Go Bananas Pokie
Net Ent certainly haven’t slipped up with their Go Bananas online casino video pokie as it’s filled with cartoon apes who trigger unique wild features, plus lots of monkey-related objects and pieces of fruit to create standard winning combinations across the 5 reels and 20 paylines. Those paylines are always active which means a minimum stake of 0.20 to get the reels spinning, although free Go Bananas video pokie games can be used for practice sessions. The high limit that can be staked per spin is 200.00, so it’s a decent bet range suited to casual gamblers and high rollers alike.
Like many Net Ent games, the design and layout really can’t be faulted, and it all plays out on a wooden platform deep in the jungle, where a tyre swing, vines and hanging bunches of bananas are there to keep the simian symbols happy. Wooden poles surround the green reels and a simple set of control buttons sits below it all.
Playing Go Bananas
The ‘i’ button to the left of the reels takes players to a paytable where they will see the number of times the line bet that each winning combination of symbols is worth when landing on 3 or more adjacent reels across any payline. Decorative fruit symbols start with the plum that’s worth 5, 10 or 30x when it’s seen on 3, 4, or 5 reels respectively, and there’s a lime, coconut and pineapple, topped off by an orange that’s valued at 5, 20 or 70x the line bet.
Various objects loosely related to monkeys, or in some cases, not at all, will make up the larger winlines. A tasty-looking banana split, bongo drums, folded banknotes in a monkey-shaped money clip and a monkey statue are each worth more than the fruit, with a big ruby paying out the top awards of 25, 120 or 700x the line bet when there’s 3, 4 or 5 across the reels.
Go Bananas
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Wild Monkeys
The kings of this particular jungle are the 5 monkeys, or monkeys and apes if we’re being fussy, who populate the reels. While each of these has no actual value on their own, whenever one appears anywhere on the reels, they will turn themselves and adjacent symbols into wilds, which are then able to substitute for any other and hopefully create additional wins. Any time this happens, some excellent animations and sound effects accompany the relevant monkey as it swings, lumbers or rolls across the screen, turning symbols into wild bananas.
A wild tarsier turns a symbol either to one side of itself, or above or below into another wild, and as it also becomes a wild, there’s subsequently a block of 2 from which winning combinations can be formed. A langur and baboon will each turn themselves and 2 more symbols into wilds, either to the sides or above and below depending on which creature turns up.
A beautiful (or not), female orangutan will grace the reels with a block of 4 wilds and the gorilla creates 4 more wilds in a cross pattern, covering much of the reels and usually completing at least one and maybe several win-lines at once.
The Verdict
The Go Bananas video pokie has lots to offer monkey fans and gamblers looking for an easy-playing game with lots of winning potential. Other than the overall design, which is fully up to the high standards that we have come to expect from Net Ent, the real highlights are the wild monkey substitutions. It’s not guaranteed that wild monkey substitutions will create a winline, and if the tarsier turns up only 2 wilds will be in play, but going up in value, the orangutan and gorilla are almost certainly going to complete at least one and possibly several winning combinations.
There’s a couple of minor negatives to the Go Bananas video pokie, the main one being the fact that it’s not part of Net Ents’ Touch mobile-optimised range, so punters will need to be at a desktop, laptop of tablet computer to play it. The other possible issue is the minimum stake of 0.20, but it’s got a good return to player ratio, so the actual cost overall isn’t too bad and of course, there’s always the potential for some big winnings to come swinging out of these jungle-themed reels at any time.
Overall then, this is a pokie that others may try to ape, but it’s got some unique features and a fun style which is going to appeal to a wide audience.