Starlight Princess Super Scatter

Starlight Princess Super Scatter: Slot Overview

While some people wouldn't be caught dead wearing the same outfit twice, others are happy wearing the same hoodie and pair of trousers day in and day out, no problem. Software provider Pragmatic Play feels like it falls into the latter category, as the studio certainly isn't shy of reusing concepts again and again, over and over, in multiple releases. Gates of Olympus is a prime example, which has, amongst other things, been anime reskinned in Starlight Princess (2021) before later morphing into Gates of Olympus Super Scatter, which has in turn been anime reskinned once again to produce today's slot, Starlight Princess Super Scatter.

This means a slot draped in stars, moons, suns, all that sort of thing. The titular princess reappears on the side of the screen doing cutesy princess things, as she presides over an anime dream world of clouds, mountains and shooting star sky. It's nice enough, but all pretty samey. Good for players excited by the cartoonish theme, but there's nothing much new to see here, at all, really.

Starlight Princess Super Scatter is a highly volatile slot played on a 6x5 gaming area. It creates wins by way of a scatter pays system, triggering a payout when 8 or more matching symbols land in view. Bet selection ranges from a minimum of $/€0.20 to a maximum of $/€240, and players can expect a theoretical RTP of 96.5% at the highest configuration. To increase the chance of triggering free spins, the ante bet doubles the chance of winning the feature, but it adds 50% to the stake when activated.

The lowest paying symbols are five gems in different colours, while the high pays are symbols displaying stars, moons, hearts, and suns. Winning combinations of 8-9 OAK pay 0.25x to 10x the bet, rising to 2x to 50x for landing a 12+ OAK combination. The tumble feature removes winning symbols from the play area, causing symbols on the screen and new ones to drop down to fill the gaps. Tumbles repeat until no new win appears.

Starlight Princess Super Scatter: Slot Features

The features haven't moved on much, meaning the extras to keep an eye out for include multiplier symbols, super scatter prizes, free spins, and feature buys.

Multiplier Symbols

Multiplier symbols are available in the base game and bonus round on any reel. When a multiplier symbol hits, it has a random value of x2 to x500. In the base game, when a tumble sequence ends, the values of all multiplier symbols in view are added together and applied to the total win.

Super Scatter

The super scatter appears on all reels in the base game. Combinations of 4 or more scatters and super scatters triggers free spins. In addition, landing 1, 2, 3, or 4 super scatters in combinations of 4 or more scatters of any kind pays 100x, 500x, 5,000x, or 50,000x the bet, respectively.

Free Spins

Landing 4 or more scatters awards 15 free spins. During free spins, when a multiplier symbol hits and the spin produces a win, the multiplier values are added to the total multiplier. For the round's duration, when a new multiplier symbol hits and the spin results in a win, the total multiplier is also used to multiply the win. Should 3 or more scatters land in the bonus round, players are granted +5 free spins.

Feature Buy

Two feature buys are up for sale. For 100x the bet, players may buy free spins triggered by 4-6 scatters. At 500x, the super free spins feature may be bought where the minimum value on multiplier symbols is x10.

Starlight Princess Super Scatter: Slot Verdict

If you're the sort of person who prefers to play games that have never been experienced before, then Starlight Princess slots are not the ones to pick, as they tend to be reskins or revamps. Broadly speaking, they're copies of Gates of Olympus, though Gates did copy Starlight Princess 1000. Without a doubt, Pragmatic Play hit upon a massive winner when it released Gates of Olympus, so much so that the studio has revisited the mechanic on numerous occasions across the years. As such, some gamblers, perhaps even die-hard scatter pays fanatics, may have gotten fed up with the Gates thing by now and are bored by it. Understandable. It's equally understandable how new gamblers might be drawn to Pragmatic Play's impressive scatter pays collection, including players who'd prefer the Starlight Princess anime editions.

As for Starlight Princess Super Scatter, its biggest draw is arguably its enormous 50,000x winning potential, which is 10 times what the original Gates of Olympus/Starlight Princess slots were capped at. Hitting 4 super scatters will instantly achieve full potential, and since this is only possible in the main game, there's less of a bonus buy bias effect. Free spins are still an exciting place to be in a game like this, though, on account of the progressive total win multiplier. Yet, after the umpteenth time, the bonus round experience is, as you might expect, about the same as it is in the countless other Gates-related slots.

Gates and Starlight have an unusual symbiotic relation where one copied the original, then the revamped 1000 version got a Gates overhaul, and now Starlight has copied the Gates Super Scatter version. In other words, the family tree is twisty-turny like ivy rather than a straight-trunked oak, as both series of slots intertwine with each other. So while this might cut out any mechanical confusion, and the gameplay has been dependably recreated, Starlight Princess Super Scatter is utterly predictable as well.