Matsuri Slot

I don't play Play'n Go games very much but I tried this one lately at Slotjoint casino with very small balance and minimum bets. I think this game has wonderful design and payout wise I can see that it has potential. I won around 80x bet but overall base game gave decent winnings often, so I would say this is a good game.

Matsuri is a 5 reel, 25 payline slot powered by PlaynGo. This slot has a Japanese theme. Seems like a festival is happening there with the expanding wilds during free spins. The women look lovely, all three of them, except the one that hides, which is the highest paying symbol.


The slot has a very colourful feel and the graphics look nice too. This slot boast both a bonus feature as well as the free spins feature. As much as I like this slot a lot, I hate the fact that you can trigger either features on only 3 reels. The game has a wild symbol which substitutes for every except scatter or bonus fish symbols. The wild symbol expands during the free spins feature and move from the reel is landed back to reel 1 and eventually disappear, keeping it's expanding position.

Landing 3 bonus fish symbol on reels 2,3 and 4 trigger the bonus feature. You get to pick fish and you are rewarded for each fish captured. You can win up to x500 your total bet. I love this feature and it triggers very easily at time. I once won more than x100 my stake, but every time I choose my second fish, it breaks the glass item.

The free spins feature can be played when landing 3 masked scattered symbols on reels 1, 3 and 5. You will start with 8 free spins and expanding wilds which becomes walking wilds on every spin. Each scattered mask appearing on the reels awards 2 extra spins. You can win up to a maximum of 20 free spins. Sounds very familiar, similar to our Pimped where you get extra spins for every scatter.

I love this slot and have won more than x200 my total bet.. Game has been cold to me lately but I love spinning the reels, Can only dream of getting those 5 wilds on the reels during free spins to win a whopping x1000 my bet.

Here's another new one from Play'nGo, Matsuri. This name can be easily mistaken for a local girl's name from my country, but then again, Japanese is still Asian, so similar sounding names are not strange at all. The graphics used for the game is nice but not outstanding, most icons are a little too small for my liking, should have been bigger for better visual impact, and the background music is typically Japanese, or Oriental, like it or not. For me personally, it's no big deal, any acceptable musical background would do, Oriental or Western, as long as the money coming in is always pleasant! Hahaha.

I'm not surprised if most players are not keen on Play'nGo games, but somehow for me, some worked very nicely but some were atrociously dead, maybe for ever more. Matsuri joins the likes of Pimped, Holiday Season and Jade Magician for me. Somehow or rather, my first few plays on these games came out well, making some nice decent wins, when others complained of poor payouts. Although my wins have hardly crossed the 300x bet win amount from any Play'nGo games, I still find them very playable at the right times, and even winnable too.

The Lantern is the Wild symbol in Matsuri, paying 40x the total bet for getting 5 of them, and substitutes for other symbols except for the Scatter and Bonus symbols. There's no doubling of wins, but it expands into a full Wild Reel with wins during the free spins play, moving 1 reel leftwards at each spin, until it goes off the reel. Yes, it is possible to get all 5 Wild Reels in a spin, although it is much too early to see any of it so far. The Mask is the Scatter symbol, it doesn't pay anything for itself, too bad, appears only on reels 1, 3 and 5, and getting all 3 of them trigger 8 free spins with Expanding and Shifting Wilds. Each new Mask appearing on the reels adds +2 more free spins, up to a maximum of 20 free spins. Wish this could be more, as in Jade Magician. The paytable says win up to 300,000 EUR at maximum bet. Care to chase for it? Hehehe.

The Koi Fishes is the Bonus symbol, also not paying anything for itself, appearing only on reels 2, 3 and 4, and awards the Kingyo Sukui Bonus game upon getting all 3 Bonus symbols. In this game, pick out one fish at a time to win a cash prize, collect all 5 fishes to win the maximum prize, but the scoop may break at any time to end the game. A win of up to 500x total bet amount is possible. Wow! That's a good deal! As for the other symbols, the 3 Ladies pay 14x, 12x and 10x the total bet each for getting 5 of them, and the rest pay from 4x to 2x the total bet for getting 5 of each kind. The paytable is a very low one, but those maximum possible wins certainly aren't low!

In my very first play on Matsuri, I had managed to get some wonderful wins straight away, much to my delight. 4 Free spins games and 3 Bonus games came, all in just 1 session. Those expanding Wilds during the free spins can really create wonders and award big wins. My 3 Wild Reels in one of the Free Spins game gave a very nice 230x bet win. Imagine what 4 and 5 Wild Reels could pay out. Hmm. One of these days, I hope to get those 4 and 5 Wild Reels win, and it isn't impossible at all.

Matsuri is the newest video slot powered by Play'n GO software provider. It has 5 reels and 20 pay lines. I tried to play it some minutes just a few days ago while I was looking for some new video slots to try them out.

Matsuri is an Asian themed video slot and to be honest I never had any big luck on these kind of games: Asian, Japanese and so on.. So when I first opened it I expected some bigger winnings from it. Hehe.

This video slot has one bonus game and free spins feature. The bonus game is triggered when you get three goldfish symbols. Later you have to catch the fish without breaking your fragile paper spoon.

Free spins feature starts when you get three festival masks on the reels. At the beginning you get 8 free spins, but each extra mask during free games gives you another, additional 2 more spins. During free spins if a wild symbol lands on a reel, it will grow into one big expanded wild lamp banner that covers the entire reel. The wild reel will remain and will walk to the left on the reels, one step each spin.

While I was playing it, I had a good feeling about this feature during free games. But when I triggered it, I was dissapointed. A few times I got two wild reels, and still in the end I never got any win bigger than x20 bet. At the bonus game I got almost the same winning, around x20 bet. I catch two fishes and afterthat the bonus game ended.

I think this game is good for the players which are fans of Play'n GO software. To be honest I will rather play some other oldest video slots from this provider. I do not like this game so much, the main game is quite boring. Almost every winning spin gave me an amount which was still below my bet size. And I do not like that at all. My ratio for this video slot will be 5 stars.

Just this week “Play'n GO” has released its most recent video slot called “Matsuri” which is an Asian-themed slot inspired by the local Japanese festivals that receive that name precisely; so that in this slot we will see images of masks and mainly goodies, so traditional in this kind of events.

Again Play'n GO has created a video slot where it is practically impossible to obtain a big win, in this case, due to tight prices with which the paytable has been configured and also to small prizes usually awarded by bonus rounds.

About the free spin round, it could be said that this is somewhat more productive than your spins during the base game, but without becoming a really amazing feature since there are no multipliers associated with this that can lead us to get a big win sometime; however, this feature, which starts with 8 spins, it can be extended to many more turns as each new mask that comes up adds two spins to our round, and in addition, each wild symbol that appears, first extends all over the reel, and then this wild reel moves one reel to the left during each of the subsequent turns until disappearing.

Personally, my best free round was extended to a total of 20 spins and my total winnings on it were 12x my total bet; in my other round, I got a gain of 9x, which does not seem worthy of a feature of this category considering that this does not happen very often.

Unlike free spins, “Kingyo Sukui,” which is the bonus round of this game, this happens more often and once in, we can capture up to 5 goldfish, this if we do not first break the net with which we draw these fish from the pond, because in this case our round finish prematurely.

Unfortunately, in this round I always managed to catch one fish only since the net always broke when I tried to catch the second one; only once I could draw two fish, which at that moment seemed like a feat to me; so due to this lack of luck, I could never get a prize over 8x my total bet, in fact, almost all my awards were in a range of 2x and 4x my total bet, and I think that these small prizes they make disappear emotions that they normally cause the arrival of features of this type; in truth you do not even worry about whether this round happens again or not, you just do not care.

Honestly, my expectations about this slot were low from the start, so I'm not really disappointed by losing a bit in this game;I just hope the next Play'n GO slot offers better opportunities for winning to the player; and I think the day I play another new slot produced by this company, my expectations will be low again.