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.
