Last Blast Keno
One of the world’s favourite lottery-based gambling games, keno has attracted a huge new audience as online casinos have proliferated. You can now play all kinds of keno games on the web, taking part on desktop, mobile or tablet. With the Google Play store now accepting gambling apps in certain countries, expect to see a wave of newly developed Android betting apps launching soon. Among them will be a number of standalone keno apps as well as casino apps that include keno among their many games. Last Blast Keno by Grand Vision Gaming is one such titles, an HTML5 game that works on desktop and mobile, including both Android and iOS.
Although the theme of these sorts of keno games varies, the fundamentals of the game remain broadly similar. Typically, players are required to select numbers ranging from 1 to 80. A series of numbers, often 20, is then drawn at random using some kind of Random Number Generator. Then it’s simply a case of seeing how many numbers you’ve matched. The more you match, the greater the prize. Last Blast Keno accords to this formula, for the game is housed on a standard 10x8 board. There’s a futuristic outer space theme to this game, whose visuals include what looks like wormholes or collapsing nebulae, rendered in brilliant mauve and purple.
Give it a Blast
Last Blast Keno looks it might be more enticing than your average keno game, for it boasts additional features and bonuses that give you added ways to win and which inject some fun into the game. Keno might be a lucrative game to play potentially, but it can also be a repetitive one. Here at least you get some respite from the monotony of selecting and drawing numbers repeatedly. Last Blast Keno uses the same control panel as appears in most other releases by Grand Vision Gaming. There’s a lot of buttons, which makes it less suitable for mobile, but this extended control panel at least negates the need for ducking into sub-menus to find certain options.
In terms of bet levels, you can wager between 0.01 and 1 coin and set a bet of between 1 and 4. There’s a max bet button for convenience and there’s also one which reads Clear. Handy if you’ve had a sudden change of heart about the numbers that you’ve just selected. There’s also a Quick Pick option that will save some time and there’s the ability to view your playing history too. The main way in which Last Blast Keno differs from keno is in that the last drawn spot is the most valuable. Known as the Last Blast Spot it’s worth a 4x multiplier. If the last number drawn is a winning one, a blast will occur.
Keen on Keno?
To start the game, you need to select up to 10 numbers on the grid and then set your bet level (or vice versa). Then, in time-honoured fashion, 20 numbers will be drawn and you’ll be paid for the greatest win after all of the numbers have been drawn. Last Blast Keno comes with an RTP of 91.65%, which is about average for a keno game. While the game’s visuals look reasonably good, the sound is disappointing.
Each action you perform in the game, such as selecting a number on the grid, is met with an anticlimactic bleep that does nothing to enhance the atmosphere. While it isn’t essential for a keno game to have audio that’s out of this world, it would be nice if the developer had put a bit more thought into this at least.
Last Blast Keno Conclusion
If you like keno, you should like Last Blast Keno. That’s provided you’re not a keno purist, if such a thing exists, who insists on playing the game only in its original and undiluted form. The addition of the blast feature here, while quite a cool one, doesn’t feel like enough to fuel an entire themed keno game. You’d expect there to be more; numbers that explode and turn into other numbers or bonus symbols that are occasionally drawn instead of balls.
There are so many other ways in which Last Blast Keno could have been designed to live up to its name. Instead you’re left with an online casino game that’s only slightly divorced from 80 spot keno. Still, it does the job, and with the ability to play it on Android and iPhone, you can take Last Blast Keno with you wherever you go.
