Are you always bemoaning how close you came to creating winning combinations that are worth a fortune and feel like you don’t get the rub of the green that you deserve? If that sounds like you, now is your opportunity to enjoy a spot of good fortune as you take possession of a Maneki-neko and Shisa which try to ensure that you leave the reels as a winner every time.

1. Lion Festival Slot Machine
2. Lion Festival Slot Machine 2019

Festival of Good Fortune

Festive Lion by Spade Gaming is an online video slot which has an instant feel-good vibe. There are lots of chances to win even if there’s no progressive jackpot. Simple enough for even newbies to join in but with lots of extras too, this game can be enjoyed by players of all levels of experience. Free to Play Spadegaming Slot Machine Games. The Lion Festival slot machine celebrates an iconic image that has long been popular in China: the lion. Many Chinese festivals have long featured a lion dance and lion-inspired imagery. Like dragons, lions conjure thoughts of strength, luck and good fortune. Celebrate Chinese New Year with Lion Festival, a new slot machine from Blueprint Gaming that belongs to the software company's Jackpot King series of games. The 5-reel video slot has 10 paylines which award wins in both directions, meaning that punters can expect a decent number of winning opportunities as the game spins.

You’ll find yourself entering a Japanese temple for another oriental experience at the hands of Blueprint Gaming, just like their fantastic Super Lucky Frog slot machine, where the Shisa (resembling a mix of Lion and Dog) guards the entrance to protect from evils and misfortune while you attempt to change your luck and you’ll also be in the presence of a white Maneki-neko (which is a cat figurine with its right paw up in the air) with this being a sign of good luck and wealth – the more the merrier, thanks!

The Lion Festival slot machine contains 5 reels with 3 rows and 10 fixed paylines, with all visitors to the temple having to pay an entry fee of between 20p and £500 each time to have the privilege of the Maneki-nako and Shisa protecting you from bad luck, plus rather than only paying from left to right or right to left, Lion Festival will pay winning combinations in either way.

Despite Blueprint Gaming stating that it has a paltry return to player percentage of 92.484%, there is an exciting Wild Respin feature, the Maneki-neko will transform to provide you with more ways to win big and you could even scoop the Jackpot King progressive – just don’t be whining about bad luck again if you’re lucky enough to win it!

A Stunning Oriental Experience

The reels are awash with gold and typical oriental items that you’d expect to see with a Wild Lion (Shisa) appearing on the second, third and fourth reels only and while there are no direct wins for it, its presence will trigger the Lion Respin feature that you can learn more about before.

The other special symbol to be aware of is the Maneki-neko with all of these in view revealing a random symbol, so the more you find on the reels at once, bigger your wins will be. It’s a Geisha girl who is the most valuable of all with her welcoming you to the temple and lavishing you with up to 1000 coins for taking time out of your day. You will also find a golden symbol which represents luck and brings up to 100 coins, Yen coins on a red ribbon and a gold dish which are both wort up to 80 coins, a Taiko (drum) and a lantern which bring up to 50 coins, plus there are bags and boxes to fill with gold coins that are worth up to 25 coins.

Lucky Lions Make the Reels Respin

You’ll be roaring in celebration whenever the Wild Lion appears on the second, third or fourth reels as this activates the Lion Re-spin feature where the Wilds becoming Expanding Wilds to cover the whole reel and remain in place while the other reels respin. If you’re lucky enough to land more Lions whenever this happens the same thing will happen meaning that you could enjoy up to three respins – and with the three central reels covered in Wilds, you’d be extremely unlucky not to land a huge win!

You Could Become a Jackpot King

While you may be disappointed that there is no free spins mode or pick me game included in Lion Festival, the opportunity to be crowned a Jackpot King more than makes up for this. You’ll have the opportunity to scoop the jackpot playing for any stake with the aim being to land a Jackpot King symbol on each of the five reels before then having to land fifteen or more to enter the Wheel King section.

Lion Festival Slot Machine

Here you will be presented with a wheel with cash multiplier segments and three jackpot segments – the Regal, Royal and Jackpot King with you winning whatever the wheel lands on, fingers crossed it’s the big one!

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Much to Roar About?

Lion Festival is pretty basic, even by Blueprint Gaming standards. The elegant design is typical of oriental-themed slots but we have seen the symbols that fill the reels many times before. Combine this with the lack of bonus features and there really isn’t much to roar about aside from the Lion Respin feature.

Lion Festival slot review

Lion Festival slot was lucky fit its name into the online slots catalogue in the first place as we already have the games Lion Dance Festival from Genesis and Lion Dance by Red Tiger. Anyway, having managed to find a spare slot for the title (no pun etc.) Blueprint Gaming have imitated the Oriental theme centred around this Chinese tradition by placing the reels over a temple and I don't need to tell you the type of music you hear as the game plays. We simply need to know whether these Lions will produce a festival of fortune, or one of famine?

On the reels...
The first point to note is that like many Blueprint games this is a 'Jackpot Strike' slot and is linked to a casino progressive. Randomly you may see Crowns overlaying the reels on any spin, from which you pick to either get more spins to collect further Crowns (15 gets you to the Jackpot Wheel) or instant Jackpot Wheel and lastly stop and get a cash award. The Wheel either gives the progressive or a large x stake multiplier.

There are 5 reels of 3 rows each and we have 10 paying lines, working both ways from right-to-left as well as left-to-right. The icons fit the theme well as one would expect and are all stacked. The pays range from 100x bet for a 5-of-a-kind Girl, 10x for the Chinese Character, 8x for both the Tokens and Bowl, 5x for the Lantern or Drum and finally 2.5x stake for the Pouch or Firecrackers.

There are stacked Kittens which will all reveal a mystery symbol when appearing which may or may not create or improve a win.

Dragon re-spins
There are expanding Dragons on the centre 3 reels and these form the Wild. You can tell when one or more is going to land as the reels spin slightly longer. When this occurs any wins are paid and the expanded Wild then remains for a re-spin. Wins are paid again and the process repeats until no futher Dragons appear. This is essentially the same as a game I'm sure you're all familiar with, Netent's Starburst. Both in this feature and the base game you can fill the reels with the top Girl icon to win the maximum pay, 1000x bet.

Our View...
Lion Festival slot has very polished graphics and animations and essentially is a more volatile version of the aforementioned Starburst, with the RTP being far inferior though at 92.48%. Whether intentional or not, I do like the lag on a spin when the Wild(s) are going to land and this re-spin feature is quite frequent, along with the appearance of the mystery Kitten stacks. If you like simple games with a little twist to them and the chance of a big hit, then it won't disappoint. This Lion may roar loudly, but I wouldn't be too frightened...

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