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Flying Hippo review

Theme and Style

Flying Hippo transports players to a fantastical realm where hippos have wings.

Players will explore a trippy world of smiling stars and angelic flying hippos. If they can stay above the clouds, a magical night of adventure awaits.

Players who are looking for an imaginative atmosphere will appreciate this slot.

Graphics, Sounds and Animations

The setting of Flying Hippo is a starry night sky filled with translucent clouds. Shades of purple and pink give these clouds a magical appearance.

Among the symbols, players will find cartoon stars in a range of colors, and letters and numbers formed from clouds. Clouds appear in a personified form as well, with cheerful smiles and large eyes.

The star of this slot is a purple hippo with feathery wings. This cheerful character offers stacks of coins to the players with each hand.

Flying Hippo’s soundtrack is a relaxing melody with a hint of country twang. Wins prompt another cheerful tune to kick in, adding some additional excitement.

Together, the animation and soundtrack create a unique fantasy vibe.

Gameplay

Flying Hippo is a seven-reel, seven-row slot. Wins are awarded for landing clusters of at least 5 matching symbols connected horizontally or vertically.

The Cascade feature means that winning symbols vanish after paying out, allowing new symbols to fall into their positions from above. Cascades repeat until no more winning combinations are possible.

The maximum win is 5,000x the player’s total bet.

Wilds, Bonuses and Free Spins

The Wild symbol appears on all reels and substitutes for all symbols.

The Spawning Wild feature means that after a winning cluster pays out and disappears, a Wild symbol is left behind in one of the newly empty positions. This Wild can have an associated multiplier depending on the level the current spin is at. The multiplier applies to the win of any clusters that the Wild becomes part of.

In the event that a Wild helps to form a winning combination, it is collected in the Meter. The level of the spin increases for every 6 Wilds that players collect. There are 3 levels, each prompting the Wild multipliers to increase. During level 3, Wilds are no longer collected and 2 Colossal Wilds with a 2x2 size are added to random positions. The multipliers of Colossal Wilds range from 3x to 50x.

Should these Wilds form more than one winning cluster, their multipliers are applied to all clusters. If more than one Wild is part of the same cluster, their multipliers are added together before being applied to the winnings.

Bet Sizes, RTP and Variance

The return to player of this game is 93.99%, well below our yardstick for average of roughly 96%.

The range of bets on the site we tested ran from a minimum bet per spin of $/£/€0.20 up to a maximum of $/£/€100 per spin.

Flying Hippo has high volatility, which would have made this slot a good match for our preferred slot machine strategies if it offered a more favorable RTP.

Conclusion

We do not recommend this low RTP, high volatility fantasy-themed slot.

Although the atmosphere is charming, this slot’s low RTP is simply too low to merit a recommendation.

Some creative bonus features add interest to Flying Hippo as well, but unfortunately do not overcome the disappointing RTP.