Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round: Slot Overview
As far as online gambling series go, few have had the legs that Pragmatic Play and Reel Kingdom‘s Big Bass Bonanza have shown. The count was lost a long time ago. To keep a freight train like Big Bass Bonanza rolling along without falling off the tracks, injections of new ideas are constantly needed to keep the experience fresh and relevant. Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on your viewpoint, Reel Kingdom has shown a willingness to throw wild ideas at its fishy baby, no matter how weirdly irrelevant. Big Bass Day at the Races is an example which comes to mind in this regard, and here’s another slot that doesn’t really have much to do with fishing, but anyway, ding ding, round one, it’s Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round for fishing and/or boxing fans to go a couple of rounds with.
Quite WTF boxing has to do with fishing is anyone’s guess, but boxing it is, and players can use Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round to pretend they’re sitting in the audience at a big match. Spotlights shine down on a crowd of people in a dark room that’s about as far away from casting off at a watery spot shoreside or bobbing up and down on the deep blue sea as it gets. Yeah, nah, still not seeing a lot of connections, but whatever, this is slots, not everything has to make black and white, logical sense all the time.
Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round is a highly volatile slot, with a preferred RTP value of 96.5%, which remains the same when betting 10 c to $/€250 per spin, using the ante bet or buying free spins. Activating the ante bet increases the stake by 50% to have a higher chance of triggering the free spins feature. Played on a 5×3 gaming area, there are 10 paylines for hitting winning combinations across.
The game’s pay symbols include 10-A royals, fish, boxes, skipping ropes, boxing shoes, and boxing gloves. Five-of-a-kind winning lines of royals pay 5 to 10 times the bet, whereas the high-paying fish to glove symbols award 20 to 200 times the stake for 5 OAK. Red and blue wilds hit in the free spins round, replacing anything except scatters or Money symbols.
Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round: Slot Features
Fish paying symbols are also Money symbols, each one landing with a value of 2x to 5,000x the bet. Their prizes may be collected during the free spins round, which can be triggered organically or bought.
Free Spins
Hitting 3, 4, or 5 scatter triggers 15, 20, or 25 free spins, respectively. In the base game, if 2 scatters hit, there is a random chance the third is brought into view by a respin feature or a hook.
During free spins, each landed wild symbol collects all values from Money symbols on the reels. Blue and red wild symbols that land are also collected separately on a blue or red meter. Every 4th wild symbol of any colour collected by its respective meter retriggers the feature, awarding +10 free spins. The multiplier for Money symbols collected by the wild of that colour during retriggered free spins increases to x2 for the second level, x3 for the third level, and x10 for the fourth level. After the fourth level on each meter, the feature cannot be retriggered any more. As well as this, a few features may trigger at random during the round:
- Camera Spin – at random, when there are wild symbols on screen but no fish, at the end of a free spin, fish symbols may appear on the reels.
- Hook – where there are fish but no wilds, at the end of a free spin, a hook may appear to bring wilds into view.
- Knock Out – when there are wilds in view but no fish, symbols other than wilds may be changed into something else.
Feature Buy
Paying 100x the bet buys free spins triggered by at least 3 scatters, or paying 300x the bet buys super free spins where only 3 wilds of any colour collected on any meter are needed to retrigger the feature.
Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round: Slot Verdict
As well as being willing to toss odd ideas at its Big Bass slots to spice them up, Reel Kingdom has also been more than happy reskinning older releases to expand the range. Both of these traits are on display in Big Bass Boxing Bonus Round, being an oddly themed remake of Big Bass Vegas Double Down Deluxe, which was itself a somewhat oddly Vegas-themed fish game in its own right. Few could accuse Reel Kingdom of not thinking outside the box on this one, for the skin at least, since fishing and boxing don’t appear in the same sentence super often. Mechanically, though, the thinking is far less inventive, practically zero inventive, this being a copy and all.
Take away the crowds, the ring, the boxing, and what’s left over is a fairly average Big Bass slot. Like the Vegas one, its USP is having two rather than one, red and blue wilds collecting Money symbols during free spins. It’s not a bad idea, providing an opportunity for technically retriggering a lot of free spins, and the system can turn out wins of up to 5,000x. Too bad there’s little to no on-grid interplay between the wild duo, however, and greater winning potential wouldn’t have been the worst thing to reflect having two of them. And so, while it might be easy to get all judgemental about Big Bass Vegas Double Down Deluxe‘s weirdness, hey it’s a slot, it’s meant to be fun, and at the very least, Big Bass crusaders get a taste of the maths and features they love with a totally new, totally unexpected front end to look at.
Write a comment