The design here has a comic book feel and is nicely done. With blossom trees and a garden in the background, you’ll see A, K and Q royals as well as a bottle of potion, a scroll and 3 characters from the story. The top payer awards 1, 2 or 20 times your total stake if you land 3, 4 or 5 of them on adjacent reels.
Helping to create the winning opportunities is the Monkey Warrior who is the game’s wild. As usual, this replaces all of the standard symbols. There are 2 features in Monkey Warrior.
Free Spins feature - 8 free spins are awarded if you land the bonus scatter on the middle 3 reels on the same spin. These take place on reels where all of the lower value symbols have been removed. You’ll only see high value symbols, bonuses and scatters here. Landing 3 scatters results in a retrigger and other 8 free spins. There’s no limit to the potential number of retriggers.
Money Respin feature - land 6 or more of the pink fruit symbol on the same spin to trigger the second feature. The fruit symbols come with a cash value or a jackpot attached. These are then held and the standard symbols are removed.
You’ll then receive 5 respins where the reels feature just blanks or the money fruit. If a fruit symbol lands, it joins the cluster. After any respin, you could be offered the pick of 3 treasure chests. This will add another 1, 2 or 3 respins to your total.
Once the respins are done. all of the values from the money fruit symbols are added together and that’s what you’ll win. If you manage to fill the whole screen with money fruits, the overall prize gets a 2x multiplier boost and is doubled. You could also win the Mini, Minor, Major or Grand Jackpots here which award 30, 50, 100 or 200 times your stake.
There’s nothing overly flashy or innovative about Monkey Warrior. It’s all perfectly well done though. That’s true of both the design and the gameplay. The free spins and the streak respins both offer decent potential. The latter can offer wins of 6,080 times your stake whilst each free spin can pay 4,860 times your stake.
This isn’t the first time Sun Wukong has provided inspiration for a slot game developer. Monkey Warrior is a perfectly good adaptation. If you like Chinese slot games with a historical flavour, then it’s certainly worth a look. Pragmatic Play also offers you Journey to the West which is also a decent slot game.