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Rob reviews Cotton Reboot! on Nintendo Switch... I've always been a fan of the old school shmup. It's a mixed genre of themes that vary from space combat to the more bizarre, and  let's not talk about the often punishing difficulty. There's just something about these games that draws me to them. In my younger years I would always gravitate towards After Burner II and would end up spending most, if not all of my pocket money on attempting to save the world. Back in 1991 Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams was released and ushered in a shmup sub-genre - "cute 'em up". This sub-genre mixes the formula by replacing the monstrous-looking aliens with cute chibi-style characters. Whilst on the surface these games look cute and light, they're also often a gateway into some bizarre storytelling.  Now, 30-years later ININ Games and BEEP have created the  Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams remaster - Cotton Reboot! Much like the original title t...

ININ Games  is gearing up for the release of  BEEP’s  side-scrolling shoot ‘em up  Cotton Reboot!  releasing both digitally and physically on Sony PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch on 20th July, 2021. Cotton is already a much revered and iconic brand appearing on many consoles and computers from  PC Engine, Neo Geo Pocket Color, right through to Playstation. Cotton Reboot! presents PlayStation and Switch gamers a fun, colourful, cute ‘em up that offers brand new features, 7 stages that really highlight what a side scrolling shoot ‘em up should deliver and it does it in abundance, together with a dazzling display of onscreen cast and challenges. The  player takes the role of the young witch Cotton, who ventures out on her magical broom on a quest to get her favourite candy. What unfolds involves her getting entangled with several world threatening terrors which she must destroy. A really cool feature is the more enemies the play...