Cotton - Fantastic Night Dreams (JP) (Shoot Em Up) (CHD,ISO) (PC Engine CD)

1993 · shooter · The Data Archivist V0.01

MANUAL (US) : https://archive.org/details/tgxcd-1038-manual-RAW VIDEO LONGPLAY : https://archive.org/details/PC_Engine_Longplay_222_Fantastic_Night_Dreams_-_Cotton O.S.T : https://archive.org/details/cotton-fantastic-night-dreams Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_(video_game) Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams [ a ] is a scrolling shooter video game developed by Success and originally released in Japanese arcades in 1991. The first installment in the Cotton series, players assume the role of the young witch Cotton who, alongside her fairy companion Silk, sets out on her broomstick on a quest to defeat several monsters and get her Willow candy. Its gameplay mainly consists of shooting mixed with role-playing game elements using a main two-button configuration. It ran on the Sega System 16 hardware. First launched in arcades, it was later ported to multiple platforms, each one featuring several changes or additions compared with the original version. Cotton proved to be popular among players in Japanese arcades, earning several awards from Gamest magazine, however the console ports have been met with mixed reception from critics. It is regarded as a key title in the " cute 'em up " sub-genre. On November 28, 2024, the arcade version of the game got ported as part of the Arcade Archives series. [ 1 ] Gameplay Arcade version Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams is a scrolling shooter game reminiscent of Parodius where players assume the role of a young witch named Cotton who, alongside her fairy companion Silk, travels various increasingly difficult levels through a fantasy dream-like world on a quest to defeat several monsters and get her Willow candy. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Players must blast various monsters and avoid being shot while collecting crystal power-ups to enhance Cotton's firepower and unleash powerful magic spells on enemies, in addition of bombs capable of obliterating enemies. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The game incorporates some role playing game elements, as players are able to level up their attack up to 13 levels. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The player has lives represented by an arrow and three lives, though only one hit is allowed per life and the game is over once all lives are lost, unless more credits are inserted into the arcade machine to continue playing. Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams Developer(s) Success Publisher(s) Sega Sega (Arcade) Hudson Soft (TG-16) Turbo Technologies Inc. (TG-16) Electronic Arts Victor (X68000) Success (NGPC) SNK (NGPC) ININ Games (PS4, NS, WIN) Producer(s) Takato Yoshinari Programmer(s) Masaru Hatsuyama Toshiyuki Kuwabara Artist(s) Hideki Tamura Shinobu Itō T. Kashima Composer(s) Kenichi Hirata Series Cotton Platform(s) Arcade , TurboGrafx-CD , X68000 , PlayStation , Neo Geo Pocket Color , Mobile , Nintendo Switch , PlayStation 4 , Microsoft Windows Release April 1991 Arcade JP : April 1991 TurboGrafx-CD JP : 12 February 1993 NA : April 1993 X68000 JP : 24 September 1993 PlayStation JP : 28 April 1999 Neo Geo Pocket Color JP : 23 March 2000 EU : 2000 Mobile JP : 2007 Switch, PlayStation 4 JP : 25 February 2021 WW : 20 July 2021 Windows WW : 11 November 2021 Genre(s) Scrolling shooter Mode(s) Single-player Arcade system Sega System 16