For me, Def Leppard Hysteria has been built for mass market appeal. Its mid-range variance and the simple Wild-based features mean this game will have a broad appeal. It is certainly easier to understand than your average Nolimit City game for example and if you have played any other Cluster Pays slots then you will get the hand of it in no time.
Cascading Wins
Central to the gameplay is the Cascading Wins mechanic – after every win, symbols in a cluster are removed from the grid to be replaced with new ones that drop down from above. The whole grid shuffles round to accommodate the new symbols which might create more clusters. If so, the process repeats. And so on, until no more wins appear!
Break It Up – Consolation on Non-Winning Spins
This next big I love – because Play n Go have added a dash of good will to the game. So that,
even non-winning drops might be rewarded because with the Break It Up feature, when no clusters form, between 3 and 6 wilds are added at random to the grid.
It’s a generous idea though I should add that in testing it definitely doesn’t happen ALL the time!!
Triggering the Break It Up BonusFire Me Up – Collect Symbols To Earn Extra Wilds
Then, there is a ‘meter’ feature, a bit like you find in the ‘Toonz series. This is called Fire Me Up. One symbol is picked on every spin and when wins that include that symbol occur, the meter to the side of the grid is filled. Now … when this happens FOUR times, the meter is full and 3 to 6 wilds are added to the grid.
Triggering the Fire Me Up BonusPour Some Sugar on Me Free Spins With Multiplier Wilds
In the style of Big Time Gaming, Play n Go have named their bonus round after a famous Def Leppard song – Pour Some Sugar On Me. It’s an excellent way to weave gameplay and theme together.
I really like the activation mechanism here too. First, spotlight positions exist on each spin which spell out the word S-U-G-A-R. To trigger the round you will need to cover every letter from the word over the course of a spin and subsequent Cascades.
That gets you ONE free spin.
The meter is active again, but this time you get Progressive Multiplier Wilds AND … as these Multiplier Wilds drop down a row on the grid with each cascade, the multiplier increases by 1x, up to 7x maximum.
Why do I like this so much? Because there is plenty of room to build big wins where 2, 3 or more multiplier wilds combine in one cluster. That’s where you are going to build towards your 10,000x max win. You’ll see this in action in the 200 test spins below, though the overall win was just 61.1x in my case.
