Tiger Legends: Slot Overview
Some say the most famous tiger in the world was a big cat named Machli (also known as Machali), the ‘Queen of Ranthambore’, who lived to be 19 years old and whose popularity apparently helped earn India $10 million a year from tourists interested in the Bengal tigress. One of Machli’s most famous acts was killing a 14-foot crocodile in 2003, the first record of a tiger doing so. Ah nature. Anyway, if that, for whatever reason, has got you in the mood to take a punt, then Tiger Legends from developer Hacksaw Gaming could be just the answer. In this dojo-based slot, a premium symbol expansion feature helps create wins in a game of combat, honour and whatnot.
Players take a step into a wooden-posted dojo when deciding to spar with Tiger Legends, where trees with pink flowers adorn a blue-skied background while sending petals floating in across the screen. Instead of a Mr Miyagi type leading the lesson, we’ve got a tiger sensei teaching us today’s kata. Other animal warriors appear, but only on the reels, where they’re used as premium paying symbols. When free spins trigger, the scene more or less stays the same, with the exception that night sets in. Overall, the ‘fighting’ atmosphere is a cute and friendly one, compared to, say, Slayers INC or Fist of Destruction‘s more serious smash-your-face-in vibe.
Tiger Legends is a ways game played on a 5×4 grid utilising 1,024 ways to win, and this factor is critical given the features it has to offer. The math model is medium volatile, and when betting 10c to $/€100 per spin on the highest return configuration, players can expect a theoretical RTP value of 96.3%.
Five card royals and four animal Warrior symbols are Tiger Legends’ paying symbols. More specifically, the royals are 10 through Ace, awarding 0.3x the bet for 5 OAK, while the animal Warriors are Whisk the Rat, Jinx the Monkey, Boulder the Ox, and Fang the Tiger, awarding 1.5x to 10x the bet for 5 OAK. A wild scroll lands on any reel. Five wilds in a winning combination have the same payout value as the tiger, and wilds are also able to replace any regular paying symbol.
Tiger Legends: Slot Features
Tiger Legends unleashes Expanding Legendary Frame Warriors, two bonus rounds – Claws of Destiny and Battle of the Beasts, as well as several feature buys.
Expanding Legendary Frame Warriors
When a high pay Warrior symbol lands with a Legendary Frame, it expands into a Legendary Frame Warrior if the symbol is part of at least one win. These symbols expand upwards to the top of the grid. Legendary Frame Warriors on the top row count as regular high pay symbols. Only one Legendary Frame can be present on a reel at a time.
Bonus Game – Claws of Destiny
10 Claws of Destiny free spins are triggered by landing 3 FS scatters in the base game. This bonus round retains the base game mechanics, plus there is a greater chance of landing Legendary Frame Warriors. In both of Tiger Legends’ bonus rounds, landing 2 or 3 FS scatters awards +2 or +4 free spins, respectively.
Bonus Game – Battle of the Beasts
This bonus round is triggered by landing 4 FS scatters in the base game, and 10 free spins are awarded. As well as having the features from Claws of Destiny, when a win occurs and a Legendary Frame Warrior expands, all symbols of the same type expand into Legendary Frame Warriors.
Feature Buys
Tiger Legends’ feature buys are BonusHunt FeatureSpins, which make each spin 5 times more likely to trigger a bonus round for 3x the bet, The Paw-er Within FeatureSpins, which guarantee at least one Legendary Frame Warrior for 50x, Claws of Destiny for 80x, or Battle of the Beasts for 250x.
Tiger Legends: Slot Verdict
Despite a charismatic karate crew, Tiger Legends was one of Hacksaw Gaming’s lesser impressive releases. There just isn’t much that’s overly special about Tiger Legends, whatsoever. The lack of ‘bruh, check this out’ was strangely absent during the review, with not even a minor modifier or major mechanical revolution to get hugely excited about. The studio absolutely adores expanding symbols; this effect can be found in a significant number of its games. Usually, though, they do more than just expand to the top of the reel, and that’s it. Generally, they come with a multiplier, or they’re wild, or something. It was actually a bit odd reading over Tiger Legends’ paytable, and the first reaction was ‘is that it?’
What does improve the situation is that Hacksaw Gaming has given Tiger Legends a ways to win system rather than paylines, and 1,024 is a lot more than the 14 or so that often end up in the studio’s games. With no access to multipliers or expanding wilds, then you’re going to need as many ways as possible linking winning symbols together to get any sort of jollies out of playing Tiger Legends. Admittedly, it has a sizable 10,000x the bet win cap, which is available in every game mode, no less, meaning the tools it’s got can definitely get the job done. But still, with a limited number of features, a lack of wild new mechanic, and no hidden bonus round, Tiger Legends felt underdone by Hacksaw Gaming standards.
But hey, not every slot release can be a bleeding-edge trailblazer, so let’s cut the studio some slack. Tiger Legends was a satisfactory animals doing karate chops game, but then again, it was a bit unsatisfactory as well, given Hacksaw Gaming’s towering reputation.
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