Cotton REBOOT 2(!) and COTTON ROCK N' ROLL 2 ANNOUNCED!

[Bassa-Bassa]

Rocket Engine is not an "engine", though. It's just Studio Siesta's brand for the official markets.

[Jonpachi]

Hehe, I stand corrected. Well, whatever they refer to the engine as it runs great on any platform. Reboot on PS4 was nigh-perfect as well.

[Kino]

stages 1 and 2
https://x.com/studiosiesta/status/1963892970077421900

stages 3 and 4
https://x.com/studiosiesta/status/1965309770514178443

On top of these, there's also a 1up in the respawning walls of Stage 5, one in the bottom left on Stage 6 that activates once the horizontal scroll kicks in, and yet another during the train section of Stage 6 that must be 1x1 pixels wide, as I'm never successful in snagging it. Definitely worth memorizing every last one, as the newest update patched out the bug that gave you 6 extends at 8,000,000,000.

Not sure if they're revealing unlock conditions for the recently added characters or what.

Still trying to figure this out myself. If it was as simple as 2-ALLing with every character or grabbing every hidden icon, surely someone else would've discovered it by now lol

[CStarFlare]

I wonder if the the two hidden characters are playable characters or if that part of the patch notes is about things you find in the stages. The tweets about hidden stage items use the same characters as the part of the patch ones that talks about hidden characters:

* プレイヤーキャラクターとして「マリオン」が、さらに2種類の隠しキャラクターが追加されました。

The bold characters are also what the tweet about things hidden through the stage mentions, so perhaps we’ve misunderstood. It would be weird to talk about hidden stage collectible characters in the same bullet point as new playable characters but this game feels like a bit of a hot mess so who knows.

[Jonpachi]

The round girl with glasses and the alternate version of Cotton just randomly showed up after playing Arcade for a while. I have to wonder if it's just a timed unlock, or perhaps time spent in a specific mode. I've only played Arcade mode myself.

[StarLightMoonLight]

Rock with You's website is finally up!
https://cotton.success-corp.co.jp/rock-with-you/
It seems like the game won't be coming out for last gen systems.
The Series X also isn't getting the game, honestly, I can't think of anything more depressing than being a modern Xbot

[Jucksalbe]

Oh, is this the first Switch 2 STG then? I wonder how long it will take other developers to abandon the original Switch.

[Jonpachi]

Only raw next-gen POWER can render this blandness.

[mojilove]

The cotton rock with you website now has a release date of Aug 6!
https://cotton.success-corp.co.jp/rock-with-you/
the recent location test footage indicated that it is fairly similar to rock n roll, which is fine by me. the new character Izuna looks very interesting as well. really looking forward to this

[xEbb1993x]

Is the new Cotton game a crossover of Success's franchises or what? Especially since we got Umihara Kawase, Psyvariar, and now Izuna in the mix...

[Steven]

Hopefully this makes up for the giant meh that was Cotton Low Tension.

[Udderdude]

Cam footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po76rBAUh74

I guess since this is running on the Switch 2, we can't expect the true next gen Cotton experience where the game runs at 30 FPS with constant shader stutters on UE5 with raytracing enabled.

[Jonpachi]

Cam footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po76rBAUh74

I guess since this is running on the Switch 2, we can't expect the true next gen Cotton experience where the game runs at 30 FPS with constant shader stutters on UE5 with raytracing enabled.

That does look ROUGH. The player was on a Playstation stick though, so this is probably the PS5 build. Hopefully they can optimize with the time left, but I can't imagine why they'd show it in that state.

[Udderdude]

Cam footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po76rBAUh74

I guess since this is running on the Switch 2, we can't expect the true next gen Cotton experience where the game runs at 30 FPS with constant shader stutters on UE5 with raytracing enabled.

That does look ROUGH. The player was on a Playstation stick though, so this is probably the PS5 build. Hopefully they can optimize with the time left, but I can't imagine why they'd show it in that state.

Oops, it turns out that video was from TGS 2025. There's a release date trailer, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZk8iw7s44c

[mojilove]

RnR fans may remember how early screenshots looked

Anyway, here's one of the newest streams from the location test at hey: https://www.youtube.com/live/HxhFnXIVgnk
There were people who got to the end of the game (you'll have to either scrub through this half day stream or some of the other half-day streams on hey's channel)
In an event a while ago, the devs said they were gonna work on branching stages, so I guess they're working on the new stages at the moment

[M.Knight]

I suppose some of the textures aren't fully colored (like on the background building on boss 2) and maybe some areas could be busier, but I didn't think there was anything truly wrong with that TGS 2025 footage? Yeah the first screenshots on Cotton RnR were very much unfinished but this seems perfectly fine to me. Colorful trees in both stages, cute houses, cabins and shrines, nice-looking water, some pretty clouds for the atmosphere, boss 1 has a really charming scenic background, the mechanical castle on boss 2 has a cool design.

One interesting thing in that older footage too is that it features the branching paths that the current version doesn't have yet. Stage 2 appeared to take place in the same current stage 2's location, albeit in a different path through the stage and a different boss à la G-Darius. Perhaps we can expect the branching stages to all be alternate, possibly harder and more lucrative, takes on the same stages, which may not feel as wildly varied as RnR, but also ensures you don't have to skip entire environments and locales because the stage isn't worth enough points. Interesting.

[JBC]

Any rumblings of a High Tension or Rock With You US eShop release?

I already got High Tension from the JP store but am just curious if western support for the series has ended. Sad, Cotton is always great. For a while I suspected they wanted to hold release off because of Trouble Witches but I just feel doubtful that's why at this point.

[Steven]

At Shooters Fes it was announced that Reboot is getting native PS5 and Switch 2 versions with currently undisclosed new stuff, and it and High Tension are getting overseas releases at an undisclosed time this year.