Wicked Tales: Dark Red Introduction
Wicked Tales: Dark Red is the result of a Microgaming and Triple Edge Studios collaboration. If you recognise the game, it’s because it’s a re-skin of another Microgaming slot, although the payouts and mathematics have been slightly altered. Some of you will likely be able to tell that it’s related to Microgaming’s Halloween just by looking at the first screenshot. Maybe the discussion at the Microgaming office went down something like this:
- Microgaming: um, so how’s development going? Things are a bit slow over here and we need to churn some crap out.
- Triple Edge: to be honest sir, most guys are on vacation so yeah (scratches head awkwardly), but we have this 100x potential Kitty slot we’re working on, will be fabulous!
- Microgaming: Nah, screw that. Kittens are so 2015. Hm, lemme think. Ok, I tell you what. Y’know our smash hit slot Halloween?
- Triple Edge: No.
- Microgaming: Well, take that one, slap on some new graphics and just update that crappy paytable a bit. Voilà!
- Triple Edge: I’m on it sir!
The horror theme is still there so they didn’t stray too far from the original atmosphere of Halloween. As the name suggests, Wicked Tales: Dark Red has a Red Riding Hood fairy tale theme with a dark twist to it. The background is made out of quite a beautiful illustration of the imaginary forest of Ravenmire, with some actual animated smoke coming out of the cabin’s chimney.
Wicked Tales: Dark Red is a 5-reel slot with 25 pay lines. The game has a setup of 3-3-4-4-4 rows, and the Wandering Reels mechanics (which we will explain in detail further below) allows a 3×4 section of the reel set to move left and right which means the setup can change to 3-4-4-4-3 instead for example. Minimum bet is set to €0.25, and the maximum bet is kept at €200, making it suitable for high rollers.
Wicked Tales: Dark Red Symbols & Paytable
There are 10 regular symbols included in the game – a set of 6 low-value symbols and 4 high paying symbols represented by pendants, wolves, torch guy, and sexy Red Riding Hood, the latter being the most valuable awarding a 20x win for 5 across a full pay line. Thumbs up to Microgaming for having a paytable that anyone can understand. Instead of having to calculate coin value and whatnot, it shows the actual value of the symbols in cash related to your current bet size.
There is, of course, also a Wild symbol that does its usual job, as well as a bonus triggering symbol that comes in the form of a Full Moon.
Wandering Reels & Jumbo Blocks
If you’ve ever played Halloween, then you’ve already seen this before. If not, you will likely notice the unusual, and quite innovative we must admit, wheel layout. The Wandering Reels block is a group of 3 reels and 4 rows that spin together, moving randomly left and right with the majority of spins.
More importantly, the Wandering Reels carry so-called Jumbo Blocks which essentially are full 3×4 sets of premiums as can be seen in the image above. With the help of these, it’s possible to land a full-screen top symbol to the total value of 1000 times the stake.
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