Cotton Fantasy is a fantastic side-scrolling shooter for PS4. The game is out today (May 20th 2022) and you can read my review here. If you like shooters or Japanese anime0-style games then you’ll be in for a treat with Cotton Fantasy.
There are six iconic playable characters in Cotton Fantasy, (and at least one you can unlock) each with their own mechanics and attacks. In this guide, I will list each character’s shot type, charged shot type, special attack, magic and crystals.
For each character, you can rapidly press the Square button for a regular shot. You can also hold the Circle button to auto-fire. Holding the Square button will create a charged shot. Pressing Triangle will use your character’s special attack.
Cotton Fantasy – A guide to the playable characters
There are six characters in Cotton Fantasy and at least another unlockable character (which was fine I think.) so this list will have the details for seven characters. The characters are listed in alphabetical order.
Crystals: Crystals are coloured, well, Crystals that you can collect that can change you shot type or give you more experience points. Blue crystals are shown in the screenshot below.
Appli
Shot
Fire, Wind, Lightning and Normal(dependent on current magic.) Each type gets stronger as you level up.
Charge Shot
Magic Attack: User your current active magic for a strong attack. The type of magic will change depending on the element. Attacks can turn enemies and enemy shots into score (collectable) items.
Special
Catch: You can catch small enemies directly in front of you and use them as a shield. By pressing the special (triangle) button again you can throw caught enemies. Throwing enemies at other enemies can cause chain explosions.
Crystals:
Red: Increases stock of fire magic and changes shot type to fire.
Blue: Increases stock of lightning magic and changes shot type to lightning.
Green: Increase the stock of tornado (wind) magic and change shot type to wind.
Yellow: Increases experience points.
Cotton
Shot
Normal Shot: Fire, Wind, Lightning and Normal (dependant on current magic.) Each type gets stronger as you level up.
Charge Shot
Magic Attack: Use your currently active magic for a strong attack. The type of magic will change depending on the element.
Special
Bomb: Sacrifice one fairy and unleash a screen-clearing bomb.
Crystals
Red: Increases stock of fire magic and changes shot type to fire.
Blue: Increases stock of lighting magic and changes shot type to lighting.
Green: Increases stock of tornado magic and changes shot type to wind.
Yellow: Increases experience points.
White: Gain one fairy.
Fine
You unlock Fine by playing through the game once.
Shot
Normal Shot: Glu-On, Graviton, Photon Shot. As you level up, these attacks get stronger.
Charge Shot
Charge Attack: Perform a charge attack. Changes by a currently selected weapon. Magic attacks can turn enemies and enemy shots into score items. Magic attacks can turn enemies and enemy shots into score items.
Special
Change your currently selected weapon at will using the special (Triangle) button.
Crystals
White: Add 3 seconds to the time counter and gain experience points.
Purple: Add 50 seconds to the time counter.
Unique Traits
Tiem System: Unlike other characters, Fine depends on Remaining Time instead of number of lives. The game begins with 600 seconds on the clock and it will be game over when it reaches zero. The remaining Time will also drop by 100 seconds if you take damage, but you can regain time by collecting crystals.
Kawase
Shot
Normal Shot: Fire, Wind, Lightning and Normal (dependent on current magic). Each type gets stronger as you level up.
Charge Shot
Magic Attack: Use your currently active magic for a strong attack. The type of magic will change depending on the element. Magic attacks can turn enemies and enemy shots into score items.
Special
Lure: Throw your fishing lure. You can catch small enemies with the lure.
Bazooka: Press the special button again to launch caught enemies out like a bazooka. This magic attack can turn enemies and enemy shots into score items.
Crystals
Red: Increases stock of fire magic and changes shot type to fire.
Blue: Increases stock of lightning magic and changes shot type to lightning.
Green: Increases stock of Tornado magic and changes shot type to wind.
Yellow: Increases experience points.
Luffee
Shot
Normal Shot: A piercing laser style shot. Gets more powerful as you level up.
Charge Shot
Charge Laser: Fire a huge piercing laser straight forward. The longer you charge the attacks, the stronger the laser will be. (3 tiers)
Special
Bomb: Use one bomb for a screen-clearing attack.
Crystals
Yellow: Gain experience points.
Purple: Gain one bomb.
Ria
Shot
Normal Shot: A widespread shot that gets more powerful as you level up.
Charge Shot
Rolling Shot: A powerful attack that shoots straight forward and continues as long as you hold down the shot button and counts as a normal attack. Can also perform this attack by holding down the auto (circle) fire button. While performing the rolling shot, the range you can BUZZ gets larger.
Special
Bomb: Unleash a powerful, screen-clearing bomb attack. This magic type attack can turn enemies and enemy shots into score items.
Crystals
Purple: Gain one bomb
Unique Traits
Buzz: You can graze enemies and enemy bullets to BUZZ. When you BUZZ you will gain experience points and add to the score multiplier.
Level: Ria’s maximum level is 99.
Level Up: When you level up you will gain a barrier that surrounds you and grants invincibility and damages enemies.
Hitbox: Ria has a smaller hitbox than other characters
Tacoot
Shot
Normal Shot: Fire, Wind, Lightning and Normal (dependent on current magic). Each type gets stronger as you level up.
Charge Shot
Magic Attack: Use your currently active magic for a strong attack. The type of magic will change depending on the element. Magic attacks can turn enemies and enemy shots into score items.
Special
Cosmic Rod: Press the special (Triangle) button to launch your staff directly in front of you and damage enemies as it travels. This counts as a magic type attack. You can leave the rod in place and fire bullets from both yourself and the staff. Pressing the special button again will make the staff return to you.
Crystals
Red: Increases stock of fire magic and changes shot type to fire.
Blue: Increases stock of lightning magic and changes shot type to lightning.
Green: Increases stock of Tornado magic and changes shot type to wind.
Yellow: Increases experience points.
Cotton Fantasy is out now for PlayStation 4.
