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Play'n GO
Play'n GO rates Agent Destiny 6 out of 6 for volatility, and 480 spins at 20.00 were enough to see the shape of that: 68 paying spins, a drought of 48, and a balance that spent the entire run under its opening 25,000. An oversized Safe wild across the middle reels was the only thing that moved it…
Oh boy, where to begin — when finally seizing the chance to play Agent Destiny I had utterly no idea what to anticipate, and I had studied nothing about it prior to my testing. I played it at a flat 20.00 stake throughout. Upon loading the game, my eyes roamed all across the display in order to gather and digest as much detail as possible. Play'n GO put the game out in May 2020. That was an effort to try and comprehend what was in front of me.
This 5-reel, 3-row slot holds 20 fixed paylines. Across my run, 28 of the spins that paid handed back less than the 20.00 that bought them. That means any grouping of three or more matching symbols on a payline grants a win, left to right from reel 1, and with the aid of something termed Mega Symbols a solitary symbol can blanket several of those lines at once.
When it comes to visual craft, Play'n GO usually gets my attention, and Agent Destiny arrives with a spy-thriller audio track and a reelset flanked by its troupe of secret agents.
The 4 low paying symbols are built out of the royal suits J, Q, K and A. My three biggest spins all came out of the characters or the Safe, and none of them out of the cards. The four characters embody the premiums. The largest single win I recorded was 1,500.00, 75 times the stake. The Lady in Green is the most valuable symbol.
The wild is the Safe and stands in for all symbols bar the scatter, while the scatter is a wild scatter and only appears on reels 1, 3 and 5. It earns the wild half of that name by standing in for the card and character symbols as well as opening the feature. Core to the game are the Mega Symbols and the Linked Reels, which I will discuss below.
What you want to watch out for in the main game are the so-called Mega Symbols, and the four character symbols and the Safe wild can all appear oversized, either landing that way directly or emerging out of fused neighbouring stacks. On spin 122 a character Mega Symbol stretched across several lines and paid 900.00, 45 times the stake. Because they are of changeable size they cover extra paylines at once. Quite how large one of them can get is never actually specified anywhere. Then there are the Linked Reels. On spin 368 they held a character symbol across reels 3 to 5 and returned 1,120.00, 56 times the stake. Neighbouring reels show matching symbols and respin together, moving one step per spin.
It requires 3 scatters, on reels 1, 3 and 5, to trigger the Free Spins; they grant 9 of them, and a scatter landing during the feature appends an additional free spin on top. I triggered it once, and no scatter turned up during it to add anything. Linked Reels is live throughout the feature.
Minty’s Closing Thought: 480 spins returned 70.8% of what they cost, with 68 of them paying and 28 of those 68 handing back less than the 20.00 they took — the Safe wild oversized across the middle reels was the single best thing that happened, at 75 times the stake.
Reading this review it might come across as intricate and bewildering. Actually it is not, and sure, it's not the most uncomplicated slot, but it's absorbing and quick paced. The advertised ceiling of 5,000x the stake is the bonus round's total, incidentally, rather than anything one spin is expected to do. The pieces fall into place rather swiftly as you start spinning the reels.
Be cautious, however, as it's a high variance slot (6 out of 6 on Play'n GO's volatility index). That means you are likely to have many lengthy barren spells before landing any decent wins. My own 480 spins proved that out. The balance bottomed out at 20,946.00 along the way. 68 of them paid, and one barren run stretched 48 spins. That one ended on spin 367, and the drought broke on the spin straight after it. The balance never once rose above the 25,000 credits I began with, and I handed back 9,600 credits to get 6,798 in return - a 70.8% session. On spin 266, the one Free Spins round I managed to trigger paid 240 credits, or 12 times the stake. That accounted for 4% of everything the session won back.