Aztec Falls

Aztec Falls Review

This game follows up on a previous release with a streamlined video slot. You get similar features in both games, including the Pachinko-style element.

A random amount of coins can drop down the Pachinko matrix, awarding cash prizes. A single coin awards 1 of 4 different features, and you’re guaranteed 1 of 4 fixed jackpots when the Jackpot Wheel triggers. You can gamble your jackpot up to 5,000x, but you’ll never go completely empty handed.

Aztec Falls Slot Features

The regular Wild symbol substitutes for all pay symbols and pays 10x your stake for 5 of a kind wins. The Coin symbol can appear on reel 5 only, and it triggers the Coin Drop Bonus feature in the base game.

You will then see a big coin roll towards the center on top of the reels, and it falls into a dark hole before it reappears in a smaller version on the grid. The coin drops down ‘pachinko style’, crashing into pins before it ends up in a Bonus Slot below the reels. This triggers 1 of the 4 following features:

• Wilds - replaces the symbols on the highlighted coin trail with wild symbols.
• Jackpot - Triggers the Jackpot Wheel bonus game (see below).
• Stacked - awards a respin with stacked symbols.
• Multiplier - boosts the current win by x2, x3, x4 or x5.
• Blank - does nothing at all.

The Jackpot Wheel guarantees 1 of 4 fixed jackpots. These are the Mini, Minor, Super and Mega jackpots, worth 30x, 200x, 1,000x and 5,000x your stake, respectively. You can then choose to gamble your jackpot on a red/green segmented Wheel, and winning awards the next jackpot tier (the Mega Jackpot cannot be gambled). If you lose the gamble by landing on red, a mystery prize is awarded as the feature ends.

The Cash Fall Bonus triggers randomly in the base game, and you will see a bunch of coins drop down the pachinko matrix. These coins end up in cash slots worth between zero and 10x your stake, and you win the total sum awarded by all the coins.

You need to land 3 golden pyramid bonus scatters on reels 1, 3 and 5 to trigger the Free Spins Bonus, and this awards 5 free spins. The bonus slot feature works differently than in the base game, as one or more slots will randomly display “wild” at the end of a free spin. A stacked totem wild then comes crashing down filling the whole reel, and it remains in place for the duration of the bonus round. It pays the same as regular wilds, and the free spins round cannot be retriggered.

The 200 Spins Aztec Falls Slot Experience

The Coin Drop Bonus gave us the Jackpot Wheel. We landed the Mini Jackpot, but you can see for yourself how far we took it in the Jackpot Gamble. The random Cash Fall Bonus triggers towards the middle of the almost 4-minutes video, and the Free Spins round starts at 2:45.

Review Summary

We enjoyed the Pachinko element that’s been incorporated into this game, and we hope it gains more traction this time. The innovative concept opens up plenty of opportunities that can be implemented in different ways by different developers. The Cash Fall Bonus has the ‘oddly satisfying’ quality that can partly explain why Pachinko is so popular in certain countries (not least Japan). However, you’ll need the Jackpot Wheel to stand a chance at cracking the 5,000x potential. With only 5 free spins, the most you can hope for is 1,000x in total, so it’s a good thing that you can gamble to increase your jackpot. The Pachinko element steals the show in this release, and we hope it’s developed into a slot/pachinko hybrid concept that can become its own genre.

Max win is not all that high outside of top jackpot

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