If we are to believe movies and stories from the past, the life on French courts in the 17th, 18th and the 19th century was excellent. It was all about the way you look, how many balls you will attend and how many young ladies you will court. Well, thanks to the good people of Microgaming, we will have an opportunity to see whether the stories are true. Let us present you Rising Royals, a 5-reel, 20-payline video slot.
Put your best clothes on, because we have the information that the party is about to begin and that all the beautiful ladies of the kingdom will be there tonight. Your task will be to trigger Symbol Lock Respins and fill the Symbol Upgrade meter to upgrade icons for bigger wins, up to 300x the bet per single spin, which, frankly, is not as much as we expected.
Even though it may see easy spending time on courts and balls, noblemen had to learn rules of behaviour back in the days if they wanted to be accepted in the high-class society. Fortunately for us, that is not the case with the 2019 release. The Rising Royals slot features 5 reels, 3 rows and offers 20 fixed paylines, which pay left to right, starting from the far-left reel. Three of a kind is the minimum for landing payouts. The betting range is quite wide and will certainly attract both high rollers and penny punters, since the lowest you can wager is $0.10 and the biggest bet is set at $250 per spin.
The control panel is quite standard and easy to use, offering options like Autoplay, with up to 100 automatic spins, Bet, Paytables, and, of course, the Spin button.
The reels are richly decorated, with plenty of diamonds and other precious gemstones on the pillars surrounding the reel grid. In the background, you can see a beautiful castle of our host, the Duke, who will greet you when you arrive. A lovely Lady is keeping him company, while his Servant will take your coat and make sure you get some refreshments. As for the low-paying symbols, there will be plenty of playing cards on the reels. The highest-paying icon is the Logo.
A winning combination landed with high-paying Duke, Lady, and/or Servant will trigger the Symbol Lock Respin feature. The winning symbols and all instances of the winning symbols that are on the reels at the time will be locked on its positions, while other reels perform respins, which continue until there are no new instances of the locked icon appearing on the reels or when the reels are filled with winning symbols.
During respins, you will start filling up the Symbol Upgrade Meter. After three consecutive respins, you will upgrade the locked winning icons into a more valuable symbol. For example, if the Servant triggered respins, it can be upgraded to Lady and so on.
There are plenty of movies when certain ladies or gentlemen say that fancy balls are quite boring and now, we can really agree with them. The Symbol Lock Respins and Symbol Upgrade are fun for a while and can get you some decent wins, but after a while you will simply lose interest. No Wilds, no free spins, no multipliers, no fun. Of course, there will be players who will enjoy the 2019 release, but we are not one of them.
