Yeah, just seen that Nickslots video and it’s changed my mind. I didn’t know it was Leovegas exclusive for one. But for me, here’s an honest review of the game.
So now that I understand the game I’ll explain it for those who don’t know. Basically you have a knight running or walking towards a chest with every spin, once he opens the chest there can contain Gems needed to bonus, wilds or a symbol (A, K, Q, J, 10) that will change the specific symbol inside the center reels to wild. You need to collect 4 different gems to play the bonus or you can choose to level up which gives you higher wild multi and more megaways and then collect another 4 to reach the next level, level 3 is max and puts the wild multi at x3…it’s not a progressive multi like Bonanza so you are depending on hitting wilds to win anything decent as all the premium gems in the center reels turn to wilds during the bonus. During the free spins the knight runs across and slays Death every spin with a chance of finding a gem which will give you +1 spin and if you collect enough you’ll retrigger and get 8 spins.
Graphics, music and general feel of the game looks good. But here’s my major gripe with the slot; it is everything that is wrong with slotting, it’s another slot that is sending the industry the wrong way for us gamblers.
I’ve never been a fan of feature buys, generally to me they are a scam a quick way to get someone to dump a lot of cash for something that very rarely pays compared to the price you are paying – with Slots like Vikings Unleashed and Extra Chilli it is even worse because you have to gamble these to have a chance of hitting a big win and most times you will end up with nothing, just dumping away 100x the stake on a single spin.
The problem with this game is that it’s not one you can just jump on and do a few spins and get lucky hitting a bonus, you have to invest quite a bit of time and money, it doesn’t seem worth it to collect the level 1 bonus you will either want to go for level 2 but ideally level 3. Even when you hit level 3 there’s still a chance you’ll be paid next to nothing as seen by Nickslots getting less than £300 on £8 stake and I think he put in about £1200 to land the bonus and was at max level. On the first time around (again on max level) he got paid big but overall he made about £33 profit as it cost him around £700ish to land the feature at max level. To me it seems like a more intuitive way to force people to buy the bonus, before it was a choice but with the design of this slot it feels almost built in to the core game due to the time and money generally needed to go for the max level, if that makes any sense?
I could just be talking bollocks here either way I won’t be bothering with this one.
