Perfect Potions Megaways

Overview Perfect Potions Megaways

NextGen gaming’s latest slot is a magical Megaways game that follows the narrative of a wonderful wizard and his adventures creating a variety of bubbling and colourful potions. NextGen Gaming has not only paid attention to the design of the slot - which is impeccable and engaging but the frequency and variety of features is also very impressive, and something that will lure many players in.

Features for Perfect Potions Megaways include a cascading reels feature, meaning more chances of creating wins from the same spin. The game also has a unique brace of modifiers called the Potions Reels modifiers. This is NextGen Gaming’s way of incorporating the Megaways mechanic into the game, expanding the number of symbols that each reel can contain. The more symbols on the reels, the greater the chance of players finding a winning combination. Then finally, Perfect Potions Megaways has a free spins round too.

Theme and Symbols

If you have played a lot of NextGen Gaming’s slots, you will probably recognise the main character of this game, as he appears across their content. This magical wizard is loosely based on the classic Merlin character from the Disney movie ‘Sword in the Stone’. He is your mystical guide for this romp through all that is magic, from toadstools to eye of newt.
The background for this slot looks like the interior of some sort of monastery or ancient spiritual building. To the left and right of the reels are two smoking cauldrons which are emitting a magical sparkling haze into the air around them. This immediately gives the game a look of mystery and intrigue that ties into the game’s magical theme. Further in you can see a port window and two arches which give the setting its structure. Hung on the walls of this monastery are rolling tapestries which explain the Potions Reels bonus features.

The board comes alive depending on the potions and various symbols that arrive on it with magical auras and exciting graphics. However, the board itself is fairly simple in its design, being just a group of golden frames strung together to create windows for the symbols to feature inside.

The symbols are very entertaining and come in all sorts of interesting magic-themed pictures and animations. The lowest value symbols as ever for games like this are the A to 10 in royal card values. However, up from these are the skull, the spilt jar of eyeballs and a precious stone bound to a staff that looks like a wizarding implement from the Lord of the Rings. It is the Merlin/ bearded wizard symbol that players should pay special attention to, as he is the most valuable regularly symbol, paying 7.5 x your stake for 6 on a pay line. Joining these symbols are the wild (a tablet with the word ‘wild’ written on it) and the red and blue potions symbols which are involved in the expanding reels dynamic. The scatter for this game is the ‘Book of Spells’.

Game Play

Perfect Potions Megaways is a 6-reel Megaways mechanic slot machine with up to an incredible 96,040 possible pay lines in its smallest possible configuration. However, by expanding the symbol capacity of each row via the Potions Modifiers this number can grow to an astronomical 700,000. To create a win in this game, players must match a minimum of 3 symbols across the board on a pay line, starting from reel 1. The betting range for Perfect Potions Megaways is 20p to £50 per spin. To adjust their bet levels, players can use the bet changing tool located to the right of the reels. It is identifiable as a button with a pile of coins on it.
Further information regarding the slot, including a display of the paytable, can be viewed via the settings button above the bet changing option. The spin and auto spin buttons are located directly to the right of the paying window. The return to player percentage for Perfect Potions Megaways is 96.31% which is better than average. The volatility for this game is rated somewhere in the middle of the spectrum. The biggest payout that players can win on one spin is 72,000 x your total stake.

Features

There is plenty of bonus content available in this slot. The simplest bonus, however, and the one that will be triggered most often is the cascading reels feature. Every time that you score a winning combination, the symbols that were involved in that win are removed from the reels and immediately replaced by new ones from above. The cascade feature will continue until the new set of symbols does not trigger a win.

The real action for this slot however is courtesy of the Potions Reel modifiers. Each spin you will notice that somewhere between 1 and 5 of the red and blue potion symbols will pop up above reels 2 - 6. As you know, if you create a winner, a cascade will then follow. However, as part of the cascade, the reels that had winning symbols on will drop their potions onto the reels, into the lowest position available. If a potion hits the bottom of the reels its colour determined modifier will be triggered.

The Blue Modifier feature doubles the size of the reel on which it was triggered (it doubles the number of symbols within it). The symbols are then active for the following cascade. In addition, a red potion is added to the reels above and can fall in the ensuing cascade.

The Red Modifier feature on the other hand if triggered transforms the entire reel into wild symbols. A payout and cascade then follow with the natural addition of a red or blue potion added to the top of the reels.

The last feature is the free spins feature. To activate this feature players must land 4 of the scatter symbols on the same cascade set. The more scatters that you managed to land, the more spins are awarded to you. The maximum number of spins you can be granted is 15 for collecting 6 scatters.

If you trigger the Blue Potion Modifier in the free spins round, the expanded reels will remain for the duration of the feature. If you trigger the red potion on the other hand in this feature, this will activate the Megaways Multiplier. This feature applies a growing multiplier to your score. You can also retrigger the free spins feature by landing additional scatters. There is no limit to the number of times that you can retrigger this feature.
In some countries there is also a feature buy option, however, this is not available in the UK.

Conclusion

Perfect Potions Megaways has a great deal going for it. Not only is this game a Megaways slot with an amazing potential for a huge number of pay lines, but it also has added multipliers and a free spins game that has all the same modifiers active as in the base game. Players will ideally want to get into the free spins game and get that Megaways Multiplier going to find those top wins. This mechanically excellent game is also wrapped up in a great theme with crisp and detailed graphics. A top slot as far as we are concerned!