Shaolin Fortunes Slot Machine
Transporting keen players into the mysterious, remarkable and highly cultural world of ancient China, Shaolin Fortunes guarantees to take you into the heart of the famed Chinese temples in the pursuit of fortunes beyond your wildest dreams. Just how long is your journey likely to last? Well that depends entirely on your skill, cunning, wit and ability to adhere to the strict code of the Shaolin masters!
A 5-reeled, 3-rowed monster of a video slot, this impressive recent release from the powerhouse that is Habanero offers a jaw dropping 243 separate ways to win! A must try for anyone with even the slightest interest in the rich culture which lies to the east, and in particular China and its Shaolin origins, this is game suited towards individuals of all experience levels and prerogatives.
Culture Abound
The theme is dripping with culture. A highly intuitive and responsive layout is set against some extremely pristine and bright graphics, a well organised interface and an easy to understand format in order to provide players with a seamless and effortless playing environment.
All of the games out there that are associated with such deep, rich themes never struggle to offer players relevant and engaging in-game components. Shaolin Fortunes is no different in this respect, with a whole host of relevant and highly recognisable symbols and graphics adorning a highly contemporary design to complete a look that is among the best put out by Habanero in a while - at least in this writers opinion.
Symbols and Emblems
Alongside all of the usual, more generic symbols that can be found in the majority of slots games of this kind in this day and age (playing cards: 9, 10, J, Q, K, A), Shaolin Fortunes includes a host of theme-specific emblems for the more weighted scatters and wilds etc. With a dragon, a temple, a white bird and chains/a temple master making up just a few of these.
In classic style, the games logo acts as the wild and can act to replace all of the other present symbols when forming a winning combination upon any of the active reels. What it will not replace however is the scatter (a young Shaolin Student), which is non-interchangeable.
The scatter acts to unlock the bonus rounds and various free spin features available through the game. Landing three or more of the scatter boy symbol across any of the active reels will unlock various free spin functions – the amount of which is determined by the number of scatters successfully attained – as well as various additional multipliers that can quickly make a meagre win something worth writing home about!
Attaining a positive winning combination with Shaolin Fortunes is nowhere near as complicated as we can only assume mastering even the slightest slice of Shaolin technique is. In fact, the games developers seem to have gone quite far out of their way in order to assure that the game is easily understood by all who play it, whether a beginner or hardened veteran of the slots.
All that must be done in order to start cashing in with this game is to coordinate chains of the same symbols anywhere across the reels. The larger the number of components within the chain which match in colour, the bigger and more lucrative the win - simple.
Attractive Features
All things considered, there’s a lot of attractive features on offer here. From the highly engaging theme to the unique take on scatter wins, the team behind Shaolin Fortunes have clearly taken a lot of care when ensuring that their players will receive something a little out of the ordinary.
If we were forced to make a complaint, it would have to be on the fact that there is no bonus game available. Though there is an abundance of free spins up for grabs, there’s no bonus rounds or additional games – which we found a little odd in all honesty. That being said, this game is definitely still worth a try.
