Shining Crown review
Theme and Storyline
The decorative theme for Shining Crown from EGT
is that of a classic slot machine. The💶 usual one-armed bandit symbols of lucky-7s,
bells, cherries and other assorted fruit make an appearance coupled with the titular
crowns💶 for a Wild symbol.
It is a time honoured design and works as well as any of the
numerous similar games💶 cashing on on the caché of old school designs.
Graphics, Sounds
and Animations
The graphics are lovely, high def symbols roll around💶 well animated
reels.
The sound design is in keeping with the theme – i.e. very basic. There is no
music and💶 the soundtrack is largely a kind of mechanical whirr when you spin the reels
and a pleasing thunk when they💶 stop.
Unfortunately, it is all a very glossy version of
a type of slot we’ve seen hundreds of times before. That💶 said, it does its version
extremely competently.
Gameplay
The gameplay is extremely simple. In the absence of
Bonus symbols the main deviation💶 from the usual "push button, lose or win money, rinse,
repeat" style play is the jackpots (see below).
There is also💶 a red/black gamble option
just in case you want to up your variance in what is already a pretty high-variance
💶 game, but even this feels very bog-standard when compared to all the other games out
there.
Shining crown slot has a💶 gamble function
Wilds, Bonuses and Free Spins
Rather
than the usual bonuses triggered by hitting a combo of symbols, Shining Crown offers
💶 instead a kind of hybrid bonus and jackpot system. They call this the Mystery
Jackpot.
There are four jackpots – one💶 per suit. These take a small contribution from
each bet made per spin by all players of the game and💶 are constantly building up at the
top of the screen you play in. Every now and again random spins get💶 awarded the
jackpot.
If you are lucky enough to be rewarded one, then a new bonus game opens up.
The bonus💶 game is made up of twelve face-down cards (three of each suit). You turn over
the cards until you reveal💶 three of the same suit. You are then rewarded half the
amount of the jackpot you won.
The jackpots grow at💶 different rates so usually, the
Clubs are the smallest and Spades the largest, though as in the image below where💶 the
diamond jackpot was recently hit, your mileage may vary.
Shining Crown offers a chance
to win one of 4 Jackpots
In💶 addition to this bonus game, Shining Crown has a Wild
symbol with a crown on it. This plays as any💶 symbol but the two Scatter symbols. It
also expands to cover the whole reel if it helps you to form💶 a winning line.
One of the
scatters is a Standard Scatter. Hit any three, four or five of this symbol to💶 win 5, 20
or 100 times your bet per spin respectively.
The other is a Special Scatter (star
symbol) you have💶 to hit three of these on the only three reels it appears in order to
win a prize of 20💶 times your bet per spin.
With enough luck you can hit big win with 2
expanding wild symbols in Shining Crown💶 slot
Bet Sizes, RTP and Variance
The RTP of
96.37% is around the rough average for the industry and with a range💶 of 10 to 600 coins
per spin, you can get a decent range sizes for your bet per spin by💶 altering the value
of the coins.
Symbols are often stacked so hitting combos is rarer, but do tend to be
fairly💶 large when you do hit a winning combo (or rather "winning combos"). The result
is that playing Shining Crown can💶 result in highly-volatile results for your bankroll.
You’ll want to come to the table with enough cash to ride out💶 the long gaps between
wins.
Full paytable of the Shining Crown slot
Conclusion
Shining Crown is a pretty
simplistic game to be sure,💶 but the high volatility and average RTP mean that it plays
pretty well with some of our favoured strategies.
Apart from💶 that, the visuals are
decent. In fact, the main disadvantage of the game is that the bonus game isn’t
terribly💶 exciting to play most of the other features are pretty solid.
