Original Release: Pragmatic Play, 2022
Cluster wins, a tumble feature and hot anime girl in a skimpy bikini are the key features of this game
Wild Beach Party (Pragmatic, 2022)
Where to Buy: Play for free online at Pragmatic Play’s site
Review by: C. M0use
Wild Beach Party is aesthetically similar to Pragmatic’s Starlight Princess, which we’ve previously looked at, in that it’s got a girl standing alongside the action who occasionally emotes for wins but mostly just kinda lurks there quietly and observes you. The valkyrie-space princess or whatever is swapped out for a bikini animu girl with big jubblies however, and the actual gameplay has some substantial differences: a larger 7×7 playfield, and it now works on a system of “clustered” line wins of at least five symbols touching each other. But it retains the same “tumble” feature where any line wins disappear from the playfield, dropping more symbols down that could generate additional wins.
The Bejeweled / Columns theme is also dropped in favor of young pineapples and bananas ripening in the Caribbean sun. Don’t expect to get the animu girl naked by the end of this song, she’s just here for the cash (it’s really not THAT wild of a party). But when you hit some bonus spins, nighttime falls and she changes into her party outfit (which is actually less revealing).
It’s a high volatility game, due to needing so many symbols to connect to create a payline (and thus a lot of dead spins). You’re basically chasing bonus spins and some huge hits generated by wild symbols to catch up; wilds only seem to appear AFTER a win, when new symbols drop onto the board. This can happen in a chain where it starts at 2x and then doubles each time all the way to 256x. During free spins it starts at 3x and can triple all the way up to 729x. You get anywhere from 10 to 25 free spins depending on how many scatter symbols popped up, and these feature can be quite generous when they appear … but be prepared to spend a bunch of money getting to them.
Though it doesn’t cross any lines, this is definitely sexier than slot theming is usually willing to get, and Pragmatic continues to prove themselves to be Friends of the Animu. Would be more fun if the girl progressively got more trashed as the game went on and the girl did increasingly wild party things, but c’est la vie. I do like the calypso-y music, which kinda sounds like Monkey Island meets Mega Man.
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