Dragon Dance Slot

Dragon dance is a form of traditional dance and performance in Chinese culture, often performed during the Chinese New Year. Chinese dragons are a symbol of China, and they are believed to bring good luck to people, therefore the longer the dragon is in the dance, the more luck it will bring to the community. At first sight, I couldn't remember that I had seen this dance before, but recently, I was watching something on TV and there was a wedding, a Chinese woman and an American guy, and in their wedding celebration was performed a dragon dance. I liked it, but the bride broke the budget with all of her special wishes, and they will be paying off that wedding expenses for a few years. Makes me wonder!

I was really disappointed when I saw only a few dragon symbols in this 5-reels 243-paylines video slot, which is one of the additions to Microgaming games portfolio. Before I realized that there wasn't much to expect or to win, I had started my session with 0.50 cents bets. When I had mostly dead spins with zero wins, I decided to lower my stake to the minimum bet size of 0.25 cents. The only win on my 0.50 cents stake was 'five of a kind' of symbol 10 and that paid me around 2.10 Euro. Peanuts.

The only thing I like here is the background sound and its name, and that would be all. If you manage to trigger, or as I would usually say, to collect 5 scatters, they would pay nothing, no 100x payout, and this is unacceptable for a game with 243 ways. The Wild doesn't pay for itself, no doubling of wins, and there is no expanding wild nor stacked wilds. There is literally no way to win big here. And it's such a shame for Microgaming. The only feature you can use is a Re-spin feature on each reel. I thought this must be some really fun game with some nice winning potentials, but according to its paytable, this game is a complete disaster. And I don't think it's worth anyone's money and time, except for the free spins, if you really want to give it a try.

More and more Asian-based games are coming out nowadays and what more reason than to usher in the Chinese New Year, the year of the Monkey, with a new Dragon Dance game. The Dragon dance itself will forever remain the same, it cannot ever change but the game certainly can. Well, I haven't found any single Asian-based or Asian-orientated game that I really like so far, from any software provider, so my expectations of this new dance game will remain the same, mediocre, until proven wrong.

I must say that I cannot find anything that I like about this Dragon Dance game! Everything is on the verge of mediocrity...the graphics, the animations, the sound effects, the background music, and whatever else...including payouts and any big win potentials.

So what don't I like about this game? Let's make it short and fast shall we? 243 ways, good. $0.25 minimum starting bet, good. 5 scatters pay 100x bet, okay but not good. Wilds don't pay, not good. Wilds don't double wins, not good. Win values for symbols, not good. No stacked Wilds, not good. No Expanding Wilds, not good. No walking/running/moving Wilds, not good. So how the heck can you ever win big on a game like this??? Only Microgaming game designers would know or do they?

Has anyone really really tried the 'Respin' feature on any of the reels? I have! But it was on a BetSoft game, I think, way back in time. So this 'Respin' feature is nothing new at all, for those who don't know. You can choose to respin any of the reels, as you like, which you think can bring in a new win or some new wins, but each choice of reel has its own cost for a respin. The reel that could bring in the highest new possible win or wins will cost the most to respin and reel 5 will almost always be the cheapest or useless to respin. When you have played the game then you will understand better what I am hinting at. As far as my experience go on this 'respin' feature, rarely can you get any decent big wins from it but small meaningless wins should come in quite often. In the long run, if you can actually win from the total number of respins you had taken, consider yourself to be a damn lucky player!

As my expectations of this new game was never good nor high, I have only played it a few times, using given free spins as well as from my deposits. The end result has yet to be good, and I do not intend to keep on trying for it. As far as I am concerned, Dragon Dance is yet another new game from Microgaming that has failed to get passing marks (green stars) from me!

Dragon Dance is one of the newest games from Microgaming software, it was released earlier this month and is a slot inspired and dedicated to Chinese New Year celebration and it has a beautiful name that fits great to the theme called Dragon Dance. I wasn't really looking forward to this release, as I don't particularly enjoy that theme, but Jackpotland casino gave me 5€ bonus to use on it and afterwards I got interested to explore it more.

From the first sight this game looks very similar to all other slots Microgaming has, as it is a game with free spins round and 243 ways to pay. Only after I made the first few spins I noticed that it offers a respin option for every reel, after a spin is made. I usually play slots on autoplay, but because of this option, I play this slot only by hand clicking spin button. I have experienced respin options before and I know they can be very addictive, even now with the no deposit bonus I had 2 scatter combination and I lost 3€, trying to respin other reels to get to free spins bonus. Needless to say, I ran out of credits before it happened.

I have to say that I wasn't loving the design for this game, there are number symbols, few Chinese related symbols including a dragon and a wild. After I lost my no deposit, I made a 30€ deposit and started to play this game with the minimum bets, which are 0.25€ per spin. I think it is good to have them so low, as often 243 way spin costs 0.30€. I started to play and after a few spins I had 2 scatters. Again I used respin option for two spins, which overall cost around 2€, but this time I got lucky and got the 3rd scatter. I have to say the free spins bonus, which is the only thing this game has, is quite decent, as you get 15 free spins 3x multiplied. I had many 5oak winnings and overall I won 70x bet win.

I lost all my money on this game eventually but because of the respin feature I had a really good time. I think it is very useful, when you're one symbol away from 5oak and usually when the possibility for that to happen is high, the respin is costly, I even once paid 20x bet for the respin, but it helped me to get 5oak, which paid almost 100x bet, so it was worth it. I had overall 10 free spins rounds, about half of them was triggered on the spin initially and the other half was because of the respin. I mostly got around 50x bet win.

Overall I think this is a decent release from Microgaming and in my opinion it is better than the few games they have released earlier. I think this game has a good winning potential with respin option and with the decent bonus round. Design isn't my favorite but I would recommend to give it a try.

Dragon Dance is video slot which based on Chinese New Year festival. It has 3 rows, 5 reels and you have 243 different ways to win. Microgaming software company made nice looking video slot here. I played it a few weeks ago at Gowild casino and I had some decent winnings from it.

The game offer only free spins feature. When you get at least three scatter symbols you receive 15 free spins. During free games there are multiplier x3 which increase your winnings. This feature is identical as into Bikini party video slot. I played this two slots in the same day, but I had much better results from this one. The winnings which I received from free games were much bigger than from Bikini party game.

There is also re-spin feature where you can respin one reel at a time. But I never tried it because it cost too much and I did not want to lost my balance because of this. I do not think this re-spin feature is so important to be here, it would be much better without it and with some bonus game where you can win cash prizes with selecting, picking symbols, things.

The base game was also pretty much better for me than at Bikini party. Here the pay outs were good and I had some decent winnings from base game too. From free games I won around 22€ from 0,5€ which I think is good. I like when wilds appears which increases your winning combination, but some five of the kind symbols should pay out more.

I will rate Dragon Dance with 7 stars. I think this game is good and it could provide good, decent winnings. I will definitely play it again in near future because I enjoy while I was playing. The graphics and animation effects are good, so as the relaxing music.