![]() Once he's beaten, you get to play a minigame that is very close to my (sterotypically) British heart: TEA TIME. Look, just don't mess with him - he's a giant pumpkin, he could crush you like a gnat. Somehow, he is suspended from a hovering tree branch. The boss is no such hideous freak, however, because he is a giant pumpkin. These flying eyeball monsters are everywhere, and darn sweet they are too, flappin' around, not caring that they're grotesque travesties of nature with poor depth perception. Well, let's counteract that horror with this little guy: The cuteness is somewhat tempered by the sudden arrival of the stage's mid-boss, a creepy, floating jester's head whose lips have the appearance of an internal organ torn from a large animal and stuck on an Easter egg.īrr. It never bothered the tank in Space Invaders. Sadly, she only has one weapon type for the whole game, but hey ho. Level up, and Cotton's shots become a little more powerful. Stage one is some kind of fairy forest, and it truly is an all-out assault designed to surgically penetrate the cuteness-receptors in the brain and turn them into so much congealed glitter and jellied rainbows.Ĭotton doesn't receive power-ups in the standard shoot-em-up manner or finding them drifitng through space: instead, she has an experience bar which you can fill up by grabbing the crystals dropped by defeated enemies. She may not be humanity's last great hope or anything, but goddamn she really wants those sweets, and selfish greed is as good a motivator as anything. So off Cotton flies on her little broomstick in search of the mystical and succulent Willows. Unless your guess is something involving the invention of the steam engine or the economic structure of Belgium in the 1870's in that case, your guess is nowhere near as good as mine. ![]() I think there's also a seperate element of the plot whereby Cotton has been framed for kidnapping some other fairy, but I can't read Japanese so your guess is a good as mine. That said, it's got some nice touches, so here's a quick run-through.Īll you really need to know about the story is that Cotton is a witch who has a fairy friend called Silk, and Cotton wants, desires, lives for only one thing: to eat a kind of (one assumes) delicious magical sweetie called Willows. Unlike many side-scrolling shooters, there isn't even a section where you fly upwards or something mind-blowingly innovative like that: strictly left-to-right, this one. It's Gradius with an anime witch instead of the Vic Viper, and instead of Options you get tiny forest sprites with death-dealing magic powers. There really isn't all that much to explain about Cotton 100%. So today, instead of spaceships and aliens it's cutesy witches and fairies all the way with Success's 1994 SNES testosterone-reducer, Marchen Adventure Cotton 100%. As incredibly rugged and manly as I am, sometimes even I need a change of pace from the standard "fly through space shooting space-aliens in space with your space-ship" plot of your normal side-scrolling shooter. ![]()
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