Butterfly Staxx 2 is 5 reels and 40 paylines video slot powered by Net Entertainment software. This amazing slot is inspired with gentle and beautiful butterflies, and is a sequel to the original Butterfly Staxx slot. The reels are framed in a gold ornamented bars, and they are set against the mountain landscape as seen from a tower window. The moment you spin the reels you will get back to the delicate yet magical world filled with butterflies. Give this delightful slot a spin here for fun or visit any of the NetEnt Casinos if you wish to play for real.
How to Play Butterfly Staxx 2 Slot
Before climbing up this high tower, you need to set your bets, and here’s how it can be done.
- Coin denominations can be set by clicking Coin Value +/- button, and in combination with Level +/- it will constitute the total bet.
- Max Bet will set the maximum bet available.
- Butterfly button is the spin, and will set the reels in motion after the bets have been set.
- Autoplay will turn the reels automatically for a chosen number of times without interruption.
Slot Features
Colorful Lotus Flower is the Wild symbol in the game and it can substitute for all the symbols in the game except for the scatter. Wild can appear in both the base game and re-spins feature, and can pop up anywhere on the reels.
Respins
Each time a stack of Butterflies land on the reels and cover an entire reel, the Re-Spin will get activated. All Butterfly symbols will fly to the leftmost position on the same row that is not already occupied by a Butterfly symbol and remain on the reels until the end of the feature.
During the Re-spins, if the two leftmost reels are covered with the Butterfly symbols, a second play area will get unlocked. If the leftmost 3 reels of the first play area or leftmost 2 reels of the second play area get fully covered with butterflies, the third area will get unlocked. The additional play areas will continue the game with leftmost reel fully covered with Butterfly stacks.
Butterfly Spins and Frenzy
Rose is the Scatter and if you land 3 of these anywhere on the reels 1, 3 and 5, you will trigger Free Spins. Once triggered, you can get to choose Butterfly Spins or the Butterfly Frenzy features.
During Butterfly Spins only cocoon symbols can land on the reels. Cocoon symbols can be dormant or active. Active Cocoon landing on visible reels will transform into butterflies. All butterflies will fly to the leftmost position on the same row that is available. During Butterfly Spins all 3 play areas will be active.
Butterfly Frenzy will give you a shot to pick Butterflies for a chance to increase total winning amount. If you get "stage upgrade" you will move to another stage. There is a total of 5 stages and each next one awards higher coin wins than the previous. Stage one awards between 10 and 40 coins, stage two between 25 and 50, stage three between 40 and 75, stage 4 between 50 and 100, and last but not the least is stage 5 which awards between 75 and 125 coin wins.
Summary
In terms of design Butterfly Staxx 2 is much like its predecessor - with high quality graphics and great animations. It is still low to medium slot variance with 96.35% RTP. There is nothing thrilling about the game as it is more intended for those who like to wind down after a long day by spinning some reels. However, one thing is certain, if you liked the original, there’s no doubt you will like the sequel.
I never really got a grip on Butterfly Staxx when it was released some years ago. I gave the game many separate plays, attempting to get at least one nice big win from it, but that never came. All my play sessions were disappointing, to say the very least. So when NetEnt released this sequel, Butterfly Staxx 2, I wasn’t really interested enough to even give it a try, but I finally succumbed to my curiosity and gave it one play. Yep, just one play, just to try it out and to see how it would play and pay.
Straight off, I was very disappointed when I saw the win values of all the game symbols – they were extremely low values! The top paying symbol, the Yellow Butterfly, pays only 2x the total bet for any 5 of them, and that is absolutely ridiculous to me! On top of that, both the Wild and Scatter symbols don’t pay anything at all for their appearance on the reels, and the Wild symbol doesn’t double the wins with it either! Paying 2x the total bet for the top-paying symbol is simply unheard of, and NetEnt has now come down to its rock-bottom level!
The only good point (if you can consider this as good in the first place), is that Butterfly Staxx 2 plays with 40 paylines, at just $0.25 bet per spin. The other thing worth considering is that the free spins feature game plays with 3 sets of separate screens simultaneously, so there’s actually 3 times more winning chances, but only for 5 free spins! Argh! NetEnt is really squeezing this game, and I don’t like it at all – the Butterfly Free Spins should award 10 free spins, just as for the 10 picks awarded for the alternative Butterfly Frenzy choice, which I don’t quite like to play anyway! Yes, you get to pick either the Butterfly Free Spins or the Butterfly Frenzy whenever you trigger the feature with 3 Scatter symbols.
Honestly speaking, this Butterfly Staxx 2 game is better than the original Butterfly Staxx, and that 3 play screens can indeed produce some decent wins when the time is ripe. I say decent wins, simply because nice big wins are really a no-no in this game - there are no Win Multipliers, no Retriggers, and no big win values either!