Starlight Princess Pachi

Starlight Princess Pachi: Slot Overview

Cast your mind back to the bottom end of 2021 when Pragmatic Play released Starlight Princess, a reskin of Gates of Olympus, then 2 or so years later when a chunkier Starlight Princess 1000 graced our screens. Now we've got Starlight Princess Pachi, and this one is completely different to the two slots that came before it. Where to begin? For starters, Starlight Princess Pachi is not a scatter-paying slot. It does have multipliers, but they have to be earned by graduating from the regular free spins round to a super free spins round. In both bonuses, wins are guaranteed on each spin. Sounds like your partner surprising you with kinky cosplay? Let's see.

If anything, Starlight Princess Pachi is an even bigger anime wonderland than the others as well. Part of the reason is because the gaming is conducted on a diminished 3x3 matrix, making more space to feast your eyes on the cloudland and its dreamy spires. The princess has remained, though. She flaps her wings and floats to the right-hand side of the screen, massive wads of hair, wand at the ready to wave about the place. Bonus games shift play indoors while switching up the tunes, and really, if you're into this particular theme, Starlight Princess Pachi is an absolute dream boat.

Starlight Princess Pachi's gaming grid has 27 ways to win, where wins are awarded for left-to-right adjacent symbol combinations. It's highly volatile, and the default RTP is 96.4%, whether betting 10 c to $/€250 or when buying either of the features.

Three-of-a-kind wins are the only combination type possible in Starlight Princess Pachi. Its pay symbols are 5 variously shaped and coloured gems, plus moon, sun, heart, and sun embossed items. Payouts are 0.1x for the lowest value symbol and up to 20x for the star symbol. No wilds are on the reels at any time, so substitutions are out.

Starlight Princess Pachi: Slot Features

Forget all you know about Starlight Princess. Starlight Princess Pachi is nothing like that game. For features, it has scatter respins, free spins, super free spins and two bonus buys.

Scatter Respins

When a scatter hits and there aren't two more scatters on the other two reels, the reels with scatters stay in place while the other reels respin. If one more scatter hits, that reel locks while the scatter-less reel respins. If 3 scatters are present when respins end, free spins are triggered.

Free Spins

When 3 scatters are in view on the grid, the free spins round is activated. The first part of the bonus is a respin mini-game, where free spins, symbols and blanks land on a 3x3 grid. Free spins symbols have values of 1 to 13. Three respins start the round off. Any new free spins symbol landing gets locked in place, and the spin count is reset. When the spins run out or the reels are full, the numbers on all free spins symbols are added up, and this number of free spins is awarded.

During free spins, the reels have long stacks of symbols, and each free spin is guaranteed to have winning combinations. All scatters landing on free spins are collected. At the end, if 12 scatters have been collected, super free spins start.

Super Free Spins

This feature starts with a super mini-game. A 3x3 grid spins to land blanks or multiplier symbols with values of x1 to x91. Three respins are granted, which are reset when new multiplier symbols land and lock. When respins end or the reels are full the total of the multiplier symbols is carried into the next stage. Three free spins are awarded next, where the reels have long stacks of symbols and each free spin guarantees winning combinations. The multiplier is applied to all wins.

Feature Buy

It is possible to buy either the free spins round for 70x the bet or super free spins for 300x the bet.

Starlight Princess Pachi: Slot Verdict

Different huh? Who was expecting that? One of the biggest curveballs occurred before the game even began over the word 'Pachi' from the title. A net search didn't really provide many definitive answers as to what this Pachi might be referring to. Clues appeared here and there, but nothing conclusive to anchor the mind to. Feelings of puzzlement continued once Starlight Princess Pachi loaded. This isn't a scatter pays slot…? On a 3x3 matrix, surely not? But yep, Starlight Princess Pachi takes the series into totally uncharted waters. Waters that refreshingly have absolutely nothing to do with a Gates of Olympus game.

Starlight Princess Pachi is a night and day slot, though. Its base game, hmm, there's not much to it. Spins blow by, the respin feature triggers occasionally, hits take place, but it gets pretty repetitive. Free spins turn up the heat a few degrees, but it was super free spins' guaranteed wins with a multiplier where the real magic took place. In this case, it's easy to imagine Starlight Princess Pachi being the sort of slot that becomes a darling of the streamer set. You literally win on every spin, though not every win will be a big one, of course. Interestingly, Starlight Princess Pachi has the same 5,000x the bet win cap as Starlight Princess. Another surprise, perhaps, in a game full of them, and one with definite entertainment value for the right gambler.