Lucky Clucks 2 Rooster Respins

Lucky Clucks 2 Rooster Respins: Slot Overview

Games Global partner Crazy Tooth Studio isn't usually in the business of making sequels. Clones have been done, but sequels not so much. In comes Lucky Clucks 2 Rooster Respins to rock the boat and the follow-up to one of, perhaps, the most successful releases in the Crazy Tooth Studio lineup to date. Lucky Clucks was a wacky mad cap barnyard bonanza of BIG BuildUps, Raise the Roof Bonuses and chickens. They're back, mostly, meeting up with a new rooster character and a renamed respins feature.

In the first Lucky Clucks game, in the distance, hazy on the horizon, another barnyard structure next to a towering granary building (or some such farm building) could be seen. It appears the view has been switched around for Lucky Clucks 2 Rooster Respins because its gaming grid now sits in a barn next to a granary thing, while what looks like the previous game's barnyard sits on the horizon. Maybe this is the neighbour's property? Whatever the situation, while the viewpoint has shifted, Lucky Clucks 2 Rooster Respins remains packed to the rafters with kooky animals, a gonzo cartoon spirit, and plenty of Crazy Tooth eccentricity.

Symbol positions in Lucky Clucks 2 Rooster Respins are arranged in a 3-4-4-4-3 alignment on the game's 5-reel grid matrix. It uses a ways to win mechanic rather than paylines, of which there are 576 of them. Furthermore, winning combinations do not have to start from the leftmost reel to qualify due to the Any Adjacent Pays mechanic. Instead, as long as matching symbols land on at least 3 adjacent reels anywhere, they create a payout. This connects to a hit rate of 28.69% on the 96.16% RTP model (lower models are available), and the volatility is medium. Stakes of 15 c to $/€45 per spin may be placed in order to get the feathers flying.

Wood hammered J-A card ranks are up first as the low pays, awarding approximately 0.47x the bet for a 5 OAK hit, then purple, blue, and orange horseshoes worth approximately 0.53x for 5, then pigs, goats, sheep, and cows awarding approximately 0.73x the bet for a 5 matching symbol result. The star symbol is Lucky Clucks 2's wild, able to substitute for all paying symbols when calculating wins.

Lucky Clucks 2 Rooster Respins: Slot Features

Time to be dazzled or confused or both by Lucky Clucks 2's features, which include The BIG BuildUp and Rooster Respins.

BIG BuildUp

The BIG BuildUp feature can trigger randomly on any spin. During this feature, 1 or more chickens may lay eggs, revealing prizes that could be the Mother Hen Prize, wild symbols, or 2x, 3x, 4x, or 5x multipliers. Every time a Corn symbol lands (on the middle reel only), it increases the Mother Hen Prize. Each awarded wild also adds a symbol position onto its reel.

In this feature, the rooster (on reels 1, 2, 4, or 5) may cause the game to respin the reels 1 or more times. During respins, any wild symbols added by chickens persist, and the reels maintain the increased number of symbol positions. If multipliers are awarded with the Mother Hen Prize, they multiply the Mother Hen Prize only. If multipliers are awarded without the Mother Hen Prize, they multiply all ways wins during the feature. The BIG BuildUp ends when all feature prizes have been revealed and all respins have been completed.

Rooster Respins Bonus

Hitting 3 scatter symbols triggers the Rooster Respins bonus. On every bonus spin, 1 or more chickens may land to award wild symbols. Each awarded wild symbol adds a symbol position to its reel for the bonus duration. Wild symbols stay on the board, moving down 1 position each spin till no longer on the gameboard. The bonus may be retriggered - if a sun symbol lands on a bonus spin (on reels 1, 2, 4, or 5), way wins are evaluated, and the reels spin again without wild symbols moving down a position.

Lucky Clucks 2 Rooster Respins: Slot Verdict

When the first Lucky Clucks slot was reviewed, it wasn't a slot that made an overly favourable impression, and the thought of it achieving much success felt a tad far-fetched. Apparently, Lucky Clucks garnered enough of an appreciable audience to prompt a follow-up in the form of Lucky Clucks 2 Rooster Respins. Again, Lucky Clucks 2 didn't make much of a favourable impression, but it seems there are gamblers out there, rooting around the virtual barnyard, ready and willing to lap up a second helping of cluck action.

It's hard to quantify Lucky Clucks 2 Rooster Respins as a major transmogrifying step beyond its predecessor. Much of the features and gameplay is very similar, if not the same, as before, which is either a pro or con depending on individual opinion. The first game's free spins round has been chopped out and replaced with the Rooster Respins bonus, which really is more or less the same thing with a different name, making it a step to the side rather than a confident stride forward. One round is called respins, and the other is classed as free spins-based. They're kinda the same thing, though Rooster Respins get a boost from the Sun symbol, so like, okay.

Max win has been boosted, too, so that's something, and the 4,856.67x the bet is more than twice the amount available in the first game. Aside from a max win upping, though, Lucky Clucks 2 Rooster Respins is much of a muchness, really. It is just as wackily chaotic as before and equally eccentric, so fans of the first might not feel totally short-changed, but they may have been hoping for more of an evolution.