Black Lotus

Black Lotus brings the infamous ninjas on the screen, or at least one of them. The game draws inspiration from martial arts, with weapons and symbols mixing on the reels. There’s a bit of animation and 3D graphics at play as well.

There’s a bit more space to play on than usual, with the five times four symbol grid. Likewise, there are a handful more reel modifiers and special features that come into play during any spin. But how does this affect the wins of the game, and what about the variance? Keep reading to find out.

Theme and Symbols

The Black Lotus is such a popular eastern theme that you’d almost think it’s an actual flower that exists, which it isn’t. Perhaps that is why it’s used as a name to imply rarity or something else extraordinary. In this case, fighting spirit in the form of a ninja or a warrior, which is the carrying theme of this slot. As you can imagine, the symbols, music and background effects all fit the subject of some sort of easterly ninja. Overall, everything works quite well, even if the game doesn’t go too deep into it all.

Betting Options and Functions

Though the five reels come with four symbols each, there really isn’t congestion when it comes to paylines. Just twenty of them connect from left to right. Most combinations are still easily covered.

The prizes you get from combinations, which require between two and five symbols, are not extraordinarily high. They easily compete with any other high-variance slots though. It’s easy to see that this is a game that trusts in special features to deliver the rare chances of massive wins.

Features

Three or more bonus symbols will launch the bonus games. Before it starts, you need to pick how many arrows you bring into the feature, five being the maximum. These arrows will then be used to shoot down lanterns, which will reveal the number of bonus spins you receive, each with their own unique modifiers, and each coming 7 a piece. You can also get more spins during the feature, up to 35 a time.

The bonus spins can come with following individual modifiers:

• Bomb

This is a simple bomb that will blow you away with the modifiers it adds to wilds. These can be up to 5x and will affect all the wins that are created through them.

• Fan

After each spin, one symbol will be chosen at random and changed into wilds.

• Bow

A combination of locked wilds and reels as well as respins.

• Kama

One or more columns of symbols are turned into wilds at random during the spin.

• Shuriken

For seven spins all wilds are locked in place, with shurikens reseting the meter.

Apart from the Shuriken-bonus, these modifiers are also available during normal spins.

Our Take

Beneath the theme, you’ll find a game that is full of bonus features. And whilst this Bulletproof Games slot does dish out most of the wins through those bonuses, the basic paytable is quite strong by itself as well. For high-variance gaming, this is something that you’ll enjoy.