Rainbow Cotton, a poorly remembered 3D offshoot of one of the definitive entries in the cutesy shooter canon, is somehow making a comeback in English 24 years after its original launch, and the devs have provided a helpful explainer on the differences between emulation, remakes, and remasters. The catch is that they might've gotten it wrong.
The Cotton series typically puts you aboard the broomstick of a young witch named Cotton, shooting down hordes of enemies in the style of a classic scrolling shoot-em-up like R-Type or Gradius. Its cutesy visuals put it squarely in the "cute-em-up" subgenre shared with games like Fantasy Zone and Parodius. Cotton's early entries are well-regarded, though rare localizations meant that the series was largely always considered an import curiosity.
