Blazing Bells

Classic fruit-inspired video slots can be found in every developer’s portfolio, I guess whenever they lack ideas for a new game they turn to the old plums and cherries, hoping to pull off a decent title out of them. 

Blazing Bells is inspired by the classic fruit games, but London-based company Ash Gaming have really taken the theme to a new dimension. Just imagine that you can win up to 25,000 times the stake, that’s something you rarely see in a fruit slot! 

Theme

The design of Blazing Bells is pretty simple, there’s a background that might suggest a glass of orange juice and a few transparent reels with a basic shadow effect on the symbols. 

Speaking of the symbols, we have the usual low-value royals from Ace to 9, plus some fruits and a Liberty Bell. 

There are some basic sound effects in there as well, nothing too fancy but overall the whole thing looks well put together with no bits and pieces looking like they don’t belong. 

Betting Options and Functions

This slot has 6 reels and 6 rows, with a mind-blowing 46,656 ways to win. That setup is quite far apart from the inspiration of the classic fruit machines, and the game mechanics are quite modern as well. 

Winning combinations are formed the usual way, when you have three matching symbols on adjacent reels starting from the left side of the screen, but the symbols that form the winning combos vanish and others drop in their place. 

That can lead to cascading wins, but we’ll find out more about that mechanic later. This title has an above-average return to player percentage of 96.37, while the volatility is high. As mentioned earlier, the maximum prize is a staggering 25,000 times the stake! 

Features

The special features pull this game even further apart from the vintage fruit slots, making it a very modern product with a lot to offer: 

• Collapsing Reels

I mentioned earlier that winning spins make the symbols that form those combos disappear and others drop in their place. The cascading wins that can result are not as simple as that, because each win adds a multiplier to the next! 

With this feature, you can hit winning combos in quick succession and the multiplier goes up by x1 with each win. Moreover, there is no upper limit on that multiplier! 

• Ways Plus

The illuminated yellow splash symbol is a very special one in this game, when it lands it triggers the Ways Plus feature which can lead to some huge wins. The yellow splash symbol will expand both horizontally and vertically to reach 4 tiles in length and in height. 

• Free Spins

The star symbol is the Scatter in this game, and when you get at least three on screen you will be given between 6 and 20 free spins. The special thing about the free rolls round is that the multiplier will not reset when you have a losing spin, it can only go up until the end of the round! 

Conclusion

Blazing Bells is a surprising video slot from Ash Gaming, you would definitely not expect so many features and such high potential winnings from a fruit-themed game. Moreover, the potential cascade wins coupled with the increasing multiplier can make this title extremely exciting to play. 

The graphics are not on the higher end of the spectrum, but the gameplay mechanics are definitely top notch. This is a retro slot with a significant modern twist, definitely worth a try.