Berry Burst Slot

Graphics

To get our juices flowing, these fruits need to be succulent. And they are. Not only is the imagery superb - these fruits are such high definition that we want to reach out and take them from our screens as though they sit in a shimmering fruit bowl - but the fruits in question glisten, throb and bob their way as they await us spinning the reels.

A Raspberry, Orange segment, Grapes and half Lime descend in order as our high-paying game symbols, with red Heart, yellow Spade and purple Diamond all encased in their own juicy bubbles of joy. The Wild W symbols that appear across all five reels leave rainbow vapour trails as they go, and when they land they expand in vibrant bursts of light to fill the reel.

All the while, bubbles of various sizes rise up from the bottom of the screen and we realise that the Berry Burst slot takes place in a glass or jug of the juicy goodness extracted from these very fruits. Mmmh!

Gameplay

NetEnt’s usual coin value and bet level options return, giving us maximum strategy potential when it comes to our betting options. All pay table payouts are listed in coins, though our actual bet is displayed usefully next to our balance beneath the “Spin” button.

And when we spin, what joys we can look forward to! The symbols flash past and land in place with a satisfying “plop”, completing wins in the Cluster Pays™ pay structure when they form adjacent clusters of five symbols or more.

The golden Wild W symbols expand when they land on any of the five reels to complete winning combos, triggering a single Re-Spin in very much the same vein as NetEnt’s epic gem burst slot, Starburst. Unlike Starburst, though, our Wilds in Berry Burst appear across all five reels. Each additional Wild we land during the Re-Spin triggers an additional Re-Spin on top of the wins we collect. Boom!

Verdict

NetEnt takes the idea of a juicy online slot and takes it to the max in its Berry Burst slot - literally! Landing just a single Wild sees it expand to fill the reel, meaning we require only a single symbol either side of it to form a winning cluster.

But, of course, these symbols appear stacked and can fill the entire reel set. The top initial payout of 5,000 coins for landing full stacks of Wilds or Raspberries is trumped by the Expanding Wild Re-Spin feature, which leaves us eyeing a mouth-watering prize of 3,000x our total bet. Juicy isn’t the word.