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Release the Kraken 2 slot is Pragmatic Play’s new addition that runs on 5 reels and up to 40 pay lines and is a sequel which will return you back to the ocean. The immense vast space of the sea hides many secrets and this one is about to take you out to the open sea where you will get a chance to meet the legendary Kraken. Descend to the bottom of the sea at any Pragmatic Play Casino for real, or here for fun.
How to Play Release the Kraken 2 Slot?
Hang out at the sea bed with these cheeky characters, but don’t forget to set your bets.
- Hit +/- buttons will pop out a panel to help you manipulate your bets by increasing or decreasing either the total bet the coin value and the bet separately.
- Spin button will get the reels moving.
- Autoplay opens up a panel that lets you choose the number of automated spins and whether and when you want them to end.
- Buy Feature will let you buy your way into the feature.
- Bet Higher when on, which will increase your chances of winning the feature.
Slot Features
Pink Kraken is the Wild symbol in the game that can help form a winning combination by substituting in a win line. It is capable of substituting for all the symbols in the game except for the Bonus Golden Kraken symbol.
Wild Respin
If 4 or more Wilds hit on the same spin, after the win is paid out, a respin will get triggered. All Wilds will stick to the grid but not lock to the position, and instead will move to a different, random position, while the remaining symbols respin. If you hit more Wilds during the respin you will win another one, and the feature will end when you stop landing Wilds.
Shifting Stacked Wilds
Expanded Tentacle Kraken is the Shifting Stacked Wild that can hit on reels 2, 3 and 4, and can hit randomly. When the spin stops, the Shifting Stacked Wilds will come fully into the screen to cover all positions on the respective reel. For each position that it moved a multiplier will get increased by x1 for each Stacked Wild.
Guaranteed Win
Randomly in a spin that results in no win, the Kraken can come into the screen and change the symbols to an outcome of x20 to x60 the total bet. Randomly after a spin 3 Bonus symbols can appear on the screen as a result of an explosion.
Free Spins
Hit 3 or more Bonus symbols to trigger the Free Spins feature. Before the feature starts, you will get to play a mini-bonus game to determine the number of spins and the multiplier that you will get. The number of triggering symbols will determine the combination you can win.
For 3 symbols you can win anything between 4 and 15 spins paired with a multiplier that ranges between x1 and x6. For 4 symbols you can win a combination ranging between 5 and 20 paired with a multiplier ranging between x1 and x10. If you trigger the feature with 5 symbols you can win between 6 and 20 spins and between x1 and x10 the multiplier. This is done through 16 boxes that contain the combination pairs and you can choose to accept or reject the randomly chosen boxes. Accepting the offer will kick-start the feature and rejecting means that you can continue so until one last box remains.
Summary
Release the Kraken 2 has the same bubbly spirit that we had with the original, and we simply liked that lighter note in design. Looks like the Pragmatic team had much success with the original release to warrant a sequel. Overall, this fish-filled fun comes with more than a positive attitude which includes x5000 the max bet at high volatility and varying RTP that goes all the way up to 96.5%.
A slot from Pragmatic Play and has the under water theme as from the previous version of the game but this is a much better game I have to say. It still has 5 reels and 4 rows of action with 20 pay lines in the base game and a the boost to 40 pay lines in the feature just like in the first version. The min bet comes in at just 0.20 per spin no change in that department too.
Triggering the feature comes with the golden octopus being of some sort and you only need 3 or more to trigger the features but you also get to play a little game before the feature starts where you can increase how many spins and multipliers you get, that is fun too. The more bonus symbols you hit the feature with the more potential spins and multipliers you can get.
I played around this slot a lot during social tournaments so I knew what I would expect when I went to play it for real mode and it is a good slot, even though I didn’t trigger a feature during my slot session with it I still enjoyed the slot.
Great piano music and sound effects which you get from Pragmatic Play in this slot too making the slot play more enjoyable thus I leave the music on for my sessions.
The bonus buy options and ante bets have been added to this slot unlike in the previous version you only get one type of bonus buy for 100x, here you get the 100x and a VIP bonus buy for 250x. When it comes to the much needed ante bet that will cost 25% more per spin to get higher chance of features and less time to stay in the base game grind.
For some reason the RTP for this slot dropped me under 94% at 93.98% and I still gave it a session even with this low RTP because on short sessions the RTP doesn’t matter much.
The max win cap was lowered from 10,000x to 5000x which is a weird move when it comes to a sequel if I have to say so myself other than that it is a pretty good slot and has made improvements in ways over the first version of Kraken.