Luna Park Slot
The Luna Park video slot is themed around a funfair, where happy crowds are eating various treats, shooting at targets and riding the rollercoaster. There’s bumper cars, merry go round horses, strength test hammers and a beautiful woman handing out tickets to the rides in this 5 reel game, which comes from the Italian casino slots developer Octavian Gaming Solutions. The real Luna Park is in Sydney Australia, at the northern end of the Harbour Bridge, although Luna is the Italian word for the Moon, and the game is set against a night time view of the fun and frivolities of the fair.
There’s plenty of fun and frivolities to be enjoyed by players who spin these colourful reels as well, with multiple bonus features including free spins with a roller coaster wild symbol filling the reels, base game wild substitutions, a claw that can bring in extra rewards and win multipliers that can be claimed from the various attractions at this popular park.
Octavian Gaming has had extensive experience in developing innovative slot games, largely for the Italian market, but increasingly for a more international clientele. While the majority of their range comes with fun side games and bonus rounds, the Luna Park video slot is one of their most feature-filled games to date, so let’s all go to this brightly-lit fairground and see what’s waiting for us.
All the fun of the fair
Punters have the option to play with 5 or 10 paylines, which is a common feature in the Octavian Gaming range, and winning combinations are formed by any 3 or more matching symbols landing in an unbroken sequence across a line from the left side. The single, double and triple ticket symbols will pay out small wins when they are seen across a line, while bigger rewards come from landing the lollipop, hammer, car, hotdog and horse symbols.
The blonde woman is a wild symbol, so she can act as others and hence complete win-lines, giving players a little wink when she does so, while balloons are a scatter symbol, paying out when they float into any 3 or more places at once. Darts are thrown at each balloon which then burst to reveal how many coins have been won, which is a nice in-game feature and shows that the designers have put a lot of thought into how this slot looks and plays out.
Another in-game feature is randomly triggered and sees one of those fairground claw games fill the middle reel. The claw descends down the reel, grabbing new symbols from below and pulling them up into position, ensuring that a new winning combination will be created.
Roll Up! To spin the Bonus Wheel
A multicoloured wheel is the bonus symbol and whenever it’s seen in any 3 places at once, a wheel of fortune will fill the screen. A click is all that’s needed to set this special wheel in motion, and players are able to control when it stops with another click. It spins up bonus prizes, multiplier awards, free spins or entry to a couple of fun features.
Between 5 and 15 free spins are on offer, but however many are awarded, there’s a great animation of a rollercoaster careering down random reels, which become expanded wilds when they stop in the right places. There’s at least 1 rollercoaster per free spin and usually 2 or 3, which makes the bonus spins fun to watch and hopefully rewarding to play.
Other segments of the wheel take you around Luna Park, including a visit to a shooting gallery, where careful aim at target ducks, cowboys, rockets, tigers and a moose will award coins until a ticket ends the feature. Another fun stop around the park is the strength test, or striker machine, which is players hit with a hammer and then see how far up the pole the marker rises. There’s multiplier values of 2x the stake at the bottom, then 3x and 4x higher up, while anyone who reaches the top of the pole will strike a 5x multiplier prize.
Buying Tickets for the park
In common with much of the Octavian Gaming range, there’s no free Luna Park video slots to practice on, but real cash bets start at just 0.40 per spin and generous returns mean that there should be plenty of winning spins. To increase the value of those wins, punters can raise their stakes to the maximum bet of 20.00, while other options include an Autoplay feature and there’s a simple soundtrack of mechanical-effect noises that can be played along or switched off.
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Over the Moon with Luna Park?
You will find some excellent bonus rounds to be enjoyed in the Luna Park video slot, and we like the fact that they are triggered by a wheel of fortune which players can stop with a click. It may require a bit of careful timing, but if you have a favourite feature, then it’s possible to revisit it each time.
Apart from the free spins, there’s a guarantee that you’ll finish each round better off than when you started it, although even in the free spins, we always had a few winners when the screaming passengers of the rollercoaster flew down the reels.
If there’s any downside to this game, it’s the relatively low maximum bet of just 20.00 per spin, which is going to put off high rollers looking to land huge prizes. Most punters will be fine with these limits though, and can be visiting Luna Park on desktops, Android and Windows devices, as well as iPhones and iPads.
