Have you ever thought of yourself as the poor man’s Aladdin? Well, if you didn’t feel like such before, then playing Wild Wishes will certainly invoke that idea. Right down to the character-base of symbols that appear on the reels. You’ll certainly feel like you’re in the not-quite-right Disney-less version of the story. Yet, this isn’t by any means a bad thing. Wild Wishes from Playtech has a lot of appeal to it, especially when it comes to the graphics that the developer has chosen to include in the game.
Plus, there’s a lot of Arabian imagery running throughout it, as well as an appropriate soundtrack that plays while you’re gaming. In fact, it all unites together to ensure that you’ll always have a thoroughly enjoyable time while spinning the reels. You remember the story of Aladdin as well, right? Well, he found a lamp and rubbed it to release a genie for three wishes. So, that tells you to be on the look out for a lamp and a genie in this slot offering. But, let’s find out what else the game provides alongside this, shall we?
Arabian Nights, Like Arabian Days
If you do decide to play this Playtech slot, then you’ll see a standard video slot layout of five reels and three rows. A vast majority of online slots have this layout, so it shouldn’t come as any surprise to regular slot gamers. At the same time, the developer has chosen to add 15 pay lines to the game, too. The pay lines are fixed in position, so you won’t be able to customise these in any way. Yet, you do have the option of adjusting the wager that you bring into play on these lines. Just use the buttons below the ‘Total Bet’ section, which will allow you to change the value easily. There, you’re able to select from wagers between 20 cents and $500 per spin. You’ve got the opportunity to make use of an ‘Auto Play’ button and a ‘Turbo Mode’ button as you like, giving you additional game options.
When you look at the visual appeal of Wild Wishes too, this incorporates some of the highest quality graphics that we’ve seen from online slot developers. It certainly stands out as being one of Playtech’s greatest outputs, graphics-wise. There’s a lot going on in the background, with an Arabian town clearly on display. Meanwhile, upon the reels is where you will have the chance to see all of the symbols. There are three lower-paying icons in it, which are shaped like gemstones. There’s a blue one, a purple one and a red one. After this, there’s an icon of two cutlass-like swords laid across one another. A cobra in a snake charmer’s pot comes next on the reels. The three highest paying symbols are the character additions, starting with a villain who looks like Jafar from the aforementioned animated feature film. A female character comes next, dressed in stereotypical Arabian garb, while the Aladdin character makes up the last one. He can provide a maximum reward to you of 750 times your in-play wager.
Now, there was a lot of magic taking place in the original Aladdin story. Then again, there would have to be with a genie in action. Fortunately, some of that magic also takes place on the reels of this Wild Wishes slot game, starting with the inclusion of the wild symbol. This one comes in the shape of the genie character. If he shows up, he will substitute for all other icons in the slot. This means that it works in your favor, helping you to form winning combinations across the reels. The wild will appear in stacks on reels two, three and four in the main game, while appearing across all reels during the freespins round.
You don’t think that the whole lamp idea has been left out, do you? Of course not! Playtech has made sure of this. Any win that you form during the main game will illuminate one of the lamps on display above the reels. This will then award you with a free re-spin of the reels. If you manage to form another win on this re-spin, then another lamp will light up and another re-spin will take place. This continues on as long as you continue forming winning combinations for up to five consecutive wins. If you manage to get four consecutive wins, then you’ll trigger seven freespins in total. Five consecutive wins, on the other hand, will trigger eight, 10, 15, 20, 30 or 50 freespins altogether! When the freespins round is triggered, the row of genie lamps is removed to reveal an extra row of symbols and 25 additional pay lines come into effect! On every freespin, a cloud of smoke is released from a lamp. This smoke cloud will cover several positions on the reels and if a wild icon lands on of these positions, every symbol in the cloud transforms into a wild, too.
Wild Wishes also contains something known as The Feature Bet. This can be activated by pressing the relevant button at the bottom of the reels. Doing so will increase your total overall wager by 10 coins for every 15 coins that you have bet already. With this in action, the first lamp on the top row will remain illuminated, meaning that you only need to form three consecutive wins in order to trigger the game’s freespins round.
We have to say that we’re very impressed with this Wild Wishes game from Playtech. The graphics are very stunning to begin with, but then when you start spinning the reels of it, you will see just how entertaining it is as a game on the whole. Include the special features of the freespins, wild symbol and the Feature Bet option and you’ve got a truly inviting slot to play. Highly recommended by us!
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