King Kong Cash Even Bigger Bananas: Slot Overview

What is it about a humongous, dangerous beast that so captured the public's imagination? Since 1933, people have been fascinated by the giant King Kong, who has appeared in numerous movies, cartoons, books, video games, and other spin-offs. Some of those spin-offs have included online slots, and developer Blueprint Gaming has been especially enthusiastic about Kong's use. The studio released the original King Kong Cash slot in 2016 and followed through with a number of related releases. Here's another one. Going by the name of King Kong Cash Even Bigger Bananas, it mixes the beloved theme with features the studio appears to favour in the hopes of drawing fans as well as new players into its domain for a spin.

King Kong Cash Even Bigger Bananas' domain is a pretty sweet place to be. A gentle jungle boogie jams in the background, and it's not hard to picture animal inhabitants locking themselves into a conga line like an old-school Disney film dance scene. Kong's the boss around here, presumably, and he appears on several different Collect symbols. At first, most of them are locked, and the locked symbols sit next to the grid for players to track progress. What else is there to say, other than King Kong Cash Even Bigger Bananas retains the feel-good Jungle Book vibes of the original game 7 years down the track.

Interestingly, changing bets does not reset the unlocking of Collect symbols process (at least not during the time of writing), so players are free to set the stake as low as 10 c, then jack it up to $/€100 when all are available if they so choose. Perhaps the RTP does not rely on which collector symbols are active or not, where the default value is 96%, while the game's volatility is medium-high.

Played on a 6-reel, 4-row gaming panel, players get 4,096 ways to land winning combinations of 3 to 6 of a kind. Patterned 9-A card royals make up King Kong Cash Even Bigger Bananas' low pay symbols, then a crocodile, bird, tiger, rhino, and a golden Kong are the high pays. Hitting 6 OAK low pay wins awards 1 to 1.5 times the bet, increasing to 2 to 5 times the bet for a 6 premium symbol result. Wild symbols help connect winning ways by substituting for all pay symbols, and they land on all reels except the first.

King Kong Cash Even Bigger Bananas: Slot Features

The first King Kong Cash was a real Blueprint Gaming special, rammed with all sorts of features and bonus rounds. King Kong Cash Even Bigger Bananas is more streamlined, offering a cash symbol collection system powered by several unlockable Collect symbols.

Cash Collect

On each spin, Cash symbols are active on all reels. When initially starting the game, the regular Collect Kong symbol is active. If a Kong Collect symbol lands in view on the rightmost reel, it expands to cover the reels and collects the values of any Cash symbols in view. After this occurs the first time, the next kind of Kong Collect symbol is unlocked. When the latest Collect symbols collect Cash symbols, the next Collect symbol is unlocked. When all four Kong Collect upgrades have been unlocked, they remain active in the main game and in free spins. The other Collects are these:

• Dual Collect – a new Collect symbol is unlocked on reel 1 as well as on reel 6.
• Lock & Spin – when this one hits on reels 1 or 6 Cash symbols are held in positions, and a respin occurs. This continues until no new Cash symbols land. If 2 Lock & Spin Collects land, an extra life is granted, where when no new Cash symbols land, a second Lock & Spin is started.
• Cash Boost – collects all Cash symbols in view as well as awarding a cash boost to the final collected amount.
• Golden Monkey – on any spin where Kong collects a win, if a Golden Monkey is present, it accumulates the value of any Cash symbols in view before being collected along with all the Cash symbols by Kong.

Free Spins

Landing 3, 4, 5, or 6 scatter symbols in the base game awards players 10 free spins and makes a payout of 20x, 100x, or 500x the bet. In free spins, collecting 3, 6, 9, or 12 Kong symbols awards +5 free spins each time, plus a Cash symbol collect multiplier of x2, x3, x5, or x10 is awarded, respectively.

King Kong Cash Even Bigger Bananas: Slot Verdict

If there was a casino game maker that might take well to GenAI, it could be Blueprint Gaming. The studio is already a master of chopping, changing, adding, subtracting, cloning, and reskinning its vast collection of themes, features, and mechanics, so it's not hard to picture the team mixing all of its slot components into a big online barrel and letting artificial intelligence mix and match them into 'new games'. King Kong Cash Even Bigger Bananas is a classic example. For starters, the King Kong Cash series has seen Prize Lines, Jackpot King, and Cashpots versions. Now, it shares traits with other BP slots like Goonies Hey You Guys, D10S Maradona, Funky Budha and possibly others. Talk about flinging genetic material into the void to see what comes crawling out.

Therefore, if you've played your share of Blueprint Gaming slots before, such as those last three listed, then King Kong Cash Even Bigger Bananas might feel about as snug as your favourite hoodie. Its cheerful cartoon presentation makes a friendly first impression, a feeling enhanced by actually meeting King Kong, who, in this production, looks more interested in tearing the husk of a coconut than rending an intruder limb from limb. As for the gameplay, it's alright, you more or less know what you are going to get if you've been following Blueprint Gaming's stuff. If not, King Kong Cash Even Bigger Bananas is a decent cash collect game with a €250,000 win cap. Full stop.

King Kong was dubbed the Eighth Wonder of the World, but that title doesn't exactly apply to King Kong Cash Even Bigger Bananas the slot. Nevertheless, there is plenty of cheerful money-collecting gaming going on here for players who like this sort of thing, just don't expect to find much which hasn't appeared more than once in other Blueprint Gaming slots. Then again, when considering previous King Kong Cash games, the point of the series seems to be amiable great ape shenanigans rather than 'wo, did you see that?' gaming.