Release the Kraken 2 rattles along at a fast pace. Despite its high variance there are enough features to keep things interesting even when the payouts aren’t landing your way.
When you start spinning look out for the Kraken Wilds. We never landed 3 or more in a payline but they did come in handy to complete lines with some of the high value symbols from the paytable.
But importantly, they also come as stacks in a feature called Shifting Stacked Wilds which is basically Nolimit City’s xNudges with a big octopus.
Before the Shifting Stacked Wild arrives you’ll know it’s coming as a warning flashes up on the screen. Then, after your spin you’ll see part or all of the stack showing. It nudges into place, and with each nudge it increases a win multiplier value by 1x. You can land up to 3 at a time on reels 2, 3 and 4. In this case their multipliers are added together before being applied to your win. We landed two on reels 2 and 3 and earned a £13.57 win from 20p which you can see in this shot.
Release the Kraken 2 Shifting Staked Wilds WinOnce during our session we also encountered the Guaranteed Win feature. This only happens rarely on non-winning spins. The Kraken shuffles across your screen and re-arranges the symbols to form a win of 20x to 50x. It is apparently possible to get handed 3 scatters this way too to open up the free spins round.
Another feature that proved elusive was the Wild Re-Spins. You need to land four or more wilds on the reels on one spin to unlock this. In this case, each wild stays on the reels but moves to a new position before the re-spin. If more wilds land then another re-spin will take place. This continues until no more wilds land.
The quality of a Wild Re-Spins feature really depends on how many you get and how lucky you get with the re-spin. However, with at least four in play this has potential to drive some nice wins even in the base game.
The highlight of any session is likely to be the Free Spins round where you get 40 paylines, sticky wilds and a new Golden Wild which adds a 1x multiplier each time it lands.
This bonus has quite a complex triggering system that reads like something out of Deal or No Deal. The number of free spins and the value or your multiplier in the free spins round are determined by a special game in which you must pick boxes and accept or reject what is offered when they are opened.
Release the Kraken 2 Slot Free Spins PickThe possible contents of the boxes depends on how many scatters landed to trigger the round. Here is what you can get:
- 3 scatters = between 4 and 15 free spins with a multiplier of up to 6x
- 4 scatters = between 5 and 20 free spins with a multiplier of up to 10x
- 5 scatters = between 6 and 20 free spins with a multiplier of up to 10x
You’ll have a choice of 16 boxes each containing one configuration of free spins and multipliers. Just like the gameshow, you must pick one box and then choose to accept or reject based on its contents. If you reject, some boxes are removed and you choose again. This process repeats until you choose a box.
In our case we chose to accept the first offer we had which proved to be a mistake as we only got 6 spins and a 1x multiplier! Even with 40 paylines this resulted in just a 96p win! Sometimes it pays to take a gamble! You can see the stages of the round in these screenshots.
Electing for your first deal doesn’t always pay! Just 6 spins and 1x multiplierNevertheless it was a fun feature and the added a level of jeopardy and self-determination to an event that is normally at the mercy of the game engine.
