The Legend of Shaolin Slot
Meta – Fighting monks and a variety of weapons fill the 5 reels of The Legend of Shaolin slot, while random bonus features and wild wins create extra wining chances.
Online games developer Evoplay Entertainment have made Oriental-themed slots something of a speciality and The Legend of Shaolin video slot has animated fighting monks, various deadly-looking weapons and a backdrop to the 5 reels that gives it a distinctive Asian feel. Along with standard wins that are created when enough examples of the same symbol type stop on adjacent reels across a payline, there’s a wild symbol, scatter awards and random extra bonus features.
Something else Evoplay Entertainment specialise in, is games that look fantastic, which The Legend of Shaolin certainly continues, having smooth animations, lots of colour and a great soundtrack that reminds you of a martial arts movie. The first thing that players are likely to notice when they load up this game is the bright red and yellow colour scheme that extends to the reel surrounds.
We see the game title imposed on the roof of a temple, gently swaying leaves of a tree, and decorated columns at the sides. Standing in front of the columns are a couple of animated monks ready to do battle and below it all is the standard Evoplay Entertainment control panel. It’s here that gamblers set their bet sizes, from a low limit of just 0.09 per spin, putting this game within all but the very smallest of budgets. Free The Legend of Shaolin video slots are available however, so anyone can practice without risking a penny.
Playing The Legend of Shaolin
Opening up the paytable reveals how much each symbol is worth, calculated as multiples of the amount staked per line, or the total bet divided by 9. At the bottom end, there’s fighting sticks, knives, axes and a trident, each of which pays out 5x, 25x or 100x when landing on 3, 4 or 5 reels of a line, although the stick will also return 2x when it stops on just reels 1 and 2.
Next up in value there’s some nunchucks that pay 10x, 50x or 125x and we then have various character symbols paying out progressively more coins. The blue and the yellow fighters are each valued at 15x, 75x and 250x, while an orange gourd pays out 20x, 100x or 400x.
Every fighting monk needs a big meal and we see a bowl of rice that’s worth some of the top wins, returning 2x the line bet when it’s on reels 1 and 2, and up to 750x when it fills all 5 spots on a payline, which is the same amount as the meditating monk symbol. Any time players get a winning combination, they can choose to gamble it, doubling the win if they get a 50/50 spin of a Fire and Water disc stopping in the right place, but losing the bet if it lands in the wrong place for them.
Wild Wins
A decorative yin yang symbol is a wildcard, which pays out between 10x and the best possible win of 9000x when landing across a line, while it’s also able to act as all except the scatter icon to help players complete more lines, by filling in any breaks in a sequence or extending a win further across the reels for bigger rewards.
Special Scatter Features
An elaborate golden gong is the scatter symbol in this game and it’s the most important one for a number of reasons. Firstly, when it stops in any 2, 3, 4 or 5 places at once, players win 2x, 5x, 20x or 500x the total triggering bet amount, but it’s also able to active a random special feature that will be in effect for the next 10 spins.
The features could be multipliers of 2x, 3x, 4x or 5x in place, a random multiplier for a current win, or 2 extra wilds added to the reels for 10 games. If another scatter appears on the reels while a feature is in play, a second feature will be added at the same time and the whole bonus will continue for an additional 5 spins.
Should a third scatter appear in any places, players get treated to the remaining special feature, so they have some great chances of landing win after win with multiplier payouts, although any fourth scatter will see the first feature that was triggered being removed for the next 5 spins.
The Verdict
The Legend of Shaolin online slot machine is another high-quality addition to the Evoplay Entertainment range. The theme isn’t particularly original, and while were touching on negatives points, it isn’t mobile-optimised, but aside from this, it’s a great game.
The potential for high payouts and those exciting random features triggered by the scatter symbol are the highlights and while we never quite managed to trigger all 3 at the same time, bonuses seemed to be awarded quite often for some nice wins.
