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If you thought that the 2023 release was themed after the popular TV series created by Soo Hough, I will have to disappoint you. Evolution used the iconic Pachinko game and combined it with an old-school one-armed bandit that can be found in all brick-and-mortar casinos.
The reels are overlooking the studio. Bright lights and shiny colours in the background will really please your eyes while you play the game. Instead of putting coins in the pokie machine and pulling the lever, you will press the Spin button.
A total of 8 different symbols appear on the grid. Classic playing cards are used for low-value icons. Look for bells and cherries if you want to form bigger payouts. Scatters appear on every reel. They can carry multipliers, up to 10x.
Also, Scatters provide payouts. The Wild is the top-paying symbol in Crazy Pachinko. You will win 20x the bet for 5-of-a-kind. Wilds are also there to substitute for all regular symbols, thus helping you land payouts more easily.
When you start playing the pokie, you will enter the Qualification phase, which is actually the base game. Set your desired bet and start spinning the reels. You will be playing a 5×3 pokie machine with 10 fixed payouts.
Crazy Pachinko pays left to right, beginning from the far-left reel. 3-of-a-kind is the minimum for landing payouts. In the Qualification phase, you will be on the hunt for Scatters. The maximum possible payout is $500,000. The RTP of the slot is 96.05%.
The central attraction of the Evolution product is the Pachinko Bonus round. This is where magic happens. However, you will have several other extras to use and boost your multipliers in the Bonus round.
First, you need to land 3+ Scatters on the reels to move to the Top-Up phase. In this stage, you try to boost the final win multiplier. The XXXtreme Spin mode will help you trigger the feature more easily. Finally, you have the option to buy the feature.
Once you land 3+ Scatters, you proceed to the next stage, called the Top-Up phase. Note that Scatters can come with multipliers, up to 10x. These multipliers are then added to the total multiplier, once you finish the Bonus round.
In the Top-Up phase, you are taken to a different slot. Here, you press the Spin button for the price of a triggering spin to boost the multipliers. If you choose to increase the bet, you get a chance to get bigger multipliers.
So, the bigger the bet, the bigger the multipliers. Pretty easy, eh? In this stage, multipliers go from 2x to 100x. The Top-Up phase will last only until the beginning of the next Crazy Pachinko Bonus round.
I always use the Top-Up phase to boost the multiplier. In most cases, I win more than I spend on the spins, so it is a good investment. However, I do not advise boosting bets during the Top-Up phase because it can be tricky.
Now, it is time to sit back and enjoy the show. You go to the multiplier wall where you have 16 fields with different multipliers. Pachinko multipliers go from 10x to 200x. The host drops the puck from a random position between zones 4 and 12.
After that, you wait for the puck to fall down to one of the multipliers. If the puck lands on the double zone, you get another round where all Pachinko multipliers are doubled. The puck is dropped once again and you get 1 random multiplier.
The final multiplier is determined with the following formula: Pachinko multipliers x Scatter multipliers + Top-Up multipliers. My biggest win in this round was 250x the bet.
The XXXtreme Spin mode is actually the Ante Bet feature. For 15x the initial bet, you get 1 guaranteed Scatter on every spin. I do not prefer the XXXtreme Spin mode. In most cases, it did not provide good value for money. Maybe you will have more luck.
If you do not want to waste time spinning the reels, you can immediately buy the feature for 75x the bet. I used the option 3 times. On all 3 occasions, my wins were lower than 75x. Again, maybe that’s just my luck. That’s why I don’t like the option to buy the feature.
If you are fond of live pokies, you should definitely give Crazy Pachinko a go. The Evolution product is an entertaining pokie that will keep you busy for hours. You will also enjoy the visuals and excellent hosts once you reach the Crazy Pachinko Bonus round.
It shouldn’t be too hard to trigger the bonus. However, in most cases, you will not land mouthwatering wins, that is a fact.
I reached the Bonus stage several times and only pocketed a huge win twice. I got 250x on my first try and around 200x on one of the following occasions.
So, even though the max payout is $500,000, do not expect to go home with half a million bucks each time you play the 2023 release. I rate Crazy Pachinko 8.5.
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