Luchadora
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1 | Reels | 5 |
2. | Paylines | 30 |
3. | Progressive | No |
4. | Maximum coins | 30 |
5. | Jackpot | 2500 |
6. | Maximum jackpot in coins | 250 |
7. | Multiplier | Yes |
8. | Scatter symbol | Yes |
9. | Free Spins | Yes |
10. | Betting range | from $0.1 up to $100 |
11. | Coin Bet Range | from $0.01 up to $10 |
12. | Coins per line | 1 |
13. | Bonus Game | Yes |
14. | Wild symbol | Yes |
15. | Payout percent | 96.2 |
Mexican professional wrestling is called lucha libre, and it's known as being the most acrobatic form of pro wrestling in the world. The Luchadora video slot by Thunderkick captures a lot of the aspects of a lucha libre theme, and with a number of wild and free spin features, it gives players plenty of opportunities to win. This game doesn't have the best graphics out there, but the gameplay is solid enough.
Format and Layout
Five reels and four rows make up the ring, and though most wrestling rings are squares, it's close enough in this game. You'll have 30 paylines to play on, which cannot be changed, though your wins are based on a total bet size. Your available range of bets go from $0.10 to $100 per spin, and this is for your total wager and not a line bet amount. This is a really simplified way of handling the betting, and we wish that other companies would use it because it makes things much more clear when it comes to understanding how much you're betting and what the available wins are.
Four Corners Wild Symbols
There are four corner posts to a standard wrestling ring, and they are a critical part of the ring for a couple of reasons. You can get your opponent in the corner to cut off his or her ability to get away from you, and high-flying moves often come off of the top turnbuckle in the corner as well. The four regular wrestler symbols can show up in the corners in this game, which are highlighted in gold, and they become wild when this happens. This is the main way to get wild symbols in this game, which ties into the lucha libre theme in a strong way.
The Lucha Smackdown
The bell is the Lucha Smackdown symbol, and getting one of them on the reels will give you a bonus feature. You can earn 7, 11 or 15 free spins at random. Alternatively, you can win 2x, 3x, 5x or 15x your total bet. The prize you get is totally random, and there's no way to know what it's going to be until you hit it. This is a reasonable way to add some extra value to the game and to make every spin more exciting since you only have to hit one symbol to get this feature.
The Lucha Championship Bonus
The championship belt is the Lucha Bonus symbol, and three or more will take you to the Lucha Bonus Game. Three, four or five of this symbol on the reels will award you 7, 11 or 15 free spins, respectively. During this feature, the Lucha Smackdown symbol will give you between two and seven free spins or an instant win worth up to 15x.
Also during this feature, you have a chance to turn the Misterioso Campeon symbol into the La Luchadora symbol if you get all four wrestlers to hit a corner. This gives you better chances for stronger wins since she is the mysterious champion of wrestling.
The significance of this is that when a wrestler gets in the corner during the bonus feature, it will stay wild for the rest of the feature. When you get all four extra wilds, that's when La Luchadora appears.
Important Payouts
Five of the Misterioso Campeon symbol gets 5x for five of a kind, and note that these wins are all multiplied by your total bet size. If she turns into La Luchadora, however, that becomes 25x. Five of any wild also earns 25x along these lines.
The pink wrestler Toro pays 25x, and the orange wrestler Rayo gives you 20x. You can pick up 17.5x for five of Serpiente, and five of Pantera gives you 15x. Four pepper symbols can also be found on the reels, and they give you wins ranging from 3.5x to 2x for five of a kind. They are colored in different ways to make it easy to tell them apart, but we really wish Thunderkick would have made these graphics better because they stand out for being so poorly done.
Our Thoughts
The depth that was put into La Luchadora's bonus feature is pretty impressive. You don't see that much thought put into features like that in the online slots industry, and Thunderkick definitely deserves attention for that. However, the graphics in this game aren't particularly great, and the wrestler symbols would be more easily forgiven if it wasn't for the really ugly pepper symbols.
With that having been said, there are a number of ways to win the top payout of 25 times your total bet, which is like a 750x line bet win, and it's clear that this game is centered around a higher hit-rate and lower volatility style of play. That will appeal to some, but the graphics aren't going to win over any fans.