Le Bandit Slot

Le bandit is a 6 reel 5 row slot from Hacksaw gaming that works on the mechanism of cluster pays and cascading reels feature. Every time you make a connection of 5 or more symbols it qualifies as a win and not just the winning symbols but every symbol similar to these are removed from the current screen. This triggers a cascade symbol and new symbols fall. The symbols which were part of the winning combinations may also fall. Every spot where the connection was made leaves behind a golden frame and if you land a rainbow symbol these golden frames may reveal coin values, a multiplier or a pot symbol. The coins may be bronze that give wins from 0.2x to 4x, silver that give wins from 5x to 20x or gold which gives values from 25x to 500x. Landing a pot symbol will collect all visible coin symbols and new coins, clovers or pots may be revealed. If you land a clover then it will reveal a multiplier that will multiply all adjacent coins and pots with 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x or 10x. The game has 5 premium symbols that pay from 100x to 25x on connections of more than 13 symbols. The card symbols pay 15x on connections of over 13 symbols. The minimum bet on the game is 10 cents and you need to connect at least 5 symbols in a cluster to qualify for a win.
You can land the bonus feature by landing three scatter symbols and you will get eight free spins. Every connection will leave a golden frame and all these frames will stay on screen until you land the rainbow feature. After the rainbow features ends the golden frames will reset and you will have the chance to collect more frames and trigger the feature again. Landing four scatters will give you 12 free spins but in this feature once you activate the golden frame it will stay active until the end of the bonus. Landing 5 scatters gives you the super bonus where you will get a rainbow feature on every spin and only gold and silver coins value will appear apart from clovers and pot.

The bonus buys for 3 and 4 scatter bonuses at 100x and 250x are too expensive for my liking. By paying 3x your bet you are more likely to trigger the bonus by 5 times but even after you activate these you can take over 400 spins to trigger the bonus.

Le Bandit: When A French Raccoon Looted My Hopes In It's Bag!

This slot had me feeling robbed of my time and money. I really wanted to like this game, especially after seeing those lucky streamers on Spinz collect ridiculous multipliers from bonus buys. But at last, my experience was a big crashing letdown.

The one bonus round I somewhat enjoyed was "All That Glitters Is Gold" free spins. But even that came at a costly price! I had to fork over an extra $0.30 bet because the free spins were rarer than a raccoon in a tuxedo, not that I'd see such two things going together.

Finally, after what felt like a monotonous eternity, I triggered 4 scattered cameras for 12 free spins. Now, the whole point of this feature is to have cluster pays of 5 symbols that leave behind gold squares, which then stay until the end of the game round. The key is to get rainbow symbols to turn those gold squares into coin prizes, clovers for multipliers surrounding coins and pots to collect the coins for re-rolls and more multipliers. Sounds exciting, right? Wrong!

On my first bonus with the extra bet, I ended up with a measly 20.66x win. Barely any gold coins graced my reels and there weren't enough rainbows to turn those gold squares into a glittering gold mine after completing tumbles. It was like finding a pot of gold only to realize it was filled with loose change of nuts and bolts.

The moral of the story? This bonus is tougher to trigger than a fat raccoon in a stealth mission without the guidance of using bonus bets. And even when you do trigger it, the bonus doesn't exactly "glitter" unless you're willing to splurge on those bonus bets for better odds. 6 out of 10! It's one slot that'll have you feeling like you got fleeced by that mischievous French raccoon.