Golden Grimoire

A Grimoire is a Book that can be described as a sorcerer's private crypto codex. It can contain different kinds of occult knowledge…
The Golden Grimoire is a 5 reeler video slot by NetEnt provider with classic 10 Paylines, putting the player in the Sorcerer's mystic place, with reels and symbols which are related with magical knowledge, such as Forbidden ancient books/Flickering candles/Occult artifacts. At the low end they are the usual card suits: Diamonds/Spades/Clubs/Hearts.
The mechanic, relies on symbol transformations and a Free spins round could spell a lucky streak on the reels.
Considering the extremely low 200x the bet, maximum win in a single spin, simply failed to attract me.

This recently released Golden Grimoire game from NetEnt plays with Mystery Symbols as its main attracting feature, very much like Titan Of The Sun and other similar games. I'm not really into such games, as I find them rather uninteresting to play, and those transforming Mystery Symbols haven't shown the best to me as yet - they have always played and paid rather poorly for me so far! Perhaps NetEnt feels that it isn't that good a game too, hence they don't create many new such games, but that's just my thoughts though, hehehe.

The first thing that I looked at and didn't like instantly, was the extremely low win values of all the symbols! Imagine getting all 20 same top-paying symbols and you get paid 5x the total bet for each winning line - that works out to be 200x the total bet amount, and that is the maximum possible win for this game! Is that good? That's simply horrible! So don't be fooled by what the game says it can do, and don't be fooled by the apparently nice graphics either. Personally to me, this Golden Grimoire game has lots of non-gold droppings! Hahaha.

If that doesn't throw you off this game, then consider these...both the Wild and Scatter symbols are non-paying, the Wild symbol only appears when transformed by a Mystery Symbol, you get only 8 free spins with no win multiplier, and you won't get any retriggers either! Win values? How about 5x the total bet for the highest paying symbol, and 0.75x the total bet for the lowest symbol? If all these aren't bull droppings, then I don't know what else they can be!

Yeah, yeah...some players may actually like playing this Golden Grimoire game, some may even love those transforming Mystery Symbols, allowing for all-same-symbols to occur, but then again, we all do have different tastes and likes, so let's just leave it as that. As far as I am concerned, this is one no-no game from NetEnt!