Mega Fire Blaze: Breaking Bad Slot by Playtech

The base game here is a plain Fire Blaze setup, and honestly it's mostly a way to reach the respin round. Five reels of periodic-table element tiles (Fe, Cu, Au, Pt) sit on the show's dark green, backed by sun-bleached New Mexico scrub, distant mesas and a pink chemical cloud smeared across the sky. The battered Fleetwood Bounder RV is parked off to one side. Portraits of Walter White, Skyler, Saul Goodman and Jesse Pinkman pay as the premium symbols, next to a banded stack of cash and a yellow-and-black gas mask. The Wild swaps in for everything except the Scatter, the Prize Fire Blaze and the Diamond Fire Blaze.

Land three or more Scatters and you get five free games, with no retrigger. Bubbles drift in on each spin and pop into Wilds or Fire Blaze symbols. Collect six Fire Blaze during the round and the main event starts.

That main event is the hold and respin, and it's where this one earns its keep. Six or more Fire Blaze symbols trigger it. The coins that landed lock in place, you get three respins, and every fresh Fire Blaze resets the counter back to three. Each Prize Fire Blaze holds a cash value from 1x up to 50x, or a STAR. The real trick is the character reels. The grid stacks four locked symbol rows with two locks each, three locked reels for Skyler, Saul and Jesse, and a locked Grand reel up top. A Diamond Fire Blaze strips a lock off, lowest row first, then turns into a 1x coin. Saul converts a held coin into a Pink Bear that soaks up the total of as many as four coin values. Skyler drops up to three new coins onto empty spots. Jesse stamps a 2x multiplier on up to five positions, and an existing 2x becomes 4x. Clear the locks all the way to the top and the Grand reel comes into play.

The Grand pays 2000x. When the respins end, any held STARs cash out as the Major at 500x, the Minor at 100x or the Mini at 20x. All four are fixed, not progressive. It's a licensed crime slot and a Mega Fire Blaze release, and those character reels are the reason to reach for it over the dozen other Fire Blaze games that play identically in the base.