Floating Dragon – New Year Festival, Ultra Megaways, Hold & Spin Overview
Wow. that’s a mouth full! I will refer to this title as only Floating Dragon – New Year Festival after this.
Last year Pragmatic Play released a games called Floating Dragon Megaways Hold & Spin, which was a Megaways version of Floating Dragon – Hold & Spin. Now they released a New Year Festival version. But is this really a new game? To be honest, no, it isn’t. The game only features some minor changes in the theme and offers an ante bet. But that’s all.
The game still uses an Asian theme, but this time no that revolved around kites, but more classical.
The game uses 6 reels that can be up to 6 symbols each. And also an extra 3 rows of symbols above reels 2, 3, 4 and 5. Where the top row only contains blank symbols and wild symbols. The other rows can have any normal symbol. These extra rows of symbols are locked and will be locked and unlocked at random during each spin.
This setup can give a maximum of 147,456 megaways per spin.
You will find standard card symbols, several different Asian symbols and also scatter symbols during the base game. You will also find fish symbols with random cash values on them. These will count as normal symbols, except when free spins are active.
Floating Dragon – New Year Festival comes with a nice maximum payout of 20.000 times your bet.
Floating Dragon – New Year Festival Features
Reactions
Winning combinations is removed from the reels and all symbols fall down. New symbols fall on top and/or are added to the top row of symbols. After this you can get another winning combination and the process keeps repeating until no new winning combinations appear.
Mystery Symbols
Mystery symbols can appear during normal spins and the free spins feature. All instances of these symbols will change into one and the same symbol when they appear.
Free Spins Feature
3, 4, 5 or 6 scatter symbols will award 10, 15, 20 and 25 free spins respectively.
Now a special lady symbol can appear during spins which will collect all values of all fish symbols in screen. After this the lady symbol itself is collected onto a meter on the right of the reels.
Each time you have collected 4 lady symbols you are awarded with 10 extra free spins, which are played after current free spins are finished. And a multiplier will also be added to the new set of free spins. You start at x1, after this this will become x2, x3 and finally x10. After that each retrigger will add a x10 multiplier on top of the last, with no limit.
If you get a lady symbol but no fish symbols, random fish might be added to the screen.
Hold & Spin Bonus
Coin and diamond symbols can appear during normal spins. These only appear on the basic set of reels, not on the top three rows.
If you get 3 or more of these symbols you will trigger the Hold & Spin bonus.
The triggering coins and/or diamonds are held and their values added to your win. After this you get 3 respins where only blank spots and coins and diamonds appear. Each time a new symbol appears, all values, including the held ones, are added to your total win and the respins reset back to 3. Only the triggering symbols are held during all respins.
Feature ends when you run out of respins.
Bonus Buy
Some casinos will offer the option to buy the free spins feature for 100 times your bet. And the Hold & Spin bonus for 120 times your bet.
Ante Bet
You are able to activate an ante bet for 50% of your normal bet. This will increase the chance to get scatter symbols.
Verdict
I’m not sure why this game was released? It’s another one of those Big Bass games, of which there are already plenty. And this one uses the Asian theme, but is almost exactly the same as the other Megaways version.
Maybe they wanted to cash in on the Chinese New Year with this game. But why add the Ultra to the name, it doesn’t have more Megaways or even a higher payout than the other title.
I’m guessing there are enough players that will enjoy this title. I did to. It’s a solid game with some cool features. My only question is, was it needed to release this one?
