PS3

Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams

ShooterArcade

Plays offline: Yes

Overview

Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams is a 1991 horizontally scrolling shooter video game developed by Success and published by Sega for arcades. 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 elements using a main two-button configuration. It ran on the Sega System 16 hardware.

Cotton 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 was ported as part of the Arcade Archives series.