Enchanted Mermaid Slot Review
Aquatic games always seem to be popular and which of us wouldn't fancy meeting a mermaid on our travels? This is another impressive game from Australian slot producers NextGen and it most certainly doesn't plummet any depths.
The look of the game is a really impressive one. I'll write about the actual symbols that occupy the reels in a moment. The background to the game is an underwater scene and it reminds of staring at the tropical fish tank in an office I worked in. We get to see some fish moving up the screen and it's really entertaining.
This is a five reel slot that has three rows and you can choose to play up to 25 paylines. The minimum cost of playing the game is £0.01 and the maximum £50. It won't be too difficult to find a stake that fits your financial budget.
So let's have a look at the symbols in this game. There's a turtle, a stripey tropical fish, a seahorse and an orange shell-like creature that probably won't be seen in your local chippie anytime soon. The graphics are beautifully produced and that adds to the enjoyment of playing the game. There's also the nine to Ace symbols which probably indicate the designers don't know that many fish. At least they have been given some kind of aquatic feel.
You might be asking where the enchanted mermaid is, well she's the wild in this game and the elusive one only appears on the second and fourth reels. When she does make an appearance it's well worth the wait as the symbol will expand to cover the whole reel if a win is possible. The only symbol the wild can't substitute for is the gleaming pearl which is the scatter symbol in this game. That's because doing so would be a great help in triggering the bonus game. It really is a great sight when the wild does appear as the mermaid jumps out of the reels and dives into the sea and the WILD then covers the whole reel.
There's a gamble feature in the game and it's predictably the usual old guess the card routine. Guess the next colour or suit to double or quadruple the win you've just had. Get it wrong and you lose that win. This lacks originality but just be careful with this feature. You can get five wins here and make a tidy profit but the chances of doing that are really slim and you can just end up losing win after win.
All the control buttons for the game are down at the bottom of the screen. This includes the ability to set an autoplay of between 5 and 500 spins and a Bet Max button. For more info on how the game works simply access the paytable.
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To trigger the free spins bonus round you need to get at least three of the scatter symbols anywhere on the reels. Then there's a bit of a choice to make re the number of free spins and the multiplier. You can either have 10 free spins with up to a 10x multiplier, 15 with the multiplier going up to 7x or 20 free spins and the highest multiplier being 4x. As is often the case in life go for the middle option which has a decent amount of spins and multiplier. It is possible to retrigger the free spins if those scatters turn up on the reels again.
Conclusion
This game looks great and the bonus round can provide you with some tasty profits. The expanding wild is also another feature that can be really helpful, just be careful with that bonus feature though.