4 Fantastic Fish Gigablox

4 Fantastic Fish Gigablox: Slot Overview

Casino game maker 4ThePlayer's '4 Fantastic' range has gone and become a foursome itself due to the release of 4 Fantastic Fish Gigablox. This one is a merger of the first 4 Fantastic Fish slot and the popular Gigablox mechanic designed by partner Yggdrasil Gaming. The crossover is similar in some ways to the one the studio pulled off in 90K Yeti Gigablox, and here, 4 Fantastic Fish Gigablox retains most of the original slot's features with the added dimension Gigablox brings to the party.

As far as brightly lit, super positively presented fish slots go, 4 Fantastic Fish Gigablox is up there with the brightest of them. Its stylised sun spreads thick yellow beams of light across the sky above choppy seas as fish swim past. Upbeat reggae music provides the tunes for the angling activity in a world where everything practically smiles, even the fish. The main difference is the game grid has been contorted into a 6x6 space, which now lands Gigablox symbols, and the ways to win have expanded to up to 46,656.

Plus and minus buttons next to the big ol' spin button are how you can pick your preferred stake from 10 c to $/€80 per spin, in a game with a default RTP of 96%. Two things are apparent when the reels start to spin. One, there are now seaweed symbols dotted about the place, and like the ice blocks in 90K Yeti Gigablox, they have no value and cannot be used to create wins. Second, Gigablox symbols are formed when reels merge to create symbols of 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, or 5x5 in size. Fish symbols land as Gigablox, too, breaking down to individual 1x1 size symbols for the purpose of win evaluations.

Card royals 10-A with hooks on them are 4 Fantastic Fish Gigablox's low pays, awarding 0.4 to 0.8 times the bet for a 6 symbol win, while the high pays are a tackle box, reel, starfish, crab, seagull, and fisherman, worth 1 to 2.5 times the bet for a 6 OAK hit. The boat symbol is wild, substituting for any other symbols except scatters.

4 Fantastic Fish Gigablox: Slot Features

Fantastic Fish slots generally come with a fairly lengthy list of features, and so does 4 Fantastic Fish Gigablox, where we find fish for cash prizes, big game fish, the Giant Squid bonus, a fishing respins bonus, and two feature buys.

Fish For Cash Prizes

Fish symbols can land on any reel, displaying cash prizes of 0.1 to 50 times the bet. If fish symbols land and form a winning way, they award the prizes they display. Be on alert for big game fish as well, which pay as part of fish symbol wins:

• Big – 2x2 Gigablox where each 1x1 symbol pays 25x the bet up to 100x total.
• Super – 3x3 Gigablox where each 1x1 symbol pays 50x the bet up to 450x total.
• Mega – 4x4 Gigablox where each 1x1 symbol pays 125x the bet up to 2,000x total.
• Big – 5x5 Gigablox where each 1x1 symbol pays 400x the bet up to 10,000x total.

Giant Squid Bonus

The Giant Squid may appear on any spin to perform one of these modifiers:

• Squid Reveal – seaweed symbols reveal symbols guaranteeing a win.
• Giga Summon – calls Gigablox to the reels up to 5x5 in size.
• Squid Swap – swaps symbols to create wins.
• Squid Shuffle – shuffles the reels to create wins.

Fishing Respins Bonus

Landing at least 3 respin scatters triggers the respin bonus. Each reel that shows a scatter is unlocked when the bonus begins, while the rest of the reels start the round locked. Locked reels can be unlocked, though, by landing a scatter on them during respins. When fish symbols hit, they lock in place on open reels till the round ends. Gigablox symbols may also land in any position, splitting and locking on any open reels they are present on. The top and bottom rows start locked as well and are unlocked by the shark feature.

A total of 3 respins are initially awarded, which resets back to 3 whenever landing a new locked fish or hitting a scatter. At the end of the round, all fish symbol cash prizes are awarded. Lastly, when the shark appears, it eats full reels of fish symbols, combining the prizes into one position and multiplying the total by x2. The shark also unlocks the top and bottom positions on a reel. Landing fish symbols in these positions multiplies their cash prize.

Buy Feature

The buy feature is where players can land scatters to trigger the respin bonus for 80x the bet or buy the Giga Summon, which is a single spin with a Gigablox reel up to 5x5 for 150x the bet.

4 Fantastic Fish Gigablox: Slot Verdict

For the most part, the bringing together of 4 Fantastic Fish and Gigablox went off without a hitch. One possible thorn in the side is the seaweed symbols, which, like their icy counterparts in 90K Yeti Gigablox, block the grid with their valueless nothingness, though the Giant Squid bonus can activate them. The rest of the new parts are positive additions, such as having far more ways to win and the big, potentially exciting results large Gigablox symbols are able to carve out.

It is handy that fish money symbols can land in larger sizes as well, in the base game and in respins. One caveat is that when big game fish symbols hit, you'll need them to hit fully in view to collect their entire prize value, unlike 4 Fantastic Fish, where a single 1x1 big game fish symbol is enough to win off. Ay, well, it adds to the up-and-down motion of the game. Like in the Yeti one, the Giga Summon bonus buy can be insanely up and down as well, fun in the demo but possibly brutal in real life. Or rewarding, there are a lot of ways a massive Gigablox symbol may link with after all. The respins bonus round isn't hugely different this time, aside from giga-fish symbols floating around the screen. One thing that may give prospective players pause is the 10,000x the bet win cap is a lot less impressive than the 90,000x on offer in 90K Yeti Gigablox, quashing the attractiveness of the Giga Summon feature and buy. If you've seen the outrageous $75,000 result in the Yeti game, you'll know what we mean.

Most things considered; 4 Fantastic Fish Gigablox makes a successful entrance into the Gigablox world. If the reduced max win isn't an issue, then the changes here are mainly positive ones, and what made 4 Fantastic Fish enjoyable has mostly been enhanced by the inclusion of Yggdrasil Gaming's popular reel-altering, symbol-engorging mechanic.