As always; thanks for the review mate!
My thoughts:
Dr Fortuno by Yggdrasil - This is harking towards the
golden fish tank type era from Ygg, which was good. However, their love for "death via coin win" kills this game for me. Its fine to have coin wins in a game but if Im about to trigger a feature, a coin win will never make me happy. I feel better about getting 15x from a pick n click even than from a wheel that is meant to give FS. Coin wins kill it and for having so many features and stuff going on the FS is quite basic with just wilds and multipliers.
6/10
Devil's Number by Red Tiger - The first thing that stood out to me on this one was the amazing soundtrack when you get a big win, try it without skipping and its kinda cool! I like the mechanics well enough, but wouldve much rather gotten an increasing multiplier instead of the symbol upgrades for some reason. Feels more simple and raw. The only issue I have with it is pretty weak payouts; even though you pretty much filled the screen a couple of times, the single wins didn't reach 100x.
7/10
Ancient Fortunes Zeus by MG/JFTW - Unfortunately for this slot I don't like clones at all, so even good clones will get a bad score for me. That said, I'll play this one next time I feel like doing some Gonzo (which I exclusively do with friends, cursing violently at the golden monkey) as it does look like an improvement in terms of potential. I think pay-both-ways is good for the mechanic as well. Animations look a bit choppy but funny.
4/10
Spy Rise by Playtech -
Real shit in my opinion. The feature buy is quite pointless since it just brings the game up to standard volatility and potential. The way the reels stop all together looks horrible. The way the force a horizontal 5OAK to roll by everytime is pathetic. The Jackpot thing is ok with the reels turning red, but should remove the super small one and make it more rare; whats the point of a 3x jackpot?
3/10
Inferno Star by Play'n Go - I like feature rich games most of the time but for when I dont this could be that one hit wonder that saves the day. It looks to me like the RTP is mostly focussed around that 1000x win, which is pretty smart I think. Will need a lot of spins to evaluate properly, which might be tedious given how simple the game is, but still.
6/10
Crystal Sun by Play'n Go - Again, no fan of clones, and would say this one is worse than the Gonzo copy above (might as well play starburst; correct me if Im wrong, but believe the increased potential from multipliers will be eaten by more lowpayers and worse paytable). I think the lowpayers look kinda sweet with the little movements on the surface of the planets.
2/10
Overall some pretty mediocre games in my book, of which Devil's Number was the best, for entirely different reasons, and the scores reflect it.