Cotton 2: Magical Night Dreams

released on Feb 01, 1997
by Tecmo

Released first as an arcade game on Sega's ST-V hardware in 1997. Only months later, it received a virtually arcade-perfect console port on the Sega Saturn. Considered the true sequel to the first game in the series, Cotton 2 also marks the introduction of two new primary characters: Appli, a young princess, and her anthropomorphic hat, Needle. Cotton 2 sees a return to traditional horizontal scrolling in the series, but it also stands out among shoot 'em ups in general for its unique gameplay system. With a heavy incorporation of Newtonian physics, Cotton 2 ultimately mixes elements of 2D platformers with traditional shoot 'em up gameplay. The first release of Cotton 2 on the Sega Saturn also included a mini-calendar for 1998.


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I hate shoot em ups. They are very difficult, they require patience, lots of practice and they make me feel useless. Luckily Cotton 2 is pretty forgiving and it turned out to be the first shoot em up I could beat. The game is fantastic, very beautiful, fun and beatable, especially beatable. It wasn't extremely easy for me, but it is beatable. Thanks.

i love to grab my friends and throw them repeatedly against the wall

The direction this series needed

This one is another one I like aside from Panorama,
Although I feel like if I play Boomerang and maybe play it again but in Multiplayer I'll like it more
but It's still a really good game in the series.
-It's very colorful
-The Soundtrack is good
-And plus this one has Appli which she crashed my game at this frame during the first time I played it lol
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/706952964182507551/1156059270631145512/Cotton_2_English_v0.9-230925-221759.png?ex=65144058&is=6512eed8&hm=a1223ff020a23f06f2ffbf2e351307feaba48c9b23d0e9278138c027567ea5f6&

Didn't know you could throw the crystals at enemy's to create chains until I looked at other people's gameplay (When it said mental age: 5 it wasn't talking about cotton it was talking about me) so It's defo something i need to replay before writing a real review so, for now, i just want to say that i love this series 90s ova feel. ultra cute anime girls paired with relatively more generic enemy designs and locales, i love it!

Best Cotton game (so far). Castlevania Symphony of the Night vibes, a level that is a cute homage to the first Cotton game and can't forget the best mechanic which is just a grab button that lets you grab enemies and most projectiles and just chuck them at other enemies.