Toki Time is 5 reels video slot powered by Thunderkick software. It has 11 pay-lines that are paying out in both directions. The game features cute Japanese mini monsters that pop onto screen with each spin. Slot's backdrop is a slowly rotating sky with the colors changing from light to dark and back again. The music in the background is just what you expect to find in a cartoon, friendly and uplifting. You can try this slot here for free or visit any of the Thunderkick listed casinos to play for real money.
In order to start this relaxing play-date with cuddly Toki monsters you need to regulate your wagers.If you click on "bet" a table will open across the screen where you can choose the amount you wish to bet. The lowest bet being 0.10 and the highest being 100.Having set your bet, press “Spin” and start the game. "Auto-play" option gives you the opportunity to spin the reels without interruption, and you can choose how many rounds you wish the reels to spin.
This video slot is fairly simple so you will not be able to see many features. Besides the fact that it pays out both ways, you will also encounter expanded wild. This feature is represented as a white sheep that squeezes out of the hole from under the reels 2 and 4, and fills up the whole reel. If the wild forms a winning combo you will get a free re-spin with the symbol fixed in place. The spins will go on as long as there is a new winning combo that can be formed.
The most valuable symbols are the smiling star and a smiling cloud which give you prize anytime you hit three or more of the same symbol on one of the paylines.
Game Play:
Bet: Choose the bet you wish to make.
Spin: Start the game.
Auto Play: Turn the reels without interruption for a certain amount of times.
Toki Time is an unashamedly cute game, the graphics reminded me of those "Whack a mole" arcade games for some reason and although that isn't actually the theme here I certainly did find myself tempted to try and bush some of these characters after playing this slot for a few hundred spins! See, it may not look much like it but this is infact very close to being a copy of NetEnt's Starburst. That's a game I hate with a passion, so could Thunderkick's take on those game mechanics improve the situation at all?
Well there are improvements - the stacked wilds on this game remain in place as long as there is a win and keep on awarding free respins indefinitely until you hit a dead spin. In order to facilitate this though the stacked wild had to be removed from reel three, otherwise it would be possible to end up being awarded free respins indefinitely. These free respins make it impossible to calculate the maximum win on this game from a single bet however with 11 fixed paylines, pay both ways, and 24x your stake awarded for the top five of a kind its straightforward enough to calculate the maximum hit from a single spin (without any respins) would be 528x your stake - only very slightly higher than Starburst.
I'm always being told that Starburst is a hugely popular game with most players and I guess Thunderkick figured that their changes to it's "winning" formula would make for an enticing and popular game for them as well. If only they had added in a bonus round or maybe a free spins feature I think they might have been on to something, but this game just doesn't have enough to keep me interested as it stands. I had to think quite hard about whether I preferred the free respins to having an extra stacked wild on the third reel, but eventually decided that I did infact prefer Starburst's way of doing things - at least when you have stacked wilds on all three reels you are guaranteed a win on every paylines for that one spin, something which would be much harder to achieve in this game.
Worse than Starburst? I definitely say this is one to MISS!