Thank you for the good promo.
The image below represents the biggest X win during 1536 spins on varying stakes, total RTP of sessions 81%, 10 bonuses triggered. 8 out of 10 returned max 50x (usually the bonus guarantee). Based on this run I would not play it again without an incentive (such as this promotion) and the fact that it will eventually be nerfed.
The game in overall reminds me too much of BTG's Donuts. Nevertheless, the bonus guarantee and last spin win multiplier are appealing. Otherwise, the game is only about triggering the bonus. The basegame offers nothing to a random player spinning 100-200 spins for an obvious bonus guarantee around 80% of sessions. I expect the lifetime of this game to be very short, in 6-12 months nobody will really remember it nor play it again.
Some feedback to the publisher SG Interactive:
I have a long history of playing different games on varying stakes in online gaming.
Firstly, Raging Rhino and the original Montezuma used to be my favourites until the notorious HTML5 update. After that, both of those games became unplayable since best return realistically became the bonus guarantee. Obviously you can see a drop during that incident, unless it was intentional nerfing to lose players and income to your company.
Montezuma megaways however is better than Raging Rhino megaways, which offers very low entertainment and realistically low expected returns. Perhaps with Rhino the goal was to offer a game with high X returns, yet the cost for a game publisher is that the lifetime is short in a competitive landscape. In this respect the originals were seriously good games that were played for years until the HTML5 update.
Pros (+) and cons (-) shortly below:
- Game is still buggy and laggy on different browsers
- The wheels on spins and multipliers are heavily rigged against the player: it visually appears equally hard to land on a high amount than a low amount. All 10 bonuses I triggered, were either 12 or 14 spins, therefore my trust in the game is gone. Furthermore, the wheels should visually display the realistic outcomes equivalent to a roulette wheel (e.g. lower amounts in Montezuma should cover larger segments on the wheel).
- Basegame offers nothing to the player
+ The bonus guarantee with the last spin win multiplier are the best features
+ Visually the megaways and the assisting symbols are a sound solution to the megaways structure