Reviewed on September 7, 2016
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Golden Goose: Winning Wizards, is the fourth and the last in the Golden Goose Bonus series. After having played the 4 original games, plus the other 3 Golden Goose Bonus games too, I've kinda gone a little weary and uninterested now. All my previous plays on all the 7 games mentioned, have not shown any good performance to make me want to play more of them. It was more on the contrary in fact, making me think perhaps I've only wasted my time, effort and money in playing these games. Ah well, just one more game to go, then I can keep all these games on the display shelf, so to speak, or to simply chuck them away in a deep freezer, considered as lost forever in the cold wilderness.
The Wizard is the Wild symbol, paying a marvellous 10,000x the line bet for 5 of them, but only do substitution of all the other symbols, except for the Scatter symbol. Yeah, all the Wilds in this series are nothing more than just dumb Wild symbols. The Scatters pay 100x the total bet for 5 of them, but do not award any Free Spins game like what we are so accustomed to. The Free Spins game can be won from one of the Golden Goose Bonus game instead, from the Card Selection game to be precise, whereby from 3 free spins up to 11 free spins with up to 6x multiplier can be won. Not really a lot in terms of free spins is one thing, but getting like 3 free spins with a 1x multiplier is even worse, which I did get a few times. Totally disappointing!
The symbols in the game are pretty nicely valued, with the Claw paying 4000x the line bet, the Book paying 2500x, the Bottle paying 1500x, the Ring paying 1000x and the rest paying from 900x to 100x. Just like for the game Totem Treasure, the paytable is good, the variance is slightly higher, and so the wins are a little bit harder to come by. This is evident when playing the game itself, with most of the spins not paying much or nothing at all, and the Golden Goose Bonus game coming quite irregularly. Again, out of the 4 Bonus games, the Eggs games tend to come more often than the Card Selection or the Cash & Egg games.
The Wizard is the Wild symbol, paying a marvellous 10,000x the line bet for 5 of them, but only do substitution of all the other symbols, except for the Scatter symbol. Yeah, all the Wilds in this series are nothing more than just dumb Wild symbols. The Scatters pay 100x the total bet for 5 of them, but do not award any Free Spins game like what we are so accustomed to. The Free Spins game can be won from one of the Golden Goose Bonus game instead, from the Card Selection game to be precise, whereby from 3 free spins up to 11 free spins with up to 6x multiplier can be won. Not really a lot in terms of free spins is one thing, but getting like 3 free spins with a 1x multiplier is even worse, which I did get a few times. Totally disappointing!
The symbols in the game are pretty nicely valued, with the Claw paying 4000x the line bet, the Book paying 2500x, the Bottle paying 1500x, the Ring paying 1000x and the rest paying from 900x to 100x. Just like for the game Totem Treasure, the paytable is good, the variance is slightly higher, and so the wins are a little bit harder to come by. This is evident when playing the game itself, with most of the spins not paying much or nothing at all, and the Golden Goose Bonus game coming quite irregularly. Again, out of the 4 Bonus games, the Eggs games tend to come more often than the Card Selection or the Cash & Egg games.
DISLIKED
Just as for all the other three games in the Golden Goose Bonus series, the payouts don't do much justice to the extra 25% more bets played. Payouts were generally small and poor, trying to get a 20x bet win was hard enough most of the times, even though the paytable does provide for much bigger and nicer wins. Maybe it just wasn't my day or time to enjoy those kind of goodies, I really don't know, but whatever it is, the Golden Goose Bonus games did not impress me at all.
