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Once you start playing the Mio & Neko Rock slot, you will find yourself on the streets of an Asian city. Mio and Neko will be waiting for you. Mio has just finished her shift and is waiting for you to take her to a rock concert.
Make sure to watch out for the traffic because you will be standing in the middle of a street. Don’t mind Mio, she will be fantasising about performing in a full arena. That’s why she will stay silent and will not pay much attention to you.
The most important item on the grid is the guitar pick. It acts as a Scatter that triggers the Free Spins feature. You will need a lot of them. Mio acts as a Wild that substitutes for all regular symbols. You will also come across the Wild Compass, which is a Transferring Wild.
Speakers acts as a special symbol that triggers the Multi-Reel Respin feature. Among regular symbols, you will find a coffee mug, earphones, sneakers, and a microphone. Low-value icons are represented by card suits.
The rules of the game are as easy as breathing. Mio & Neko Rock pokie benefits from 5 reels, 4 rows, and 1,024 ways to win. To win a payout, you need at least 3 matching symbols on successive reels, starting from the leftmost reel.
You can bet as low as $0.25 and as high as $225 per single spin. The Mancala Gaming product offers the Turbo option if you want to speed the reels up a bit. Also, the Autoplay option offers up to 100 automatic spins. The 2024 release is of low volatility and comes with a 4,704x max payout. Mio & Neko Rock RTP is 95.00%.
This Manga-themed pokie machine offers plenty of additional features. The Wild Compass will surprise you with additional Wilds. Neko, the cat, will jump on the reels from time to time and give you random reel respins. Wait for the speakers if you want the Multi-Reel Respin feature.
Fill the Bonus Meter with guitar picks. This will deliver free spins. You will enjoy regular free spins and free spins with win multipliers. This will all depend on the number of collected Scatters. If you don’t want to collect Scatters, you can always buy the feature.
Each time a Wild Compass lands on the reels, it will point to a certain symbol on the grid. It can move up to 5 times and replace regular symbols with Wilds. The most I got was 3 Wilds. The Wild Compass appears quite regularly and can help you land decent payouts. My biggest base game payout of 22.7x came thanks to the help of the Wild Compass.
Neko will stand on the reels, next to Mio. After a non-winning spin, Neko can jump on the reels and pick a random reel to perform a respin. This may get you a win. Unfortunately for me, Neko rarely rewarded me with a win after the Random Reel Respin feature.
Each time you land speakers on the reels, you trigger the Multi-Reel Respin feature. Speakers appear on reels 2 and 4. Once on the grid, speakers will respin the reel it landed on, as well as adjacent reels on left and right. I can’t say that I benefited much from this feature while I tested the Mio & Neko Rock pokie.
When you collect 75 Scatters in the Bonus Meter, you will get a chance to trigger the Free Spins feature. With 75 Scatters, you can get the first-tier Bonus, which consists of 10 free spins. After that, you collect 150 Scatters to trigger the second-tier Bonus. Here, you get 15 free spins with multipliers.
I activated both options. The first-tier Bonus gave me a 10x total win, which was a huge disappointment for me. The second-tier Bonus was a bit better, with a total win of 35.4x. In the second-tier Bonus, all wins are boosted by a random multiplier, which can be 2x, 5x, 10x, or 25x.
You can buy both free spins options for either 26x or 52x. I tried both options and I was not satisfied with the outcome. The most I got for the first-tier Bonus was 12x. My biggest win in the second-tier Bonus was 25x.
Mio & Neko Rock pokie boasts crisp graphics and a nice soundtrack. I am a fan of Manga movies, so I like the general idea of the Mancala Gaming title.
However, I do not like the fact that the features are not very fun. It takes time to trigger free spins and, on rare occasions, you get generously rewarded for your trouble.
As for both respin features, they are also not very rewarding. My favourite extra in the Mio & Neko Rock slot machine is the Wild Compass.
I know that Mancala Gaming can do better and I will wait for a better pokie machine. Nevertheless, I am sure that Mio & Neko Rock slot will find a suitable audience. I rate it 6.4.
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