Dwarves Slot Machine
In the rich and fascinating world of gambling, there are innumerable references to magic and folklore scattered around the landscape. Regardless of the game or discipline with the wider industry towards which you are more drawn, chances are that at some point during your gaming career you will have encountered one of two references to magic, make believe or even the occult.
Who can say what makes these two fields fall so seamlessly well together. Perhaps its the whole idea of good fortune and luck being so fundamental a theme within gambling that makes magic such a suitable narrative. One thing is for sure, however; there’s no end of excellent games and formats that make full use of this companionship in order to offer an unrivalled and fully immersive gaming experience.
As we assume you are all only too well aware, slots, and in particular video slots games, are 100 percent the best format for gambling when it comes to carrying a certain narrative, theme or backdrop. Capable of providing the utmost in terms of range, dynamics and of course that ever-important user experience, video slots completely rule the roost when it comes to thematic interpretation within modern gambling.
In order to assess the full and resounding scope of domination our beloved slots are currently enjoying, certainly within the online gaming world, one only needs to take a look at the sheer variety on offer. By their very constitution, video slots are ideal for carrying a slot – and few do it as well as the brand new release from the SGS Universal boffins: Dwarves.
What’s It All About?
If we were to employ the politically correct definition of the term Dwarves, we’d also have to alter the spelling to its correct form: Dwarfs. The latter term refers to an individual of small or stunted stature, though the former – and the one to which this title lends its name, is associated with the creatures (also of a stunted stature) prevalent within various writings within world folklore – particularly British, Norse and Germanic.
As far as ties to an ancient and mysterious area of human culture go, this game pretty much draws the line here. Its five reels host a diverse array of dwarves, all dressed in moleskins of independently vibrant colours. These dwarves however, do not some entirely evocative of the ancient variety, instead packing much more a disney vibe!
The Mechanics
As previously mentioned the Dwarves slot from SGS Universal packs a total of 5 reels, pretty standard stuff. What’s more, the game plays host to 20 paylines all of which are individually capable of producing some pretty astounding wins for a game that is so…vertically challenged.
Again though, this is all pretty basic stuff; especially when you take into account the fact that the game’s wild performs the exact same function as you’d encounter anywhere else in the known slots universe.
There is a bonus game to be found by placing the scatter Dwarves across your active lines, though the nature of this feature is far from overwhelming and even by the time you reach the bonus round, chances are you’ll have succumbed to a combined and foreboding sense of boredom/dread and moved on to another game.
Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It’s off to Play We Go?
To round things up, let’s lay all of our findings out on the table. First off, we have a theme that is far from originally, highly monotonous and complete overdone in the grand scheme of things. Secondly, this game possesses completely standard mechanics, to the point where it could be feasible to suggest the developers have simply placed new graphics on top of a tired old framework just for the sake of churning something new out.
Indeed, this is far from being the best work of the SGS Universal team. With a name which gives way (at least to this self-confessed nerd) to so much opportunity for something magical, this title kind of just falls flat on its face as something which is instantly forgettable.
