Delicious Candy PopWins

Around the time of this review, there'd been a number of candy-related releases, as if some game makers could not get sweet stuff off their minds. Naturally, there's no issue with fads and preferences, but repeated use of the same imagery and atmosphere can blunt the impact after a while. So it was with Delicious Candy PopWins. It didn't help that the game also came across as somewhat half-baked. Closed-door meetings between Stakelogic and AvatarUX sparked by the copycat slotMystery Dropresulted in Stakelogic licensing the PopWins mechanic. With Delicious Candy PopWins, it felt like Stakelogic phoned it in due to some sort of contractual obligation rather than desiring to pour its heart and soul into a sugar-coated PopWins wonderland. To be sure, this is pure conjecture, just thinking out loud why Delicious Candy PopWins failed to provoke much excitement. Along with the run-of-the-mill visuals, the studio has done little with the features as well. The PopWins mechanic is there popping away, doing its thing, building rows and ways, but not much else apart from the basics. Free spins benefit from the win multiplier, though it's pretty safe stuff. Add a multiplier to the bonus round, and increase it after wins or reaching max reel height. Job done, paint by numbers, whatever you want to call it. No one's questioning the power this combo of mechanics has; max win tops out at10,000x the bet, after all, it's just that, in the world of PopWins, there are a number of more enthralling choices to go for. And so concludes Stakelogic's third official PopWins outing, and so far, the results have been fairly uninspiring, paling in comparison to what the originator of the mechanic is doing. This really is AvatarUX's baby, and the studio has clearly fallen for the mechanic, pushing it out with just about every new release, testing new themes, twisting features, and just getting straight-up experimental with the whole concept, so far overshadowing Stakelogic's utilisation of it.