
@NinChocolate A new Radirgy game named Radirgy Swag is on the way too.
I have this one for NeoGeo Pocket. It's OK.
@EmirParkreiner Yeah, the auto-centering hurt me the most. That and the game leaves me with claw hands afterwards because of no (semi)autofire
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