Rainbow Cotton

Rainbow Cotton

released on May 09, 2024

Rainbow Cotton

released on May 09, 2024

A remake of Rainbow Cotton

Dive right into this 3D rail shooter as the young witch Cotton, accompanied by her trusty fairy friend, Silk. Lured by the promise of delicious Willow, help Cotton confront the wicked demon, Tweed, and his legions of followers who have stolen the Legendary Willow from the enchanting land of York Country. Hop on your broomstick and go to town in this wacky adventure! Rainbow Cotton features exciting gameplay reminiscent of its predecessor, the classic game Panorama Cotton. The game takes you on an arcade-inspired journey through a fantastic world full of surprises and challenges. Every stage in Rainbow Cotton is guarded by peculiar bosses that puts your skills to the test. Collect power-ups, build up your flashy projectiles, and hurl them at colorful enemies. Use powerful magic attacks to clear the screen with fireballs and lightning. Only the most courageous (or stubborn, Willow-obsessed!) witches will prevail! The charming 3D graphics will leave you mesmerized as you travel through, for example, a cozy moonlit town draped in Christmas lights, a mysterious sunken forest, and a magical castle above the clouds!


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love cotton and love rail shooters. the game is a dream to look at and the upscale serves its models well. the lock-on fix is very welcome and even as someone who doesn't mind space harrier style snap-back flight controls the control changes are nice. at its best the game just really isn't very good or interesting, though. mechanics and enemy design just don't come together, so you're either cruising through the stage without resistance or getting pinballed around by homing shots you don't see coming. also wow they really should've recorded more fairy dialogue

An ok remaster besides the bad ai upscaling for the cut scenes and the color saturation. The game plays better than the original. The rest of the game's problems are ones the original already had. I wish they went a tiny bit further with this remaster like allowing saving or a level select because this game is still as hard and unforgiving as the original. They also should have also given you the option to play the unaltered Dreamcast version which sadly in it's place is a "Retro Mode" which just crops the screen to 4:3 and is just the remaster with a crappy crt filter over it and the quality of life upgrades removed. I like this game and it's nice it gets to see the light of day outside of Japan but it was definitely a quick low budget remaster that deserved to have a little more time put into it.