Fairy Tale Legends Red Riding Hood Slot

Net Entertainment have embarked on yet another online slot themed series in the same vein as the NetEnt Rocks collection we saw earlier this year. This time it’s the turn of the Fairy Tale Legends. For those of us that love a good old fashioned fairy tale there are soon to be a collection of online slots to fit the theme.

The first instalment in the Fair Tale Legends series is the tale of little Red Riding Hood. A famous story about a little girl who is ambushed by the Big Bad Wolf. There have been several variations on the famous tale dating back to the 10^th Century according to Wikipedia references.

In the NetEnt rendition of the story you join an animated little red riding hood on a 5 reel slot with a helpful fairy that features prominently bringing with her plenty of bonuses including the Beware the Wolf Bonus.

Fairy Tale Legends Red Riding Hood Slot Details

You can expect the usual high standard of graphics from NetEnt with an extra sprinkling of fairy dust, but let’s delve a little deeper into the details.

This is another standard 5 reel, 3 row slot configuration with a total of 20 pay lines that are configurable as bet levels. There are 10 Bet levels in total with coin values ranging from €/£0.01 per coin up to a maximum of €/£1.00 per coin.

Minimum bet per spin is €/£0.20 per spin based on the lowers bet level and coin value with £/€200 being the self-imposed maximum bet per spin for this game. Not including bonus features the maximum jackpot possible if you were to hit all the right symbols works out at €/£8,000.

Fairy Tale Legends Red Riding Hood Slot RTP%

As you might have noticed the top paying symbols work out at only 40 times the maximum stake which is not as high as some of the other titles we’ve reviewed. However, the RTP% on the other hand for the Red Riding Hood slot game clocks in at 96.33% making it one of the highest returners. In other worse this slot is going to pay out frequently without paying out dizzying amounts.

Red Riding Hood Slot Features

There are quite a number of different features available in this new online slot, including four different types of randomly occurring events and three different types of symbol triggered bonuses.

So first up the randomly triggered features which include the following:

• Fairy Magic Spin
• Fairy Surprise
• Fairy Wild Spin

All of these are randomly activated during game play and do not require any specific symbols to appear.

Fairy Magic Spin Feature

Fairy Magic Spins occur randomly during the game whenever you are actively spinning and result in a Tinkerbelle like fairy descending onto the screen. With sprinkling of fairy dust you’ll have 5 to 9 medium win symbols appear as an overlay during your spin.

Fairy Surprise Feature

This bonus feature is activated randomly at the end of a “no win” spin during the main gameplay. One of your symbols will be highlighted with other matching symbols transforming to reveal a win line.

Fairy Wild Spin

With a quick flick of the wand you’ll have 3 or 4 randomly placed Wild symbols appearing on reels 2, 3 and 4 in mid-spin. After the reels have stopped spinning you’ll also get a Sticky Wild Re-Spin straight after.

Next we look at the main bonus games in the Red Riding Hood slot which are triggered by landing three treasure chests. The three main bonus features you can trigger are:

• Beware the Wolf Bonus Game
• Free Spins
• Coin Win

You’ll need to pick one of the three treasure chests and depending on your pick a different bonus is granted.

Beware the Wolf Bonus

This is undoubtedly the crown in the jewel for this online slot, with a typical fairytaleesque backdrop presented as a board game type layout. There are 5 different location types on the board which aware the following:

• Coin Win
• Double
• Arrow
• Jackpot Coin Win
• Collect

The format of this bonus game is simple, click the screen to spin the whirligig and progress through the levels to win coins.

Free Spins and Coin Wins

Last of the bonus games is are the free spins and instant coin awards. If you hit free spins you’ll be awarded with 10 free rounds or if you land the coin win you’ll be looking at 15 times your original stake amount.

Fairy Tale Legends Red Riding Hood Slot Verdict

Like most if its counter parts the Red Riding Hood slot from NetEnt is another impressive looking slot game with very slick graphics and a smooth running engine. It’s not going to be everyone’s cup of tea though – sure if you love fair dust and nostalgia then this is going to appear, however there’s very little entertainment if you’re not into the Disney princess scene.

Overall it’s a solid game, a high RTP% offsets the low jackpot amounts and the game runs as you would expect a recent release from NetEnt. Definitely worth a spin if you’re a fan of the fairy tale theme, otherwise there are plenty other exciting slots to play from one of the best developers around.