Kung Fu Monkey doesn’t leave much to the imagination with its title, telling you exactly what kind of action you will find inside. The theme, while fun enough, is not the game’s biggest advantage though. The graphics and the features do that for it, as you will discover as soon as this slot loads and you see how well made everything is. It’s a modern Microgaming slot machine, and you know what that means, lots of fun to be had.
Giving the player a total of 15 paylines, Kung Fu Monkey is a 5 reel slot. Its features include a bonus game with three levels, a free spins round with multipliers, plus a wild. Payouts of $25,000 are on the line inside.
Features of Kung Fu Monkey
The wild symbol, the scatters, free spins, multipliers and a very cool bonus game, these are the big features offered in Kung Fu Monkey. They’re all a lot of fun to play through.
The first of the features offered in this game is the simplest one to explain, since it’s identical to the ones offered in every other slot machine launched these days. I’m talking about the wild symbol, with the Kung Fu Monkey Logo used for it. It’s a simple wild, so all it does is the usual substitution for other regular symbols, but only if it landed in a position where another symbol was needed. It also has some good prizes to offer, some of the best in the game actually, but you have to land multiple wilds on the same active line for that to happen.
Free Games Feature
The Gong symbol is the first of the two scatters, and the one that appears on the 1st and 5th reels. Get the Gong on both reels where it can show up, and you will be rewarded with a small prize, worth the same as the bet you used that round, plus free spins.
You get 10 free spins from the game, and all their prizes are worth twice as much, thanks to a multiplier. You can also re-trigger these free spins, as long as you have the two scatter symbols appear again.
Kung Fu Bonus Game
The bonus game gets triggered by the second scatter of the slot. It’s the image of the entrance to Chinatown, and it is a scatter that has to appear on reels 2, 3 and 4 during the same round. Whenever that happens, you get 1x the bet as a prize, plus the bonus game starts up. You have to advance through three levels in order to complete the bonus game.
At level 1, you have to fight against six baboons, while level 2 has six ninjas. You have to defeat at least three enemies at each of the first two levels, in order to get to level 3. Five of the six enemies can be defeated and will give you prizes, while the last one is undefeatable and ends the bonus game.
If you’re lucky, and you pick only easy to defeat opponents, you reach level 3 and you fight the Boss. You pick fight combinations, which you then execute and if you get two correct combos you defeat him and get the big prize.
Betting options and jackpots
With only 15 lines used, the game allows for up to 300 coins to be wagered on them. Each line gets 1 to 20 coins when it is activated, with coin values ranging from $0.01 to $0.50. The resulting line bet goes up to $10, while the maximum bet is $150.
The combination that awards the top jackpot is made up only of wilds and it gives you 2,500x the line wager, or up to $25,000.
Design and symbols
The title tells you who the main hero is, a small monkey with very good martial arts skills, which fights its way through the groups of enemies that stand before him, all of them monkeys of course. The location is Chinatown, and the roofs of the buildings are visible behind the reels, in the logo area. The quality of the symbols is excellent, good enough to be from a real animation series.
Symbols: Logo (wild, 2,500x), Chinatown (scatter), Gong (scatter), Kung Fu Monkey (1,000x), Baby Monkey (500x), Monkey Girl With Fan (250x), Monkey Girl With Drums (100x), Big Gorilla Boss (100x), Ninja Monkey (50x), Ninja Baboon (50x), Sensei (25x) and Suitcase (25x).
Is It Worth Playing?
It’s a very well done slot design wise, and its features are also a lot of fun. I believe it offers more than enough to warrant a closer look from fans of Microgaming slots.
This Kung Fu Monkey slot is offered by all online casinos with Microgaming software, playable either in practice or in real money mode.
