If you like playing slots and you’re looking for a video slot which offers something different than other online slots, then prepare yourself for a treat! We prepared for you guys a review of a very unique video slot which is all about Japan and big wins! ...

Playtech combines anime and the traditional fruit theme in this unique slot offering. One thing is for sure; you won’t find anything else quite like it. The game is made up of 5 reels & 20 paylines, and is complemented by bonus features, which include a wild symbol, scatter, free games and mystery bonus! ...

Playtech have created a bright, cheerful game that with stacked symbols and frequent wins, makes this Magical Stacks mobile slot a decent addition to their portfolio.It's not as thrilling as the likes of NetEnt Koi Princess, but it's also a little friendlier. And the wins are there if you get lucky enough to get big multipliers and big stacks over 20 paylines. ...

The highest wins come from the Magical free games and the most that I have won here was 300 x bet.

This game is played on 5 reels and 20 pay lines with 2 special features. The first one is the Mystery Stacks. The symbol with the mystery cube is essential here. They appear randomly during the base game and if they do they transform into some symbols, except they cannot transform into a wild or a Chinese Coin symbol.

The free spins are triggered by landing 3 or more scatter symbols. I got 10 free spins when I activated this bonus. The multiplier during the free spins goes between x 2 and x 6. This is not just a simple free spins round like any other. During the free spins if you get a coin symbol on the fifth reel the multiplier increases by 1 and if you fail to land a coin it decreases by 1. What is great here is that more cubes can appear during this feature so you have many opportunities to land winning combinations. The thing is that this is only good on paper. When I played this game I triggered the free spins and even the multiplier was going up still I failed to land some good symbols. I won only 20 x bet which was nothing. I did not quit here because I was hoping that I will win something and I did, in the next bonus round. I won 300 x bet but it was still not enough, because I have lost a lot of money during the base game.

Not only that, when I played the game, I then realised that the game is actually very similar to 'Blade', with a Dynamic Multiplier of up to 5x to produce good wins. This multiplier goes up or down with each spin - in 'Blade', any no-win spin would decrease the multiplier by -1, any win would increase it by +1, but in Magical Stacks, this movement depends on the appearance or non-appearance of a special Coin symbol on reel 5. But having said that, nothing beats 'Blade' in terms of game play and payouts! Hehehe.

The Girl is the Wild symbol in the game, paying a very low 500x the line bet, or 25x the total bet, for getting 5 of them. It doesn't even double wins with it. Disappointing indeed! The Cat is the Scatter symbol, paying a low 50x the total bet for 5 of them, getting 3 or more of which triggers 10 free spins with a Dynamic Multiplier of 2x up to 5x. More free spins can be retriggered, so that's good at least. The other symbols pay from 250x (for the 777 symbol) down to 20x the line bet for any 5 of them. There is also a Mystery symbol that can randomly appear on the reels and transforms into any other symbol except for the Scatter or the Coin symbol. Nevertheless, a disappointingly very low paytable!

The Mystery symbols can appear in both the base game as well as during the free spins, so this is the only chance to get all same 15 symbols, if you're lucky enough to get them that is. Nah, not even once has it ever happened for me. Most of the time, those symbols would only transform into non-paying ones! Sheesh! As for the free spins games, yes, I did get a retrigger once, but then again, most of the extra free spins came as blanks, and yet again making for more disappointments for me. I have not had any satisfying Free Spins game with Magical Stacks, and my best win, until my most recent play, still remains at just 100x my total bet. Certainly no comparison at all to Blade!

Would I play Magical Stacks again? Not from what I have gotten from the game so far. Nothing has been good, the free spins have all been disappointing, and the mystery symbols have not transformed into any nice winning combinations, so there is practically nothing to make me go back to play it!