With the recent release of Batman, The Flash, and Green Lantern slots on mobile, this casino slot software provider that’s been on a real roll lately.
Add that the last two slots we reviewed got over 4 stars, the awesome WolfPack Pays game and the King Kong slot machine, and you can understand why we’d be a little excited about any new mobile slots they have in store for us.
The big question on everyone’s lips? Can June’s release (date not confirmed, but last week of June likely) live up to it’s name?
Time to watch the Monster Wins slot video preview
NextGen Gaming have been teasing this slot on their Twitter feed for the last month, so it’s got to be something special, right?
Let’s watch this minute and a half video and decide for ourselves, shall we?
Well, it’s certainly different from their recent releases which have been more on the dark side (Batman slot) or slightly old fashioned (ie. WolfPack Pays).
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Which is no bad thing. Who wants to get the same slot time and time again?
After all, everyone has favourite themes. Some love the 3d Cartoony style of Betsoft, others like the realism of IGT slots.
A light, amusing, theme perfect for mobile
We’ve always said; keeping things light and fun when creating a mobile slot is a sure fire way to catch our eye.
It doesn’t mean you’ll get to play on a good machine, but there is something about the bright and colouful colours that lends itself well to the smaller screens.
It’s the reason Angry Birds and Candy Crush continue to dominate mobile gaming.
Which is what this Monster Wins slot reminds us of a little; if you were to look at the logo and character, it could be a mobile app for anything, not just a slot machine.
Meet the monsters
There’s not a single Ace to 10 symbol in sight here, instead each of these colourful characters has it’s own personality on screen.
Except, perhaps, the lower paying symbols, which look like evolutionary blobs in the Monster gene pool.
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“A tiny planet inhabited by eccentric monsters is shaken up when the BOSS MONSTER bounces into town. In a world where power and status are measured by number of eyes and tentacle reach, there is no shortage of shenanigans.” NextGen Gaming description.
Basically, the more eyes and tentacles you see on screen, the better.
We genuinely never thought we’d say that outside of a horror movie.
How will this Monster Wins slot play?
The theme is certainly eye catching, but what about the wins?
We actually have very little information about how this Monster Wins slot will pay out, but if it doesn’t end up having ‘monster wins’ we suspect there will be a lot of disappointed mobile phone slots players out there.
However we can tell a couple of things just from this teaser.
The stacked Boss Monsters are important for this 1024 ways to win slot
1024 ways to win always sounds impressive.
But if there is one thing we’ve learnt from this kind of slot games, it’s that more isn’t always better.
Reason being, slot games with 1024 ways to pay tend to pay out often, but little. Which means you need one big feature to help you maximise your wins over lots of paylines.
Take the Miss White slot game – she has expanding horizontal wilds which can spread across a whole row to help with those multiple wins.
Monster Wins has stacked Boss Monster symbols in the base game. Landing a stack of Boss Monster symbols on reel 1 awards the “Unleash the Boss Monster” Bonus where extra Boss Monster symbols are revealed, guaranteeing a win.
It’s novel, and certainly hopeful, that it will allow us to win more than a few pennies on any one spin.
The promise of the exciting stacked reel and the free spins
Of course, if you wantched the first video, you’ll see that they very quickly showcase the one (and only?) feature of this Monster Wins mobile slot.
Namely the big boss free spins, where the stack of Boss Monster symbols are held on the first reel, and you get added Boss Monster symbols for 3 spins.
If these free spins come more often than not, we may forgive them the pretty stingy amount of bonus games.
Alternatively, they better bring 3 reels of symbols each time if we have to wait a fair while between free spins rounds. Our patience needs to be paid back after all.
Are we excited for this new NextGen slot
The thing is, we rarely get a heads up about upcoming NextGen slots. Generally they suddenly drop on our laps out of nowhere, and we have to rush to play them and review them.
So this is a rarity, finding out about a new mobile slot machine, and a habit we want to encourage from NextGen.
It makes our lives so much easier if we know what’s coming next.
If you are listening NextGen: “Yes. Yes we are excited. This looks awesome. Make more videos and previews please.”
As awesome as the last few releases?
The last few releases have been pretty epic to be fair – especially the DC comic slots, and WolfPack Pays.
Hoping that NextGen isn’t listening any more, we’ll admit that we are dubious about their ability to keep up with the quality, especially when (in our opinion) 1024 ways to win games do not satisfy easily.
Still, we are going to remain optimistic, because we can, and because so far NextGen have rocked May and June.
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