The Mulan Slot
Hau Mulan is a legendary character in Chinese history, who took over and army and refusing any rewards, fought for 12 years before retiring back to her home town. Malaysian online casino games developer GamingSoft has released The Mulan video slot to sites around the world, and it’s sure to become just as popular as the many other Chinese warrior themed slots, such as 3 Kingdoms, Battle of Red Cliffs, from Pragmatic Play, and Ainsworth’s Ming Warrior slot machine.
Like most GamingSoft slot machines, this one has been crafted with care to look good and reward punters with bonus treats, which in this case, include wild substitutions, free spins with extra wild symbols in play, and the same 4-stage progressive jackpot shared across much of the range. It’s also in their mobile-optimised HTML5-based range, so you can play it across smartphones and tablets as well as desktop PC’s.
An army camp sits behind the reels, with traditional tents, watchtowers and red flags setting the scene, and the 5 reels are slightly translucent, so we can still see the whole picture as the symbols spin down them. A simple gold surround to them, and a control panel set on a decorative plinth completes the smart design of this game.
Joining in the Adventure
The reels are crossed with 50 paylines and in normal play at least 3 of a symbol type will be needed on adjacent reels across any line, running from the left side to be worth a win, although there’s several other bonus symbols that work in different ways. Anyone who doesn’t want to stake the minimum of 0.50 per spin and wants to practice first, can try free The Mulan video slots, although there’s no real cash winnings with this option either. Once a bet level has been decided upon, you can also set the reels spinning automatically for as many times as you want, or choose to speed each spin up and get to the results faster if required.
The lower-value wins come from standard playing card symbols, each presented in a nice gold colour to make them stand out a bit. The 10, J and Q symbols will each pay 5x, 15x, or 75x the line bet when stopping on 3, 4, or 5 reels, with the K and A each paying out 10x, 20x, or 100x. A warriors’ helmet will fetch wins of 15x, 50x and 150x the line bet, as will a deadly-looking spear, while the top-paying standard symbols are a bright green horse, (don’t ask why, we don’t know either), and a red dragon. Each of these will pay out 20x, 100x, or 250x the line stake when landing across 3, 4, or 5 reels.
These prizes are dwarfed by the potential wins that come from the symbol of Hau Mulan herself, as landing the image of her on just reels 1 and 2 on a payline will be worth 10x, while full lines will return wins of 500x, plus she’s a wild symbol. When players have a run of matching symbols across a payline, but there’s a gap, if the wild is in the right place, it will act as the missing piece and they still get paid out.
Multiple Mulan Features
There’s a few symbols that the wild will not be able to act as however, as these trigger the various bonus features that make The Mulan video slot such a potentially rewarding game to play. A red flag is a scatter symbol that triggers a free spins bonus round when it stops in any 3 places on the middle reels, but spinners are given several choices about what extra features they want during them.
They can have 12 free spins, with at least 3 extra wild symbols added in each, 8 spins where a minimum of 4 wilds will land in each, or just 5 bonus spins, but at least 5 extra wild symbols will land in each of them. Whatever option is picked, the bonus games can be retriggered by any 3 or more scatters appearing in a single game.
Bonus and Jackpot Side Games
A golden emblem symbol, topped by a lion’s head will launch a quick bonus round when it’s in any 3 or more places at once. All that’s needed is a click on any of the symbols to reveal an instant coin award, which increases depending on how many emblems triggered the round.
The last symbol yet to be covered is the picture of a pagoda-roofed castle, surrounded by flames as Hau Mulan gets on with what she did best. It’s a jackpot symbol that needs to land on reels 1, 2 and 3 in any places to take players to a guaranteed winning round that takes place on a map, dotted with a number of castles.
Clicking on a castle reveals either the Mini, Minor, Major, or Grand jackpot values, and once 3 of the same have been revealed, the corresponding prize is won, although like all GamingSoft slot machine jackpots, you will need to be at the maximum stakes to get 100% of each prize.
The Verdict
The combination of a popular Chinese theme, nice style and plentiful bonus rounds is surely enough to bring in hordes of players to this game, and we wouldn’t blame them, as it’s another quality slot machine from this reliable developer.
