Banana Rock Slot

Banana Rock is a 5 reel and 10 payline slot from Play'n Go. First time I tried it was at Videoslots freeroll battle as I had never heard of the game before, I also think it's not a very popular game, but I like it based on the fact that it's very friendly for low-rollers with it's minimum bet of 10 cents and the base game feature as well as the bonus round.

The game is inspired by music theme and monkeys, quite an interesting combination if you ask me. The graphics are nice and color scheme is quite eye-catching. I've played this game on numerous occasions especially when my balance is low as the games' base feature can give a small but decent balance boost. The feature I'm talking about is the multiplier respin- whenever you get two wilds on the reels, you will get a free respin and one of the wilds will climb their way to the other, sometimes the wilds are completely away from each other so it's possible to get a wildline or a 5oak hit. Does it pay much? Not really. In most occasions, 5oak wins pay anything from 5x-20x bet but as I said, with a small balance it's still not bad and the feature comes up very frequently in my experience. It definitely makes the base play more interesting at least for me.

I also enjoy the bonus round the game offers. First of all, you only need 2 scatter symbols and they only land on reels 1 and 5. For that you get 10 free spins, there's no multiplier for them which is a shame, however, every time you get a stacked reel of one of the top symbols, they will increase the encore spin multiplier. For each scatter you get an additional spin, which is good. The last spin you play is called Encore spin and there you get 1 free spin with only top symbols on the reels and the spin win is multiplied by your collected encore multipliers. I've had a few bonus features with 10x encore multiplier, but in most cases the encore spin is only 3oak so the win isn't that big. However, I've seen other players landing a full line of top symbols with a high multiplier and that's where the game's potential lies within. But in my experience you need to be quite lucky to land it. But even so, I usually end up with several extra spins in the bonus round, few re-spins with wilds and the average bonus win is from 30x-60x bet which I don't really complain about.

Overall I do enjoy this game. It's not a game I reach out for on most sessions simply because I've never had a win over 150x bet, however, I do like to play it with low balance and I enjoy the gameplay.

This game from PlaynGo should have been more appropriately entitled Monkey Rock, as it's all about rocking monkeys, but never mind. So where does the banana comes in? Well, it's a scatter symbol in the game, appearing only on reels 1 and 5, and awarding 10 free spins. The multiplier for these free spins is the accumulated multiplier collected for each monkey symbol after each of its win, up to a maximum of 5x multiplier, but payable only for wins of that corresponding monkey symbol! Not that good an idea I would say - a few of the wins that I had gotten during the free spins didn't get any multiplier at all, so that sucked!

Anyway, not everything is that bad about this game. After completing all that 10 free spins, there is still one last free spin given - the Encore Spin, whereby all the accumulated multipliers are combined together, up to 25x maximum, and playing only with the monkeys symbols. If there's going to be a big win, it would most probably come from this Encore Spin! However, the top symbols, the Wild and the Yellow Monkey, pay only 40x the total bet, for a maximum possible win of 2500x for the entire free spins game, and not for any one single win! Sheesh! That's not so good either, because getting all Wilds or all Yellow Monkeys would only pay 400x the total bet per spin! See how misleading that 2500x max win indicator can be?! And this is now typical of almost all new games from all game providers - so read between those lines carefully!

Without going into too much details about this Banana Rock game, I can honestly say that my one and only play on it went quite okay, it was quite fun and quite pleasant, all except for the lowish payouts! All I could get was a low 57x win from one of the free spins games, whilst all other payouts were not worth mentioning at all! Nonetheless, I must admit that I also like the colourful graphics and animations in the game, vibrantly and well presented, so this should keep many players happy playing the game, for a while at least, before the low payouts start to take its toll, hehehe.