Luchadora Game Review
The world of the Luchador, the famous masked Mexican wrestlers who are often folk heroes in their home country, is perfect for adaptation into a pokie. The colourful costumes, the even more colourful characters, the drama, the excitement, the danger: It’s all there! Luchadora is one of a few takes on the sport currently on the slot market, and they all bring something new and different to the table. This game focuses much more on the wrestlers’ personalities, so important in building their legend, but is there fortune alongside fame or is this game all risk and no reward? Let’s take a look in our Luchadora review.
Background
The background to the reels in Luchadora sees you enter a wrestling match in full swing, where the reels are hosted on the canvas of the right while the borders feature the floor around the ring covered in streamers and decorations as well as posters of some of this league’s most famous superstars. You should pay attention to those posters, because the high value symbols are all taken up by these characters in their flamboyant costumes, and they all have cool wrestler names like The Snake, The Bull and The Panther. The low value symbols are a bit weird, they’re a variety of different shaped peppers, but that makes a bit of sense given the focus on spice that Mexican food often has!
We’ll warn you in advance, but Luchadora is all about its bonus features, so the main game isn’t supposed to be the main attraction. Having said that there are still a couple of interesting features, one of which is the four rows and five reels, which gives you thirty pay lines to play on and to bet up to £/€/$100. The regular wrestler symbols are the highest paying, with El Toro paying the best at 25x your stake, but this can be significantly improved in the bonuses when they all become wild! It’s this feature that helps generate the cash, keeping the RTP just above average at 96.2%.
Bonuses
There are a selection of bonuses to enjoy in the Luchadora slot game, the first of which can activate in the main game, and involves the wrestler symbols becoming wild if they land in the corners of the ring. The regular symbol is replaced by a snarling wild symbol, while all other instances of that wrestler become wild too. A second bonus is Lucha Smackdown, which is represented by a wrestling bell, and will automatically grant players a random number of up to 15 free spins or a multiplier of up to 15x on your next win.
One symbol we haven’t mentioned yet is the Misterioso Campeon symbol, represented by a grey and empty poster, which pays fairly well in the main game but isn’t anything to write home about. However, in Luchadora’s main game, landing up to five La Lucha scatters can grant you up to 15 free spins. During these spins any wrestler wilds will remain sticky in the corner where they’re converted, and if you manage to convert all the wrestlers the Misterioso Campeon symbol becomes the much more valuable La Luchadora symbol!
CasinoNZ Verdict
We can’t really criticise a game that has so many fun and inventive bonus rounds, and Luchadora is a pokie you’ll come back to again and again just to experience everything it has to offer. The prizes are good when you hit the bonuses, and the charming art and design is a great laugh from start to finish.
