Sonic Links Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Sonic Links Review

New Link&Win installments keep popping up from different Microgaming partners on a regular basis, and Sonic Links comes from the competent hand of Just For The Win. You get fairly decent fruit slot inspired visuals that are bright and mood-lifting, and it's all wrapped in a somewhat basic presentation with disco-inspired elements and a synthy futuristic/electronic soundtrack.

You get a sort of blend of the 70s, 80s and 90s rolled into one with this game, and the main attraction is the Link&Win feature with jackpots up to 5,000x your stake. The Echo Chance feature can help trigger it in a somewhat innovative way, and you also have a multiplier bonus round to look forward to. Not the most original release from this developer perhaps, but still a decent shelf-filler.

Sonic Links Slot - Reels Screen

Sonic Links Slot Features

The premium symbols pay between 5 and 15 x your stake for 5 of a kind wins, and the ‘W’ wild symbol pays 40x your stake for the same. The Wild also substitutes for pay symbols to help complete wins, but it cannot step in for scatter and cash coin symbols. The wild can land stacked in different sizes though, and it can fill whole reels in that regard.

The Echo Chance feature triggers when you land 3-5 coin symbols in the base game. You will normally need 6 coin symbols to trigger the Link&Win feature, but 3-5 is enough to spin the final 3 to 1 lights that indicate the number of coin symbols present.

If the final lights (or light) end up being switched on, you trigger the Link&Win feature with only 3-5 initial coins.

You get 3 spins in your tally when the Link&Win feature triggers, and each triggering coin symbol is sticky on the otherwise cleared grid. The coin symbols come with random cash prizes, and you will land only blanks, coin and jackpot symbols during the feature. Each new sticky coin symbol you land resets the spin tally to 3 again, and the feature goes on until you run out of spins or fill the grid.

There are 3 different jackpot symbols that come with larger prizes than the coin symbols, and these are the Big, Major and Mega jackpot symbols. They are worth 25x, 80x and 300x your stake, respectively, and filling all 15 positions with cash/jackpot symbols awards the Sonic Jackpot worth 5,000x your stake. All collected coin prizes are won no matter how the feature ends.

Landing 3 free spins scatters on reels 1, 3 and 5 awards the Bonus Round.

Two wheels will then spin to determine your number of free spins and the bonus round win multiplier, and you can get 10, 15, 20 or 25 spins combined with an x2, x3 or x5 multiplier. You can retrigger the feature to get the same amount of extra spins you got in the first place, and the Link&Win feature cannot be triggered from within the bonus round.

The 200 Spins Sonic Links Slot Experience

You get a brief taste of the base game, before we trigger the Link&Win feature with 8 coin symbols at 0:30 into the 3:30-minute highlights video. You get to see the bonus round also, triggered at 1:38 into the video, and we got 10 free spins with an x3 multiplier. Simply hit the play button below to check it all out for yourself.

Review Summary

All things considered, Sonic Links comes across as a fairly run-of-the-mill installment in the Link&Win series, and you can sense that Just For The Win hasn’t exactly poured their heart and soul into the production of what is obviously an order from partner Microgaming. We see similar games from other developers in the Microgaming fold on a regular basis, and it’s not the most exciting range to be honest.

You get stacked wilds that can potentially fill the grid, and this pays 1,000x, and the Echo Chance feature is the only attempt at innovation. It can come in handy at times, and the 5,000x full grid jackpot is somewhat attractive. The multiplier bonus round is okay as well, but overall the generic vibe and well-known features makes Sonic Links a pretty forgettable affair.

Pros

• High value stacked wild in different sizes
• Echo Chance when 3-5 Link&Win coins land
• Link&Win w/ 5,000x fill-the-grid Sonic jackpot
• Up to 25 FS with up to x5 multiplier
• Overall 5,000x potential

Cons

• Beware of adjustable RTP ranges
• Pretty generic and superficial release

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Payouts up to 12,500x is possible in total from the features.

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