Otters are charming creatures for sure, and it’s therefore a bit surprising that it has taken so long before a developer decided to build a slot around these crafty little buggers. Blue Guru Games delivers an important message with this game as well, namely that the ocean is in desperate need of a solid cleanup job. The otters are up to the task in Otterly Amazing for sure, and you’ll find 4 of them on the reels in addition to the garbage they are cleaning up in the bonus round.
The cleaning happens via the symbol elimination feature, and you can also unlock up to 3 extra rows that expand the grid and increase the number of win ways. Stacked multiplier wilds can also be upgraded to reveal higher multipliers in the feature, and the base game comes with stacked regular wilds. You get stacked mystery symbols in all stages, and the17,752x potentialis hardly anything to complain about either.
The bubbled Otter symbols, which are the 4 premium symbols in this game, pay between 2 and 5 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins. You getWild symbolsthat can land anywhere as well, and wilds step in for pay symbols to help complete and/or improve line wins. Wilds pay up to 10x your stake as well, should you land 5 wilds on the same payline.
In addition, you can landStacked Wild Symbolsin the base game only, and they also step in for pay symbols to help complete and/or improve wins. Neither of the wilds will substitute for the scatter symbol, however, just to be clear.
TheStacked Mystery Kelpis a mystery symbol that can land in all stages of the game. When it appears, all instances of it will turn into a randomly chosen pay symbol.
The Stacked Wild Multiplier Kelp can appear in the bonus round only, and it’s basically a multiplier wild symbol. The kelp substitutes for pay symbols like regular wilds, but it also comes with a multiplier of x2, x3, or x4 that boosts any win it partakes in.
TheBonus Roundtriggers from3+ scattersanywhere in view, and you will then see an Otter open up 3 urchins. This gives you arandom number of free spins up to 20, and you also win3, 10, or 100 x your stakefrom3, 4, or 5 triggering scattersup front, respectively. The big difference in the bonus round is that you will now collect scatters to unlock extra features.
Collect3 Pink Urchin Scattersto get+1 extra spin, removal of a low-value garbage symbol, an extra position for the Stacked Mystery Kelp and Stacked Multiplier Wild Kelp, as well as unlocking1 of 3 extra rows. Unlocking all 3 rows requires 9 pink scatters collected, and this gives you 70 paylines. You will get+1 extra spineach time youcollect 3 pink scattersfrom that point forward.
You can also collect Blue Urchin Scatters during the bonus round, and3 blue scatters collectedawards+1 extra spin. In addition, this gives you +1 added to the multiplier range of the Stacked Wild Multiplier Kelp. This means that thewild multiplierwill bex3, x4, or x5after the first 3 blue scatters have been collected, and so forth. Non-UK players, and anyone eligible, canpurchase the bonus roundfor100x the stake.
You get to see a few smaller wins in the base game, before we purchase the bonus round at 0:50 into the 4:19-minute highlights video. We got the minimum of 3 triggering scatters, and the Otter gave us 10 free spins. You can see for yourself how we fared by hitting the play button below.
It’s not too often you see an online slot that delivers an important environmental message, but that’s exactly what Blue Guru Games has done with this release. The pollution of the ocean is a massive problem, and it would be cool if otters and other sea creatures could be trained to clean up our mess. It would hardly be fair, however, and the sad truth is that we need to get our act together before it’s too late. Anyway, Otterly Amazing comes with an original theme at least, and the subsea visuals are convincing (and a bit depressing with all the garbage).
The otters balance that out nicely with their natural charm though, and you get some decent features to keep you going in the base game. Don’t expect too much from them most of the time though, as this game’s highlight is definitely the bonus round. That’s when the clean the ocean operation commences after all, and the feature can turn lucrative if you’re able to upgrade it above a certain threshold. You can winup to 17,752x your stake, which is respectable, and Otterly Amazing is a pretty enjoyable release with something as seldom as a moral to the story.
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