Frog Story

Back when I first started checking out Playtech casinos Mr Cashback was one of three games I could choose for free spins at a couple of casinos, and the name intrigued me - what did it mean? It didn't take me very long to work it out.. and even less time to be a little gutted with the execution of the idea. You'll notice that each payline has a dollar amount showing by it, these count up each time you spin the reels and do not get a win on that line. If you somehow manage to spin the reels fifty times without hitting a win on any specific payline you will be rewarded with 50x your total bet - effectively all your cash back for the fifty spins that didn't result in a win for that line. It's a nice idea but in practice I think you'll struggle just as much as I did to not get so much as a three of a kind on every payline over fifty spins most of the time. I couldn't help but wonder how much of the games RTP is tied up on this extremely rare feature.

Okay, how do I explain this? I don't like the way the trigger awards the bonus. I feel that hitting a feature from Reels 1 and 5 are much more harder than hitting a feature with 3 scatters anywhere. It just so happens when I had my moments on the Frog Story they like to keep players waiting in line! I had to wait for 25 minutes on my $1 before actually seeing a bonus round so by the time 25 minutes past I would have spun at least 50 spins. The bonus might not be worth it especially when there are no other picks available to pick again like for example......15 Free spins at 2x in one pick OR 2500 coins in one pick! It's alright if I can choose again but that doesn't come very often in my triggers!

My main dislike is in how the Free Spins games performed - quite poorly. I couldn't get any good wins from the 8x multiplier, I couldn't get any good wins from the 40 free spins either. Getting 40 free spins with the 8x multiplier could only be a decoy, I really don't know. To make the wound worse, the Free Spins game cannot be retriggered. Argh! Dragon's Loot could play and pay much better, but I don't think EGTwanted it that way.

Well, I did play this game a few times over the years, but maybe about 3 or 4 times only, neverthelessly, but all of my plays ended in disaster. Even at the lowest 1x multiplier mode, this game was like a destructive hurricane all the while - on the Nile or off the Nile! So the title 'A While On The Nile' was very appropriate indeed. Why? Simply because, that's as long as you can stay on the Nile - for just a short while. Within minutes after that, you'd most probably end up in the Nile, at its riverbed, as I did! Sheesh!

In the Archery Bonus game, there are 5 picks to shoot the items to win cash prizes, with each prize ranging from 2x up to 15x the total bet amount, for a maximum win of 75x the total bet. Not a lot to win, but a decent maximum win nonetheless. In my only play on this game, I managed to get 2 Free Spins games as well as 2 Archery Bonus games. The payouts weren't so good, from a low 12x up to 33x my bet amount, but none of the 2 feature games fared better than the other. Yes, I have not played enough of Robin Hood no doubt, so my wins were rather low and uninviting. More plays would certainly see better results, but I'm not going for it. One play was enough for me. The game doesn't have the big wins potentials, so it isn't really my kind of game.