Shining Treasures Slots
Slots tend to be categorized in two broad categories. The first one has slots that go all-broke in order to push the boundaries of the gameplay and features – much like gambling on gambling itself.
The other category includes slots that prefer to keep things simple and fluent so that players can enjoy the best of tried-and-tested tactics of slots without breaking a sweat. Casino Technology – the oldest European slot developer with accredited norms in over 50 global markets – is a name that we would usually associate with this latter category.
Keeping things simple yet again, Casino Technology introduced Shining Treasures to the legion of their fans in 2012. Nothing about this slot would take you by surprise or keep you captivated. But its beauty lies in its simplicity. After all, none of us would want to rake our brains after a long, hard day when we resort to slots just to keep us distracted, right?
Roll Those Calendars Back – Many, Many Times!
Shining Treasures is as old-school as one would care to imagine. Right from the launch screen – the classic loading bar and a host of arcade-esque sound effects, everything looks happily nostalgic and appealing.
But in way of visual appeal, that’s pretty much the whole deal. There is nothing more that would warrant a discussion as far as sound effects/design of the game is concerned, either. That’s our cue to move ahead and talk about gameplay… And, just to be sure, we are right on it!
A Classic Case of Formulaic Boredom?
It’s a question worth asking ourselves. While many would love to celebrate the gameplay of Shining Treasures as an homage to dingy fruit machines of the yore (where getting one’s wagers recovered would in itself be the talk of the town), we would beg to differ. Lack of originality in the design is one thing, but the formulaic repetition of same features over and over again is totally another.
At 5 reels and 15 paylines where you can wager one coin per line (maximum coin value being fixed at $0.20/£0.20/€0.20), developers have ascertained that experienced slot players can hope to find nothing new here.
On the positive side, the paylines are all static, meaning that players have one less thing to worry about.
Crystal Treasures: Too Close, Yet too Far!
Imagine that you are really starving and you have a bunch of fruits in front of you. What would you feel if you realize that these fruits are not real, but made up of expensive quartz and crystals that are worth their weight in gold?
Well, that’s a classic cast-away conundrum you have to deal with while playing Shining Treasures. Symbols used here are all classic fruits of slots, only in crystalline varieties. Shining grapes and glittery watermelons are the high-paying regular symbols, with their flat-out-five combos yielding 400 coins for the lucky spinner.
But the big daddy of them all is not a fruit. It’s the Lucky Seven of the slot (bet, you saw that coming!) that pays out a whopping sum of 2,500 coins for five-of-its-kind combo on any reel.
Talking Big, Talking Bling!
The word on the street is that bling is the new green, and rest assured, Shining Treasures loves to pack itself to the brim with some nasty spells of bling. That said this theme has been done by them before in several notable games includin 40 Shining Jewels.
The wild symbol of this slot is the Royal Crown studded all-over with gold and jewels. It has all the features of a regular wild (as in, it doesn’t expand), and it appears only on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th reels.
But if there was one master this crown couldn’t touch, it has to be the scatter of this slot. It’s a brightly lit Golden Star with five prongs stretched as if to assert its dominance over all of us. But trust us, you would love to be the subject of this master, only because it pays out 2,250 coins as a jackpot IF you get five of these in a row!
Gamblin’ Man
The gamble feature of Shining Treasures is the popular Colours and Suits bonus by Casino Technology. The deal is simple – put all your winnings at stake, gamble on the colour or suit of the cards presented, and win up to 4x your winnings, or lose it all. Fortune favours the brave, they say!
Shining Example
There is a clarity of message here from Casino Technology. Their penny slots are strictly penny slots, and do not try to cross over to the big league. So, to have a good time without getting lost in a host of features, Shining Treasures can be a pretty suitable option. Don’t expect any windfalls here, though, if you want high paying games you need to search elsewhere.
