Amazing Link Medusa

Amazing Link Medusa Slot Review

Medusa’s island fills the backdrop: clifftop temples, a stairway cut into the ridge, turquoise water at the foot of the screen, all of it half-swallowed by mist. Something big coils over the golden reel housing, watching.

SpinPlay Games have built this one to win by taking away rather than adding. Its bonus round deletes the cheap symbols from the reels one at a time until only the good ones remain.

The maths underneath is a familiar high-volatility build – a 5×3 grid, 20 fixed paylines, 96.48% RTP, a hit rate of 29.76% and stakes from 0.20 to 50.00. It shares its bones with Amazing Link Hercules and Amazing Link Boosted Riches, but neither of them clears the reels like this one does.

Base Game & Features

Wins pay left to right across 20 fixed paylines, with only the highest combination counted per line. The premium symbols run Greek: a Warrior leads the table, followed by a Horse, then a Helmet and a pair of Sandals. The royals fill the bottom three tiers.

• Warrior – 1x for three, 2x for four, 5x for five
• Horse – 0.5x for three, 1x for four, 4x for five
• Helmet / Sandals – 0.3x for three, 0.5x for four, 3x for five
• A / K / Q – 0.2x for three, 0.4x for four, 2x for five
• J / 10 / 9 – 0.1x for three, 0.3x for four, 1x for five

Medusa herself is the wild, substituting for everything except the Bonus and Amazing symbols, and she can form her own winning line. That’s her whole job here, and the base game doesn’t ask more of her.

Three separate features can pull you out of the base game, and none of them need a winning line to fire:

• Amazing Link – six or more Amazing symbols anywhere on the reels
• Free Spins – three Bonus symbols anywhere, on reels 1, 3 and 5 only
• Pick Feature – randomly at the end of a base game spin, from Amazing symbols collected above the reels

Amazing Link Feature

Six or more Amazing symbols anywhere on the reels set off the hold-and-respin round. The triggering symbols lock in place and everything else respins, with three respins on the clock. Every new Amazing symbol that lands locks too and resets the counter to three.

The round ends when the respins run out or all fifteen positions fill with Amazing symbols. Fill the grid and the MEGA prize lands on top of every locked value, with all prizes paid out at the end. Each Amazing symbol carries a prize based on the total bet.

Collect-All Symbols

During the Amazing Link round, any Amazing symbol can randomly arrive as a Collect-All version. When one lands, it sweeps up the values of every locked Amazing and Collect-All symbol on the grid. Each Collect-All symbol only collects once, so a second wave of respins won’t feed it again.

Pick Feature

Amazing symbols that land in the base game collect above the reels, and that collection can randomly trigger a pick game at the end of a spin. It only fires on spins that didn’t trigger Free Spins or the Amazing Link round. There’s no decision to make; it’s a reveal, and a quick one.

Match three icons to win the matching prize, and a multiplier on a matched icon multiplies that prize:

• MEGA – the top prize on the ladder
• MAJOR / MINOR / MINI – the fixed tiers below it
• 2x, 3x or 5x marker – multiplies a matched MAJOR, MINOR or MINI prize by the displayed amount

Amazing Link Medusa Free Spins & Bonuses

Bonus symbols appear only in the base game and only on reels 1, 3 and 5, paying nothing themselves. Land three of them anywhere and the free spins round starts with 10 spins, at the same bet and lines as the triggering spin.

The twist arrives on every single spin: one reel is randomly selected to become an Amazing Wild Reel, filled entirely with Wild Amazing symbols. These substitute for everything except Bonus symbols, and any of them can randomly be a Wild Collect-All version that sweeps the locked values on that spin.

The selected reel changes each spin, so the wild coverage moves around rather than staying put.

Green Frames

Randomly, a Green Frame can appear on any Wild Amazing symbol during the round. Each one collected awards a single extra free spin, and that’s the smaller half of what it does.

Every other Green Frame collected, starting with the first, also removes a royal symbol from the reels for the rest of the round, in this order:

• 1st frame – awards a free spin and removes the 9
• 2nd frame – awards a free spin only
• 3rd frame – awards a free spin and removes the 10
• 4th frame – awards a free spin only
• 5th frame – awards a free spin and removes the J
• 6th frame – awards a free spin only
• 7th frame – awards a free spin and removes the Q
• 8th frame – awards a free spin only
• 9th frame – awards a free spin and removes the K
• 10th frame – awards a free spin only
• 11th frame – awards a free spin and removes the A

So a long round can strip the entire low-pay tier off the grid while the wild reel keeps hitting what’s left. Free spins can’t be retriggered, so the frames are the only way the round grows.

The two halves feed each other. Fewer royals means every wild substitution is more likely to connect with the premium end of the paytable, and every extra spin is another chance at a frame.

10 spins is a short runway, though, and without a retrigger the round has to make its case quickly.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.7/10

Sitting down at this island is mostly patience under very good lighting. Seven spins in ten give nothing, so the reason to stay is that nothing here is wasted – every Amazing symbol feeds the counter, and three different features can arrive without a winning line. You’re not waiting for a win, you’re waiting for a door.

The free spins are the best door by a distance, because the wild reel shows up every single spin rather than once in a while. The Green Frames pay out twice over: a spin and a deletion.

The Pick Feature is the disappointment – a jackpot flip with no decision in it, over before it registers. This one suits players who enjoy a slow build and several exits, and who’d take a guaranteed wild reel over a bigger fixed cap. Anyone chasing big five-of-a-kind line pays will want more than 10 spins to work with.

Medusa’s island doesn’t give up its treasures quickly, and neither does this game. Patience is what it pays for.

Amazing Link Medusa FAQs

• What is the RTP of Amazing Link Medusa?

  96.48%. That’s the total expected return, and it doesn’t change.
• How is the Amazing Link feature triggered in Amazing Link Medusa?

  Six or more Amazing symbols landing anywhere on the reels trigger it. The triggering symbols lock in place and you get three respins, with each new Amazing symbol resetting the count back to three.
• What do Green Frames do in the free spins round?

  Each Green Frame collected awards one extra free spin, and each one after the first removes a royal symbol (9, then 10, J, Q, K and A) from the reels for the rest of the round. Up to 11 can be collected.
• Can free spins be retriggered in Amazing Link Medusa?

  No. The round starts with 10 free spins and can’t be retriggered. Green Frames are the only way to add spins.
• What is the hit frequency of Amazing Link Medusa?

  29.76%, so roughly three spins in ten produce a win of any size.
• What is the minimum and maximum bet on Amazing Link Medusa?

  Stakes run from 0.20 to 50.00 per spin across the game’s 20 fixed paylines.
• What is the grid size of Amazing Link Medusa?

  It’s a 5×3 grid with 20 fixed paylines, paying left to right from the first reel.
• Who makes Amazing Link Medusa?

  SpinPlay Games. It’s part of their long-running Amazing Link series. The game’s release date is 10 October 2023.