Set against London’s glitzy lamplit Embankment vista, Jane Blonde has returned with a highly polished new image and a rebooted set of missions to complete. The slot’s overall appearance is sleek and glamorous, and this is a feeling compounded by the symbols across the reels.
The luxury watches, fancy cars, laptops, overnight bags, piles of cash and passports have a very sexy and covert allure. Happily, Jane Blonde Returns doesn’t make room for those generic card suits, throwing itself fully into the ‘spy at night’ theme.
Jane Blonde herself makes five separate appearances across the reels, standing in for the wild and as four other high paying symbols represented by our heroine rocking various wigs and becoming disguises.
The soundtrack definitely matched the beautifully rendered graphics, with its low, pulsing tones that plunge you into a feeling of mystique. Perhaps slightly off-putting was the sporadic overlay of Jane herself, belting out unnecessary commentary over the music. I could have done without reminders that ‘the world won’t save itself you know’ and ‘it’s awfully quiet’ whenever I took a break between spins.
But maybe you’re partial to a female British accent, in which case you’ll probably enjoy the chatter.