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NextGen Gaming seems to love featuring animals from science fiction culture. Recently, on 30 January 2016, I put online a no-download slot machine that follows the peaceful adventures of a dragon.
For the curious, its title is Dragon Drop. This online casino game also offers a very airy graphic chart illustrating a pretty green meadow. With its particularly playful gameplay, this video slot offers two great features which are wilds and free games.
Today, April 13, 2016, online gambling publishers NextGen Gaming are bringing the same cutlery to the table with A Dragon's Story. A game of chance that features 2 protagonists. The one who is in the lead and as we can well imagine from these last lines is a dragon.
Again, this animal is harmless as it is in the Dragon Drop universe. But there is one condition for this character trait to last in time. That is to not have the ambition to steal his treasure while he is sleeping.
Physically, this dragon named Ruff in the A Dragon's Story slot gameplay stands upright with the help of his skinny hind legs that support his plump belly. Constantly positioned on his right side, he spends most of his time watching with his mouth half-open and with concentration the unfolding of the game through its 5 reels, 3 rows and 25 fixed win lines.
Clearly in his prime, this fire-eater has a thick red skin that covers about 80% of his body. The second colour that highlights its torso, its horns worn by the years and its small wings is blue. This is a dragon that may appear to be calm, but its true face will be revealed during the course of the game and especially during the process of its special function where juicy prizes will be up for grabs!
The second character in the game content of A Dragon's Story is a knight. Well, he doesn't really have the stature of an old-time fighter and his awkward gestures make him a rather humorous protagonist.
However, he has all the tools of a good knight to go and fight the enemy for hours on end. Rather cowardly on the edges because I must admit it, this iron man is equipped with an armor of several kilos, a sword, a protective helmet and a chain mail. From time to time, he will try to outsmart the others by lowering and raising the protective visor of his full face helmet.
An attitude that will prove to be in vain against the dragon. Instead, he will be taken for the king of the jesters by the old dragon who will not be able to help but laugh at him before he returns with a fire in his castle lost in the middle of the nearby woods.
This pseudo-knight is called Sir William in the slot A Dragon's Story and his aim is to go in search of a huge treasure, alone of course. He is aware that the treasure is guarded by a dragon, but he doesn't really know where the treasure is hidden.
A wealth beyond comprehension where precious stones, valuable objects and gold coins are in perfect harmony to form a thick carpet. The graphic design presents a background that strongly suggests that we are in a very remote place in the middle of nature and especially far from view. From the outset, A Dragon's Story slot presents its players with a challenge of their own, which is the following.
Protect Ruff's (dragon) treasure against the reckless Sir William to win big!
You don't really need much more explanation to understand that A Dragon's Story online game has some great features revolving around this challenge. Other than the visual aspect and that little phrase that leaves you wondering, A Dragon's Story Money Game offers a fairly large range of bets from £0.25 to £50.
As I mentioned at the beginning of the paytable, A Dragon's Story is a video slot that is built with 5 reels, 3 rows and 25 paylines. As far as its lines are concerned, they cannot be activated manually, which means that they have to be activated constantly during the different episodes of the game. Only one setting point is available and it is based on denomination values from 0.01 to £0.25.
NextGen Gaming is quite renowned in the online gambling industry for offering as a recurring but oh-so-effective feature to win money in the long run the famous Super Bet. As far as A Dragon's Story is concerned, this option is available with and as always a unique way of presenting itself between each slot gameplay.
On this carpet of gold coins lies the game's interface and underneath its 5 reels are green coloured junior dragons. By default, A Dragon's Story's Super Bet is not activated, but that doesn't stop you from being able to play with a small dragon that is at the foot of the centre reel.
Pressing the Super Bet button located in the bottom right hand corner of the screen will trigger its first position and release 2 new dragons which will then move to the bottom of reels 2 and 4.
A little staging is to be appreciated when they are activated, with these purely fictional animals coming out from underneath this big pile of solid gold coins. The second position, the last of the Super Bet, offers an opportunity to release 2 more dragons.
They will be placed under the orphaned dragon reels, the first and fifth. Of course, this configuration provides important advantages to increase the chances of collecting new coins. This results in an increasing stake level. The more positions are activated with the Super Bet, the greater the demand for commitment to the initial bet before a spin is made. Of course, the configuration of A Dragon's Story remains 100% fair between the two parties (Players and the slot machine).
In the previous paragraph, I explained how the Super Bet feature works. This option to amplify those winning chances forms a duo with the second feature that I will outline in this new paragraph.
The junior dragons located at the foot of each reel allow to boost them. Yes indeed, because at the end of each rotation or spin, these little beasts will take advantage of it when they feel the need to spit a fireball on the height of their respective reel. This will have good repercussions in the gameplay of A Dragon's Story as the icons hit by fire will turn into wild icons.
Simple wilds that will offer a sure way to significantly improve the odds of making a profit. A second form of wild can also be used in the game. It is very easily identifiable in the middle of the 5 reels of the A Dragon's Story slot as it is illustrated by the head of the old red dragon.
The role of this second substitute icon will be identical to the one represented by the green dragons. However, the wild red dragon icon will take advantage of its presence on the reels to release lots of chips. At the maximum, this icon will be able to give away 2000 chips by clicking 5 times on the interface.
Free games can be created at any time during the game and will double all prizes.
The only condition for this aspect of the game to come to life during these 10 free spins will depend on the presence of scatter icons on the video slot wheels.
These icons, which symbolise the gateway to the free spins in this video slot, are represented by a jewel with magical properties. When 3 of these symbols appear anywhere on the 5 reels of the game, the free spins can begin. The interface will not change much in terms of appearance, but the little dragons will still add their touch.
They will have the power to come and kiss the 5 over boosted reels of the game. This is a way for them to spawn a significant amount of wilds as the whole idea of the multiple actions of these allies is to significantly increase the payout power of the three dimensional slot machine.
As with the example of the red dragon driven wilds, the scatters will be able to deliver chip packs. At the maximum of 5 times on the screen, the scatter items are sure to offer up to 2500 coins.
Let's go back to the introduction of this A Dragon's Story online slot paytable to refresh our memories. I had mentioned a challenge that the game sets from the beginning. A challenge that is to protect the treasure of Ruff the hundred year old dragon at all costs.
In exchange for which there are big profits to be made! The special feature (Sir William's Bold Bonus) will start the ball rolling. There are no symbols or minimum bets required to access this feature. This option can open at the end of each spin, which leaves it a completely random activation in the game.
When this special feature is activated, Knight William will appear before the dragon with a menacing look. With his sword of fortune, he will try to dissuade the dragon to leave him his treasure. Not a fraction of his fortune but all of it, of course.
This is unthinkable for this dragon and to answer him frankly he will expel him from his lair by spitting fire at him. But it is the players who will allow this cinematography to continue by choosing 1 of the 3 flames in the centre of a flaming circle.
There is a blue, an orange and a purple one. Once the choice has been validated by pressing the mouse, the little scenario will continue. The dragon will go to the bottom of its throat to send a spray of fire of the colour chosen beforehand on this picturesque knight.
The latter will have fire on his feet and his back will be nothing but flame. In an attempt to extinguish it and in a climate soaked in humour, he will start spinning like a tornado in the middle of the golden carpet. This will have no positive effect but will make it worse.
On the other hand, coins will suddenly start to be expelled from the huge pile where all the red dragon's wealth lies. These priceless little coins will be weightless and will be deposited in the players' coffers.
NextGen has really pulled out all the stops for this new title! The graphics are generally of exceptional quality. The protagonists are in perfect harmony with the elements of the setting. The finishing touches are remarkable and supported by multiple touches of humour.
A Dragon's Story is a particularly entertaining slot that offers excellent gameplay with highly rewarding features. The generosity is great, especially during the free play session where 10 spins are triggered with the Super Bet activated and those junior dragons adding a layer to ensure that the prizes are there.
I loved discovering the graphical content of the special feature with this confident knight who shows glaring signs of weakness against this imposing dragon who is literally folded in half when it sends columns of fire at him and starts running around.
In addition, there are plenty of winnings with an original way of crediting them in the cash register. A Dragon's Story is, in my opinion, a 25 lines cash game that should be discovered by players who like the contact with animals encompassed by these science fiction atmospheres that combine adventure and humour.
