It’s hard to believe that almost a year has passed since we had the original Tropicool game sent over for review – time flies when you’re having fun like they always say! Like most ELK Studios releases, the original game had a bucketload of modifiers and features, and yet I still have absolutely zero doubts that the developer will have come up with plenty of new ideas to build into their new Tropicool 2 online slot! Let’s start with the basics, as we always do – the payway count remains the same at 46,656, whilst the RTP has unfortunately taken a dip down to just 94% - a full 2 points below the industry average. On a brighter note, the top win has more than doubled and now stands at a mammoth 25,000x – can this be enough to make up for the poor RTP? Let’s find out.
Providing a quick summary of the features in a game as jampacked as this one can be a bit of a challenge, but let’s give it a go! A strange animal-like character named Elmo is the first star to feature in Tropicool 2, providing a redrop feature that can keep the reels in motion indefinitely until he decides to wander off the screen, of course! Elmo can also scare the birds which normally appear on the reels, which turns them into wild symbols for some reason – who am I to argue? The reels include tons of special symbols in addition to the regular paying ones, and there are even a few giant 2x2 and 3x3 blocks to look out for. The main bonus round can award up to 15 free spins – or drops, in Tropicool parlance – and all of these features can be purchased for cash via the X-iter bonus buy menu.
Okay folks, that’s quite enough introduction – after all, how much convincing can you really need to take a trip down to the beach?! But before you continue, why not give our free demo slot of Tropicool 2 a few spins? It’s available to play below:
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The first Tropicool game was released by ELK Studios in April 2021 and was met with generally positive reviews from most online slot sites. Our own review here at Demoslot made few complaints, with the music standing out as the most negative aspect of the game overall. I’m pleased to say that the soundtrack presented in Tropicool 2 is a definite improvement, but the loop is still on the short side, and this meant that I was still inevitably reaching for the mute button within just a few minutes of beginning to write this review. The remainder of the presentation is extremely similar to the original game – a beach setting, tropical animals, and plenty of fruits on the reels. The colour scheme is a little bit garish for my tastes, but perhaps that is just nitpicking!
Any game that offers tens of thousands of payways is bound to struggle when offering sizable line hits on its paytable. The highest prize that Tropicool 2 can manage is just 3x the total stake for a six of a kind hit of the strawberries, whilst the next-highest coconut symbol will pay you 1.5x your bet for all six. A full payway of pineapples is worth just 0.9x the total stake, whilst the lime and watermelon symbols have returns of just 0.6x and 0.3x, respectively. Considering that those are the high pays, I’m sure you can guess that there is little to get excited about on the lower half of the paytable! All the smaller fruits share identical payouts of 0.25x the stake for a six-of-a-kind combination, and I think that’s ‘nuff said, don’t you?
The minimum/maximum betting limits in Tropicool 2 have been set at €0.20 and €100.00, respectively, and whilst I have no issues with those numbers, I think that the lack of intermediate bets could turn out to be a problem. Those with larger bankrolls, in particular, are quite likely to be frustrated at this machine's very limited choice of bet levels.
The base game of Tropicool 2 takes place on a 6x6 reel set, spanned by a massive 46,656 payways. Three additional ‘cool reels’ are shown above the main reel set, but these can only show feature symbols, empty ice cubes, or blank cells.
All winning combinations you hit in this game will explode immediately after landing, allowing the feature symbols shown on the ‘cool reels’ to drop onto the main reel set. The available feature symbols are listed below.
These symbols appear only on the top three ‘cool reels’ and do not take effect until they are dropped onto the main reel set below:
There are two further feature symbols that can only appear when the bonus mode is activated:
The main bonus round is triggered by hitting three or more bonus symbols during the base game. A minimum three-scatter trigger will award six free drops, whilst four, five, or six scatters offer increased prizes of 9, 12, or 15 free drops, respectively.
During the bonus round, the cool reel has additional feature symbols added to it that award extra drops and bonus multipliers. See the Feature Symbols section of the previous paragraph for details.
In this part of the game, all wins are boosted by a global multiplier that will increase by 1x each time a winning combination is removed from the reels. This multiplier can also be increased by the feature symbols that appear on the Cool Reels.
Additionally, all locked wild symbols that appear on the reels during this part of the game will stay in place for the remainder of the bonus round.
ELK Studios always treats us when it comes to their bonus buy features, and Tropicool 2 is no exception! There are five options on the menu, although some of these may only be available in certain countries or jurisdictions.
Like the original Tropicool, I had plenty of fun while testing this new machine, but I have a few issues with it. Firstly, each game round can seem to take a very long time for wins to finish building up and being removed from the playfield. Sometimes a single spin can take multiple minutes, despite only resulting in a very small win.
Next, the Elmo feature doesn’t seem to be anything special – the bonus buy feature gives it a value of 50x the normal cost per spin, which is crazy based on my experience. All in all, I can’t help wondering if ELK has just added new features into Tropicool 2 for the sake of it – the maximum win might be larger, but I have serious doubts about whether anybody could ever reach it.