Reviewed on December 31, 2016
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Tally Ho is one of Microgaming's oldie games that seems to be popular amongst many players. I have never played it before, and my first time was sometime back in 2015, after I became a little interested in the game through reading some good comments on it. Needless to say, my first play on Tally Ho didn't make my expectations of it. It was more of a disappointment for me because I lost my deposit quite speedily, getting only 1 Free Spins game that didn't pay a lot to save my day. Recently, I gave it another go, to see if absence can make my heart grow fonder of the game, hahaha.
The Horse is the Wild symbol, paying a nice 6000x the line bet for 5 of them. It doubles all wins with it and substitutes for other symbols except the Scatter symbol. Pity it doesn't become stacked or expanded. That would have made this Wild symbol a lot more precious. The Bugle is the Scatter symbol, paying a marvellous 500x the total bet for 5 of them. Getting 3 or more of these Bugles trigger 10 free spins with a 4x multiplier, with more free spins retriggerable. Hmm, not too bad, but 10 free spins are usually accompanied with a 5x multiplier. As for the other symbols in the game, Mr Fox pays 750x, Mrs Fox pays 600x (never mind if they're Mr and Mrs or not), and the lower symbols pay from 400x to 75x, all per line bet for 5 of each kind. This paytable is still a good one although the other symbols do have slightly low values.
Being an old game, there isn't any other special or bonus feature to be had, except for the Free Spins game. Winning or losing on this Tally Ho game would depend a lot on how the free spins pay, because that's where all the nice big wins can come from, not from the base game. The more retriggers that can be won, the better the payouts would be, but this is one aspect of Microgaming's games that I don't like at all. The Retriggers almost always doesn't happen at all, except in rare instances, for me at least. Perhaps that why I can hardly ever win on Microgaming's games.
The Horse is the Wild symbol, paying a nice 6000x the line bet for 5 of them. It doubles all wins with it and substitutes for other symbols except the Scatter symbol. Pity it doesn't become stacked or expanded. That would have made this Wild symbol a lot more precious. The Bugle is the Scatter symbol, paying a marvellous 500x the total bet for 5 of them. Getting 3 or more of these Bugles trigger 10 free spins with a 4x multiplier, with more free spins retriggerable. Hmm, not too bad, but 10 free spins are usually accompanied with a 5x multiplier. As for the other symbols in the game, Mr Fox pays 750x, Mrs Fox pays 600x (never mind if they're Mr and Mrs or not), and the lower symbols pay from 400x to 75x, all per line bet for 5 of each kind. This paytable is still a good one although the other symbols do have slightly low values.
Being an old game, there isn't any other special or bonus feature to be had, except for the Free Spins game. Winning or losing on this Tally Ho game would depend a lot on how the free spins pay, because that's where all the nice big wins can come from, not from the base game. The more retriggers that can be won, the better the payouts would be, but this is one aspect of Microgaming's games that I don't like at all. The Retriggers almost always doesn't happen at all, except in rare instances, for me at least. Perhaps that why I can hardly ever win on Microgaming's games.
DISLIKED
My most recent play on Tally Ho turned out to be not too bad, but not so good either. Not so good because the first Free Spins game paid a blardy low 13x my bet amount. Particularly not good was because the second Free Spins game took 552 spins to come, which got me shaking my head in disbelief, but luckily, it finally paid a nice good 98x bet win, to return back a lot of what it had eaten. Nope, I didn't make any win from it. I lost a bit, but this time around, it was much better than my last play on it. Nope, I didn't continue playing the game either. I quit after that second Free Spins game. I'm not gonna wait another 500 spins to get the next Free Spins game. That bit was just too infuriating and disappointing, to say the least.
