Cotton Reboot

Platforms

• PC

  Dec 31, 2024

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  NA

  playscore

  NA

  0 Critics

  7.8

  82 Players
• PlayStation 4

  Jul 20, 2021

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  7.8

  playscore

  7.3

  10 Critics

  9.1

  392 Players
• Nintendo Switch

  Jul 20, 2021

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  8.3

  playscore

  7.8

  12 Critics

  9.5

  490 Players

20 critic reviews · 0 community reviews across all platforms

Critic Reviews

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  Pure Nintendo

  8.0

  Still, Cotton Reboot! is a lovingly updated version of a fun original, and shoot ’em up fans should be thrilled that it’s now available worldwide. It’ll be a bit too easy and short for the hardcore fans, but the historical perspective still makes it worth the time.

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  NoobFeed

  5.5

  Cotton Reboot! spoils itself with several stupid decisions: the playability of the original is superior, but you miss out on the new mechanics of the reboot; huge score bonuses are always fun, but meaningless without a proper scoreboard; the new lick of paint looks brilliant, but also makes the gameplay a bit of a mess.

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  Push Square

  8.0

  The spellbinding arranged soundtrack is also a truly Fantastic Night Dreams collection of talented all-star Japanese composers, and you can unlock listening to the altered tunes and a demo of the story in the Visual & Sound menu option. Even if Fantasy Zone was released earlier than Cotton, and if Parodius is arguably better known in the cute-'em-up subgenre, Cotton Reboot! is a Success-ful retro remake to bewitch you into being sweet on the Cotton series.

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  GameSpew

  7.0

  Cotton has a sweet tooth, you see, and the fairy promises her that she’ll find numerous pieces of a candy called Willow that she absolutely adores if she accompanies her. It’s fairly amusing, but chances are you’ll find yourself skipping the story scenes after your first playthrough.

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  COGconnected

  7.7

  Cotton Reboot is one of my favorite horizontal shoot ‘em ups of all time, alongside Keio Flying Squadron, Harmful Park, Cho Aniki, and Zombie Nation. What those all have in common is that they’re weird and unique in their presentation. They all have solid gameplay but don’t re-invent the wheel with anything other than style.

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  Destructoid

  7.0

  Cotton Reboot! is a very pretty and highly enjoyable remake of one of the shmup genre’s most pioneering cute ’em ups — as endearing today as it has ever been while featuring surprisingly deep mechanics for score attack fanatics. It’s a shame a threadbare package, a subjectively high price, and distracting visual issues frequently threaten to spoil the party. For dedicated shmup heads, however, Cotton Reboot is an enjoyable blast from the past that comfortably paves the way for the sweet series’ incoming revival.

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  3rd-strike.com

  7.8

  Whether or not you should pick up Cotton Reboot! really depends on how much you’re a fan of the genre. The game is among the best arcade shooters of its time, and even three decades later, it still holds up. That said, this is a title aimed at a niche audience that already knows what to expect.

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  NintendoLife

  8.0

  Bewitching in both incarnations, Cotton’s Reboot! is a fanfare of zany ghouls and ghosts, inventive and inimitable bosses, and a superbly catchy soundtrack in both original and remixed forms. Never being released in the west and prohibitively expensive today, it’s something of a blessing for retro gamers to be able to dip their toes in Cotton’s enduringly impressive X68000 outing.

  Reviewed on Switch

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  Screen Rant

  6.0

  The nature of a game like Cotton Reboot! is one where its audience will know immediately if they want to pick it up, because as far as being a classic shooter game, it’s exactly what is to be expected. For those less knowledgeable, however, this game is for players who want to spend quite some time on what amounts to a very short game so that they can learn its ins and outs.

  Reviewed on PS4

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  Hardcore Gamer

  8.0

  There are a couple of issues with blind spots that haven’t been fully addressed, but the overall forgiving game design makes Cotton Reboot! a fantastic pickup for those who either already love side-scrolling shooters or for those who want to get into them, but just need something that’s more forgiving to fully enjoy the genre.

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