Gold Party 2 After Hours: Slot Overview
Ireland and its descendants might have made numerous contributions to science, medicine, and the arts, but if you play online slots, you might be tricked into thinking all the Emerald Isle produces is leprechauns, rainbows, and mugs o’ beer. Casino game makers just don’t seem to be able to drag themselves away from the popular cliches to produce Irish slots that explore other aspects of its rich and varied culture. And… they won’t be completely doing so today either, as we’ve got Gold Party 2 After Hours, a sequel to 2022’s Gold Party designed by Pragmatic Play partner Wild Streak Gaming to contend with.
If it’s cliches you want, then it’s cliches you will get in the form of Celtic twists, a big smiley leprechaun, harps, horseshoes, and a sprinkling of magic. A mushroom house and a unicorn also work their way into the game, so there are a few less obvious objects to rest your eyes on. But Gold Party 2 After Hours essentially follows the typical leprechaun script, which probably ticks a few of the right boxes if you’re into this sort of thing. Though a leprechaun in disco threads isn’t something you see every day, and it’s hard not to like the jaunty music, too.
Those willing to proceed can stake 25 c to $/€250 per spin, and should they choose to activate the ante bet, the stake increases by 20%, so one less Money symbol is needed to trigger the feature. Both betting methods and buying the bonus have an RTP that maxes out at 96.5%, while the math model volatility is high. A single 5×3, 25-payline gaming grid is used in the base game before four of them drop into the bonus round.
Gold Party 2 After Hours’ ten pay symbols are 10-A card ranks paying 0.32x to 0.8x for 5 OAK, as well as harps, mushroom houses, horseshoes, unicorns, and leprechauns, worth 0.8x to 4x for 5 OAK. Wilds hit on reels 2, 3, and 4, substituting everything except the Money symbol. The wild can have a multiplier of x2, x3, or x5 which applies to all winning combinations the wild participates in. Multiple multipliers in the same win multiply each other.
Gold Party 2 After Hours: Slot Features
Gold Party 2 After Hours invites Copy Reels, Money Respins, and a feature buy to the party, though the bonus round has been upgraded.
Copy Reels
During the base game, when a full stack of the highest paying symbols land on the leftmost reel, it clones the stack onto one or more reels, up to all reels.
Money Respins
Money symbols appear anywhere in the base and bonus game. During Money Respins, each Money symbol bears a value of 0.2x to 200x the bet. Double Money symbols may appear on the two rightmost reels only in the base game and count as two Money symbols.
Hitting 6 or more Money symbols in the base game triggers the Money Respin round. The bonus round plays out on four 5×3 matrices. Regular symbols fade away, and the same number of triggering Money symbols are distributed randomly across the four game grids. If triggered by 5 Money symbols with the ante bet active, 6 Money symbols are distributed. Only Money symbols, Super Pots, Bonus Awards, Multiplier symbols, Extra Spin symbols, or blanks may hit. A total of 8 respins are awarded, and any non-blank symbols that land stick to the screen till the round ends, which happens when respins are finished or all positions are filled.
The Super Pot takes a random value like a Money symbol, then after each respin, it increases by a random value of 0.2x to 200x. Multiplier symbols have a value of x2 to x25, which gets applied to a random Money symbol. Extra Spin symbols award +1 respin when they hit. Lastly, the Bonus Award symbols are the 20x Mini, 60x Minor, 320x Major, and the 10,000x Grand. Each Bonus Award symbol is collected by a meter when it hits, and if 3 of the same awards are collected, its corresponding value is added to the total win.
Each matrix in the bonus is marked with a multiplier value of x2, x3, x5, or x10. When a grid is filled, its respective multiplier is applied to the values (except Bonus Awards) on the matrix at the end of the round.
Feature Buy
Spending 100x the bet buys the Money Respins feature, triggered by a random number of Money symbols.
Gold Party 2 After Hours: Slot Verdict
Gold Party wasn’t the greatest shindig the world had ever seen, and neither, despite some enhancements, is Gold Party 2 After Hours. Admittedly, it is a stronger game, and there is little doubt that those happy with the original will be as happy with this, if not more so. Wild Streak Gaming has added things and has taken little to nothing away, after all. Clone Stacks add titillation to the base game, as do wild multipliers, magnified by the way multipliers in the same win multiply each other. Hey ho, there could be worse ways to while away time in a leprechaun slot before the bonus round comes about.
What prevents Money Respins from being a totally regular hold ‘n’ win event is the fact four matrices host the show rather than just one. Funny, these things rarely end up being four times the fun, and gamblers aren’t completely short of options such as Stakelogic‘s Quatro, Blueprint Gaming‘s Power 4 concept, as well as Big Time Gaming‘s Megaquads to make their minds up on. In Gold Party 2 After Hours, it’s okay, but there isn’t a lot of interplay between the four grids so having four rather than one didn’t feel totally necessary. Spose there’s more space to land Bonus Award symbols, and the Grand would be the tidiest, and perhaps only, way of achieving Gold Party 2 After Hours’ 10,312x win cap.
As stated, Gold Party 2 After Hours is easily the bigger, more boisterous game of the two, but still, anyone who turned their nose up at the original is unlikely to be won over by part 2’s jackpot prize, quad grid hold ‘n’ win shenanigans held in a fairly generic leprechaun setting. And vice versa.
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