Blazing Rainbows Slot Review

Blazing Rainbows keeps its feature set small and builds almost everything around one idea: Overlay symbols that hang about and feed a collection mechanic.

Overlay Symbols

Overlay symbols are the heart of the game. One can drop on top of any position on the reels and then sit there for the next 3 spins. Land another Overlay before the counter runs out and it resets back to 3, so a decent streak can keep them live for a good while. Some Overlays arrive carrying a 2x modifier, which doubles everything collected through that spot. On their own, Overlays do nothing useful. They are simply lying in wait for a Pot or Prize symbol to land underneath and set the Rainbow Trail off.

Rainbow Trail Feature

This is where the slot earns its keep, such as it is. When a Pot or Prize symbol lands on a position holding an Overlay, the Rainbow Trail collects its cash value. Any Prize symbols sitting above then tumble down into the spot and get collected as well, and the chain continues until a non-Prize symbol drops in. Prize values run from 0.2x to 15x the bet, while Pots pay 10x, 15x, or one of four jackpots: Mini at 20x, Minor at 50x, Major at 200x, and Mega at 500x. If the Overlay held a 2x, every value in that sequence doubles. Stack a few Prizes together and a single trigger can snowball into a satisfyingly long collection.

Free Games

Land 3 or more Scatters anywhere and you are into Free Games, which hands you 6 spins. Six is not a lot. The wrinkle is that any Overlay from the triggering spin gets cleared, but every new Overlay that appears during the round stays put for the whole feature rather than expiring after 3 spins, giving Pots and Prizes more chances to drop onto a live position. You cannot retrigger, so those 6 spins are your lot. It sounds like the headline moment, yet in practice, it often fizzles, because you are still sitting around hoping the right symbols land in the right places rather than actively building towards something.

Feature Buy

No patience for Scatters? You can buy straight into Free Games for 40x the bet. This is the one genuinely pleasant surprise in the whole package. While rival studios now charge 100x and well beyond for their feature buys, sometimes enough to require a small mortgage, 40x feels almost quaint by comparison. Whether the bonus is worth buying on repeat is another matter, and the honest answer is probably not. Still, if you want to test the feature without waiting, the price will not drain your balance.

Here is the thing about leprechaun slots: There are more of them than there are leprechauns, and most studios make one because the theme reliably sells, not because they have had a bright new idea for it. Blazing Rainbows feels exactly like that. Playtech has a deep catalogue with some genuinely strong games in it, yet this one plays like it was bolted together from spare parts left at the back of the studio.

The Overlay and Rainbow Trail combo is the only part with any spark. Watching Prizes tumble down and collect can be quietly pleasant, and on the rare spin where a 2x Overlay lines up with a cluster of Pots, the game briefly perks up. Briefly. Then it settles back into being a perfectly ordinary cash collect wearing a green hat.

And we have watched Playtech do cash collect better than this. Buffalo Blitz Cash Collect runs the same basic engine with a lot more happening around it. The wider Irish pots genre runs deep too, from the never-ending 9 Pots of Gold family to Blueprint's 3 Pots O' Riches, and even those modest titles tend to hand you more to chew on. If you want a leprechaun slot with actual character, Yggdrasil's Lucky Apocalypse remains the one that bothered to twist the theme into something fresh.

Blazing Rainbows lands at a 6 because nothing here is broken and nothing here lingers in the memory. The Overlay symbols and Rainbow Trail give it a flicker of identity, and the cheap 40x feature buy is a kind gesture in a market that has rather lost its head on bonus prices, but weak line pays, a Mega jackpot that stops at a modest 500x, and a Free Games round that rarely delivers leave it stranded in the middle of an already crowded genre.

Rating: 6