Played on Leovegas, payout 39x
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"I wake before the dawn, there's a Hampe still on the stream (wall).." Finally it's here! I am biased, but I like it, even tho the payouts are garbage (four bonuses, all below 39x and a wild desire 1x multiplier feature paid 31x). After watching streams with basegame and bonus buys, it appears to be more of a bonus buy game to reach high wins (vs. basebet). Cascading wins with multipliers, bonus buys, "jackpot" features, grinding goals, audio options for music, options for bonuses etc, this surely has them all (and don't call me Shirley). I reminds me of the olden days when providers competed with features and high quality video/audio and collection features hoping to retain players. However, it needs to be pointed out that the original Immortal Romance was a reskin of at least a few identical slots plus Thunderstruck 2 and Finer reels of life deviants.
As an overall experience it offers pretty much everything that can be packaged into a slot. Only thing I was hoping for was the old songs, especially legendary Amber-song could have returned at least with a clip into the bonus tease. Since it was created for Microgaming, copyrights should belong to Microgaming. Yet, as Kathleen Kennedy put it "Less is more", screwing up most hopes for returning featured old/past actors into Rise of Skywalker.
For the mechanics, most tedious thing is the "jackpot" collection garbage. For an experienced player, all extra jackpots are effectively -rtp in basegame. Players spin, collect, grind and trigger a basic feature or bonus and it's typically 15x with a slim chance of getting the wild desire with a high multi for anything respectable. In the old one, the Sarah bonus was worth collecting, at least for me. This one appears to squeeze normal bonuses from basegame too thin. If there is a sequel, remove all jackpots, expand the grid for better cascades (larger than Anvil), set max win 5-6kx for better viral reception of max wins, calibrate wild desire to be a cascading feature (one drop with multipliers and transforming symbols e.g. humans into vampires), decrease options of bonuses into two plus wild desire (4 characters have features, 2 of which can be chosen into a bonus) and most importantly, revive the old songs. Thanks.