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Microgaming surprised everybody when they release the Forbidden Throne pokie in May 2017. Forbidden Throne is a fantasy themed pokie and one which is original in terms of theme and design.
The game offers up a 5-reel and 40-payline structure, whilst at the same telling the tale of Wulthor, the Elven Lord of Fire, and Sorconass, the Queen of Ice.
Yes, it is Fire and Ice. Game of Thrones, anyone? Forbidden Throne is a somewhat cheaply designed pokie machine for Microgaming (who have already developed a Game of Thrones pokie), leaving many to question just why this game was released. With a little luck, the gameplay will be better than the theme.
How to play
The 5 reels of this pokie machine are framed with an ornate border, below which sits a very modern and mobile friendly wagering menu bar. This doesn’t allow too much room to manoeuvre in terms of your bets.
The pokie’s 40 paylines are fixed into place, so you’ve got no chance of altering them. Players can choose coin values which range from 1c up to $5, and those, in turn, will alter your bet from a floor of just 40c per spin, up to a ceiling of $200 a pop. This is not the kind of flexibility we’ve come to expect from a Microgaming developed pokie.
The pokie’s 40 paylines are fixed into place, so you’ve got no chance of altering them. Players can choose coin values which range from 1c up to $5, and those, in turn, will alter your bet from a floor of just 40c per spin, up to a ceiling of $200 a pop. This is not the kind of flexibility we’ve come to expect from a Microgaming developed pokie.
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Features
Wild symbols: There’s no shortage of wild symbols in the Forbidden Throne pokie. Players can expect to be able to use those to substitute for other symbols, barring scatters. Impressively, the pokie offers you one entirely wild reel per spin, with the two main characters, a dragon, a horse, and a castle all wilds.
Scatter symbols: A wispy orb appears as a scatter in the Forbidden Throne pokie. This orb can trigger a free games feature if it appears 3 or more times in any positions on the screen. One point to note is that players cannot pocket big cash multipliers with these scatters. The winnings are minimal in size, which is a shame.
Free spin feature: Depending on whether the player landed 3, 4 or 5 scatter icons in the base game, they will begin the free games feature with 10, 20 or 30 free spins. The wispy orb can retrigger the bonus, but there is no multiplier applied to any winnings in the feature. This is also a shame.
Maximum pay-outs
Strike it lucky in this pokie machine and you could win a non-progressive jackpot which is capped at 8,000 coins in total. All things considered, that isn’t actually that impressive, considering that there are plenty of Microgaming pokies out there with vastly superior jackpots to this.
The one thing that Forbidden Throne does have going for it is that it is pretty easy to bag wins in the game.
Even though there are only 40 paylines and the pokie costs 40c a whack, the sheer number of wilds and wild reels appearing on spins produces frequent wins. We can safely classify Forbidden Throne as a low variance pokie machine game, then.
Summary
We must be frank when discussing the Forbidden Throne pokie. Graphically it is quite an impressive game, with some wonderfully drawn imagery upon its reels.
The theme has obviously been borrowed from Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and Hobbit universe, as well as George Martin’s Game of Thrones universe. That is a bit shameful, and the pokie’s theme and stories are nowhere near as gripping as either of its inspirations.
The special features are also pretty lame, and basic, but if you’ve got a thing for fantasy and epic pokies, none of that will probably matter, so Forbidden Throne might be worth a quick tickle.
