Thanks for posting this. Been playing the shit out of Appli in cOTTON Rock'n'Roll. For awhile, I thought Cotton 2 looked pretty mediocre till I came across your replay, This game looks nuts and I'll have to try it once I'm done.
Yeah, definitely give it a try! I can see how one would have a lukewarm reaction to Cotton 2, just judging it off the average replay . Most people make the mistake of playing it like a traditional shooter; leaning on the autofire button, ignoring the existence of command shots, never bothering to seal or chain enemies, which just completely misses the point. When you familiarize yourself with the physics engine, how the different shot types behave, which element to use to maximize chains in a given stage, _that's_ when the true appeal of the game reveals itself. The follow-up (Cotton Boomerang) is also worth a look. It's basically just a remix; a Cotton 2 Hyper Fighting Edition if you will.
I started playing this on Mister with the Saturn emulator but for some reason i can't get the combos to work reliably. Particularly the > > A one to drop a bomb. I can more or less get the < > A and > < A ones. the down-diag-forward-A one is a no go for me. I wonder if it's an emulator issue or something.
Now that the steam port is out and is in a decently playable state, I will be coming back to this video more and more to learn from it. The only bummer is that I find ice bubbles way easier to control and manage, the wind bubbles always seem to fly away from me or slip from my grasp. I'm only managing 2.5+ million by stage 4 so I have so much to learn.
Also, one thing I am confused about, at 1:25 or so you manage to transfer over your spell chain from the midboss to a normal enemy. I thought you couldn't do that with midbosses? It never seems to work with the pumpkin or lobster, for example. Or is it only smaller ones?
@@emperorIng360 The big midboss seals have to touch _five_ enemies before they get reincorporated into the chain. You have to exercise caution when hitting the 5th enemy as well; if the newly reincorporated midboss seal touches an adjacent seal, the midboss seal will instantly be destroyed (you can observe this phenomenon around the 13:30 mark)
I thought Appli was a Marisa Kirisame ripoff and I thought Cotton was PC-98 Marisa lol. Because in Marisa’s first appearance she has red hair but had blonde hair after that and ever since.
Yo, I'm currently grinding a 1cc in this game. Completely confused about HP & damage values. Is this on defaults? Because in my game (arcade mode, saturn port) i'm taking a crapload more damage than what I'm seeing here. Like, 4 hits to die on a fresh credit, and sometimes even less. Like the squid's laser attack does like 70-80% damage on hit for example. Strongly considering just upping the health to larger instead of normal or something.
Yes, i'm playing on normal difficulty. Pay attention to stage 6, 5 hits took me down to a sliver of life. That's par for the course on defaults, depending on what's hitting you.
![Cotton Boomerang - 33,021,500 pts. [World Record]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/nAnidA9USH0/mqdefault.jpg)
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Thanks for posting this. Been playing the shit out of Appli in cOTTON Rock'n'Roll. For awhile, I thought Cotton 2 looked pretty mediocre till I came across your replay, This game looks nuts and I'll have to try it once I'm done.
Yeah, definitely give it a try! I can see how one would have a lukewarm reaction to Cotton 2, just judging it off the average replay . Most people make the mistake of playing it like a traditional shooter; leaning on the autofire button, ignoring the existence of command shots, never bothering to seal or chain enemies, which just completely misses the point. When you familiarize yourself with the physics engine, how the different shot types behave, which element to use to maximize chains in a given stage, _that's_ when the true appeal of the game reveals itself.
The follow-up (Cotton Boomerang) is also worth a look. It's basically just a remix; a Cotton 2 Hyper Fighting Edition if you will.
I started playing this on Mister with the Saturn emulator but for some reason i can't get the combos to work reliably. Particularly the > > A one to drop a bomb. I can more or less get the < > A and > < A ones. the down-diag-forward-A one is a no go for me. I wonder if it's an emulator issue or something.
Now that the steam port is out and is in a decently playable state, I will be coming back to this video more and more to learn from it. The only bummer is that I find ice bubbles way easier to control and manage, the wind bubbles always seem to fly away from me or slip from my grasp. I'm only managing 2.5+ million by stage 4 so I have so much to learn.
Also, one thing I am confused about, at 1:25 or so you manage to transfer over your spell chain from the midboss to a normal enemy. I thought you couldn't do that with midbosses? It never seems to work with the pumpkin or lobster, for example. Or is it only smaller ones?
@@emperorIng360 The big midboss seals have to touch _five_ enemies before they get reincorporated into the chain. You have to exercise caution when hitting the 5th enemy as well; if the newly reincorporated midboss seal touches an adjacent seal, the midboss seal will instantly be destroyed (you can observe this phenomenon around the 13:30 mark)
I thought Appli was a Marisa Kirisame ripoff and I thought Cotton was PC-98 Marisa lol.
Because in Marisa’s first appearance she has red hair but had blonde hair after that and ever since.
Yo, I'm currently grinding a 1cc in this game. Completely confused about HP & damage values. Is this on defaults? Because in my game (arcade mode, saturn port) i'm taking a crapload more damage than what I'm seeing here. Like, 4 hits to die on a fresh credit, and sometimes even less. Like the squid's laser attack does like 70-80% damage on hit for example.
Strongly considering just upping the health to larger instead of normal or something.
Yes, i'm playing on normal difficulty. Pay attention to stage 6, 5 hits took me down to a sliver of life. That's par for the course on defaults, depending on what's hitting you.
SATURNでめっちゃやったなあ
こんな点数とれないけど2回やれば１回はクリア出来るくらいやり込んだ
大体ステージ4のボスであれよあれよと被弾するんだ