Baron Bloodmore and the Crimson Castle: Slot Overview
Players, take a walk on the undead
side in Baron Bloodmore and the 🍐 Crimson Castle, a vampire-themed slot from veteran
Swedish developer Thunderkick. The studio has stepped things up for the Baron, where
🍐 you'll come across a couple of classic features which have been expanded to increase
their effects as well as produce 🍐 a higher than normal max win figure we are used to
seeing from this developer.
With a look suggestive of their 🍐 Beat the Beast range, you
know you are playing a Thunderkick game when Baron Bloodmore fires up. That's not a 🍐 bad
thing either because their graphics typically have a strong, clear quality,
particularly symbols distinctive of this studio. For this 🍐 game, players find themselves
deep within Crimson Castle, in a church-like space bathed in an eerie purple light,
while just 🍐 below the 5-reel, 3-row grid Baron Bloodmore snoozes in his coffin, biding
his time till the sun goes down.
Players can 🍐 try to snatch some loot during daylight
hours on any device, picking bets that range from 10 p/c toR$/€100 per 🍐 spin. For
players who enjoy some hardcore gaming, volatility is high, as is potential, while RTP
comes in one setting 🍐 only, which is 96.15%. Like the Beat the Beast range, Baron
Bloodmore is pretty straightforward, and much of the gameplay 🍐 is quite traditional. For
starters, 25 fixed paylines are provided to land winning combinations of 3 to 5 of a
🍐 kind on to collect coins. In total, 8 pay symbols are on hand to work with, from 4
spikey J-A 🍐 card tiles to ravens, wolves, gargoyles, and Baron Bloodmore himself
brooding at the top. Value-wise, premium symbols generate wins of 🍐 10 to 30 times the
stake for five of a kind.
Moreover, 3 vampiric sisters appear on the wild symbols,
though 🍐 each one has the same capabilities. Wilds substitute for pay symbols to complete
winning lines, and if they land in 🍐 combinations of their own, they have the same value
as Baron Bloodmore.
Baron Bloodmore and the Crimson Castle: Slot Features
On the
🍐 surface, mystery symbols, free spins, plus a hold-&-win feature might not sound cutting
edge, but Thunderkick has added a few 🍐 original touches to neaten them up and make them
rather original.
What's different about mystery symbols here is they are massive 🍐 in
size. They appear either partially or fully in view on the middle three reels in 3x3
size. Massive mystery 🍐 symbols turn up completely at random during the base game and on
every spin in the free spins bonus round. 🍐 When it hits, this oversized symbol randomly
changes into a pay symbol or a wild.
Winged skull symbols are the scatters, 🍐 and 3, 4,
or 5 in view award 10, 15, or 20 free spins (which cannot be retriggered). As mentioned
🍐 above, the main benefit here is that massive mystery symbols land on every spin.
Some
games might have stopped there, but 🍐 Baron Bloodmore's central feature is its Crimson
Cash Bonus Game. Unlocking it occurs when 3 Cash bonus symbols land on 🍐 3 different
reels, this is the tile with the castle silhouetted against the moon. When the Crimson
Cash Bonus game 🍐 is active, the normal reels are replaced with a different set which
only contain special symbols, bet multiplier symbols (starting 🍐 at x1 to x50) or empty
spaces. Once in, 3 spins start the round, and every time a symbol lands, 🍐 it locks in
place plus resets the counter back to 3. At the end of the bonus round, the values 🍐 of
all bet multipliers are added together before being paid out.
It might sound pretty
standard so far, yet Thunderkick has 🍐 included a few extras to mix things up during this
bonus round. One is a pattern collection feature. In the 🍐 bonus game, you'll see a
pattern of 5 illuminated symbol positions. When these positions are filled, the bet
multiplier of 🍐 the illuminated symbols is added together. The total amount is added to
the middle symbols and then doubled. All affected 🍐 symbols, except the middle position,
are then removed, and a new pattern is generated.
Two more symbols round off the bonus
🍐 round. One is the spawn symbol which adds its own multiplier to all other symbols on
the reels. Lastly, when 🍐 copy Symbols land, the value of all other symbols in view is
added to itself.
Baron Bloodmore and the Crimson Castle: 🍐 Slot Verdict
After the Crystal
Quest series sort of just faded away amidst a minimum of fanfare, the Thunderkick team
must've 🍐 felt like launching in a completely different direction. Baron Bloodmore and
the Crimson Castle certainly makes a fresh change, odd 🍐 given the undead nature of its
subject matter. There are plenty of positive aspects about Baron Bloodmore that should
appeal 🍐 to players with a soft spot for classic features and straightforward base game
rules. The slot is by no means 🍐 a generic hold-&-spin special though. In Baron Bloodmore
and the Crimson Castle, Thunderkick takes old school features and expands them 🍐 to
create something which displays a healthy dose of originality.
Proving that small
changes can make mighty differences, the tweaks made 🍐 to the Crimson Cash Bonus Game are
subtle yet significant. The pattern system has been put to good use in 🍐 slots like
Play'n GO's Gemix 2, and it works like a charm here as well. The round is nowhere near
🍐 as sophisticated or gung ho as something like Money Train 2, though potentially it
compares quite favourably. At 25,000x the 🍐 bet, Baron Bloodmore and the Crimson Castle
produces some of the biggest wins possible in a Thunderkick game, adding to 🍐 the undead
allure. Free spin rounds aren't quite as spectacular, yet having Massive Mystery
Symbols land on every free spin 🍐 means each one produces a little thrill as you wait to
see what goodies will line up.
To sum up, Thunderkick 🍐 has produced a solid
vampire-themed game for hardcore gamblers to sink their teeth into - sorry, pun
intended. It does 🍐 things seen elsewhere, but not usually to this extreme, thereby
creating some exciting high potential gaming.
