Rain City for Android

I love escape games and love Cotton Games. I’ve bought and played them all. So I was really happy to see a new one - but - it’s got arcade games and the one in the room with the rabbit band is hard to beat! I wish developers would understand that people who like to solve puzzles are generally not the same people who like to play arcade games. I’ve tried multiple times to beat this one and am now just frustrated. And I was really getting into this game, too. This may be where I stop and delete. Dear Cotton Games... would you consider giving us a skip option on the arcade games? I’d love to finish this game. It would easily be a five star game if I could progress but that seems impossible at the moment. Without a skip option on the arcade games I’ll think twice before jumping to buy the next Cotton game. Update: tried contacting dev. No response. Deleting this one.

Cotton Games makes incredible adventure games! Unfortunately, this is one of their lesser efforts. Boring story, bad humor, shoddy translation, and imbalanced easy/impossible puzzle content. Not HORRIBLE, but I definitely wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. Go Play Isoland or The Elevator or Mr. Pumpkin instead, because THEY are worth it!

This game has the visual appeal of Isoland and other Cotton Games, but other than that, I found I was frustrated and disappointed by the game itself. The “puzzles” often had no logic behind them and I had to rely on a walkthrough to have any idea what to do. The mechanics were also irritating in Mobile as you had to move to the exact right spot and path to do anything and he movement would get caught on things. The art combined with mechanics also made it difficult to see where possible doors or paths where (often they were only marked by a floor mat or hidden in the dark edge of the drawing. Lastly, the story was very weak and clearly translated/written by a non-English speaker. I could typically forgive that, but all things combined, I was happy to be done with this game by the end.

I think the developer misread the room by creating an unsolvable (for me) boss fight at the end of the game. Their public is basically adventure gamers who just want to wander around looking at great artwork, solve puzzles, and who don’t mind playing as a tiny kitten. And up to the endgame, that’s what you get. Then there is a weird crash into another genre of game completely, requiring timing and motor skills and everything that adventure gamers specifically don’t like, as you have to escape a mad shooting mega bot in a jumping robot with odds massively against you. Wut?! I can’t finish this game , and I wanted to. Please give us non-shooters a skip option- or better, don’t include motor reflex stuff at all.

As was pointed out by other reviewers, people who enjoy puzzles often hate arcade sequences. The rabbit room one brought me to a screeching halt. I really enjoyed the isoland series and other Cotton games, but after this one…I don’t know. I sure won’t be quick to buy any more games from this developer without reading a lot of reviews.