Bushido Ways xNudge

Get to experience the code and way of fearless warriors on the slot from Nolimit City. Bushido Ways xNudge is taking you on a volatile reel journey to the Far East for an encounter with mighty shoguns and fierce geishas. On your voyage, you will encounter wild substitutions, sliced wilds, Geisha xNudge Wilds, an ONI Transform modifier and two types of free spins that can lead to wins of up to 30,000 times your bet.

Update 6th April 2021: The game is live as a 1-week exclusive prerelease at Boom Casino and its sisters site from the Hero Gaming Group. The global release will be on 13th April 2021.

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Slot Details

Bushido Ways xNudge is a video slot with five dynamic reels, four rows and 1,024 ways to win. Throughout the gameplay, the number of ways can increase up to a maximum of 24,576. Pays are awarded for three to five matching symbols landing on adjacent reels from left to right only. You can join fearless warriors on desktop, tablet or mobile from 0.20 to 100 credits per spin.

The game has very high volatility (9/10) with a default RTP of 96.01% and a hit rate of roughly 1:4 spins. Some operators will offer it in the DX1 version with 94.00%, always check the help files to find out which version you will be playing. Using the Bonus Buy feature will slightly increase the default RTP values to 96.13% for the Shogun Spins and 96.82% for the Geisha Spins.

You would not be mistaken to think that you are returning to the setting of Warrior Graveyard from Nolimit City. The Samurai characters will remind you though that you are in the Far East and not in Norse regions. A scorched battlefield is opening up when you load the slot with flag standards serving as a reminder of the heroes lost in action. A pagoda can be seen in the background through the smoke-filled air while three Samurais dominate on the reels. A heartwrenching, heroic soundtrack provides the main audio with dramatic thumps intermittently chiming in when scatters or wilds land.

The pay symbols start at the low end with artistic card royals from 10 through to A, awarding 0.50x to 0.75x your bet for a single five of a kind. They are followed by three Samurai warriors with green, blue and blazing red colours, appearing as full stacks at all times. Hit five across the reels to win 1x to 2x your stake.

The game has two wilds, both performing the usual substitutions duties. The standard wild is an Asian fan icon marked with the word itself and appearing on reels two, three, four and five only. The Geisha Wild can land on reel three only and will always nudge into full view. Lastly, a Samurai mask acts as the scatter.

Bushido Ways xNudge Slot Features

For some Bushido is a German rapper, while most connect it to Far East culture. Consulting Wikipedia will bring up – “Bushido is a moral code concerning samurai attitudes, behaviour and lifestyle.” – with the word itself standing for “the way of the warrior”. As such, it must have been quite a challenge for the folks at Nolimit City to build a slot that conveys the spirit and intensity of Samurai warriors. Let’s take a closer look as to whether they succeeded.

The two wilds will be your main modifiers in the base game and free spins. The standard wild is a single icon that can appear on all reels bar the first and will slice into 2, 3 or 4 wilds when it lands on reel three, four and five respectively and thus, increase the ways to win, up to 24,576 ways in the free spins features.

The Wild Geisha is an xNudge Wild that can emerge on reel three only and will always nudge into full view. For each nudge, the win multiplier will increase by x1 for the current spin. There will be no multiplier increase if she lands outright in full reel height. While she can make an appearance in the Shogun Spins and Geisha Spins, she will turn into a sticky wild reel in the latter feature only.

There is one more modifier that might help you create winning combinations. The ONI Transform feature is triggered when your land mask scatters anywhere on the reels together with stacked warrior symbols. The mask will transform itself and all lower-value warriors into the highest-value warrior symbol currently in view.

On to the two main events on the battlefield – Shogun Spins and Geisha Spins. Both are triggered by landing three or more scatters while the latter also requires the Wild Geisha to appear on the same spin. Here’s how the features play out.

• Shogun Spins: Three scatters award 8 spins with each further adding +1 spin. At least one wild is guaranteed to land on every free spin. The feature is upgraded to Geisha Spins if she appears on a free spin. Extra spins are then awarded equal to the number of nudges she makes to expand to full reel height.
• Geisha Spins: Three scatters + Wild Geisha on reel three award 8 spins with each further adding +1. Further, +1 spin is awarded for a scatter appearing on a Geisha Spin. Before the start of the feature, the Wild Geisha will nudge into full view and increase the number of spins by +1 and the wild multiplier by x1 per nudge. She will then turn into a sticky wild reel. Again, at least one standard wild will land guaranteed on reels two, four or five on every free spin.

In both features, the standard wilds will copy themselves towards the bottom before they slice when they land on rows 1, 2 or 3. Having them appear on the top row on each of three back reels would lead to 16 wilds on reel five, 12 wilds on reel four and 8 wilds on reel three, creating 24,576 ways to win. Although, the latter won’t occur in the Geisha Spins since she will be a sticky wild throughout the feature. The round ends when you run out of spins. Up to 30,000 times your bet is possible in a single feature.

Final Verdict

While we always look forward to new releases from Nolimit City, we do have the feeling that Bushido Ways xNudge was a rushed production to keep the number of games/year up. If you played Warrior Graveyard or Barbarian Furry, you would be hard-pressed to find any real novelty nor probably warm up too much to the modifiers on this creation. Especially, the ONI Transform feature seemed rather pointless as in thousands of spins we did not have it once helping to create a win but plenty of failed attempts.

Overall, still a playable slot that for once does not meet the meanwhile high expectations we have of Nolimit City. But then not every slot can be a Deadwood, San Quentin or Fire in the Hole blockbuster.

Bushido Ways xNudge – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

1. What are the possible RTP settings on Bushido Ways xNudge?

Nolimit City offers all its slots with two RTP settings from which casino operators can choose one. The default RTP on Bushido Ways xNudge is noted with 96.10% while the lower DX1 version has only 94.04%. We strongly recommend checking the help files to find out which version you will be playing. Please note that using the Bonus Buy feature will slightly increase the RTP of each version.

2. How do I trigger the Geisha Spins on Bushido Ways xNudge?

There are two ways to trigger the Geisha Spins. Either outright in the base game by simultaneously landing three or more scatters and the Geisha Wild on reel three or she appears on the same reel during the Shogun Spins feature.

3. How much can I win on Bushido Ways xNudge?

The maximum for the bonus features is noted with 30,000 times your bet. At that point, the round will instantly end and you will return to the base game after the max win is paid. On a normal spin, the maximum peeks at 8,192x bet for a full screen of Red Samurais and the Geisha xNudge Wild with an x4 multiplier.

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