Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams

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Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams

Title screen

Developer:	Success
Music:	Person A
Program:	Person B
Art:	Person C
Release date:	March 1991
Next game:	Next game in a series

Cotton: Fantastic Night Dreams (also referred to as Fantastic Night Dreams: Cotton), the first game in the Cotton series and the first game developed by Success, was released for the arcade in March 1991.

Gameplay Overview

Coming soon...

Controls

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Cotton has two button controls with multiple actions per button.

• A (Press): Fire Shot
• B (Press): Drop Bomb

• A (Hold, Release): Use Magic
• B (Hold, Release): Launch Fairy

• A+B (Hold, Release): Combination Magic

Ships

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You play the witch called Cotton, 'who doesn't care such a thing and just loves "Willows"!'.

Hitbox

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TBC^?

Weapons

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Cotton utilises a forward facing shot and downward angled bombs. She starts the game with one fairy and four magic (two fire, two lightning).

Main Shot Level and EXP

The main shot increases in power by filling the EXP bar. The EXP bar is increased by shooting enemies and collecting yellow and orange crystals. Bigger enemies grant more EXP. The small yellow crystals give a similar amount of EXP to killing a medium-size enemy, which is equivalent to killing multiple small enemies.

The higher your shot level, the larger the EXP bar gets, and the more EXP you must collect to reach the next level. You will have to survive several stages without dying to reach the maximum shot level.

The diamonds next to the EXP bar indicate your current shot level. You start with one small diamond, which will grow to a medium size when you level up, then large size, then a new small diamond is added. The final power level, after three large diamonds, is indicated by one extra-large diamond. This makes ten total levels.

Bombs and Bomb Power-Ups

Bombs are dropped down and foward to hit enemies below (or very close to) Cotton.

Bomb Power-Up icons add new properties to your bomb.

1 Power-Up: 2 Power-Ups: 3 Power-Ups: ...

Fairies

The sleeping urn-face monsters will leave the screen whens hot and return with a frozen fariy for you to shoot at and release.

Fairies will follow Cotton in a trailing line (similar to Gradius options) and fire fowards at enemies. Fairies can be thrown at enemies by holding and releaseing B. The fairy will latch onto any non-boss enemy and deal damage until it is dead.

You can have a maximum of four fairies. The number of fairies you have also affects some of your spells.

Magic

There are two types of magic: fire (red) and lightning (blue), gained by collecting the corresponding colour of crystal.

Four magic items can be held in stock, after which if another is collected one in the stock is removed (starting with the earliest collected).^? 1,000 points are awarded when this happens.

By expending her magic, Cotton can cast four spells.

Spells

Spell	Image	Description
Flame Dragon	Example	Example
Lightning	Example	Example
Flaming Faires	Example	Example
Shield	Example	Example

Effect of Death on Weapons

• Bullet level is halved
• Bomb power is returned to weakest level
• A fairy is expended in a screen clearing explosion (unless you have only 1 fairy)

Items

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Crystals

A crystal may be dropped (seemingly at random^?) when an enemy is destroyed.

When a crystal is shot, it may change colour. They can also be destroyed if they take a lot of damage.

Colour	Small	Large	Effect (Small/Large)
Yellow			Small EXP
Orange			Large EXP
Red			Fire Spell / Fire Spell x2
Blue			Lightning Spell / Lightning Spell x2

Other Items

Item	Image	Effect
Bomb Power-Ups		Add new properties to your bomb.
Teacups		Award points.
Acorn		Dropped when a fairy is freed. Awards 3000 points.

Rank

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TB^?

Loops

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After completing stage 7, the player proceeds to a second loop. Should they complete this, they are awarded with a different ending.^?

Extra Lives

Scoring extends are awarded at 100,000 points and...^?

Scoring

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The Cotton end-of-level scoring screen

Action	Image	Points	Description
Damaging Enemies	Example	10 points/damage?	Example
Destroying Enemies	Example		Enemy point values start at 100. The first boss and midboss are worth 3000.
Crystals	Example	Example	Example
Magic	Example	Example	Example
Collecting Light Teacups		100 points/cup (at end of level)	These fall at the end of a level.
Collecting Dark Teacup		500 points/cup (immediate)	These fall with at the end of a level.
Special Bonus	Example	20,000 points	If you avoid the whole end-of-level curtain-fire of teacups instead of collecting any, you will be awarded this bonus.
Example	Example	Example	Example
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Strategy

See (Template Page)/Strategy for stage maps, enemy and boss descriptions, walkthroughs, and advanced play strategies.

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Story

Coming soon...

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Development History

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Version Differences

Cotton has had multiple ports, some notable for various reasons.

• The PC Engine port, released on February 12, 1993, has been praised for its remixed, CD-quality soundtrack.
• The Sharp X68000 port, released on September 24, 1993 , featured redrawn, high-resolution graphics and fine-tuned gameplay, and is sometimes considered the definitive version.

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Trivia

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Gallery

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