Fire Blaze Xtreme: Elena Brava Slot by Playtech

Elena Brava fronts this one as a masked swordswoman, a Zorro-style domino mask over brown curls, white shirt, a rapier in hand. She stands on a warm pink-and-terracotta Spanish-colonial street of balconies, tiled roofs and cactus, where a rearing black horse, a red money bag and a pink rose fill out the reels alongside the card royals. Two prize wheels sit above the grid, a blue one for the smaller prizes and a red one for the bigger. This is the Xtreme cut of the Fire Blaze line, so the familiar hold-and-respin gets a pair of wheels bolted on top.

The main event triggers on 6 or more Moons, the blue Fire Blaze coins that each carry a printed cash value. They lock, you get 3 respins, and every fresh Moon knocks the counter back to 3. What sets the Xtreme version apart is the lock system: the grid opens with three padlocked rows, and you have to clear the locks off a row before it comes into play. Multiplier badges drop onto positions as you go and stack from 2x up through 4x, 8x and 16x, each one applying to the cash value held under it when the round ends. Fill every unlocked position with Moons and the Grand pays.

The wheels run off Wheel symbols on reels 1 and 5. Two of them spin the Blue Wheel, which can hand you free games, a flat 10x, a Mini or Minor, a Collect, or a jump straight to the Red Wheel. The Red Wheel is where the Major and the Grand live, plus larger cash and a Collect that carries a 2x. A Wheel that lands mid-respin spins as well, and there it does different work, stripping away a lock or dropping another multiplier badge. Collect tallies every Moon on screen and pays the lot, sometimes doubled, and if fewer than five Moons are showing it tops the board up to five at random before counting.

Free Games arrive in 5, 8 or 10-spin helpings off the wheels, and both the respin and the wheels can fire again inside them. The four jackpots are fixed rather than progressive: Grand at 2,000x, Major 200x, Minor 50x, Mini 20x. Prefer not to wait for six Moons? The Buy Bonus drops you straight into the hold-and-respin. The Wild shows up on reels 2 through 5 only, never reel 1, and covers everything but the Moons and the Wheels. For all the machinery stacked here, two wheels, a hold-and-respin, a collect and free games layered over the standard Fire Blaze setup, the ceiling still stops at that 2,000x Grand, a fairly ordinary number for this much apparatus.