Well what a disappointment this slot is. It rarely delivers the goods and when it does I still get nothing but negative feelings when playing it. These are the things I don't like about it -
1. The fact that you don't get the same number of free spins from one bonus to the next. As soon as that reel stops on 15 or less, I don't feel I've got even the faintest of chances of a decent win. The fact that I've got no feeling of control over the outcome of how many spins I'm going to get doesn't help either. Nothing worse than going into a feature with negative feelings. A fixed 20 spins for bonus entry would have been so much better. It would then be all about how quickly I can develop the reels, and whether I get a retrigger or not.
2. Developing the reels - there is nothing for me to look for on the reels to expand the grid. Instead, it all happens at random, and not often enough. There are teases thrown in, which feel unnecessary because let's face it, any expansion is hardly going to result in anything massive in terms of wins, especially in the early stages. They might do later, but will I get there? It's a long way...
3. Retriggers - a major flaw with this game is that as I develop the reels, the feeling of my chances of getting 3 scatters in view would naturally improve, as the field of play is much larger. This obviously cannot be the case, otherwise you'd retrigger into infinity. Therefore the game must be switching to different sets of reelstrips as the number and height of the reels increases, to stop this from happening. The feeling of negativity and lack of fulfillment from this makes for a horrible experience. The designers might have been better off by having the scatters just on the first 5 reels, and only having to worry about an increase in reel height improving the chances of retriggering free spins. Better still, they could box off the original 5x3 reels and any scatters landing outside of this area don't count.
4. There is little feeling of being able to achieve a large win from any spin, no matter how far I've developed the reels. All I have to look at is a sea of different symbols with stacks rarely higher than two together, and without larger stacks or even wild symbols in there too, there nothing for me to focus on. I could have 100 million ways to win, but I feel I'm only ever going to win on a handful of them at any time.
5. Those laser teases during the base game are a waste of percentage and rarely yield a win of any significance. 'Ooh, an extra reel and a couple of taller existing reels, for one spin only - whoopedy-fucking-doo!' I'd ditch them and put the extra money back into the free spins feature. I'd also push the feature hit rate out a fair bit, so when the bonus finally comes in, it can actually afford the supposed big wins that the game suggests are possible.
In conclusion, this is a game aimed at players of Bonanza and Danger High Voltage, which sells hopes and dreams but fails miserably to deliver on those promises. The good people at Red Tiger have taken a great idea and not got the best out of it. You might say they've fucked it right up, the result being abominable and immensely frustrating gameplay.
3/10 - Lazy Fruits
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