Asian Beauty is a five reel video slot powered by Microgaming software and is intended for Oriental culture lovers. The game turns around 4 Asian women surrounded with symbols like plum trees, wooden boxes, lotus flowers and silver and golden cups, while relaxing music plays in the background. The slot has Microgaming’s 243 pay-line system and a superb graphics that goes along with some great features. Give this slot a spin right here for free or visit Microgaming Casinos to play for real money.
However, before you decide to hit the reels you should decide which betting range suits your needs the best. Coin denomination ranges from 0.01 to 0.50 and you can adjust it with “+/-“buttons. Minimum bet per line is 1 whereas the maximum bet is 10 and it is adjustable on the “coins” button. “Spin” button starts the game whereas the “Autoplay” button spins the reels without interruption and you can set how many times you want the reels to be spanned automatically. Max Bet option lets you set the highest wager that this slot allows per spin.
Myriad of features await you in this Microgaming’s slot game wonder and they include wild symbol, scatter symbol, free spins bonus game and a Mirror bonus game which is triggered randomly.
As far as standard features are concerned you can encounter a wild symbol and a scatter. The wild symbol can substitute any other symbol except for the scatter but unfortunately it has no multiplier that goes along with it. On the other hand the wild symbol happens so often that multiplier will not be missed. Asian Beauty logo symbol is a wild symbol and it can create its own winning combos when multiple symbols appear on a pay way.
The scatter symbol does not need to appear on an enabled pay-line to win. It can be scattered anywhere on the reels. Scatter appears in the form of a wooden chest and when there are three or more of them on the reels it completes a winning combination.
Three or more scatter symbols on the reels activate Free Spins feature which can be retriggered and it triples all wins hit during free games. You can get up to 25 spins and all bets and pay-ways in the free spins are the same as in the spin that activated this bonus game. If 3 or more Chest symbols appear on the reels during Free Spins you will be awarded with the additional spins.
The aforementioned special feature involves 4 Asian women who trigger the Mirror Bonus game. In this bonus round you will see twelve mirrors on the screen and one of the four women will be behind each mirror. When you match three beauties you will win a multiplier value. Also, you can win up to 9,000 coins in this feature. However, it cannot be triggered during Free Spins bonus game. If you activate both Free Spins and Mirror bonus game on the same spin, the Mirror Bonus game will be played first.
Game Play
Bet +/-: Change the total bet
Coins: Choose the number of coins to bet
Bet Max: Set the highest wager
Spin: Start the game
Auto Play: Turn the reels without interruption for a certain amount of times
Asian Beauty takes the usual 243 ways slot model and flips it on its head, it's about as far away from "The Finer Reels of Life" as you can imagine in turns of jackpot potential but it's still fun - there aren't many 243 ways games that could even be suggested to be low variance after all, which makes this a possible contender for bonus wagering requirements too.
The maximum hit from a single spin seems to be just 133x your stake although I'd imagine it would be possible to win a little higher than this during a lucky set of free spins, of which a maximum of 25 can be awarded for all five scatters. That pays 100x bet all by itself so I think you would have to be pretty unlucky not to get another 33x from the whole 25x spins!
The games other bonus called the "Mirror Bonus" is pretty dull though. It's an average "Pick me" bonus round that can trigger randomly after any spin within the base game but not during free spins and has a maximum payoff of just 30x the triggering bet.
I expected the base game payouts to be a little better than they were too. It's very easy to understand and remember as all of the picture symbols share the same payout structure and there's only minimal differences between the low symbols too. The lows use traditional asian imagery rather than the more typical TJQKA symbols which adds to the feeling of quality - it's pretty much just what you'd expect from Microgaming though.
After a few hundred spins I'll admit to becoming pretty bored but my balance was holding pretty steady. I never really got much above or below 50x my bet in either direction so like most low variance games you might have more luck achieving a big win if you up the size of your bet - you have to know when to walk away for this strategy to work though!
I might choose this game over my favourite 243 ways games Playboy and Finer Reels if I've got a big chunk of wagering to complete and don't have a big enough balance to take too many risks, but the rest of the time I just can't deny the fact it doesn't seem exciting enough for me.