4 Fantastic Fish Amazon Adventure: Slot Overview
One casino game maker committed to marking out territory in the unstoppable fish slot category is UK-head-quartered studio 4ThePlayer. This it has done through its 4 Fantastic Fish range which has so far gone through, amongst other things, Viking, Dream Drop, Gigablox, and Egyptian iterations. This time, the franchise has voyaged to South America to do a spot of river-based angling in 4 Fantastic Fish Amazon Adventure, a slot which carries a bunch of familiar mechanics as well as a newer (for the series) pick ‘n click feature.
At 6,800 km in length, the Amazon River is the longest river in the world, and players get to experience a tiny segment of it in 4 Fantastic Fish Amazon Adventure. The camera view is situated at about the water’s surface level, affording a view of trees, hills, and whatnot on top, with weeds, and so on below. The series is renowned for its bright, bold visuals, and while 4 Fantastic Fish Amazon Adventure might not be as bright nor as bold as some others in the range, it’s certainly no dour winter angling trip either.
Lashed together with rope is 4 Fantastic Fish Amazon Adventure’s 6×4 gaming grid, which has 4,096 ways to win on it. Winning combinations begin on the leftmost reel, and matching symbols must land on adjacent reels. The highest RTP is 94%, while a lower 90.5% version is available, as well, and the volatility is high. Bets of 20 c to $/€80 may be placed on each spin, with several of the main bonuses available in the feature buy menu.
The lower paying symbols in the game are 10 through A card icons, awarding 1.5x to 2.5x for 6 OAK, then hats, buckets, frogs, birds, and a fisherman, awarding 3x to 10x the bet for 6 OAK. Wilds substitute all regular pay symbols but cannot simultaneously land on the leftmost and second reel.
4 Fantastic Fish Amazon Adventure: Slot Features
The features available in 4 Fantastic Fish Amazon Adventure are its Money Ways wins, Piranha Frenzy, Giant Anaconda, Amazon Respins, Temple Pick-A-Win, and feature buys.
Money Ways
Piranha symbols land with money values that can get bigger from left to right, with Big Game Prizes – the Big 50x, Super 200x, Mega 1,000x, and Ultra 10,000x present on the rightmost reel. Landing a winning way of Piranha symbols awards their displayed value, including Big Game Prizes, part of Piranha symbol way wins.
Piranha Frenzy & Giant Anaconda
In the base game, the Piranha Frenzy is able to create or improve wins with Piranha symbols. In the respins bonus, it can move sideways to lock on open reels. The Giant Anaconda, meanwhile, can swap symbols to create or improve Piranha symbol wins in the base game or move Piranha symbols from closed to open reels in the respins bonus.
Amazon Respin Bonus
Landing 3 or more Respins scatters triggers the Amazon Respins bonus. The reels that landed scatters are opened while the rest are closed. Piranha symbols that land on open reels are locked in place, awarding their value. Piranhas that hit on the triggering spin lock to reels whether open or not, but new Piranha symbols cannot lock to closed reels.
The round starts with 3 respins, which reset when Piranha symbols land on open reels. If a Respins scatter lands on a closed reel, it opens for the rest of the round. If an open reel is covered in Piranha symbols, a Gator collects the prizes from it and doubles the total value, creating space for new Piranha symbols to land. However, the 10,000x Ultra will not be collected by the Gator. When the respins count runs out, the feature ends.
Temple Pick-A-Win Bonus
This feature is triggered by landing 3 or more Pick-A-Win scatters. The number of picks awarded is equal to the number of triggering scatters. Players click step pyramids on the screen to reveal cash prizes.
Feature Buy
Players can buy Amazon Respins, Temple Pick-A-Win, or Piranha Frenzy, costing 75x, 150x, or 30x the bet, respectively.
4 Fantastic Fish Amazon Adventure: Slot Verdict
It was hard not to shrug off a feeling of diminishing returns when reviewing 4 Fantastic Fish Amazon Adventure. It’s fine for what it is, but aside from the riverside setting, it remains very close to what preceded it and doesn’t do a heck of a lot that its brothers or sister slots do. There are no major issues with the features, which remain a compelling competitor to the Fishin’ Frenzies and the Big Bass Bonanzas out there – using Money Ways instead of a collector symbol to gather prizes makes a nice change, and hunting for Big Game Prizes on the rightmost reel adds to the suspense. The problem is we’ve been here on several occasions before, and 4 Fantastic Fish Amazon Adventure’s features recycle plus a poor max RTP don’t do it many favours.
The new feature is fairly unexciting as well. The Temple Pick-A-Win bonus might let players step away from the river for a moment to take in more of the surrounding area, but it’s a basic feature that’s been kicking around for an age. Pick, click, and win. It might suit adherents of the old school, and having alternative ways in a game to win cash is no bad thing, but it doesn’t significantly enhance what was already here. Max win is nothing to be sniffed at, though, at 11,340x the bet, putting it about on par with the rest of the series bar the Dream Drop version. All in all, 4 Fantastic Fish Amazon Adventure is an okay addition to the franchise that might not take anything away from it, but it doesn’t exactly add a whole bunch either.
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