Megaways Bushido Princess

Megaways Bushido Princess: Slot Overview

Bushido was the samurais' code, a set of morals or ideals they strove to adhere to, like bravery, obedience, and self-discipline. Mix bushido with an actual princess, and you've probably got quite a warrior on your hands. Thanks to software provider Kalamba Games, players get the chance to find out in Megaways Bushido Princess. This one takes players to a stunning location to experience feudal Japan while it slings an arsenal of features and winning potential at them along the way.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, of course, but Megaways Bushido Princess is an excellent example of the talents possessed by Kalamba Games' art and sound team. The base game takes place in a harmonious environment, very delicate, like a single cherry blossom petal floating gently to the ground after being released from a tree. As well as on-screen cherry blossom trees, a traditional multi-tiered building sits in a calm green park for the base game, and when free spins trigger, Megaways, Bushido Princess gets even more exotic as a huge sun sets over a mystical Japanese landscape. Very pretty and a positive start to the session.

As the name makes abundantly clear, Megaways Bushido Princess is indeed a Megaways game with a varying number of symbols and ways landing on the grid with each spin. However, Megaways Bushido Princess is a bit more limited than they usually are. Each of its 5 reels may land 2 to 4 symbols, for example, although expanded wild symbols can increase the capacity. At full whack, Megaways Bushido Princess can have up to 16,000 ways to win on its grid. When picking a stake, the options are 10 p/c to $/€25, though players can also elect to activate level 2 of the HyperBet, doubling the stake. On the lower HyperBet level, the wild's max multiplier is x8; on the higher HyperBet level, it is x10. With a highly volatile math model, RTP clocks in at 96.26% or 96.33% with the HyperBet level 2.

For the vast majority of the time, Megaways Bushido Princess pays left to right from the leftmost reel. The exception is when it may pay right to left from the rightmost side when triggered by having 3 Expanded Wild Columns, as detailed below. The low pay symbols are 9-A card ranks, awarding 0.5 to 2 times the bet for a 5 symbol hit, while the high pays are a fan, a musical instrument, some blades, a ninja star, and swords, awarding 2.5 to 6 times the bet for a 5 symbol hit. Wild symbols substitute all symbols except scatter symbols and K-CASH symbols.

Megaways Bushido Princess: Slot Features

Wilds are one of Megaways Bushido Princess' most important symbols. When a wild hits, there is a chance it expands to cover all positions on its reel, converting to an Expanded Wild Column. Each Expanded Wild Column has a multiplier which indicates how many instances of wild symbols the column represents - up to 6 or 8 depending on the HyperBet level. After an Expanded Wild Column triggers in the base game and any wins are paid out, it locks in place while all other reels respin. If the multiplier on the Expanded Wild Column had not reached its maximum value, it increases for each respin. When reels 2, 3, and 4 have Expanded Wild Columns on them after regular pays have been made, there is a chance a Right to Left Ways payout occurs.

K-CASH

K-CASH symbols land with monetary prize values. When at least one Expanded Wild Column is in view, all K-CASH symbols on the reels are awarded. This is done for each Expanded Wild Column on the grid.

Free Spins

Landing a scatter symbol on both reels 1 and 5 triggers free spins. At the lower HyperBet level, 6 free spins are awarded; at the higher HyperBet level, 8 initial free spins are awarded. In free spins, if an Expanded Wild Column triggers, +3 additional free spins are added to the remaining amount. Respins are not triggered. Instead, the Expanded Wild Column locks in place until the three marks it displays are emptied.

Buy Bonus

The bonus buy is where players may buy 6 free spins with an x8 max wild multiplier for 37.2x the bet (RTP 96.55%), 8 free spins with an x10 max wild multiplier for 107.6x the bet (RTP 96.66%), or 10 free spins with an x10 max wild multiplier for 134.2x the bet (RTP 96.77%).

Megaways Bushido Princess: Slot Verdict

Megaways Bushido Princess has a few unusual oddities for the Megaways cork sniffers out there to tinker around with. For one, its grid has fewer symbols, reels, and ways than usual. Why? It's hard to say, but Kalamba Games' numbers team has deigned it so, perhaps, to accommodate everything else Megaways Bushido Princess has on offer. Kalamba Games quite often does a bit of mathematical chicanery with its slots. Things like oddly priced bonus buys or features affecting HyperBet options and so forth. One thing about Megaways Bushido Princess, which may grate, is that you'll need to use the higher-cost HyperBet if you want the chance to get x10 wilds. Without them, it is impossible to push Megaways Bushido Princess' gaming grid to its full capacity 16,000 ways to win (outside of buying the x10 free spins features).

At double the cost, some gamblers may not be super keen to do so and will end up playing Megaways Bushido Princess under an ever-present spectre of grid limitation. For the majority of the time, this is unlikely to make a game-changing difference, though it's impossible to gauge the full extent of what's potentially being missed out. Do you need all of those ways to hit the 30,000x the bet max win, for example? You'd think not, technically speaking, but again, it's hard to definitely say either way. Not so sure about the K-CASH feature, too. No one's going to turn down instant cash prizes, but it feels a little out of place, perhaps?

What's clearer is a link between Megaways Bushido Princess and Quickspin's Sakura Fortune and Sakura Fortune 2. Both share expanding wilds with respins action, and the theme is very similar as well. You'd think then there'd be a crowd of gamblers lining up to give Megaways Bushido Princess' Japanese-themed, warrior princess-powered action a whirl. If so, the game has got an interesting interplay between its various features, a somewhat unique Megaways setup, and masses of winning potential to slice through.