Mystic Chief

If there's a picture of a dolphin leaping from the sea, backlit by a full moon, then Mystic Chief could be just the thing – and as always, we don't judge. However, if prairies aren't your area of interest, then Mystic Chief comes across as an unimaginative collection of generic imagery from this slot genre rammed into one place. Sort of like those archaic black and white Western films where white actors were smothered in makeup and spoke broken English to pass off as the indigenous population. The gameplay and features aren't too bad, but you have to dig deep beneath the clichés to find them. The 576 pay ways work well with full reel wilds when they appear, as you might imagine, and landing an expanding wild with a juicy multiplier is icing on the cake. Symbol values aren't massive, so any help you can get to boost them is appreciated. Hitting more than one expanding wild at the same time is technically possible though it was a highly rare occurrence during testing, so don't rely on that to rescue a battered balance. Wild multipliers will no doubt be required to hit the games full potential, which has been capped at 5,000x the bet. Sometimes, the extras can hinder as much as they can help, specifically in super free spins. Since the bonus symbols are sticky but not wild, they block a position on both the first and last reel. The wild transformations they provide are a form of compensation and can lead to positive outcomes, yet they can still be irritating. Then again, the bonus game triggers every 217 spins on average, and not every trigger leads to super free spins, so blocking bonus symbols is not an irritant that will come up too often. If you're in the mood for some average, North American gaming, then Mystic Chief could well be a suitable option. On the other hand, if you prefer games with a drop of thematic originality, then saddle up your horse and spur it till you are miles away from this clichéd reductionism.