Beauty & the Beast is a video slot powered by Yggdrasil Gaming software with 5 reels and 20 pay-lines. The idea hiding behind this dreamy slot is Disney’s most beautiful fairy tale – the Beauty and the Beast. Follow Belle on her adventures as you spin the reels which are set in a famous ballroom of the Beast’s castle during nighttime. Graphics is outstanding, but what else can you expect from Yggdrasil. Give this slot a spin here for free or visit Yggdrasil Gaming Casinos to play for real money.
Before you go on this Disney’s adventure, you are advised to set your bets. Game has a wide betting range. By clicking on "Coin Value +/-" you can set coins size which ranges from 0.01 to 5. "Golden Bet" is used to choose the betting properties of the spin, and "Spin" sets the reels in motion. "Autoplay" option is used to turn the reels automatically without interruption for a chosen number of times.
Golden Bet can be activated and deactivated at any given moment during the base game. The Golden Bet has 3 different features: Boost, Nudge and Boost & Nudge. Boost feature costs 5 additional coins per spin. You can win more in Free Spins mode – start Free Spins with 2 feature instead of 1. Nudge costs 15 coins. Will let you win Free Spins more often. A Free Spin symbol landing just outside the game area is nudged in if it can give you Free Spins. Boost & Nudge costs 30 spins. This combines these 2 previous features to give you the best possible Free Spin mode opportunity.
Wild symbol is framed Mirror. This can substitute for all symbols in the game except for the Free Spins symbol.
Free Spins symbol is represented as a Rose. If you land 3 or more of these, you will trigger Free Spins. The number of spins depends on the number of symbols you land. You can win 10 spins, 10 spins + 1000 coins or 10 spins + 5000 coins. When you trigger the feature you can choose one servant to help you: Blue, Green or Purple servant. Re-triggering the feature will reset the amount of spins to 10 and award you an extra Free Spin Servant. Once you get all 3 servants in Free Spin mode, the feature cannot be re-triggered.
Three characters give you additional features. You have the Butler, the Chef and the Maid. Butler nudges one reel up or down one position to give the best possible outcome. Chef syncs the middle three reels, and Maid places between 2 and 4 Wild symbols in random positions on the reels. One servant can appear randomly each spin during the base game.
Gameplay
Coin Value +/-: Set coins size.
Golden Bet: Set the betting properties.
Spin: Set the reels in motion.
Autoplay: Turn the reels automatically without interruption for a chosen number of times.
Last week “Yggdrasil Gaming” has released its latest video slot “Beauty & the Beast” which is a good opportunity for players to experience new things as this is one of the software developers in this industry who seem to have the word “innovation” written within its internal policies.
Indeed, after finishing my debut with this slot, I cannot hide the fact that I have found this slot tremendously engaging, and of course, that’s due to the special features with which it has been equipped.
Being as concise as possible, in this slot there are 3 features: a butler who pushes some reel one step up or down to get the best possible win; a housekeeper who randomly scatters 2 to 4 wilds over the reels, and finally, a cook who synchronizes the 3 central reels so that the same symbols appear on them.
The above features can happen suddenly and randomly at any time during the base game, but even better, these are also the three features you can choose to apply to your entire round of 10 free spins, and the best is the fact that during your round of free spins it is possible to have 2 or 3 servants working simultaneously in case you manage to re-trigger the feature either on one or two occasions.
But fun does not end there because Yggdrasil has decided to give the player the possibility to choose between four types of bet: Normal, Boost, Nudge, and Boost & Nudge; “Boost” grants the right to choose two servants at the start of free spins; “Nudge” advances or returns one position on any reel in case that in such place is the last scatter necessary to trigger the free games round, and finally, Boost & Nudge combines the last two functions. For Boost option, you have to pay 5 additional coins per spin, for Nudge function 15, and for Boost & Nudge 30 coins.
The volatility of this game depends largely on the type of bet you choose, the most volatile option is the Boost & Nudge bet as your bet is higher but you also gain access to more free spins rounds and usually, prizes are also better because you have two servants from the beginning of them.
Personally, I have thought that winnings during the base game are acceptable and during free spins as well; in this latter, I have managed to win between 30 and 40 times my total bet when paying the Boost & Nudge bet, and I have also got wins equivalent to more than 120 times my total bet in normal bet mode.
In the end, I have only been able to win a few dollars, but being objective, I think this is a game with a good risk-benefit ratio, and even, this slot also seems to be a good alternative to try to clear some bonuses, this if we play it in normal betting mode.
In general, this game offers different possibilities to each type of player and I think we can even take more advantage of it just by familiarizing with it a little better. For the moment, I think it's a slot that deserves a shot at least.