Guardians of Flowers Slots
As the Guardians of Flowers video slot is loading up, players will see a young woman in an eye mask, with flowers in her hair, looking dressed up for a celebration. Below this realistic image, we see what event she’s attending, with some fun cartoon skeletons in a Mexican Mariachi band, which tells us that the game is based around the Day of the Dead festivities, held across Mexico from October 31st to November 2nd each year.
These all turn up as symbols across the 5 reels and 30 paylines, while there’s some kissing ornamental skeletons that trigger a free spins round, a bonus game that features the band, and a unique Mysterious Fortune feature that can create extra wins. Top this off with a progressive jackpot and we have an online casino slot machine that could leave players dancing in the streets when they land some of the big prizes that are available.
To go with the bright colours and cheerful imagery, there’s a jingly soundtrack and plenty of thoughtfully designed features surrounding the reels, such as a view of a town in full party mode, flowers and candles strewn around the base of the reels, plus a highly decorative blue frame around them. It’s a very attractive design that will bring in lots of amigos to this mobile-optimised slot machine.
Playing Guardians of Flowers
A huge bet range that runs from just 0.30 to 300.00 per spin should suit every budget, although players who like to test games out first can have some practice spins on the free Guardians of Flowers video slots that are offered by casinos that feature it. There’s further options to go for a fast mode, which simply spins the reels quickly, while an autoplay function sets them off on their own for any number of spins.
A little question mark symbol takes gamblers to the paytable where they will be able to review what each symbol combination is worth, calculated as multiples of the amount staked per line. Standard symbols will need to land across a payline on connected reels from the left side. The playing card icons, in a Mexican-style lettering will pay 3x, 6x, or 9x the line bet if the 10 or J appear, while Q, K and A symbols are worth 3x, 6x and 10x when landing on 3, 4, or 5 reels of a line.
Higher-value win-lines are found when the 4 young women in party disguises land across lines, with the green and blue-tinted symbols being worth 10x, 27x, or 45x the line stake, while red or purple-shaded symbols pay out 4x when landing on just 2 reels, then 12, 30 and 60x when stopping on 3, 4, or 5 reels. Any of these can be substituted by the Guardians of Flowers game logo, which is wild and helps to complete winning combinations when it stops in the right places.
Mysterious Fortune Symbol Transformations
A colourful broach symbol can appear in multiple places, even filling several reels at a time, and when it does so, as soon as the spin has stopped all examples of it in view will transform into one of any standard symbol.
This can create multiple winning lines across the reels, especially if several examples of the chosen symbol are already in place, and although it isn’t guaranteed that winning lines will be found, more often than not, this is a rewarding feature to see.
Boney Bonus Features
The cheerful skeleton band symbols will trigger a quick side game whenever the guitarist, violinist or trumpeter land on reels 2, 3 and 4 at once. Players will see these merry musicians underneath a series of 5 musical notes and all that’s needed is for them to pick a note to reveal a coin prize.
The kissing ornaments are an unusual, but colourful, scatter symbol that will trigger a random number of free spins whenever they appear in any 3 or more places on the middle reels at once, although the round can’t be retriggered and there’s no actual scatter payout to collect before they begin.
Jackpot Mini-Game for Major Awards
A vividly-coloured skull takes spinners to another side game whenever it lands in 3 places on reels 2, 3 and 4. This is another simple round where punters click an object, in this case it’s any of the 12 candles in view, with each revealing a jackpot level.
Once the same jackpot, either Mini, Minor, Major or Grand has been found, the corresponding prize is awarded, although players on the minimum stakes will only get 10% of the overall prize, and those at the maximum bet will be able to cash out 100% of the jackpots.
The Verdict
We will make no bones about it, the Guardians of Flowers video slot is an outstanding game, packed with beautifully designed symbols and great bonus features.
The contrast between the realistic young women and cartoon-style characters is a little odd, but if that’s all we could think of to complain about, then there’s clearly no skeletons in the closet for this online casino slot machine.
Perhaps the way that progressive jackpots are only claimed in full at the maximum bet is unfortunate, but other features should more than compensate for this.
