The Empress Josephine Slot Review

Joséphine de Beauharnais, for those of you who aren’t familiar with her, was the first wife of Napoleon I, and therefore, the first Empress of the French. It was her second marriage, as her first was to Alexandre de Beauharnais, who was guillotined during the Reign of Terror, and Joséphine was imprisoned in the Carmes prison until five days after his execution. After his death, she received several love letters from Napoleon, and they were married on 9 March, 1796. She, being an older widow with two children, was not accepted by Napoleon’s family, and while Napoleon was away in Paris, she began an affair in the same year of their marriage with a handsome Hussar lieutenant, Hippolyte Charles.

It is the beautiful Joséphine that this slot game from High 5 Games is based upon, telling the story of her life being married to Bonaparte through symbols, animations and special features. It also incorporates a unique soundtrack, bringing the atmosphere of the game together in a great offering from this developer.

Her Majesty, the Empress

As a video slot, this game provides players with a fairly standard layout overall, offering up a total of five reels and three rows. While this is a generic offering for such a game, players will also find the symbols of it are very nicely designed and relevant to the theme. These begin with the regularly seen A, J, K, Q aand 5 icons, but the remaining ones are slightly higher paying and more regal. The first of them is a bronze tea set on a tray, while the second is a jewellery box in vibrant lilac. There’s also a statue of horses and Napoleon, while the remaining two symbols are character icons. These are of Joséphine herself, and the other is Napoleon I.

Alongside its reels, rows and symbols, The Empress Josephine includes a total of 40 different pay lines, although all players are able to customise these to suit personal preferences, and this is done simply by using the arrows to the right hand side of the ‘Lines’ box. Furthermore, you’re able to adjust the value of the wager that you place per spin, which begins at $0.40 across all lines. You can increase the bet per line easily enough, with a range of between $0.01 and $10 per spin able to be chosen from. This allows players a maximum overall wager amount of $400 per round.

Kneel Before Her

As the Empress of the French, Joséphine will be expecting to greet all comers and receive gifts of praise. Fortunately, High 5 Games have added a few specialities into this one to ensure that your meeting goes off without any hitches. First of all, you’ll find that there’s a ‘Super Stacks’ feature integrated into it, and this sees that the reels contain stacks of mystery icons. These will transform into one and the same, with all standard icons and wilds able to be seen.

Further to this, there’s a ‘Multiplier’ feature added to the game, and if any of the two character or the three royal symbols appear in all positions on three or more consecutive reels and on a winning pay line, you’ll receive a multiplier of either times two, times three or times five. All wins containing the symbol that initiated the feature are also multiplied by the awarded amount for that spin.

The game’s own logo is what acts as its wild symbol, and as such, if it shows up in any location on the reels, it will substitute for other icons in order to form a winning combination. The only exception to this is the scatter, and if five wilds occur on a pay line, you can receive a maximum pay out of 1,000 coins.

Finally, the crown on a cushion is the game’s scatter icon, and if you spin nine of these into any location on reels two, three and four, you’ll trigger the freespins round. A total of eight free games are awarded to you, and both the super stacks and multiplier features are active during the round as well.

Admire Her Beauty

This game is one of our favourite offerings from the developer, simply because it’s been filled with special features to accompany the base game play. It’s exactly the type of product we enjoy gaming on!