Cotton Boomerang (1998, Saturn)

Cotton Boomerang is horizontally scrolling shoot'em up. It was developed and released by Success Corporation and was also released in the arcades. Cotton Boomerang is a kind of remix of Magical Night Dreams - Cotton 2 which was released the year before. Cotton Boomerang features different game mechanics, more characters and different level layouts.

Cotton is a witch who is constantly looking for willows, which are a kind of magic candy. She has a faerie sidekick called silk. In Cotton 2, Cotton met another witch called Appli, whose sidekick is a talking witch hat called Needle. They engage in a rival search for a special willow. While Cotton Boomerang uses the characters, it does not feature a story.

While Cotton 2 featured a health bar, your character now dies with one hit. However, you choose three characters which will replace each other, so you technically have three lives. You can choose between three versions of Cotton, three versions of Appli, Silk and Needle. Each of them has different attack patterns and uses different elemental attacks. If you loose a character, you have a chance to revive him if you collect a special tea cup in the bonus game at the end of a level. As in Cotton 2, you have the ability to grab enemies and certain objects, and throw them at other enemies as a weapon. You can use this technique to kill whole chains of enemies.