Rainbow Cotton Review (PlayStation 5)

by Jim Smale · May 24, 2024

Rainbow Cotton Review, Everyone’s favorite Willow-loving and broomstick-riding witch, Cotton, returns in 3D! We have teamed up with Success once again to bring you a global HD remake of Rainbow Cotton digitally available on PC Steam, Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4/5, and Xbox One in Spring 2024. Originally released for SEGA Dreamcast in 2000, Rainbow Cotton is the 5th installment in the Cotton franchise. As a follow-up to Panorama Cotton, Rainbow Cotton is the first true 3D shooter entry in this widely celebrated cute ‘em up franchise.

Rainbow Cotton Review Pros:

Fantastic graphics.
833.5MB download size.
Platinum trophy.
You get the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation 5 versions of the game.
Originally released in 2000 on the SEGA Dreamcast.
Four difficulties – Easy, normal, hard, and very hard.
Invert controls for one or both players.
Fairies talk and subtitles can be turned on and off.
Three game modes – the main Remastered game, Co-op mode, and retro mode.
Local co-op support.
On-rails shooter gameplay.
Retro mode is the game with a CRT filter on, curved screen and borders along with harder gameplay.
Fast loading times.
The loading screens show the original character and location images alongside the new remastered versions of them.
Leaderboard support.
Has brilliant animated cutscenes.
You can skip the cutscenes.
Boss-like encounters complete with a boss health bar.
After an end-of-level boss fight you can earn bonuses from shooting down lanterns.
Voices are Japanese with English subtitles.
You can shoot and break barrels and boxes for possible health and score bonuses.
End of level breakdown.
At times you get to choose a route.

Rainbow Cotton Review Cons:

No online Co-op support.
Cannot remap the controls.
You don’t get any explanation of the game modes.
No tutorial or manual substitution so you don’t know the controls or anything.
Doesn’t offer any historical content.
Your character takes up a lot of space and this makes shooting and aiming especially hard.
Very basic on-rail shooter gameplay.
No online leaderboards.

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