Zillard King
By Red Tiger
Overview
Prepare for a cinematic slot experience with Zillard King from Red Tiger, where an colossal creature emerges from the depths to a backdrop of a raging tempest. This visually stunning game immerses you in a dark, atmospheric world, featuring throbbing clouds, crackling lightning, and a menacing sea threatening a defenseless city. Played on a classic 5-reel, 4-row grid with 30 fixed paylines, the game immediately sets a tense stage for an epic battle. What truly sets Zillard King apart is its unique progression system; instead of traditional bonus rounds, you'll collect gold coins to evolve the mighty Zillard Wild, unlocking an extra reel and enhancing your win potential. With Medium Volatility and a Max Win of 3,800x your stake, this slot offers a thrilling journey for players who appreciate unfolding features and a compelling, video game-esque narrative.
Gameplay & Features
The main objective of Zillard King is tocollect gold coinstounlock Zillard Wild upgrades. Gold coinsrandomly appearon the bottom right-hand corner of any symbols on the game grid. If gold coins landon the same spinas a Zillard Wild, they are collected and progress the Zillard Wild Progress Bar.
• Zillard Wild
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The wild replaces any paying symbols to complete winning lines. As gold coins are collected, the Zillard Wild is upgraded in a series of three steps:
Upgrade 1occurs after30 gold coinshave been collected and turns the Zillard Wild into a full reel 1x4 size symbol. Upgrade 2occurs after60 gold coinshave been collected and adds a random multiplier to the Zillard Wild. Upgrade 3occurs after90 gold coinshave been collected and turns the Zillard Wild sticky. It remains locked on the reels until it participates in one win, followed by a non-winning spin. For each consecutive win it participates in, thewin multiplierincreasesup to x20. After the first non-winning spin after at least one winning spin, the Zillard Wild is removed from the reels and reset. Once all of the three upgrades have occurred, theProgress Bar turns into a 6th reel. On this reel,only high paying symbolscan land - no low pays or any wilds appear on it.
• Thunder Wilds
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When a Zillard Wild symbol landsbut there is no win, there is a chance he roars to summonThunder Wildsonto the game grid toguarantee a win. You get3-6 Thunder Wildsif five reels are active, or3-9if the sixth reel has been unlocked
Final Thoughts
For what it is, Zillard King provided quite a fun playthrough. Red Tiger has combined an upgrade element with a dash of cinematography to create a slot with a video game-esque feel. Red Tiger has a soft spot for slots that slowly get better and better the longer you play them, unlocking features as you progress. This is an approach with pros and cons, and in Zillard King, it's mostly positive. Some will argue against having to put in a bit of effort to get to the best bits, which has merit, yet Zillard King's journey was half the fun, and it didn't take obscene amounts of time to progress through the upgrades.
On that note, Zillard King felt quite well balanced between presenting a challenge and dropping enough rewards and upgrades along the way to stay engaged. The actual upgrades themselves are good at providing motivation to keep pushing forward to see what the next one will do. Once you reach the end, there is a danger of interest levels dropping off once you have seen everything. It was a clever move, only dropping high paying symbols on the sixth reel, though, doubling the values of six premium symbol wins over five symbol combinations. Zillard King isn't a massive potential slot, though with max wins at 3,800x stake possible, without a bonus game, potential isn't terrible either.
Some less than great points are the slightly corny way the Godzilla concept has been used, avoiding any use of the G-word to sidestep copyright issues. Doing it this way does give Zillard King a sort of cheap knock-off feel a proper branded slot wouldn't have. But, if this isn't an issue, and you consider the journey to be as good as the destination, then Zillard King's thriller movie flavoured progression system is probably worth a whirl.
